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Start from the car park next to the fitness trail.
(S/E) With the fitness trail on your left, follow the path straight ahead uphill to the pumping station. On the right, there is a lovely view of Nancy and Saulxures Castle.
(1) Follow the path and, at the next junction, turn right and continue along the path downhill to the outer wall of Saulxures Castle.
(2) Take the path on the left running alongside the wall until you reach the next junction. There, turn onto the path on the left until you reach a fenced-off area. Turn right and follow this path for about 20 metres.
(3) Then turn left at the corner of a GDF control post (path not shown on the map). Continue for about 600 metres.
(4) Turn right (south-east; tree marked with a Yellow Triangle). Walk for about 400 metres (cross the cleared strip of woodland), then take the left-hand Fork in the road to rejoin theGRP® Tour de Nancy.
(5) Turn left and follow the yellow and red markings until you reach the junction with the D83 road.
(6) Cross the road and enter the gas storage area. Follow the road for 600 metres to reach the information board about the storage facility.
(7) Continue straight on until the second junction (approximately 200 metres; path not shown on the map), turn right for about 50 metres, then turn left onto the path (not shown on the map) running alongside the copse (sign with a Green Circle); at the end of the path, turn left to go down the hill towards the dispatch centre.
(8) Turn left to walk alongside this station (path not shown on the map).
At the next junction, turn right and follow the road for 30 metres, then turn left onto the dirt track crossing the meadow (path not shown on the map). Follow this track, winding through a series of tight bends, until you reach a small ditch which is easy to cross.
(9) Turn left at a right angle and continue along the track south-westwards until you reach the edge of the woodland. Continue along the tarmac road for 380 metres and take the dirt track on the right (opposite the corner of the small copse; path not shown on the map).
Follow this track, heading north-west, until you reach the park; turn left to walk alongside the park, then turn right to rejoin the dirt track and follow it to the Route de Seichamps. Turn left onto the pavement, pass the small roundabout, then turn right to cross the road at the pedestrian crossing by the secondary school car park.
(10) Follow the path opposite, alongside the Grémillon stream, for 350 metres until you reach the banks of the Etang de la Masserine.
(11) Turn left (opposite the island) onto the path that runs between the houses and continue straight on to the end of the small square. Turn right onto the path that runs between the houses, cross the road and turn left onto the pavement.
Follow this pavement to the car park in front of a chemist’s, cross the car park and then cross Avenue Charles de Gaulle. Turn right onto the pavement and follow it to the roundabout in front of a supermarket. Go round the roundabout.
(12) Cross the car park. Walk alongside the supermarket on your right, go down the car park access ramp, then turn left onto the path passing under a bridge. Follow the path until you are walking alongside Avenue de Brigachtal.
(13) Then turn left onto the path leading uphill past some old gardens. At the top of the path, turn right and then immediately left to join an old road that runs alongside the aerodrome runway.
(14) Follow this road until you reach the two posts marking a former access point.
(15) Turn left. After 250 metres, cross a earth embankment (between two posts).
(16) Carry on straight ahead to cross the bridge over the D674. Immediately afterwards, turn left onto the cycle path that runs alongside the D674.
Follow this cycle path to the roundabout, turn right and continue to the next roundabout. Go through the roundabout, then follow the cycle path straight ahead to the entrance to Pulnoy. Follow the pavement, turn right at the next roundabout and continue along the pavement. Cross the Route de Saulxures just before Rue de l’Orée du Bois and carry on to the fitness trail car park (S/E).
It’s still a lovely route, though.
– though I didn’t think it would be such an obstacle course! But it was great fun!
Visorando Member
Easy 
