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: 3.70 km
  • ◔
    Average duration: 1h 05 
  • ▲
    Difficulty: Easy

  • ⚐
    Back to start: Yes
  • ↗
    Ascent: + 13 m
  • ↘
    Descent: - 13 m

  • ▲
    Highest point: 65 m
  • ▼
    Lowest point: 45 m

Description of the walk

Accessible from the Puichéric road, the port of La Redorte 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 beginning of the avenue, on the right, the small passageway through the nurseries leads to Rue des Pépinières. At the end of this street, cross the RD11. Walk along the cemetery on your right for about 50 metres and cross the car park on your left, slightly uphill. At the end of the car park, go up the path and walk along the east side of the cemetery wall. After about 100 metres, take the Chemin du Pech Saint-Jean on the left, which goes downhill.

(1) Just before the path turns left, there is a flattened platform on the right. From there, a narrow path leads in the opposite direction. Take this path. After about 200 metres, it is lined with magnificent olive trees and overlooks another path below on the left.
At the end of the path, you will see the Canal du Midi.

(2) Turn left onto the canal bridge that crosses 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 ahead until you reach the Dairy Farm du Bois, which you will go around on 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 350 metres, cross the river on the old bridge opposite the spillway. When you reach the canal on the left, cross the spillway and then go under the bridge that supports the RD11. The towpath leads to the bridge after the port of La Redorte (opposite bank). Go up onto this bridge and cross it.

Once you reach the other side, there is a passageway on your right that takes you back down to the port.

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

Waypoints

  1. S/E : km 0 - alt. 52 m - Avenue du Port
  2. 1 : km 0.39 - alt. 58 m - On the right, the path takes a sharp turn.
  3. 2 : km 0.96 - alt. 48 m - Canal bridge of the - Argent-Double (rivière) - Affluent de l'Aude
  4. 3 : km 1.57 - alt. 51 m - Cross the bridge. - Canal du Midi
  5. 4 : km 2.07 - alt. 49 m - On the right, follow the river.
  6. 5 : km 2.35 - alt. 45 m - Crossing the old bridge
  7. S/E : km 3.69 - alt. 52 m - Avenue du Port

Worth a visit

At the port, a map on a façade shows what there is to see in 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 was 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 automatically drains excess water from the canal into the Argent Double river below.

Reviews and comments

4.6 / 5
Based on 11 reviews

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