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(S) Town Hall car park, on the main street in the centre of the village of Echay.
Head down the Rue Principale (D102) towards Myon. Walk past the wash house. On leaving the village, at the signpost, take the path on the right marked in yellow and blue (Belvédère des Grands Ruins circular route). After three hundred metres, at the fork, take the stony path on the left – the yellow-and-blue marker is barely visible – until it emerges from the woods where it joins the RD15 at a bend.
(1) Follow the road uphill to the right, leaving the road leading to Bartherans on your left. A sign on a yellow background will point you towards the viewpoint.
(2) After 1 kilometre, take care not to miss a forest path on the right, signposted by a sign, which will lead you to the Grands Ruins viewpoint. After taking in the view of the village of Échay, retrace your steps for about ten metres and take the forest path on the right. A sign points you towards the Chaux viewpoint. The path joins the D15A; follow it to the left for 200 metres and, at a bus shelter, turn right, following the yellow-and-blue markings, towards La Pierre.
(3) Opposite a house, turn left onto a tarmac road which quickly turns into a dirt track ending in a meadow. Keep an eye out here for the sign on a pasture post pointing to a small path on the right that leads into the forest.
(4) You’ll come to a rest area with two picnic tables. Walk past the tables and turn left onto the stony path that descends towards Cussey-sur-Lison. After about 500 metres, look out for a small wooden staircase on the right leading down to some small waterfalls. A sign featuring an ‘oreillard’ (a hare) will point the way. You’ll reach the village by walking through the valley and following the Goulue stream. The Goulue rises at the far end of the Cussey-sur-Lison valley and flows through the village via a small canal spanned by several little bridges.
(5) Head towards the centre of the village by turning left after a charming wash house, then immediately right to visit the church. Retrace your steps for 100 metres and turn right onto Rue du Chalet.
(6) You’ll walk alongside a deer enclosure for 600 metres; 50 paces further on, a barely visible yellow-and-blue Yellow Cross on a tree on the left signals that you should not continue along the tarmac road; you’ll then take a sharp left-hand hairpin bend onto a forest track that climbs the hillside.
(7) You’ll reach the cliffs, where the path splits. Take the right-hand circular path (Boucle des Falaises) to reach the viewpoint. You’ll soon come to a wider path opposite a signpost indicating the direction to the Croix viewpoint, overlooking the Cussey-sur-Lison valley, to the right. Turn back to the signpost and continue straight on towards the Belvédère des Chaux.
(8) You’ll come out at a right angle onto a wider, stony path, which you’ll follow uphill to the left. After 200 metres, at a fork, take the left-hand path to the meadow. Walk along the edge of the woodland for 500 metres, following the ‘Circular Trail of the Falaise’ signposts. You’ll come to a forest track that leads back into the woods and runs alongside the cliff. Just over a kilometre on, don’t miss the viewpoint overlooking the Cussey-sur-Lisine valley.
(9) Continuing along the path, you’ll come back to the picnic area; walk past the tables again, leaving the stony path you came down earlier on your left-hand side as you take the forest path on the right that leads into the woods (yellow-and-blue marker).
(10) You’ll reach a small meadow and a fork in the path; take the right-hand path to arrive at the Ferme de Bellevue. Take the tarmac road on the right for 600 metres; a sign will direct you to leave it and turn left towards Échay onto a narrow path that heads straight into the forest. Follow the yellow-and-blue markers.
(11) You will soon be walking alongside a wire fence. At the end of it, look out for the markers – one on the ground and the other on a post – which advise you, at the corner of the fence, to head down the pasture on the far right towards the road. The gate in the barbed-wire fence running alongside it isn’t very easy to spot, but there’s a small gap through which you can squeeze.
(12) Walk down the road towards the village centre; at the roundabout, turn right, passing the war memorial. You’re back on Rue Principale and will easily find the car park.
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