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The starting point for this hike is between Quai Fleury and Rue du Moulin. You will also find parking spaces on Quai Fleury (free parking at the end of the quay) and around Rue du Moulin.
(S) Leave the car park and take Rue des Moulins on your left, then Quai Morey. At the stop sign, turn right and follow the D8 until you reach a left-hand bend.
(1) At the sign marking the end of the Nuits-Saint-Georges built-up area, leave the road and go up the grassy path in front of you. At the crossroads, turn left onto the path and then take the trail on your right. Then follow the trail on your left. When I passed by, lilacs had grown in the middle of the trail. Go around them by climbing over the low wall and cross back over after the lilacs (or enter the vineyard plot and climb over the low wall after the lilacs).
(2) At the crossroads, continue along this path and you will see a red and purple sign a little further on. Follow this sign to the crossroads, passing a path on your right and then another on your left.
(3) At the crossroads, continue left, following the red markings.
(4) Turn left onto the path that climbs up to the red U-shaped marker on a tree (opposite your direction of travel). This route is marked in red and allows you to admire caves, cavities and chasms (bring a torch). This is a round trip. When you return to the tree with the U-shaped sign, turn right and return to the crossroads.
(3) Turn left (take care on the descent in wet weather). Take the small bridge over the Meuzin. Then follow the purple markings. Cross the road and take the footpath on the left.
(5) Turn right at the Félix Batier trail and tennis court signposts. Turn right before the tennis courts, following the purple markings. Go around the pumping station on the left. You will then see the trail with an information panel about the Batier trail and another route. Go up this trail on the left.
(6) At the crossroads, turn left, following the yellow and purple signs, and follow this path.
(7) At the next crossroads, turn left and take the leftmost path downhill (be careful, part of the path is on rock). Yellow and purple markings. Follow the leftmost path along the Combe Pernand cliff, which will lead you to some undergrowth.
(8) When you come out of the undergrowth into a small clearing, turn left onto a path that is poorly marked at first. This path leads you to a beautiful view of the Combe, then continue to the right along the Combe on a path that descends.
You will then arrive in the undergrowth and very close to the Cascade de la Serrée waterfall, which was dry when I visited (take care as you will be crossing the stream that feeds the waterfall). The waterfall is on private property.
(9) Take the path that climbs furthest to the left (quite steep climb, so take care in wet weather). At the top of this path, you will emerge from the undergrowth. On your left, you will see another view of the valley. Turn right. This path leads to a road where you turn right and then immediately left. Then take the grassy path between the vineyards. Cut across a path and go to the end of the vineyard, then follow the last row of vines to the electric fence. Climb over the electric fence and take the path on the left, marked in purple.
(10) 500 metres further on, you will come to a crossroads. On your left, you will see a large tree in the middle of the vineyards between the pylon with a flashing white light and the quarry. Turn right onto this path, marked with a red sign on a fir tree (I have made a pile of three stones at this spot, see photo). As you climb this path, you will see a white sign on a tree indicating forest section numbers 1-23-24. When this path turns into a track, turn left, then take the path opposite at the bend.
(11) Turn left onto the forest track, where you will find purple markings. At a large fir tree, turn left for a panoramic view of the valley at the paragliding launch site. Turn right to rejoin the path that descends (caution in wet weather) with yellow and purple markings. At the trail junction, turn left onto the path that descends, marked yellow and purple (the path on the right ascends and is marked yellow). Pass between two boreholes and descend the road.
(12) At the end of the street, turn left and then left again onto Rue de Vergy. At the crossroads, take Rue François Rodier (marked yellow and blue), which takes you past the town hall (under the town hall building, there is a beautifully restored wash house). Turn right onto Rue Traversière, head towards the monument and turn left. Opposite, take Chemin de la Halte (three wooden posts on this path) marked in purple.
(13) Continue straight ahead on the road, which turns into a farm track (you will leave the purple markings, which turn right). Follow this track straight ahead until you reach the D35. Follow the main road to the crossroads.
(14) At the crossroads, turn right, cross the bridge and turn left onto a path just after the Impasse sign. Follow this path without leaving it. At the Serrée paper mill, you will have a view of the Chapelle de la Serrée chapel.
At the end of this path, after seeing the small bridge on your left that you took on the way there, take the path on the right between the vineyards.
At the end of the path, turn right onto Rue de Charmois, then right onto Rue du Pasquier and back to your vehicle.
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