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The Billeyre Valley
Description
This circuit, in the foothills of the Forez crests, offers easy access to a glacial valley. Forests, fountains, pastures (we're in an area where fourme d'Ambert cheese is produced) and the Billeyre stream punctuate this walk.
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Additional information
Distinctions
Listed PDIPR
Tips
- The Forez ridges.
- Forest, fountains, pastures.
- View of Valcivières and the Ambert plain.
- View of the Col des Supeyres and the Forez mountains.
- View of the Billeyre valley.
- Billeyre stream.
- View of the Livradois mountains, Dore valley.
- Heritage: cross, jasserie and church.
Updated by
Conseil départemental du Puy-de-Dôme - 02/07/2026
www.puydedome-tourisme.com/
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Environments
Forest location
Mountain location
Presence of livestock and guard dogs
Open period
From 01/01 to 31/12 daily.
Subject to favorable weather.
Contact
Phone : 04 73 82 61 90
Email : contact.ambert@vacances-livradois-forez.fr
Website : https://www.auvergne-livradois-forez.com/
Facebook : https://www.facebook.com/vacances.livradois.forez/
Location complements
Direction Valcivières. Take the D106 towards the Col des Supeyres. Take the road rising to the right just after the town hall. 30 m further on, follow the path on the right to the D106.
Topo guides and map references
Topo guides references :
2015 - Randos au fil de l'eau - 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/ Climb the D106 towards the Col des Supeyres. Take the road rising to the right just after the town hall. 30 m further on, follow the path on the right to the D106.
2/ Climb the grassy path opposite between 2 fences to reach La Moronie. At the road, keep going up on the left (left-hand view of Valcivières). At Chabreyssat, continue up a gravel path to a road. Turn right towards Les Versades (view of the Ambert plain on the right). At Les Petites Versades, continue on the road to Les Grandes Versades (view of the Col des Supeyres and the Forez mountains).
3/ At the crossroads, take the track on the left (view of the Billeyre valley). Continue along this path, skirting the Diable cross. At the fork, turn right and, 100 m further on, go straight ahead. Turn right and take the footbridge over the Billeyre stream. Turn right at the first crow's-foot and left at the next one.
4/ At La Jurinie, continue uphill. Turn left as far as the reservoir (view of the Livradois mountains, the Dore valley on the right and the Forez mountains opposite) and head downhill. A few metres further on, turn right towards La Faye. Follow the road through the hamlet to La Boissadie. Go straight ahead, past the cross and along the thatched jasserie on the right. Cross the road and head down the path towards Le Puy.
5/ Turn right onto the D106 and immediately left down a sunken track. In Thiolerette, at the crossroads, turn right for 10 m and go left down the road (with a view of Valcivières). Cross the two roads and go straight down to La Farge. Follow the path immediately to the right. 100 m further on, turn left. Continue uphill to the road. Turn left, enter the village and reach the church.
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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