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Access: head for the Woippy exit at Belle Vue on the D652 connecting Metz to Rombas.
At the study and research centre, leave the D652 and turn left into the only street in the locality. Park at the end of this cul-de-sac (Sainte-Anne).
(S/E) After the last house, take the path on the left. After 100 metres, turn right onto a gravel path (a former war road, nowthe GRP® Tour de Metz). Continue along this path for 1.2 kilometres until you reach a gate blocking access to a kennel.
(1) Take the path on the left, going around the kennel for 300 metres, keeping to the right until you reach a crossroads.
(2) Take the path on the right and continue straight ahead until you reach the access road and the kennel entrance gate. Turn left and join the D50 road connecting Woippy to Norroy-le-Veneur.
(3) Cross this road and continue straight ahead after passing through a gate. Go up into the forest along this path lined with old fencing (the remains of a former private animal park). After 900 metres of climbing through the forest, you will come to fields and a large house.
(4) Turn right along the woods; pass to the left of a pylon and continue up the path through the fields to the Croix de Vaux (calvary on the heights of Saulny).
(5) Cross Rue de Plesnois and continue straight ahead along a road until you reach a house. Then continue straight ahead, climbing through the Bois Communal via Chemin de Moremont, and join a large forest path at the football pitch. Continue for about 50 metres.
Turn left onto the "Panoramique" path just after the sports field. After 800 metres, you will come to the wide forest track that will take you to the D7 road connecting Saulny to Saint-Privat. Follow the forest road going up immediately to the right, which connects to the Lorraine fortified group.
After 300 metres uphill through the forest, you will find the gate to the military fortification.
(6) Take the path on the right and descend through the Plesnois woods, keeping left at each intersection until you reach the top of Plesnois (altitude 275m).
(7) Turn left and follow the path down to Rue de la Fontaine. Turn left again and continue straight ahead along Rue du Centre, then right along Rue Haute until you reach a fork. Take the left-hand road to Norroy until you reach the cemetery.
(8) Take the road on the left alongside the cemetery, then a path that leads through the woods to Norroy, Rue du Fort.
(9) Turn left, then immediately right onto VC La Ruelle until you reach Grand Rue. Turn left, then immediately right.
(10) At the crossroads, take the street on the right. You are now on theGR®5-5Fand continue along this street until you reach the Chemin du Jas crossroads. Continue straight ahead for about 20 metres.
(11) Take the road on the right and continue straight ahead until you reach an intersection.
(12) Turn left for 150 metres, then right onto a cycle path just before the first houses. Continue along this path behind the houses until you reach Rue du Patural. Turn right to join Rue Basse.
(13) Turn right to pass in front of the pumping station and join the cycle path that runs behind the houses. Continue to Rue Verlaine. Turn right and continue to the Semécourt cemetery and sports complex to rejoin the cycle path.
(14) Follow the cycle path on the right along the Ruisseau de Fèves until you reach a fork.
(15) Take the cycle path on the left and continue straight ahead for 400 metres until you reach a three-way junction. Turn right and continue along the path running alongside the left bank of the Ruisseau de Plesnois until you reach Route de Belle Vue.
(16) Cross the road and make a first turn left then right to rejoin the path on the right bank of the stream. Continue to the Bois de Forêt road. Cross and continue straight ahead to the Plesnois sports ground.
(17) Turn left onto the path that descends into Bois Jacquemignon. Continue along this path through woods and fields until you reach Sainte-Anne and the car park (S/E).
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