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Depart from the signposted car park located at 8, Rue de Notre-Dame des Landes, near the church in Treillières.
(S/E) Leave the car park on the right to join a wide path (old railway line) on the left. A long straight stretch awaits you. After crossing Rue de l'Essart, walk along a residential area on your left. Shortly after this, you will have the choice of continuing on the railway line or taking a wide path that runs parallel to it. Whichever you choose, continue until you reach a road.
(1) Turn left onto a wide path on the right-hand side of this road. Follow this path straight ahead, ignoring the first path on the left.
(2) Turn right onto the second path on the left. Follow it straight ahead until you pass under the expressway. Continue until you reach a second underpass (Rue de Muzon), then a small road that leads to a bridge on the left.
(3) Go up the bridge and turn left onto the road. Follow it, staying on the left-hand side, until you reach a road on the left, opposite a cross.
(4) Take this road and follow it straight ahead until you reach the bridge over the Rouchais stream. Turn right onto this bridge and follow the road as it gently rises and falls. You will pass near Launay, La Molinière (a beautiful group of buildings) and arrive at a road.
(5) Turn left to cross the bridge over the Gesvres, then, after about thirty metres, turn right onto a wide path. Continue straight ahead. The path climbs slightly, offering beautiful views of the Gesvres valley. Pass a path entrance on your left and continue along a narrower, bumpy path through the woods. Follow this path to La Hunelière, a charming hamlet with some beautiful properties.
(6) After crossing the Levée des Dons road, continue, leaving the first path on your right.
(7) At the second path (marked trail), turn right and continue along a long path that will take you almost to the edge of the D 42 (on your left), which you will ignore. Turn right onto Chemin du Piloir, cross (carefully) the Route de la Levée des Dons again to arrive at Valais. Turn left to reach the calvary with an apple tree.
(8) Take the path to the right of the calvary, which descends quite steeply, and turn left at the first fork. You will come to a small stream, which makes the area quite damp. Cross it via a footbridge and turn right. Follow the path, but do not enter the stream, even if an old signpost invites you to do so! Continue straight ahead, with varied passages in the undergrowth or in the open, until you reach a road, which you will take to the right. You will almost immediately arrive at the bridge that crosses the Guesvres.
(9). Continue straight ahead on the road, ignoring a signposted path on the left that leads to La Paquelais. The road climbs slightly (take care). Follow it until you reach a street on the right leading to Le Carteron.
(10) Take this road and cross the hamlet, which has a beautiful cluster of houses. At the end of the village, the road turns into a path through fields. Follow it until you reach a fairly busy road (caution), which you will cross to pass Les Gérardières.
(11) Continue straight ahead until you reach the "Liaison du Méridien" sign.
(12) Turn left onto a wide path, and at the first crossroads, turn right and then immediately left.
(13) Follow the path straight ahead, ignoring any turnings on the right or left.
(14) At the end of the path, turn right onto the Chavagnes road and follow it on the right-hand side until you reach the "no motor vehicles" sign.
(15) Turn right onto the path. You will find yourself on the old railway line, which is not very well maintained. Continue on and you will arrive (at a path entrance on the left) at the old railway line towards Treillières, which is much better maintained. Follow it straight ahead, ignoring the paths on the right and left.
(16) Go under the expressway, then continue straight ahead until you reach the fork you passed on the way there.
(1) Continue straight ahead along the same path you took on the way there and you will arrive at the car park (S/E).
. Thank you to the author for this route. 
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