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The route starts at the car parkat the Cascade de la Billaude.
Just a quick tip: make the most of the upper and lower viewing points at the start of your walk. The 200 steps you’ll have to go down and back up will be more of a chore on the way back.
(S/E) Leave the car park by turning left. Head downhill and pass the path to the lower viewpoint. Continue along this pleasant path through the woodland.
(1) As soon as you reach the Route des Cascades, turn right and carefully make your way down this road (279). Continue on, cross the bridge at the confluence of the Lemme and the Saine, and you’ll reach a large crossroads.
(2) Leave the Syam direction and turn right.
(3) At the next junction, turn right again. (You will return via the track coming in from your left.)
The track passes between stacks of timber being sprayed by jets of water. Try to avoid getting soaked!! Further on, the path narrows and climbs more steeply. Stay on this path, continue your “ascent” and join a dirt track.
(4) Turn left, following the Plan d’Eau des Pêchettes and its picnic tables. Immediately afterwards, turn right at the sign for the Sapin Président. Pass it and continue to the next junction.
(5) Turn left onto the GR®, heading towards the Grande Cheminée. Descend carefully to avoid any falls, which could be serious given the terrain.
(6) Approach the passage and use the cable to descend carefully into this chimney. At the end of the passage, turn right onto the small path at the foot of the rocks. Continue until you reach a tarmac road.
(7) Then turn left for a few metres to enjoy the view from the Belvédère des Prés Grillet.
Turn back and take the Route Forestière de Cornu uphill.
Continue along this route, ignoring the various paths branching off to the right or left. Pass the hunting lodge and you’ll reach a junction with a path coming in from the right.
(8) Take a round trip to the drystone shelter at the Ours. At the first junction, go straight on. You’ll find ‘Ours’ markings on a few trees. Look out for the entrance to the cave. You can climb a few dozen metres to get a view through the vegetation of Champagnole and its surroundings.
Head back down to the forest track.
(8) Turn right. About a kilometre further down, look out for a junction with the GR®.
(9) Turn left onto the GR® Tour de la Vallée de la Saine and continue until it turns sharply left.
(10) Leave the GR® and turn right onto a descending path, which has been widened by forestry work. At the edge of the pasture, turn left and, after a right-hand bend, turn left again. You will then rejoin the Route Forestière de Cornu.
(11) Take this road by turning right. At the next junction, turn left and you will come to a sharp right-hand bend.
(12) Turn left for a return trip to the Belvédère at Taiclet. Follow the signposts.
(12) Back on the forest road, turn left and follow the track to the end.
(13) Take the small path leading off to the left and down towards the river.
(14) Once you reach the tarmac road, turn left. Continue until you reach a large square and a crossroads you passed on the way out.
(3) This is the end of the circular route; you are back on your original route. Return to the car park by following the route in reverse: continue straight ahead.
(2) Follow the road, cross the river and walk up the side of the road.
(1) Enter the woodland, head to the lower viewpoint and continue on to the upper viewpoint and your car park (S/E).
Visorando Member
Moderate 
Association / Club / Walk leader
Easy 
