Description
Explore the Guiers valley with your family or friends on this blue-difficulty trail. Agricultural land, the Herretang sensitive natural area, the river Guiers, Chapelle Notre-Dame... There's so much to discover along the way.
Access possible with e-MTBs.
When mountain biking, you share the natural space with other users and navigate through sometimes fragile environments.
Please be courteous and respect nature!
The mountain biker's code aims to promote a mindset and practice that should become habitual.
Please follow these rules:
- Use marked trails for your safety and follow the direction of the routes.
- Don't overestimate your abilities and stay in control of your speed.
- Be cautious and courteous when passing or crossing hikers, as pedestrians have the right of way.
- Check the condition of your bike and bring supplies and repair tools.
- If you're going alone, inform someone of your route.
- Wear a helmet.
- Respect private property and cultivated areas.
- Be cautious of agricultural and forestry equipment.
- Close gates behind you.
- Avoid picking wildflowers, fruits, and mushrooms.
- Do not disturb the tranquility of wildlife.
- Keep your trash, be discreet, and respect the environment.
Make sure you are well insured; consider the FFC Pass’Loisir.
Drinking water and restrooms are available near the start at the football field.
- Guidebook with maps/step-by-stepStart at the Plan d’eau de Saint-Joseph-de-Rivière and head towards the ponds. When you reach the middle of the first pond, turn right onto the paved "chemin de la tournerie." After a few meters, turn left to reach the stadium, where a water point is available.
Exit the stadium through the green gate, then take two consecutive right turns to join the "Via Chartreuse" greenway. Follow the route along the Herretang canal, opposite the Herretang sensitive natural area, for about 5 km.
After passing the yellow "Grand Villette" sign, at the next intersection, cross the "route du Grenat" and switch to the other bank using the bridge. After the house, turn right to leave the Via Chartreuse. Follow the path to the "Pont de la Rosette" sign and keep right, heading along the Guiers river towards the "Stade Charles Boursier" signpost.
Continue along Avenue Charles de Gaulle. At the market square parking, turn right and pass the Tourist Office, where you can stop for information or to pump up your tires. A small repair kit is available. On Avenue Jules Ferry, near the post office, continue left onto Avenue Jean Jaurès, then quickly turn right before the water fountain.
From here, prepare for a zigzag climb to the chapel Notre-Dame du Château, which offers a panoramic view of Saint Laurent du Pont and the valley. It is recommended to dismount your bike for this section. Follow the path, and at the "Route de Fontmartin" sign, the road descends to the right towards the cemetery parking. Turn left onto a paved path that turns into a trail.
Upon reaching the road at the hamlet of Raviers, take the descending road to the right. Continue on the path to the left, beginning the final ascent to the "Le Morard" sign.
Follow the road towards the center of Saint-Joseph-de-Rivière. Cross the departmental road RD520, adhering to traffic rules. Before the washhouse, take the school road to the left, then turn right after the bridge onto the chemin de la tournerie. You will find the starting path on your left, leading back to the ponds.
Plain text period
All year round daily.Subject to favorable weather.
Environment
- Lakeside or by stretch of water
- Mountain view
- Waterside
- In the country
- Village 2 km away
