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Access: From Réalmont, you reach Arifat via the D86 and then the D11, which you take on the left after Lafenasse.
Park in the small car park at Arifat Castle.
PR® Yellow markings
(S/E) Opposite the castle, head to the left of the car park (signposted Cascades + plastic-covered information sheet about the waterfall trail on the tree at the start of the trail).
Go down a few steps, walk along the buildings that house a bar and a postcard shop in season, and continue towards the gorge straight ahead. The trail alternates between short ascents and descents before plunging down to the Barde stream that feeds the waterfalls. The slope is steep but numerous well-placed steps make it easier to progress.
Cross the cable bridge over the stream and follow the path. After a steep climb and a short section secured with a rope but without any real difficulty, the path turns east and leads to the viewpoint (poorly marked on the IGN map).
(1) Enjoy the view of the waterfalls from this very safe viewpoint. Then continue along the path, which reaches a high point and then descends to a small tarmac road where you turn left.
(2) 150 metres further on, at an intersection with numerous directional signs, leave the road and turn left onto the wide path marked Sentier des deux Lacs - la Bancalié. This path, which is flat at first, then begins a gentle descent and leads to a T-junction. Turn left and then right a few metres further on.
No signposts
(3) At the next fork, leave the yellow markings that go left and continue right. Follow the wide track that descends gently, makes a hairpin turn to the left and ends at a large intersection.
(4) Turn right and continue on almost flat ground, following the Dadou river as it winds below on the left.
(5) At a cleared area on the right, the path disappears. An uncertain trail leads uphill to the right. Do not follow it, but continue straight ahead for about 20 metres through the undergrowth to find a trail that is faint at first but quickly becomes more obvious and turns into a narrow path.
Follow this path, which winds horizontally through beech trees and scattered boxwoods and becomes increasingly wild. You will have to cross several passages where the path is blocked by uprooted trees, one of which requires a small detour to the right that is not very obvious. Leave a narrow trail that descends to the left and continue on the path that climbs slightly and curves to the right. Then leave a path that descends from the right and continue to a sharp left turn where you can see the buildings of Verdussat.
(6) At the "Private Property" sign, walk about ten metres and then leave the path and take a clearly visible trail on the right that enters dense vegetation. Just after a large uprooted tree stump, take another path on the left that climbs uphill and immediately opens onto a clearing. Cross the clearing, keeping to the left, and continue along the wide grassy path that extends from it. This leads to a small paved road. Take this road on the right and continue to the first intersection.
Signposting:GR® white and red +PR® yellow
Take a sharp left turn onto another paved road and descend to the entrance gate of a private property on the left. Take the wide path on the right uphill, which leads to a fork a few metres further on.
No signposts
(7) Turn right and follow the path that climbs gently up the Ruisseau de Teille valley to the hamlet of Grateloup. Cross the hamlet and continue to a crossroads with a wayside cross.
(8) Turn right onto a small paved road that quickly gives way to a wide grassy path. The path winds its way up, alternating between slight inclines and short steep sections. Leave a wide track on your left and continue straight ahead to join a paved road in the hamlet of Roquegardie.
(9) Turn right and continue to the three-way junction 200 metres further on.
SignpostedGR® White and Red +PR® Yellow.
Take the wide path opposite, leave a farm track on your left and continue on flat ground for about 1.2 km. At the three-way junction, turn left and join a small road at a hairpin bend. Continue downhill on this road, passing the intersection you passed on the way out.
(2) Cross the small bridge over the waterfall stream and go back up to the junction with the D11.
The car park (S/E) is a few metres further on, on the right.
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