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Château d'Ambur, la Chazotte
Description
A walk in the heart of the Combrailles with a view of the Fades-Besserve lake, a vast 385-hectare lake.
Technical Information
Altimetric profile
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Additional information
Distinctions
Listed PDIPR
Tips
- View of the Chaîne des Puys, the Sancy massif and the banne d'Ordanche.
- View of the Fades reservoir.
- Small heritage features (cross, wash-house...).
- Forest and stream.
Updated by
Conseil départemental du Puy-de-Dôme - 02/06/2026
www.puydedome-tourisme.com/
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Environments
In the country
Mountain view
Presence of livestock and guard dogs
Open period
All year round daily.
Subject to favorable weather.
Contact
Phone : 04 73 85 80 94
Email : contact@tourisme-combrailles.fr
Website : https://www.combrailles-auvergne-tourisme.fr/
Facebook : https://www.facebook.com/OfficeTourismeCombrailles/
Location complements
From Pongibaud, take the D941 towards Pontaumur. At La Goutelle, turn right onto the D61 to Saint-Jacques-d'Ambur. Parking in front of the church.
Topo guides and map references
Topo guides references :
2014 - Randos à croquer - Discovering the Puy-de-Dôme - Conseil départemental du Puy-de-Dôme
Reception complements
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.
Guidebook with maps/step-by-step
1/ From the start sign, take the road to Les Berthons. Turn right at the fork, then left at the next crossroads. 150 m after the Auberge de la Hulotte, take the left-hand path into a wood. Follow it to the edge of the wood, ignoring the side paths. Turn left onto a track between two low walls. Follow the wood, leaving a grassy path on the right (view of the Chaîne des Puys, the Sancy massif and the Ordanche banne). Continue to an intersection at the entrance to Les Berthons. Go down a damp track opposite. At the asphalt road, turn left. At the crossroads at the end of the hamlet (equestrian center stables opposite), follow a track on the left to the first track on the right (GR).
2/Take this and descend into the woods on a wide gravel track for approx. 1.5 km. Turn left onto a track leading to the Chazotte leisure park. Take the road opposite up to the D121.
3/ Turn right on the D121 for 250 m and climb left (view of the Fades reservoir) to the hamlet of La Chazotte. Cross the hamlet and continue straight on to the hamlet of La Barre.
4/ Turn left along the couderc (cross, wash-house, drinking trough) and at the crow's feet, turn left down the road. At the entrance to the La Barre sectional forest, follow a wide track to the left. At the fork in the road, go straight ahead and, at the junction of four tracks, go straight down. Cross the ruisseau des Côtes and climb up its right bank through a coniferous wood. At the T-junction, turn left along a wide forest track to the D61 (picnic area).
5/ Cross the road to Martinèche. At the T-junction, turn left, then left again on a dirt track. At the crow's-foot (picnic area), go straight ahead. Cross a road, follow the D61 and go into the woods. Go straight ahead at the first crossroads, then turn left at the second to return to Saint-Jacques-d'Ambur.
Proposed and managed by the Conseil départemental du Puy-de-Dôme - PDIPR.
Animals
Yes. Dogs must be kept on a leash due to the presence of herds.
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