The Morge mills

Guidebook with maps/step-by-step

Step 1 : From the salle polyvalente, follow the road into the village center and, opposite the church, down the lane on the left, between the mission cross and the public weighing scales. Keep to the left and continue along the path to the water treatment plant. Turn right and, passing the small stone bridge on the right, go straight on to the road.

Step 2 : Turn left for 250 m and, opposite the cross, take the path on the left. Go through the hamlet of Desniers and, at the crossroads, leave the road and take the first track on the right to reach a small road. Follow it to the left and back (100 m) to the Desniers mill (miniature mill models on display), then continue along the stream. At the crow’s-foot, turn left and, after 150 m, take the first grassy path on the left. Climb until you reach a small road (50 m to the left and back : cross, restored well and wash-house ; picnic table).

Step 3 : Follow it to the right, through the hamlet of Les Palles and down to the mill (display of old tools). After 200 m, leave the road for a track on the left. At the T-junction, take the left-hand track. At the bend in the road, keep to the right. Once you’ve reached the ruins of the sawmill (flour mill and hemp mill), take the left-hand track up to the ruins of a mill at the edge of the hamlet of Tazenat-bas.

Step 4 : Just after the ruins, turn right onto a track that runs alongside a pond, then fork left to join and cross the D19. Follow this to the left until you reach the end of the parking lot. Take the footpath that leads to the edge of the Tazenat gour (view of the gour site), turn left and continue to the small road at the horn of the wood.