The two parks on the Plateau d’Avron

Car park in front of the so-called main entrance to the Parc des Coteaux, at No. 9 Rue Sir Alexander Flemming. Accessible via bus 114, ‘Marcel Dassault’ stop.

(S/E) Enter the Parc des Coteaux d’Avron via the main ‘Fleming’ entrance. Head uphill, staying on the main path (with the orchard on your right), and take a sharp left-hand bend.

(1) Ignore a path branching off to the right and continue straight on along the^GR®14A(red and white markings). At the junction, carry on straight ahead. The path curves to the right and climbs up the “cirque”. At a Fork in the road, turn right and you’ll reach a playground.

(2) Then turn left and immediately ignore a path branching off to the right. At the T-junction, turn left towards the gypsum crossroads.

(3) Turn right and pass under a high-voltage power line whilst turning left. Head downhill along the^GR® and finish with a few steps to exit the park.

(4) Then turn right twice in succession to join the Chemin des Cahouettes. Further on, turn left onto the path and reach Avenue Georges Clemenceau. Follow this avenue to the right and, shortly afterwards, turn right onto a small one-way road. After a wide left-hand bend, join Avenue des Fauvettes at a set of traffic lights.

(5) Cross the avenue and follow it to the right, keeping to its left-hand side. Take the first left onto the Sentier des Pommiers. At the end, go through a wooden gate and turn right onto a narrow path flanked by two wire fences. Continue along this path for some time.

(6) You’ll come out onto a road; follow it to the right. After about fifty metres, turn right into the Parc Nature. Turn left immediately. Pass a playground on your right and go under the high-voltage power line again.

(7) At the junction, turn right towards the observation tower. Walk past it and continue along the single path. Further on, go round a pond on the right and take a wooden walkway. Continue along the path until you reach the exit onto Rue Jules Guesde.

(8) In future, phase 2 of the park will no doubt allow the route to be extended from the observation tower towards Rue de Rosny, avoiding the need to walk along the pavement.
For now, on leaving the park, turn right onto Rue Jules Guesde and walk along the right-hand pavement. Stay on this street and walk alongside the park. At the junction, turn right onto Avenue de l’Ouest. Then turn left onto Avenue de Rosny.

(9) Cross Avenue des Fauvettes (you can shorten the walk here by taking bus 114) and continue along Avenue de Rosny. At the next junction, turn right onto Avenue du Midi. Turn left onto the avenue and walk alongside Parc des Coteaux. Turn left onto Avenue de l’Est and continue until you reach a junction. Join Avenue de Rosny again, follow it to the right and turn immediately right onto Avenue Cornélis. Cross Avenue des Demoiselles on the left-hand side, then turn left to quickly reach the entrance to Parc des Coteaux d’Avron.

(10) Enter the park on the right and, at the junction that appears immediately, go straight on. Head right along a flat path on the right-hand side of the meadow (do not take the path going downhill) until you reach the edge of the embankment, where there is a view and where you can no longer go straight on. Continue along the edge of the embankment for 100 metres without turning left, until you find a small path on the right, marked in blue, which descends via 80 steps. Go down the steps and then continue straight on until you rejoin the path you took on the way there.

(1) Turn left and, following the path in the opposite direction to the way there, head back to the main ‘Fleming’ entrance (S/E).

Car park in front of the park entrance “Entrée principale Fleming” near 9 Rue Sir Alexander Flemming or the “Marcel Dassault” stop on the RATP bus route 114. The route crosses the path of bus route 114 again at (9), which runs along Avenue des Fauvettes.
There is a dry toilet along the route at the entrance to the Plateau d’Avron Nature Park.

Several children’s play areas, an observation tower and an educational farm.