Les Bouchauds

Guidebook with maps/step-by-step

Step 15 : minute drive to the chapel : panoramic view, orientation table) to a crossroads. Go right to a farm.

Step 1 : Turn right onto a tarmac road which becomes a forest track,
continue to the left. Follow a pond to a road. Follow it to the right. At the end of the hamlet of “Les Racauds”, turn left up to a T-junction. Turn right, leaving a track on your left, cross a road (D227) and continue straight on for 1km, ignoring the side tracks, until you reach a crossroads.

Step 2 : Turn right onto a wide track. Pass the “Parachutage” stele and take the first track on the right.
Follow it down to the pumping station. Continue right to the hamlet of “Les Bouchauds”.
At the entrance, turn left. Cross a road, leaving a lake on your right (covered picnic shelter on the bank), and keep going left until you cross a road. Go straight ahead, then at the crossroads, take the path on the right. At the intersection, keep right until you cross a road on a bridge.

Step 3 : Go downhill to the right (view of the Chaine des Puys), then ignore a road to the right. At the “Cédez le Passage” sign, cross the road and continue on a grassy path. After the stream, at “Les Planchettes”, fork left onto the road back to the starting point.