Labeaume - Chapias loop

This pleasant circuit explores picturesque trails and places north of Labeaume.

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  • Walking
    Activity: Walking
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    Distance: 9.38 km
  • ◔
    Average duration: 3h 10 
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    Difficulty: Easy

  • ⚐
    Back to start: Yes
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    Ascent: + 174 m
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    Descent: - 172 m

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    Highest point: 281 m
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    Lowest point: 123 m

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Description of the walk

Park in Labeaume where car parks have been provided.

(S/E) Climb through the narrow streets of Labeaume without leaving the village until you reach the street that joins the D345 at the top of the village, at a crossroads with a speed bump.

(1) Cross over and follow the signs for "l'Issard, Boudon". Continue north, staying on the small tarmac road and ignoring the access roads to houses on the left or right.

(2) Cross the D315 carefully, leaving the houses of L'Issart on your left, and follow the small road heading roughly north. Stay on this small tarmac road until the end, ignoring the access roads on the left to La Graille. At the end of the road, slightly to the right, take a path that is not very visible at first but becomes more and more marked (a GPS may be useful). Cross a very wild area, gradually making out the dry stone edges of an old, fairly wide path. You will come to a crossroads with a yellow and white signposted fork on the right.

(3) Ignore this first fork and continue straight ahead for a few metres until you reach a second fork marked in yellow and white on the left (a missing cross, whose base has been knocked over, has been reconstructed with three stacked stones). Take the beautiful path on the left that crosses a wooded area. Continue straight ahead (slightly to the left) at a junction with a first track (La Plaine hiking signpost). The landscape opens up and the path crosses a second track. Take the wide path uphill straight ahead, slightly to the right, ignoring an access road on the right and following the curve to the left, which takes you back in the general direction of the Croix de Cavagnac.

(4) Follow the D315 to the right. There may be traffic, but it is possible to walk in the meadows to the left of the road. At the Croix de Mission, climb to the left to the village of Chapias, passing in front of the Chapelle Notre-Dame de la Délivrance.

(5) Continue to Rocher des Curés, following the area of meadows where trees have been pruned, to the end.

(6) Retrace your steps.

(5) Turn right and continue towards the Chapias Tower.

(7) Pass the access path to the tower and 100 m further on, turn left (water point) towards Chazalis.
At the three-way junction, keep right heading south towards Le Rossignol (goat farm).
Turn left at the next crossroads. Follow the road to a sharp left-hand bend, where a path branches off to the right and cuts across to Le Trible.

(8) At the crossroads, ignore the two tarmac roads on the left and the path on the far right. Almost opposite the arrival point and alongside the large house on the left, there is a beautiful path between walls. Continue straight on until you reach the road.

(9) Follow the road to the right. At the hiking signpost, take the shorter route to Labeaume via the road. Pass the hanging gardens of Récatadou and the community centre, and take the first street on the right.

(10) At the crossroads (calvary), turn right. Once you reach the D345, cross it, follow Rue du 19 Mars on the right opposite, turn left to go along the cemetery, then first turn left then right to return to the car park (S/E).

Waypoints

  1. S/E : km 0 - alt. 125 m - Labeaume car park. Close to the - Beaume (rivière)
  2. 1 : km 0.5 - alt. 173 m - Crossing the D345
  3. 2 : km 1.11 - alt. 203 m - Crossing the D315
  4. 3 : km 2.08 - alt. 238 m - Broken cross
  5. 4 : km 4.18 - alt. 241 m - Cavagnac Cross
  6. 5 : km 4.8 - alt. 265 m - Chapias - Chapelle Notre Dame de la délivrance
  7. 6 : km 5.02 - alt. 254 m - Les rochers du curé
  8. 7 : km 5.59 - alt. 281 m - After the tower, turn left towards Chazalis - La Tour de la Vierge
  9. 8 : km 7.31 - alt. 237 m - Le Trible
  10. 9 : km 8.17 - alt. 189 m - Faveyrolle road
  11. 10 : km 8.86 - alt. 182 m - Saint-Genest, on the right
  12. S/E : km 9.38 - alt. 125 m - Labeaume car park

Notes

Bring water in hot weather.

The trails are good, but there may be some stony sections.

Worth a visit

As the hike is not very long, you can take your time to stroll through the picturesque streets of Labeaume, admire the Ardèche and go for a swim if the weather is suitable.

There are beautiful views as you approach Chapias.

Between (3) and (4), a dovecote is clearly visible on the right, a little way off, overlooking the woods.

In Chapias (5), there is a very curious church (with a historical interior).

In (6), there is a hole in a rock that you can slip through to climb into a cavity above. This rock is said to have been used by priests during the Revolution.

Many other curiosities can be found along the way (threshing floor, water points). Beautiful goats at Le Rossignol. There used to be llamas, but they no longer seem to be present in 2019.

Shortly afterwards (9), there is some information and a reconstruction of the hanging gardens of Récatadou, which is well worth seeing.

Reviews and comments

4.5 / 5
Based on 20 reviews

Reliability of the description
4.5 / 5
Ease of following the route
4.6 / 5
Route interest
4.4 / 5
User 16424207

Overall rating : 4.7 / 5

Date of your route : Oct 09, 2025
Reliability of the description : ★★★★★ Very good
Ease of following the route : ★★★★★ Very good
Route interest : ★★★★☆ Good
Very busy route : No

This hike is best done when it's not too hot, as much of it is in direct sunlight. An easy route with the added bonus of discovering the hanging gardens.

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Reymo
Reymo

Overall rating : 5 / 5

Date of your route : Sep 25, 2024
Reliability of the description : ★★★★★ Very good
Ease of following the route : ★★★★★ Very good
Route interest : ★★★★★ Very good
Very busy route : No

However, the start of Labeaume is difficult to find, but otherwise the entire route is very well signposted.
A very pleasant route, even if there are some stony sections, as on many routes in the Ardèche.
We appreciate the Visorando app. Thank you

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Mich0726
Mich0726

Overall rating : 4.7 / 5

Date of your route : Jul 09, 2024
Reliability of the description : ★★★★★ Very good
Ease of following the route : ★★★★★ Very good
Route interest : ★★★★☆ Good
Very busy route : No

A lovely walk above Labeaume with a quick visit to the village. I took the opportunity to buy a few books along the way, THANK YOU.

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yrené
yrené

Overall rating : 4.3 / 5

Date of your route : May 04, 2024
Reliability of the description : ★★★★★ Very good
Ease of following the route : ★★★★☆ Good
Route interest : ★★★★☆ Good
Very busy route : No

well

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mancusoagnes
mancusoagnes

Overall rating : 5 / 5

Date of your route : Oct 13, 2023
Reliability of the description : ★★★★★ Very good
Ease of following the route : ★★★★★ Very good
Route interest : ★★★★★ Very good
Very busy route : No

a very interesting hike, a beautiful route that we combined with the Remene ravine. The village of Beaume, dolmens, the village of Chapias and lots to discover. Lots of rocks – that's the Ardèche for you! Great!!

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JCsoret
JCsoret

Overall rating : 5 / 5

Date of your route : Oct 09, 2023
Reliability of the description : ★★★★★ Very good
Ease of following the route : ★★★★★ Very good
Route interest : ★★★★★ Very good
Very busy route : No

We joined the circuit at Chapias from Rosières via the path crossing the Les Gras plateau. It was a superb hike!

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papi rené
papi rené

Overall rating : 4.3 / 5

Date of your route : Jul 17, 2023
Reliability of the description : ★★★★★ Very good
Ease of following the route : ★★★★★ Very good
Route interest : ★★★☆☆ Average
Very busy route : No

Quite a monotonous hike, except for the town of Labeaume... a shame

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Loumès
Loumès

Overall rating : 5 / 5

Date of your route : Apr 23, 2023
Reliability of the description : ★★★★★ Very good
Ease of following the route : ★★★★★ Very good
Route interest : ★★★★★ Very good
Very busy route : No

We did this tour starting from La Mare aux Anges and Chapias: superb!

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roraiima
roraiima
• Edited:

Hello
In response to DFIM's question in August 2021, visits to the Soldier's Cave are no longer permitted, nor is passage in front of the Gadret farm, as the path has been closed by the owner for at least three years. The only way to reach Rosieres or Chapias is via Trible.

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saint victor
saint victor

Overall rating : 4.7 / 5

Date of your route : Nov 16, 2021
Reliability of the description : ★★★★★ Very good
Ease of following the route : ★★★★☆ Good
Route interest : ★★★★★ Very good
Very busy route : No

We went on a beautiful hike starting from Chapias. Be sure to bring some cash to buy goat cheese, which costs €5 for a roll of five cheeses (you'll need to put the money in the letterbox as it's self-service). Be sure to visit the hanging gardens just before Labeaume. To admire this beautiful village, cross the bridge and climb up to the viewpoint a few hundred metres away, then return to the trail.
Thank you for this beautiful hike

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sdur
sdur

Overall rating : 5 / 5

Date of your route : Nov 09, 2021
Reliability of the description : ★★★★★ Very good
Ease of following the route : ★★★★★ Very good
Route interest : ★★★★★ Very good
Very busy route : No

Thank you for this wonderful tour full of surprises. There were three of us and we all loved it (aged 15, 21 and 47!). The description was accurate: there were llamas and delicious cheese too.

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boninmi
boninmi

It's my pleasure.

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DFIM
DFIM

Thank you very much, yes, that's the one. I'll follow your advice and ask Bruno Benito why it's impossible to get to the soldier's cave just before No. 2.
Until now, I've always cut diagonally across the Trible (purple dotted line), but yesterday I wanted to do the whole tour.
Thank you very much for these clarifications!

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boninmi
boninmi
• Edited:

Hello DFIM,

This is simply another hike...
https://www.visorando.com/randonnee-les-...
It differs significantly from mine. It is longer and does not follow the same route, even though there are some similarities.
However, it no longer appears in the Visorando search, so it seems that it is no longer a selected hike. Perhaps there is indeed a problem with it. I see that it was updated on 28 December 2017. There are no comments posted on this hike after that date. Perhaps the author has withdrawn it from circulation. You should ask him; you can send him a personal message by going to the bruno.benito83 page.
As it still appears on this page, you can always try to follow it, at your own risk, and see for yourself if there is a problem that I am unaware of.

Best regards.

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DFIM
DFIM

Another hiker posted this other version that I am familiar with, by bruno.benito83.
I (foolishly) assumed that it was the same person who created both versions!

A few years ago, this route, which I really like and have done many times, was done in the opposite direction, i.e. clockwise. Why was it changed? I think it's better to start from Labeaume and CLIMB up above the river than to DESCEND as planned in the new version. The old version was called "The gorges and curiosities of the Labeaume plateau".
Also, why has the original route via the Gadret farm been removed? A hiker who knew the area told us that it is no longer passable. Is this due to a landslide or a change in right of way?
Thank you in advance for your answers!

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