Cycling Stay Chassezac

Warm welcome and atmosphere guaranteed

Come and renew with the spirit of the Ardéchoise and discover or rediscover its high places and meet the other participants.

What to expect

A route at the crossroads of the Cevennes, a country of deep valleys, and the Southern Ardeche, where olive trees, vineyards and chestnut trees grow side by side, in the surroundings of the Chassezac Gorges, which are part of the Cevennes Vivarais. The villages, with their architectural diversity and surprising range of colours, bear witness to the exceptional geological and natural diversity of the Les Vans region. Epicenter of cycling routes of great diversity that mixes valley and mountain of Mediterranean and Cevennes influence, which makes a mixture full of subtleties to amaze you.

Names well of the Cevenol soil: Pélardon, Faïsses, drailles, Camisards, Cevenol episode, you will know at the end of this journey.

Your Chassezac cycling trip day by day

Trois vallées et trois rivières 86km dénivelée 1130m

Un parcours à la croisée de trois départements Ardèche Lozère et Gard à la rencontre de trois rivières La borne, La Cèze et Le Chassezac. Arrivé au pied de Borne, un regard sur allier en direction de Villefort, magnifique paysage cévenol à vous couper le souffle. Vous arrivez au pays des ’‘’Faïsses’’ châtaigneraie en terrasses, typiquement Cévenol et du pélardon le fromage de chèvre des Cévennes.

Les plus beaux villages pittoresques 82 km dénivelée 1100 m ou 107 km dénivelée 1500 m

Direction l’Ardèche Méridionale et ces villages pittoresques, Balazuc, Vogüé, Rochecolombe, Lagorce, sans oublier le Pont d’Arc véritable joyaux de ce territoire. Arrivée à Vallon Pont d’Arc, deux choix possible défilés de Ruoms ou vallée de l’Ibie en passant par les villages de caractères de Vogüé /Balazuc, et retour sur les Vans.    

 

Deux cols mythiques. 85km dénivelée 1350m ou 117km dénivelée 1850m.

On change de décor, les Cévennes et ces vallées profondes, des routes tortueuses à la découverte d’une nature préservée et parfois rebelle. Deux cols mythiques au menu, un à escalader et qui se mérite « Teste Rouge », Montselgues, la Corniche du Vivarais, et savourer la descente du col du Meyrand au pied du massif du Tanargue.

Itineraire plus court, après Montselgues deux options par la Corniche du Vivarais ou la vallée de la Drobie pour rejoindre Joyeuse et Lablachère pour une petite dégustation au berceau du cépage Chatus.

Les Vallées de la Drobie et L’Ardèche 85km dénivelée 1260m ou 114km dénivelée 1650m ou 122km dénivelée 1820m

Prendre la route de la Lablachère, au pays des muriers et des vignes, à partir d’ici sa grimpe fortement en direction de Planzolles, plus prendre la vallée de la Drobie un havre de paix. La rivière limpide serpente au fond d’une vallée étroite, lieu de nombreuses sources en fontaines voutées. Vous allez arriver à Joyeuse baptisé ‘’métiers d’art’’, puis Largentière sous-préfecture et ses anciennes mines d’argent. A la sortie du village, soit vous rentrez directement, soit vous allez à la découverte les défilés de Ruoms et gravir le rocher de Sampzon avec vue imprenable sur la vallée de l’Ardèche.  

 

* Depending on the weather conditions, the routes may be modified.

Your accommodation

26 rooms

Showers or baths, WC, hair dryer
TV, WiFi
Bar, lounge, games room
Large wooded park with swimming pool
Shaded terrace
Bicycle garage

If you wish to arrive before or extend your stay on the Chassezac bike, the tourist office is at your disposal to inform you about the accommodations in the region.

https://www.cevennes-ardeche.com – +33 (0)4 75 37 24 48

Our evaluation

Hosting
hotel
Nature, villages and panorama
exceptional
Distance and altitude difference
accessible to all

Bois de Païolive. The Discovery Trail with Observation Tower This is a fully marked trail that allows you to evolve in a very characterized karst, whose path reveals a particular place, the Saint-Bernard chapel. During your walk, you will also see a dolmen, a capitelle, as well as the remains of an old agricultural site of which there remain only walls of limestone blocks and a pile of stones

MUSEUM OF LES VANS.

The museum is housed in the buildings of a former convent and a former silk mill. Through five exhibitions, the museum reveals the different facets of a very contrasted territory

Animation

The Wood of Païolive

One of the strangest curiosities of the Ardeche with this forest of petrified rocks with the animal aspect.

Formed about 150 million years ago during the Jurassic period, the Païolive limestone massif extends over 16 kilometers in the heart of the Cévennes ardéchoises. The erosion has thus formed grooves and crevices giving these reliefs and these strange mineral sculptures.

A real natural labyrinth overhanging the Chassezac, this mineral chaos invites you to explore.

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Stay in a room for 2 people: 370€.

Single room option +60 €.

Cancellation option + 15 €.

3 nights in a 2* hotel.

Half board + light lunch on the course

Welcome drink on the first evening

A coordinator present throughout your stay

GPS tracks of the routes that we have created

Daily road books

Drinks during meals

Personal expenses during the stay

The rates

Book your cycling trip Chassezac

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