Start at the car park along the main street, Rue François1er (D120)
Red and white markings (GR®413)
(S/E) Take Rue François1er heading north-west, with your back to the village centre, and leave Rue de Nizeron on your right.
(1) At the crossroads, take the Chemin de l’Imbertière on the right. The tarmac quickly gives way to a compacted track, then to a grassy path, the Chemin de Banguin. Ignore a turn-off to the right just before a fork in the path.
No signposting
(2) Keep to the right at the fork. The grassy track crosses Rue de Nizeron and becomes Rue du Clouseau, crosses a small stream and then meets a narrow road, ‘les Noues’, which is in poor condition.
(3) Head left onto the small road, which you will leave after 200m by turning left onto a grassy path.
(4) Keep to the right at the fork, then leave the path behind by turning right onto a new grassy path, which you follow until you reach a cross path.
(5) Turn left onto the cross-country path through the hedgerows, cross a footbridge and head west along the busiest path. Cross another footbridge. The path crosses a side road just after Vaulien Farm. Turn right at the junction, then immediately left onto the path running alongside Vaulien Pond.
(6) Continue straight on at the junction just after the pond, following the busiest path. This leads to a cross-path which you take to the left, running alongside a pond.
''Red and white markings (GR® 413)"
(7) Turn left at the crossroads just after the pond. The south-facing forest path meets a small road, which you should take, continuing in the same direction.
(8) Turn left at the four-way junction onto a hard-surfaced track signposted‘GR® 413 towards Courmemin’
(9) Once past Banguin Farm, leave the hard-packed track as it heads towards the houses and continue straight on along a grassy track
(2) At the junction, keep right towards'GR® 413 towards Courmemin'. You will rejoin the route taken on the way out. This becomes the Chemin de l'Imbertière, which is tarmac-surfaced as you approach the first houses.
(1) At the crossroads, turn left onto Rue de Chambord, which becomes Rue de François1er, leading to the car park at the starting point (S/E).