Route de la Belle Étoile and La Négresse / Roc Rouge

Date of your route : Oct 27, 2025
Reliability of the description : ★★★★☆ Good
Ease of following the route : ★★★★☆ Good
Route interest : ★★★★☆ Good
Very busy route : No

It's a shame that the fog prevented us from enjoying the view from this beautiful spot.
The route is well signposted except at the point where you join the 4x4 track at around 1,400 metres, the construction of which has altered the start of the path. You then need to turn right for 100 metres and rejoin the path on the left (arrow)

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Date of your route : Sep 20, 2024
Reliability of the description : ★★★★☆ Good
Ease of following the route : ★★★★☆ Good
Route interest : ★★★★★ Very good
Very busy route : No

A lovely walk that begins and ends in pleasant woodland, with some narrow and technical sections along the ridges, particularly between the Croix de Perillet and the Pas de l'Âne (a steep, cable-assisted section). You can stop for a break at the Chalet de l'Alpettaz (a very well-maintained, unmanned chalet) before setting off again towards the Roc de Rouge.
This hike is not recommended for young children and/or inexperienced walkers, or in wet weather.
Quite physically demanding due to the fairly steep gradient (average 20% with peaks of over 30%), but the 360° view from the summit is magnificent.
The descent is relatively easy despite one or two tricky sections, particularly before reaching point 7 where a tree trunk blocks the path across a rocky gully. The return route is sometimes a bit tricky to find due to the construction of a forest track that cuts across the original path without any signposting, particularly before and after the Périllet chalet: after this chalet, follow the track for a few dozen metres, then turn right onto a downhill path, then very quickly left to rejoin the original path.
The GPS track is very useful.
After the hike, it’s worth visiting Tamié Fort and the abbey of the same name.

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Date of your route : Oct 16, 2023
Reliability of the description : ★★★★☆ Good
Ease of following the route : ★★★★☆ Good
Route interest : ★★★★★ Very good
Very busy route : No

A beautiful hike, but you need to be sure-footed on the ridge section and have a head for heights. Not recommended in wet or rainy weather, or for those prone to vertigo.

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I can confirm that on the descent... the path branches off to the left just before a bend in the track

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Good evening,
I think the path is actually on the right-hand side.

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Date of your route : Aug 06, 2022
Reliability of the description : ★★★★★ Very good
Ease of following the route : ★★★★★ Very good
Route interest : ★★★★★ Very good
Very busy route : No

A magnificent hike with superb views, but certainly very daunting. It’s not so much the sections equipped with cables and rungs that are daunting – as they aid progression – but certain parts of the ridge that are truly vertiginous.
For the descent, after the Perillet chalet, you do indeed have to take the track for a few hundred metres, but a new path has been created a little further on than the previous one, of which you can make out the remains and, indeed, what looks like a cairn that has now half collapsed. The new path is a few dozen metres further on to the left.
Thank you for this route, which we thoroughly enjoyed!

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Date of your route : Jun 06, 2022
Reliability of the description : ★★★★★ Very good
Ease of following the route : ★★★★★ Very good
Route interest : ★★★★☆ Good
Very busy route : No

A new sheep track has been created along this route, which has altered my return journey.
You cross the new track three times on the ascent, and I returned via the track from the Chalet de Perillet until I met up with the ascent path again. Why? Because the rubble from digging the track had been dumped on the slope and had washed away the path. It will no doubt take a few weeks or months before regular users have re-established the path.
Note that below the chalet, a cairn seems to mark the trail, but I decided not to take it given its condition and because foresters were at work a little further down (on Whit Monday, with ‘SK’ number plates).
In any case, thank you for this interesting route, and watch out for slippery rocks after the rain.

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