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Park in the car park for the nature trail on Rue de Beaucourt.
(S/E) Cross at the pedestrian crossing and follow the discovery trail, which is easily identifiable in the copse: signs clearly indicate the direction to follow. Once you have completed the discovery trail, turn right onto the pavement along the D39 for about 300 m.
Before the roundabout, take the road on the right (Rue du Ronde) for 500 m; after passing two small junctions, you’ll reach the large junction with Rue de Grandvillars. Take this street on the right, which climbs up to the heights of Méziré. Continue straight on until you reach a three-way junction, take the tarmac path branching off to the right and follow it to the edge of the woods. Take the forest path on the right which leads into the forest uphill, and follow it due south then south-east for about 200 m.
(1) After a gentle slope, continue along the forest path heading south-east for another 200 m. When you reach a crossroads with a path (marked with white paint on the trees), turn left onto the narrower path heading due east.
After 200 m, at the junction with a ditch/path marked by boundary stones, turn right. Follow the ditch straight ahead for 400 m, heading south, passing the small stone boundary markers one after the other. When you reach the wide forest track, at the junction with the Way of St James, turn left and follow it (heading east), continuing straight ahead until you reach a junction with a forest track
(2) Continue straight on along the Way of St James until you reach a wide forest track.
(3) Turn right. At the end of the bend, take the hairpin bend onto the path on the right and follow it until you can see the Petit Étang. At the pond, take the path branching off to the left and follow it for about 300 m to a junction of paths (not shown on the IGN map).
(4) Turn right. The path winds through a young forest and comes out onto the embankment of the Grand Étang. Continue along the embankment and follow the path that leads into the forest until you reach a junction.
(5) Turn right. Follow the path for 200 m and, at the junction, continue straight on for another 200 m. The path widens and becomes a forest track. Walk for about 800 m, following the small stream on your right, until you reach the junction of forest tracks.
(6) Turn right, then after 50 m, take a small path on the left. After 200 m, the small path joins a busier one: the historic trail of the boundary stones of the Montbéliard region. At the junction, you will find two boundary stones. Turn right and follow this path for 500 m to reach a crossroads located after a bend and a clearing on the left.
(7) Turn right. Follow this path for about 600 m to a major junction of forest tracks (elevation 371).
(8) Turn onto the forest track on the left until you reach the first houses. Turn right onto Rue de la Truche to go round the housing estate, then right again downhill towards a tarmac square to join the D39.
Head right and follow the D39 along the pavement to the car park for the nature trail (A/D).
Visorando member
Difficult 
Local authority
Moderate 
