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Coming from the south via the D 1086, just before entering Condrieu, you will find the village of Vérin; on the right, on the banks of the Rhône, there is a small car park and a children’s playground. Park here; the walk starts from this point
(S/E) Leave the car park heading towards the village of Vérin, crossing the road with care as it is very busy. On the other side of the road, head south along the village houses. From here, you can see brown-and-white markings.
Brown-and-white markings
Continue through the village along Rue Jean Vincent until you reach a small bridge over a stream (the Vérin). After crossing the bridge, turn immediately right, following the markings, into Rue Béatrice de Rousseau. After passing under the railway line through a tunnel, the tarmac ends and the path continues as an uphill dirt track. Continue along this path, following the signposts.
The dirt track ends and joins a tarmac road and a hamlet (Croix Margot). Walk for about a hundred metres along this road to reach a junction where there is a cross on the left, mounted on a wall.
(1) At this junction, turn right (Impasse du Bois) and head uphill. The tarmac section ends and gives way to a dirt track. Follow the brown-and-white signposts. At the end of the dirt track, you’ll reach a tarmac road and a hamlet (l’Olagnière). Continue straight on along this road until you reach a junction with a dirt track where there is a hiking signpost.
(2) At the signpost (l'Olagnière), leave the road and take the dirt track uphill. Pass a signpost and take the path on the left. Continue along this path, following the same markings. You will come to a tennis court on the right where the dirt track ends and becomes a road. Continue straight on along this road.
(3) Pass the base of an iron cross standing on the left, and continue straight on along the road. You will reach a junction where you can see a pond on the right. There is a hiking signpost at this junction. Continue along the edge of the pond, then about fifty metres after this junction, take a dirt track on the left, which leads uphill and where there is another hiking signpost.
(4) Continue uphill, leaving the signpost on your right, and about a hundred metres further on, pass under a high-voltage power line near an electricity pylon. A few metres further on, you’ll reach a crossroads. Here, you have the choice between following the brown-and-white markings, which offer the certainty of being on the right path but, in wet weather, this section is muddy and slippery, or taking a narrow grassy path on the left, running parallel, which leads to the same spot but has numerous branches off to the right and left.
You’ll reach the end of the dirt track at a road and follow this to the right. Walk about fifty metres along this road until you reach a junction, then turn left at this junction (Impasse des Cavettes). Continue along this road, straight ahead, ignoring the road on the left. The tarmac section ends and the path continues as a dirt track. Follow the markings straight ahead. The path leads onto a tarmac road which you should take to the right (Chemin de Saint-Aldon, then Route de Saint-Michel).
End of the brown and white markings
(5) When you reach this point, turn right. Please note that from this point onwards, you will leave the brown-and-white markings. There are yellow-and-white markings at this point, but they are unreliable. At the next crossroads, continue straight ahead on a slight descent, then after a slight climb, you’ll reach a crossroads where you should turn right and continue slightly uphill. Ignore a path branching off to the right, then a few metres further on another to the left, until you reach a crossroads with a hiking signpost.
(6) At this signpost, turn right through the undergrowth. The dirt track then ends and becomes a tarmac section in the hamlet of Métrieux.
(7) Walk straight through this hamlet. When you reach a crossroads with a cross, take the main road on the left. Please note that this is a busy road. Walk along the side of this road for about 150 m, passing a wide path on the right and a narrower path on the left, until you reach the next junction where there is a signpost.
(8) At this signpost (La Rivoire), turn right. Follow this path until you reach a tarmac road. Cross this road by making a slight detour to the right then left to take the dirt track opposite. Follow this track until you reach a tarmac section. The track then leads onto a larger road, where you continue by keeping to the right. Continue along this road for about a hundred metres until you reach a junction where there is another hiking signpost (La Pélarie).
(9) Turn right, then after about 50 metres, turn onto the dirt track on the left. There is also a hiking signpost here. Continue straight along this track, ignoring a path on the left. Carry on until you reach a tarmac section (Route du Flachat); continue straight along this road, ignoring the road branching off to the left. Stay on this road until you reach a larger road, which you must cross to take the road opposite, heading towards the hamlet of Les Murettes. From here, you will find brown-and-white signposting.
(10) Walk through this hamlet alongside the houses on the left, and at the last house, continue straight ahead along a grassy dirt track. Follow this track for almost a kilometre until you reach a tarmac road. Follow this road to the right to reach a junction after passing a tall cypress hedge.
(11) At the end of this hedge at the junction, take the road on the right. Here you will find a signpost indicating “grande traversée du Rhône”. You will see this sign again at the following junctions along part of the route. Continue along this straight road until you reach a crossroads where you should turn right. Follow this road for about a hundred metres, then turn left. The tarmac section ends and gives way to a winding, downhill dirt track.
(12) This dirt track ends and joins a tarmac section where you should turn left. Continue along this downhill road until you reach a junction with a hiking signpost.
(13) Leave the tarmac road and take a dirt track on the left, continuing straight downhill. Then, about 500 m further on, the track winds downhill in hairpin bends. After the first hairpin bend to the left, ignore the track branching off to the right (almost going in the opposite direction) and continue downhill. At the second hairpin bend turning right, do not go straight on, but take this bend to the right. (These last two junctions are not shown on the map).
At the bottom of the descent, cross the small bridge over the stream (the Vernon). Then follow the stream to reach a junction. On the left is a large white building (a care home) and on the right a small footbridge crossing the stream again. Take this footbridge to follow the stream. Continue straight on to pass under the railway line through a tunnel. (Jean-Jacques Rousseau Path). You will reach the A-road. Cross it carefully and turn into the street directly opposite (Rue Beau Rivage). Walk past the entrance to the Beau Rivage hotel and restaurant.
(14) Turn left to reach the banks of the Rhône, on the Via Rhôna. Continue along the Rhône until you reach a footbridge spanning a branch of the river. After crossing this footbridge, continue for about a hundred metres until you reach the car park where you started (S/E).
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