Stroll around the spillway at La Redorte

This very short walk for the whole family takes in a boat harbour, a spillway, a canal bridge, a boatman's stop, an aqueduct, a beautiful dairy farm and a small lake where you can fish for trout. A wealth of discoveries!

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  • Walking
    Activity: Walking
  • ↔
    Distance: 2.30 mi
  • ◔
    Average duration: 1h 05 
  • ▲
    Difficulty: Easy

  • ⚐
    Back to start: Yes
  • ↗
    Ascent: + 43 ft
  • ↘
    Descent: - 43 ft

  • ▲
    Highest point: 213 ft
  • ▼
    Lowest point: 148 ft
  • ⚐ Country: France
  • ⚐ City: La Redorte (11700)
  • ⚑
    Start/End: N 43.248572° / E 2.659814°
  • ❏
    IGN map(s): Ref. 2445O
  • Hour-by-hour weather

Description of the walk

Accessible from the Puichéric road, La Redorte harbour and Avenue du Port offer a few parking spaces.

(S/E) From the port, take Avenue du Port, leaving the café-restaurant on your left.
At the start of the avenue, on the right, the small path through the nurseries leads you to Rue des Pépinières. At the end of this street, cross the RD11. Walk alongside the cemetery on your right for about 50 metres and cross the car park on your left, which slopes slightly upwards. At the far end of the car park, head up the path and follow the eastern wall of the cemetery. After about a hundred metres, take the Chemin du Pech Saint-Jean on the left, which leads downhill.

(1) Just before the path makes its first turn to the left, a platform has been levelled off on the right. From there, a narrow path branches off in the opposite direction; take this. After about 200m, it is lined with magnificent olive trees and overlooks another path below on the left.
At the end of the path, the Canal du Midi comes into view.

(2) Turn left onto the edge of the canal bridge, which carries the canal over the “Argent Double” river, then follow the towpath to the pretty little bridge over the canal.

(3) Cross the bridge over the canal and continue straight on to the dairy farm, which you go round to the left. Continue along the tarmac path to reach the small lake.

(4) Before the small lake, turn right and follow the bank of the Argent Double.

(5) After about 350m, cross the river via the old bridge opposite the spillway. When you reach the canal on your left, cross the spillway and then pass under the bridge supporting the RD11. The towpath leads to the bridge after the Port de la Redorte (opposite bank). Go up onto this bridge and cross it.

Once on the other side, on your right, a path leads back down to the port.

(S/E) Return to the starting point; the circular loop is complete.

Waypoints

  1. S/E : mi 0 - alt. 171 ft - Avenue du Port
  2. 1 : mi 0.24 - alt. 190 ft - On the right, the path takes a sharp bend
  3. 2 : mi 0.59 - alt. 157 ft - Canal bridge of the - Argent-Double (rivière) - Affluent de l'Aude
  4. 3 : mi 0.98 - alt. 167 ft - Cross the bridge - Canal du Midi
  5. 4 : mi 1.28 - alt. 161 ft - On the right, follow the river
  6. 5 : mi 1.46 - alt. 148 ft - Cross the old bridge
  7. S/E : mi 2.3 - alt. 171 ft - Avenue du Port

Worth a visit

At the port, a map on a building façade shows what can be seen at La Redorte.

Along the route, after the canal bridge, the building on the banks of the "La Dinée" canal dates from the time of the canal’s construction. It served as a stopping place for boatmen and travellers. A little further on, before the bridge, the "Drain de la Dinée" drains water from the plain.

The spillway allows excess water from the canal to be automatically discharged into the River Argent Double, which flows below.

Reviews and comments

4.6 / 5
Based on 12 reviews

Reliability of the description
4.8 / 5
Ease of following the route
4.6 / 5
Route interest
4.5 / 5
Castanviels
Castanviels

Overall rating : 4.3 / 5

Date of your route : Dec 22, 2025
Reliability of the description : ★★★★☆ Good
Ease of following the route : ★★★★☆ Good
Route interest : ★★★★★ Very good
Very busy route : No

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User 26129216

Overall rating : 5 / 5

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

Easy and very pleasant hike, I recommend it

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KDec
KDec

Overall rating : 4.7 / 5

Date of your route : Jul 24, 2024
Reliability of the description : ★★★★★ Very good
Ease of following the route : ★★★★★ Very good
Route interest : ★★★★☆ Good
Very busy route : No

Very enjoyable to do with young children. We appreciated finding a bit of shade along the entire route.

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DESCARREGA
DESCARREGA

Overall rating : 5 / 5

Date of your route : Jun 12, 2023
Reliability of the description : ★★★★★ Very good
Ease of following the route : ★★★★★ Very good
Route interest : ★★★★★ Very good
Very busy route : No

From time to time, bicycles, otherwise it's nice with the family.

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Muller Françoise
Muller Françoise

Overall rating : 5 / 5

Date of your route : Sep 04, 2022
Reliability of the description : ★★★★★ Very good
Ease of following the route : ★★★★★ Very good
Route interest : ★★★★★ Very good
Very busy route : No

Very easy route, very well marked and very interesting.

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nanarddu11
nanarddu11

I am very happy that my modest little hike can bring a little pleasure to others. Thank you to everyone who takes the time to comment on the contributions. Happy hiking, best regards.
nanarddu11

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lys77
lys77

Overall rating : 5 / 5

Date of your route : Sep 01, 2018
Reliability of the description : ★★★★★ Very good
Ease of following the route : Not used / Not applicable
Route interest : ★★★★★ Very good

It's a very pleasant, varied short hike. The description is quite accurate, you can't go wrong, and there are yellow markings every now and then.
We'll do it again because we had a great time: beautiful scenery along the Canal du Midi, discovering the water spout...
Not to mention the discovery of the wine cooperative, which is in full swing as the grape harvest has already begun.
Thank you to the author for their contribution!

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jipeso
jipeso

Overall rating : 4.3 / 5

Date of your route : Oct 20, 2017
Reliability of the description : ★★★★★ Very good
Ease of following the route : ★★★★☆ Good
Route interest : ★★★★☆ Good

As someone from the region, I really enjoyed rediscovering one of the monuments of the Canal du Midi.
It lacks maintenance and, clearly, the local council doesn't really care. That's a shame.

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Shif
Shif

Overall rating : 4.3 / 5

Date of your route : Oct 01, 2017
Reliability of the description : ★★★★★ Very good
Ease of following the route : ★★★★☆ Good
Route interest : ★★★★☆ Good

A beautiful, very easy hike (done with a 5-year-old child) that allows you to see beautiful places and varied landscapes.
The only downside is that the plane trees have been cut down due to disease, which is a shame as it takes away from the charm of the canal banks...

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jnmerp
jnmerp

Overall rating : 4.3 / 5

Date of your route : Aug 21, 2017
Reliability of the description : ★★★★☆ Good
Ease of following the route : ★★★★☆ Good
Route interest : ★★★★★ Very good

Two points caused me problems. The place called "La Dinée", where I couldn't see the black rectangle on the map indicating a large building, and then the poorly positioned signpost (in my opinion) at point 2: after the bridge (following the passage of La Dinée), leave the canal and continue straight on towards the buildings, which are easy to get around. From there, you come to a section of tarmac road (500m?) leading to a very beautiful site that takes you back to the spillway. It's a very beautiful discovery with no difficulty whatsoever, except perhaps for the slightly slippery canal bridge. It makes you wonder why this site isn't promoted more locally!

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Nicolas C 54
Nicolas C 54

Overall rating : 4.7 / 5

Date of your route : Aug 02, 2017
Reliability of the description : ★★★★★ Very good
Ease of following the route : ★★★★★ Very good
Route interest : ★★★★☆ Good

A lovely walk to enjoy with the family, to be done while there are still plane trees in certain places...

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JFSEGUIN
JFSEGUIN

Overall rating : 4 / 5

Date of your route : Jul 06, 2016
Reliability of the description : ★★★★☆ Good
Ease of following the route : ★★★★☆ Good
Route interest : ★★★★☆ Good

Nice hike, very well marked.

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MONTAGNAC
MONTAGNAC

Overall rating : 4.7 / 5

Date of your route : May 30, 2016
Reliability of the description : ★★★★★ Very good
Ease of following the route : ★★★★★ Very good
Route interest : ★★★★☆ Good

A very pleasant little walk to enjoy with the family in sunny weather.

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