The Rouffignac tour

Mountain bike circular no. 6

This very easy (green) circular takes you around Rouffignac-St-Cernin, a village in the Vézère valley in the heart of the Périgord Noir region of the Dordogne. It offers a beautiful view of the Château de Cheylard.

Details

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  • Mountain biking
    Activity: Mountain biking
  • ↔
    Distance: 5.54 km
  • ◔
    Duration according to the author: 1 hr 
  • ▲
    Difficulty: Easy

  • ⚐
    Back to start: Yes
  • ↗
    Ascent: + 47 m
  • ↘
    Descent: - 45 m

  • ▲
    Highest point: 292 m
  • ▼
    Lowest point: 246 m
  • ⚐ Country: France
  • ⚐
    Area: Périgord
  • ⚑
    Start/End: N 45.051588° / E 0.974589°
  • ❏
    IGN map(s): Ref. 1935E, 1936ET

  • ◶
    Type of surface:
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     33% Road  34% Byway  33% Path
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    Bike carrying: Not specified
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    Difficulty: Not specified
  • Hour-by-hour weather

Description of the route

(S/E) Leave the sports complex to return to the main road.

(1) Take Rue Pinard-Legry opposite and, after the housing estate, take Chemin des Piconies on the left at the hairpin bend until you reach the pharmacy crossroads.

(2) At the give way sign, turn right onto Route des Tuileries and, after the cemetery, keep right again onto Chemin de la Deymarie. Continue straight ahead, pass a first junction with a house on your right and continue to the second junction, with another house on your right.

(3) Turn left onto Chemin de Fortunel, then left again at the end of the road. Then turn right onto the path between the houses. At the junction with the road (sign for the exit of the village of Rouffignac Saint-Cernin), continue straight ahead on Chemin de la Menque until the next junction.

(4) Keep left on the road (to the left of the cross) and ignore two crossroads.

(5) Turn left onto Traverse de Boujou. Once between the houses, follow the path opposite between the trees.

(6) Turn right and continue along the path. Keep left to rejoin the road.

(7) Turn left and continue to the roundabout.

(8) Take the first exit towards Périgueux/Thenon. Continue straight ahead until you reach the next roundabout.

(9) Turn left at the first roundabout, then straight ahead at the second roundabout, towards Saint-Geyrac. Continue until you reach the junction you passed on the way there.

(1) Keep right towards the sports complex (S/E).

Waypoints

  1. S/E : km 0 - alt. 282 m - Sports hall at the sports complex
  2. 1 : km 0.21 - alt. 290 m - Crossroads of the circular
  3. 2 : km 0.77 - alt. 284 m - Route des Tuileries
  4. 3 : km 1.65 - alt. 274 m - Fortunel Path
  5. 4 : km 2.52 - alt. 288 m - Way of the Cross
  6. 5 : km 2.99 - alt. 279 m - Boujou
  7. 6 : km 3.51 - alt. 277 m - Path
  8. 7 : km 4.06 - alt. 268 m - Route de Lascaux
  9. 8 : km 4.48 - alt. 273 m - Roundabout
  10. 9 : km 5.05 - alt. 291 m - Roundabout
  11. S/E : km 5.54 - alt. 282 m - Sports hall at the sports complex

Notes

Follow the mountain bike trail markers (orange triangle) no. 6

Between (8) and (9): public toilets on the market square

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