Ruisseau du Tyx

Condat-en-Combraille

Dogs allowed

Distance 7.5Km

Duration 2h00

Hiking route BOUCLE

Marking Blue

In pictures

Route description

A pleasant walk in the heart of the Combrailles region, with its hedged farmland and wild forests. You’ll pass alongside the lively Tyx stream.

Trail highlights

Ruisseau du Tyx.

Guidebook with maps/step-by-step

Step 1 : From the start sign, walk past the town hall. Turn left at the fork, join the road and follow it to the Vernine junction. Turn right, pass the farm and enter the woods. Go straight ahead, ignoring the left and right paths. At the fork in the road, turn right and descend to a wide path (signposted).

Step 2 : Turn left along the Tyx. At the top of a small hill, leave a track on your left and continue straight ahead. Pass Le Mas and continue to the entrance to Meneix.

Step 3 : Turn right onto a tarmac road. At the fork after the farmhouse, go down to the right, cross the bridge over the Tyx, and go up the other side to a fork in the woods.

Step 4 : Turn left, and continue straight on out of the woods to a cross-country track.

Next step

Step 5 : Take this to the right. At an intersection, continue straight ahead along a coniferous plantation to a T-junction (on the outskirts of Chervalanges).

Step 6 : Turn right, then left 20 m further on. Descend, skirt the Tyx and cross it. Go up along a wood on your left. Join a wide track, follow it to the left to return to Condat.

Proposed and managed by the Conseil départemental du Puy-de-Dôme – PDIPR.

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Opening hours

All year round daily.

Subject to favorable weather.

Comfort, facilities and services

  • Pets welcome

Additional information

For your own safety, always take a bottle of water, a hat, warm clothing and footwear suitable for walking.
Depending on weather conditions, certain itineraries are not recommended in bad weather (fog) or are not practicable, or even forbidden, during the winter season.
Some sites are fragile, so stay on the marked trails. Avoid picking wild flowers and disturbing wildlife. Pick up your garbage.
Animals are not allowed on some routes.

Dogs allowed Dogs must be kept on a leash due to the presence of herds.

Environment

In the country, Presence of livestock and guard dogs

Access

10 km after Pontaumur, on the D141 towards Aubusson, turn left onto the D82 towards Herment. Car park at Condat-en-Combrailles, near the town hall.

Downloadable :

GPX – ITI000198_2023

Updated on 29 May 2026 by Conseil départemental du Puy-de-Dôme