Le Bois Coutayon

The walk takes you to Bois Coutayon on the border between the municipalities of Vendat and Saint-Pont. In the wild boar park, with a little luck and patience, you may spot wild boars and piglets or deer and fawns!

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  • Walking
    Activity: Walking
  • ↔
    Distance: 9.15 km
  • ◔
    Average duration: 2h 45 
  • ▲
    Difficulty: Easy

  • ⚐
    Back to start: Yes
  • ↗
    Ascent: + 61 m
  • ↘
    Descent: - 69 m

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    Highest point: 338 m
  • ▼
    Lowest point: 280 m

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Description of the walk

Pink markings

Parking: behind the town hall, in front of the old bathhouse near the doctor's surgery.

(S/E) Follow Rue du Capitaine Selvez, passing the church and the water tower. Continue to Place du Vieux Château, ignoring the road on the right (towards Le Rozet) and the road on the left (towards Espinasse-Vozelle).

(1) Take a sloping path along the old castle and head towards Les Parois.

(2) After crossing the Guêle, reach Les Parois and take the stony path opposite which climbs up to L'Allemagne (do not turn left under the bridge or right towards Le Rozet).

(3) At L'Allemagne, go around the buildings on the right and, after the last building, take a path on the right to reach Chemin de Lignière (do not turn left towards the Tricentenaire oak tree). Once you reach the path connecting Le Rozet to Lignière, turn left and continue straight ahead until you reach a fork.

(4) Continue straight ahead along Chemin des Bois Dieux, ignoring the path on the right leading to Lignière (lodge) and enter Bois Coutayon for about 1.6 km.

(5) Leave the path and take a crossroad on the right for 500 m, then turn right for 200 m.

(6) Turn left to reach a pond 400 m away.

(7) Turn right, reach the hunters' hut 700 m away and continue straight on, passing La Guêle (do not turn right towards Lignière).

(8) Turn right, pass in front of a hunters' hut and then the Blanchard spring catchment in the Bois des Grances and follow the path for another 500 metres.

(9) Before reaching the Rozet water catchment and about 20 metres before a SIAEP marker, take a path through the undergrowth on the left which climbs up to the plateau and joins a path 300 m higher up. Turn left onto the path to reach Les Ségauds (on the right, dead end).
Turn right onto Chemin du Bouchat and join Rue Marx Dormoy.

(10) Follow this street to the right for 100 metres, turn left onto Rue Constantin Weyer and, 50 metres further on, take the dirt shortcut (large stones at the entrance).
At the exit, turn right onto Rue Fernand Raynaud, continue straight ahead to pass in front of Place des Grands Champs (ignore Rue Émile Guillaumin on the right and Rue Roger Desormière on the left) and join Rue Albert Londres.
Turn left to pass in front of the primary school, then right to reach Rue Capitaine Selvez and turn left to return to the starting point (S/E).

Waypoints

  1. S/E : km 0 - alt. 335 m - Place du Marché - Église Saint-Léger (Vendat)
  2. 1 : km 0.92 - alt. 325 m - Place du Vieux-Château
  3. 2 : km 1.21 - alt. 280 m - La Guêle
  4. 3 : km 2.06 - alt. 309 m - Germany
  5. 4 : km 2.95 - alt. 314 m - Lignière
  6. 5 : km 4.5 - alt. 332 m - Fork in the road in Bois Coutayon
  7. 6 : km 5.16 - alt. 330 m - Fork towards the pond
  8. 7 : km 5.48 - alt. 327 m - Étang
  9. 8 : km 6.7 - alt. 304 m - Fork in the road after La Guêle
  10. 9 : km 7.5 - alt. 300 m - Rozet water catchment
  11. 10 : km 8.26 - alt. 326 m - Rue Marx Dormoy
  12. S/E : km 9.15 - alt. 335 m - Place du Marché - Église Saint-Léger (Vendat)

Reviews and comments

4.7 / 5
Based on 6 reviews

Reliability of the description
5 / 5
Ease of following the route
4.7 / 5
Route interest
4.5 / 5
Agathou
Agathou

Overall rating : 4.7 / 5

Date of your route : Apr 06, 2025
Reliability of the description : ★★★★★ Very good
Ease of following the route : ★★★★★ Very good
Route interest : ★★★★☆ Good
Very busy route : No

A very pleasant walk, easy to follow and accessible.

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Laurap6
Laurap6
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Overall rating : 4.7 / 5

Date of your route : Aug 12, 2024
Reliability of the description : ★★★★★ Very good
Ease of following the route : ★★★★★ Very good
Route interest : ★★★★☆ Good
Very busy route : No

A well-marked and detailed hike that allows you to enjoy a mostly shaded route.
Wear long clothing in August as there are many horseflies and sections with tall grass.

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Vampire2
Vampire2

Overall rating : 4.7 / 5

Date of your route : Apr 07, 2024
Reliability of the description : ★★★★★ Very good
Ease of following the route : ★★★★☆ Good
Route interest : ★★★★★ Very good
Very busy route : No

Lovely walk in the forest, we saw frogs and large lizards. Easy to follow as there are markings everywhere to guide us, in addition to the description.

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Mcici
Mcici

Overall rating : 5 / 5

Date of your route : Mar 11, 2024
Reliability of the description : ★★★★★ Very good
Ease of following the route : ★★★★★ Very good
Route interest : ★★★★★ Very good
Very busy route : Yes

A very pleasant route not far from civilisation, yet you are immersed in nature. In the woods. Beautiful trees.

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BONIN
BONIN

Overall rating : 4.3 / 5

Date of your route : Aug 07, 2023
Reliability of the description : ★★★★★ Very good
Ease of following the route : ★★★★☆ Good
Route interest : ★★★★☆ Good
Very busy route : No

Fortunately, Visorando Premium alerts you if you stray from the route. Be careful, there are two places where the markings are ambiguous (on a trellis marked 6, straight ahead when you need to turn right when you are on a long straight path) or hidden by vegetation when you need to take a hidden path on the left at the end of the route.

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ap_03
ap_03

Overall rating : 5 / 5

Date of your route : Nov 26, 2022
Reliability of the description : ★★★★★ Very good
Ease of following the route : ★★★★★ Very good
Route interest : ★★★★★ Very good
Very busy route : No

A beautiful, peaceful circular loop

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