Hike "les bords de l'Ain" from Poncin

The picturesque route down the Ain Gorges from Poncin is lined with astonishingly well-preserved natural sites and typical villages and hamlets with stone-built winegrowers' houses, as well as magnificent bridges. From 1st June to 30 September 2015, the Serrieres-sur-Ain bridge will be closed due to works.

The Ain river dug in the limestone rock a deep and tortuous bed.The river pours then into gorges framed by impressive ledges limestones. From Poncin, you can discover fairies' fireplaces, villages for balcony, and works of engineering by following the picturesque road of the Gorges of Ain. Arrived from Jura, after 200 km of a trip in the heart of a restless relief, the river calms down in the department of Ain, quietened down by the restraints of hydroelectric stations. Curious River, floret of the department to which it gave its name, wild and with changeable layout. Stormy and vertiginous in its native Jura, mysterious when it disappears suddenly according to a crack, a long green ribbon waving casually in its low valley...