Les puys Chopine et des Gouttes

Guidebook with maps/step-by-step :

Étape 1 : Opposite the parking lot, turn left along a fence. It becomes a wide path. Follow it past the “Fontaine des Pères” and a sheep pen. Ignore the paths to the right and left and come to an intersection near a plot of land enclosed by a large metal gate.

Étape 2 : Turn right onto a path that rises gently through the beech forest and continue to the first intersection.

Étape 3 : Turn right onto the track that climbs up through the undergrowth between the Chopine and Gouttes puys. Use a stepladder to climb over a fence. The slope steepens to reach the lip of the puy des Gouttes crater.

Étape 4 : Take the path on the left, following the crater rim to the summit (view of the puy de Dôme, the Puys chain, the Sancy massif, the Artense, the Combrailles and, overhanging, the puy de Lemptégy quarry and the Vulcania site). Follow a fence along the edge of the wood and then descend into the beech forest. At the bottom of the descent, cross a fence using a stepladder.