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Access to Pont-Coblant:
- From Quimper: N165 then D785 towards Pleyben; park on the right before the bridge.
- Coming from Pleyben: D785 towards Quimper, park on the left near the playground after crossing the bridge.
(S/E) From the car park, head down to the towpath and turn right, heading due east. The path runs alongside former slate quarries now overgrown with vegetation.
Shortly after the children’s playground, on the right, a natural spring known as ‘Feunteun ar C’hafé’ has recently been restored. 50 metres further on, still on the right, a small wash house has been built featuring a small water jet powered by a bicycle, as well as waterfalls that turn small waterwheels.
(1) Continue along the wide path past the Saint-Algon lock.
(2) About 200 m further on, on the right, a log staircase followed by a wide path leads to a beautiful covered walkway about 150 m away.
(3) Return to the towpath and continue along this path, which is lined with woods. About 2 km further on, you will reach the second lock, the Vuzit lock.
(4) Continue along the towpath. Ignore a wide stony path that climbs up to your right. Moreover, a small tree trunk blocks the way. Then ignore a second path branching off sharply to the right and running alongside a small wood.
Carry on until you come to two signs: one prohibiting access to motor vehicles and the other an old sign for this route, the ‘Circuit de Pont-Coblant’. You will come across this old sign from time to time.
(5) Head up the path on the right, initially through meadows and then along the edge of fields, to reach a small road just before the hamlet of Keriok. Turn right onto this road, then right again to cross the hamlet of Keriok, where you can see some beautifully restored houses
(6) Return to the road and continue to the right. Pass Boullen Farm then turn left (old sign)
(7). Continue along this uphill road and pass Croaz Kerven, where you can spot a small cross hidden by vegetation on your left.
(8) Join the D41 at Croaz an Toull and turn right. You are now on the main street of the village of Gouézec. After the first houses, at a ‘end of 70 km/h speed limit’ road sign, look out for a yellow-orange marker on the right. Follow this old road for about a hundred metres, cross the main street and you will find the same marker opposite.
Pass the small wayside shrine marked ‘Croaz ar Bleon 1750’.
(9) Walk past the 16th-century Saint-Pierre Church, where you can see a beautiful restored cross in the churchyard. Walk past the cemetery and continue along the main street, taking the path on the right for pedestrians and cyclists.
Continue past a housing estate on your right and past a civil engineering works site.
(10) Turn right at the gable end of a blue house into a cul-de-sac towards Gomoal.
(11) Before the farm (old sign), turn left onto a wide, descending path. Follow it straight on, then, before Lesmez Farm, turn left onto a grassy path (old sign)
(12). This path runs alongside a wooded wetland and leads to fields.
At the old signpost, turn right to head back up a wide path between two fields, leading to a small road.
(13) Opposite the old sign, turn left to head down towards Pont-Coblant and join the D785.
(14). Turn right, then right again at the entrance to the bridge to return to the car park (S/E).
You will pass an old quarry workers’ hut converted into a chapel in 1951 and named Chapelle Sainte-Barbe (information sign).
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