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Once you enter the forest, go through the barrier and continue straight ahead. Pass the playgrounds and continue to the second roundabout, turn right onto Allée des Pommiers, then turn left onto Allée des Sureaux and park in this lane.
Hike
(S/E) From the car park, join Allée des Pommiers and take it to the left, descending towards the forest, passing in front of the equestrian centre until you reach a barrier.
(1) Turn right and follow this wide forest path for about 500 metres. Ignore the small paths on your right and continue until you reach a wide path on your right (at this crossroads, two trees are marked with red crosses).
(2) Leave this path on the left, cross the forest road and take the grassy path that descends opposite.
This path leads into the forest and descends into the valley. At the bottom of the valley, depending on the season, the vegetation can be dense in places.
(3) Continue until you reach theGRP® Tour de Nancy, marked in yellow and red, and follow it opposite, staying at the bottom of the valley on a good forest path.
(4) After about 1 km, you will come to a crossroads at plots 84 and 85. Leave theGRP® trail, which branches off to the right, and continue straight ahead until you reach the road.
(5) Cross the road and see the Petite Malpierre monument, which recounts the little-known actions of the resistance fighters who were shot at this site in 1942.
Leave the site on the left, walking along the meadow and the road on your left.
Continue to the end of the meadow and look for a path just before the embankment and just in front of the last tree on your right, which may be hidden by vegetation. Follow it for a few metres until you enter the forest.
(6) As soon as you enter the forest, take the path opposite, which climbs slightly. Leave the lower path, as it follows the stream and may not be passable depending on the season.
Continue along this path which runs alongside the road, always staying above it.
At a three-way junction, take the path furthest to the left. You will reach a fenced-off plot, which you will walk alongside.
At the path, descend to the left to reach the Bonnefontaine site, a footbridge and a fenced plot, which you follow to the right, then to the left, then up a steep slope, always following the fence on the left marked with a yellow ring. You will then reach a road junction.
(7) Cross the road and climb up the wide path between plots 155 and 55, marked with a blue disc, which you follow throughout the climb.
(8) Leave the blue markings, which go to the right, and continue straight ahead along plot 58.
(9) Cross the forest road and continue straight ahead, between plots 63 and 64, until you reach a T-junction. Turn left and continue straight ahead along a good forest path until you reach a road. Cross it and continue straight ahead. When you reach a T-junction, turn right to join the road at the Quatre Marronniers junction.
(10) Avoid all the main paths leading off from this junction. Look for an old iron gate (hidden in the vegetation) opposite you and take the small passage to its left. The path enters the undergrowth and reaches a concrete slab walkway. Follow the walkway until you reach a wire fence. Exit the walkway on the left and then turn right to reach the back of an old building.
(11) Cross the old road and continue along the path opposite. When you reach a three-way junction
, stay on the left. The path becomes more wooded. A little further on, turn right, pass between the buildings and join the road, which you follow to the left to reach the car park.
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