Montouvrard, starting from Allevard

Place de la Résistance – Allevard
Starting point: the Tourist Office. Parc des Forges car park nearby, Rue de la Libération (D108).

(S/E) From the Tourist Office, take Rue Chenal, then Rue de la Gorge. Cross the D108 and continue along Rue Étienne Tallard. After about fifty metres, turn right into Rue Bombec (a narrow, winding lane) and walk past a wash house. At the end of the street, first turn left then right, then left again between the houses and gardens of this old neighbourhood, then climb a few steps to reach the EDF canal promenade. Walk a few metres to the right to reach No. 12 Montée de Montouvrard.

(1) Take the path on the left opposite this alleyway, marked with yellow-red signs – Trail Station: a steep climb at the start, then almost flat after the right-hand bend. You’ll soon reach the next junction with the yellow sign for Montouvrard 2 km – 25 mins (sic!).

(2) Turn left, stay on the path all the way to Montouvrard and ignore the various access roads for cars on the right. After crossing the road three times, you’ll reach the hamlet of Montouvrard.

(3) Take the dead-end street, Rue du Bugnon, and, at the top of the street, turn right onto the Traverse de Montouvrard for 150 m.

(4) At the start of the right-hand bend in the road, continue along the grassy path opposite, cross the small plateau and head towards the hamlet of Les Fontanettes.

(5) Ignore the road coming from the right and pass under the house. When you reach the road, head towards Moret and take the path leading down to the right just after the garden (yellow markings). Cross the access path to Coudret twice, then continue down the slope just before the house. The path curves to the right and follows the contour line almost exactly, then takes a hairpin bend to the left and begins to descend again. Reach the junction at the signpost marked ‘Sous Coudret’.

(6) Turn right onto the forest track on the right and join the access road to the hamlet of Gorge Granat. Follow it to the left and, at the hairpin bend that follows, take the path opposite, pass under the house and reach the edge of the Bassin du Flumet.

(7) Walk along the lake heading north and, after the skatepark, at the hairpin bend on the Route de Montouvrard, turn left; then, a few metres further on, take the path on the right (Promenade du Canal EDF), a former railway track. Continue straight on and rejoin the route taken at No. 12 on the Montée de Montouvrard.

(1) Follow the route back to the Place de la Résistance or the Parc des Forges car park (S/E).