From Lagardelle to Beaumont off the beaten track

A circuit in the heart of nature, taking paths through fields, undergrowth and a little on tarmac in the village itself.
Route modified on 21/04/2023.

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  • Walking
    Activity: Walking
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    Distance: 16.74 km
  • ◔
    Average duration: 5h 30 
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    Difficulty: Moderate

  • ⚐
    Back to start: Yes
  • ↗
    Ascent: + 241 m
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    Descent: - 233 m

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    Highest point: 310 m
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    Lowest point: 181 m

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Description of the walk

(S/E) The circuit starts from Chemin de Redon near the D12 in the commune of Lagardelle-sur-Lèze. Continue straight ahead for about 2 km towards Burgurolles across the field.

(1) Before you reach the first house, turn right to go up into the woods. You will come to a small hill 100 m long and, at the top, turn left.

(2) Continue along the small path that leads into the undergrowth.
Follow the main path until you reach a clearing, then an isolated house.

(3) Turn left to join the D43 departmental road

(4) Turn right for 100 metres, then left onto a tarmac road. After 300-400 metres, turn right onto a path through the fields.

(5) At the end, turn right onto a grassy path for more than a kilometre, leaving the D43 on your right. You will eventually come to the road that climbs up to Beaumont.

(6) Take the road on the left, which climbs quite steeply at a gradient of nearly 10%.

(7) At the Bordette crossroads, turn right and then, after 200 metres, at Montmaurel, turn left. At the end of the road, turn right towards Mestrebernat.

(8) There, turn left and then follow the D74 to the left into Beaumont-sur-Lèze.
At the top, there is a magnificent view of the surrounding countryside.
At the Calvary, turn left, then right in front of the church.

(9) When you reach the town hall, continue left to descend. Take the first road on the right and follow it south to its end.

(10) In Bézy, turn left, take the path on the left, then the road on the left. After the Abri Champêtre, continue north to reach the fork in the road from the outward journey.

(7) Continue straight ahead, and at Montmaurel, take the path on the right which leads to the Route de Miremont (D43), which you take on the left. Follow this road to Le Pounchet.

(11) Take the D74 on the right. After Majounat and crossing the Ruisseau du Rivals, take the path on the right.

(12) At Plaine du Vigné, after a right-hand bend, continue on the right. After 200 m on the road, at the fork, continue left.

(13) Take a path on the right and continue towards Monsou until you reach a road. Continue for 100 m until you reach Chemin de Redon, which you will take on the left.
At the bridge, turn left to return to the starting point (S/E).

Waypoints

  1. S/E : km 0 - alt. 181 m - Chemin de Redon in Balsa
  2. 1 : km 1.72 - alt. 186 m - Fork near Burgurolles
  3. 2 : km 2.97 - alt. 214 m - Forest path on the left
  4. 3 : km 3.99 - alt. 223 m - Isolated house
  5. 4 : km 4.47 - alt. 224 m - D43
  6. 5 : km 5.25 - alt. 233 m - Fork in the grassy path
  7. 6 : km 6.41 - alt. 246 m - Road on the left
  8. 7 : km 7.04 - alt. 285 m - Carrefour de la Bordette
  9. 8 : km 7.94 - alt. 187 m - Mestrebernat
  10. 9 : km 8.43 - alt. 199 m - Beaumont-sur-Lèze Town Hall
  11. 10 : km 9.58 - alt. 245 m - Le Bézy
  12. 11 : km 12.72 - alt. 190 m - Pounchet
  13. 12 : km 14.51 - alt. 212 m - La Plaine du Vigné
  14. 13 : km 15.53 - alt. 208 m - Path towards Monsou
  15. S/E : km 16.74 - alt. 181 m - Chemin de Redon in Balsa

Reviews and comments

4.3 / 5
Based on 24 reviews

Reliability of the description
4.2 / 5
Ease of following the route
4.5 / 5
Route interest
4.3 / 5
filou.deo99
filou.deo99

Overall rating : 4.3 / 5

Date of your route : May 08, 2025
Reliability of the description : ★★★★★ Very good
Ease of following the route : ★★★★☆ Good
Route interest : ★★★★☆ Good
Very busy route : No

A lovely walk without too much tarmac. We missed the start of the grassy path at point 13 before turning back, guided by other walkers.

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Jeaclamer
Jeaclamer

Overall rating : 4.7 / 5

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

A pleasant, easy route for senior walkers like us... Except for the short loop to Baumont, which is more physically demanding.

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grinzel
grinzel

Overall rating : 4 / 5

Date of your route : Aug 04, 2023
Reliability of the description : ★★★★☆ Good
Ease of following the route : ★★★☆☆ Average
Route interest : ★★★★★ Very good
Very busy route : No

A very beautiful walk, even if it's easy to get lost in the woods... Luckily, I had an app, otherwise the multiple paths, and especially the passages where the trees had been cut down and everything had grown back all over the place... My dog detected the path more than we could see it. That said, it's a very, very beautiful path!

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strombolino
strombolino

Overall rating : 5 / 5

Date of your route : Jan 17, 2022
Reliability of the description : ★★★★★ Very good
Ease of following the route : ★★★★★ Very good
Route interest : ★★★★★ Very good
Very busy route : Yes

Hello,
i need to explain how I work:
i am a member of two hiking associations and therefore a member of the group that organises outings/hikes...
When I download hiking trails, I suggest them to the group responsible for organising future outings.
Out of 10 downloads, 2 or 3 are selected, and the selection is made 6 months before the outing in question with all the members of the various hiking associations...
I hope you understand how I work, and I would like to send you a huge THANK YOU for the immense help you provide us with the wide variety of hiking route choices... which, by the way, are very well done...

Happy New Year to you and your entire team

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grosselin
grosselin

Overall rating : 4 / 5

Date of your route : Oct 25, 2021
Reliability of the description : ★★★★☆ Good
Ease of following the route : ★★★★☆ Good
Route interest : ★★★★☆ Good
Very busy route : Yes

It's a shame there aren't more mills or traditional houses to make the route more interesting.

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wallou63
wallou63

Overall rating : 4.3 / 5

Date of your route : Mar 22, 2021
Reliability of the description : ★★★★★ Very good
Ease of following the route : ★★★★★ Very good
Route interest : ★★★☆☆ Average
Very busy route : No

too many tarmac roads

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henri57
henri57 ★

Hello,

Thank you for taking the time to give your opinion.

As the signposting does not depend on the author or Visorando, "Route on map" does not refer to evaluating the signposting, but rather the accuracy of the route as it appears on the map in relation to the actual terrain.

If waymarking is essential to you, Visorando provides, in addition to the description and the 1:25,000 IGN map, a virtual waymarking tool: a GPS application.

This tool, offered free of charge by Visorando, allows you to validate waypoints and thus remove any doubts about the route.

See you soon!

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VIMABA
VIMABA

Overall rating : 3 / 5

Date of your route : Jun 27, 2020
Reliability of the description : ★★★☆☆ Average
Ease of following the route : ★★★☆☆ Average
Route interest : ★★★☆☆ Average
Very busy route : No

difficult to park at the starting point. No yellow markings after Majounat. Lots of new construction, forcing us to walk on the tarmac. We found it moderately interesting, with beautiful panoramic views. Not recommended in hot weather.

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dbabouot
dbabouot

Overall rating : 5 / 5

Date of your route : Jun 15, 2020
Reliability of the description : ★★★★★ Very good
Ease of following the route : ★★★★★ Very good
Route interest : ★★★★★ Very good
Very busy route : Yes

A magnificent and very varied hike

A few sections on the road, but not too many

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Running woman
Running woman
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Overall rating : 5 / 5

Date of your route : May 25, 2020
Reliability of the description : ★★★★★ Very good
Ease of following the route : ★★★★★ Very good
Route interest : ★★★★★ Very good
Very busy route : No

Hello,

Some landmarks could be added: names of paths/roads, the pet cemetery...
We had trouble finding the path leading to the forest on our way back to Lagardelle. We tried a tarmac road between some houses on the off chance, and luckily it was the right one.
But overall, the hike was as described. Thank you very much!
Hélène

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Antu
Antu

Overall rating : 4.3 / 5

Date of your route : Feb 17, 2020
Reliability of the description : ★★★★☆ Good
Ease of following the route : ★★★★☆ Good
Route interest : ★★★★★ Very good

There is a section of the walk where the path is obscured due to the construction of a house on the route itself.

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SebRv
SebRv

Overall rating : 4.3 / 5

Date of your route : Jun 10, 2019
Reliability of the description : ★★★★☆ Good
Ease of following the route : ★★★★★ Very good
Route interest : ★★★★☆ Good

Hi, I just did this walk following the GPX track. I had no problems, except on the way back to Lagardelle. In the last kilometre, I found myself among some not very welcoming people (there's a factory producing "beware of the dog" and "private property" signs here, isn't there?!) instead of being on the other side of the hedge.
Another detail that is not insignificant in my opinion is the two illegal dumps near the motocross track overlooking Lagardelle. How do you deal with such behaviour (I have pictures of used tyres and cement bags)?
Have a good evening
Seb

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Nocxjo_Lagrafo
Nocxjo_Lagrafo

Overall rating : 4 / 5

Date of your route : Nov 16, 2018
Reliability of the description : ★★★★☆ Good
Ease of following the route : ★★★★☆ Good
Route interest : ★★★★☆ Good

Between waypoint 9 and the entrance to Redon Castle, the route does not correspond to reality; the path runs higher up, along the edge of the woods.

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Jo Karotte
Jo Karotte

Overall rating : 5 / 5

Date of your route : Aug 27, 2018
Reliability of the description : ★★★★★ Very good
Ease of following the route : ★★★★★ Very good
Route interest : ★★★★★ Very good

nice hike.
Do it in dry weather.
Much less road than the Beaumont/Leze loop.
The roads remain quiet.

The only downside to the route is that the path after point 9 has certainly changed since the 2012 route, due to urbanisation, and the path into the small wood is 'hazardous'.

Otherwise, no complaints. Beautiful view of the Leze valley and this magnificent region

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elpatrok
elpatrok

Overall rating : 3.7 / 5

Date of your route : Jun 09, 2018
Reliability of the description : ★★★☆☆ Average
Ease of following the route : ★★★★☆ Good
Route interest : ★★★★☆ Good

A pleasant route with little road traffic in the Toulouse countryside. Beautiful views of the Muret hillsides on the second part of the route.
Points to note: the route is very muddy in places, but this year, finding dry ground is a feat in itself. It is not very busy and many areas are not maintained (tall grass), so avoid wearing shorts.
The descriptions are sometimes difficult to follow, such as for the Beaumont crossing, but with the track it is easy to find your way (it is best to set off with it). For the Beaumont crossing, it is a good idea to go straight up into the village as the recommended main street is very busy, with fast traffic, no pavement and poor visibility. The village centre option is much more peaceful.
Finally, the start is outside the village and parking is difficult. Allow for the extra distance of travelling to and from the village.

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