A circular walk starting from Camarès to explore the Terres Rouges

Date of your route : Apr 27, 2026
Reliability of the description : ★★★★★ Very good
Ease of following the route : ★★★★★ Very good
Route interest : ★★★★☆ Good
Very busy route : No

The landscapes of the Rougier are as beautiful and impressive as ever; it’s a shame that this route sticks to tarmac roads far too often.

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Date of your route : Apr 24, 2025
Reliability of the description : ★★★★☆ Good
Ease of following the route : ★★★★☆ Good
Route interest : ★★☆☆☆ Disappointing
Very busy route : No

Far too much tarmac; not very interesting.

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Date of your route : Apr 11, 2025
Reliability of the description : ★★★☆☆ Average
Ease of following the route : ★★★☆☆ Average
Route interest : ★★☆☆☆ Disappointing
Very busy route : No

The information sheet advises parking near the cemetery... But that’s impossible. You have to drive up past the care home and park in front of the football pitch, then continue round the back of the building, towards the solar panels.
Like others have mentioned, we expected to see red soil, but apart from the fields ploughed by the farmers, there’s none to be seen. A shame... The town is pretty.

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Date of your route : Aug 21, 2023
Reliability of the description : ★★★★☆ Good
Ease of following the route : ★★★☆☆ Average
Route interest : ★★★★☆ Good
Very busy route : No

It’s not easy to find the start point, as a new housing development and a solar farm have completely changed the route.
The second section (from the pony riding school) is too close to the road.
The rest is fine.
For your information: the barbed-wire fence that you follow for part of the way is an old wildlife breeding centre, now abandoned.

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Date of your route : Apr 17, 2023
Reliability of the description : ★★☆☆☆ Disappointing
Ease of following the route : ★★★☆☆ Average
Route interest : ★☆☆☆☆ Very disappointing
Very busy route : No

It’s difficult to find your way around the care home due to ongoing building work.

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Date of your route : Nov 26, 2022
Reliability of the description : ★★★☆☆ Average
Ease of following the route : ★★★★☆ Good
Route interest : ★☆☆☆☆ Very disappointing
Very busy route : No

The route is over 3 kilometres long on tarmac and doesn’t even offer any nice views. What a shame – we were hoping to see some beautiful red-earth landscapes.
The little path starting from the stream is lovely.

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Date of your route : Sep 18, 2021
Reliability of the description : ★★★★☆ Good
Ease of following the route : ★★★★☆ Good
Route interest : ★★★☆☆ Average
Very busy route : No

A disappointing walk; we’re in the red earth of the fields, but that’s about it; there are lovely views of the small hills, which we’ll get closer to on another route (available on Visorando)
Return from the pony club riding school, almost entirely along roads.
Lovely views on the way back over Camares and a superb shepherd’s hut.

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Date of your route : Dec 23, 2020
Reliability of the description : Not used / Not applicable
Ease of following the route : ★★★★☆ Good
Route interest : ★★☆☆☆ Disappointing
Very busy route : No

We went on this hike in December 2020. The route we downloaded is good.
The walk is of moderate interest, especially if, like us, you’re expecting to discover the ‘red earth’ (yes, the ground beneath our feet is red, but the countryside is very green; in places it’s tarmac, as part of the route follows – small – roads).
Above all, it seemed to us that the walk follows the boundary of a fenced-off hunting reserve for a long stretch. Perhaps other walkers can tell us we’re mistaken, but if that’s the case, it’s rather unsettling and not very pleasant to walk alongside a wire fence.

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Date of your route : Aug 02, 2020
Reliability of the description : ★★★☆☆ Average
Ease of following the route : ★★★★☆ Good
Route interest : ★★★☆☆ Average
Very busy route : No

The route at the start of the walk has been completely disrupted by the recent installation of a field of solar panels.
To make it more interesting, we set off towards the Rougier des Montagnettes from point 3 and rejoined the route at point 4. The circular route is then 10.5 km long.

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Hello
Indeed, when heading uphill to the left of the care home, after passing the buildings, you need to turn right as you go uphill and then head back down until you come to a path. Go past the chain and head down the opposite side. Walk along the right-hand side of the solar farm. At the bottom, take the path on the left down to the stream.
The yellow markings were put in place at the end of 2019 by the Parc des Grands Causses, but it’s true that there’s a mark missing just after the EPAD.
Kind regards

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Date of your route : Jan 19, 2020
Reliability of the description : ★★★★☆ Good
Ease of following the route : ★★★☆☆ Average
Route interest : ★★★★☆ Good

We lost the markings whilst following the fence behind the care home, turning left just
after the care home and rejoined the yellow-marked path at the bend in the stream (hut); we should
most certainly gone straight on at the top behind the care home (or in front of it).
Please note: there is no car park at the cemetery.
The path goes round a military-style fenced-off area on the north side of the walk, which is easy
Beautiful view of the Rougiers in the distance at the foot of the mountains to the east-northeast

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Date of your route : Oct 25, 2019
Reliability of the description : ★★★★★ Very good
Ease of following the route : ★★★★☆ Good
Route interest : Not used / Not applicable

At point 1, the Prugnes stream was too high at both crossing points to be able to cross it (it is true that we had experienced heavy rain in the preceding days) => we had to return to the D10 to cross the stream a little further upstream (near a farm) and reach the plateau in question (that of point 2), from which the view towards the south is indeed well worth the detour.

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