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Le Peyre-Mayou
Description
The forest path from the start opens up to reach the Hautes-Chaumes, the Col du Béal and then Peyre-Mayou. From up here, you'll enjoy a feeling of plenitude as you contemplate the alignments of the various massifs that make up the Puy-de-Dôme and Loire regions.
Technical Information
Altimetric profile
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Additional information
Distinctions
Listed PDIPR
Tips
- View of the Fossat valley and Peyre-Mayou rocks.
- At Col du Béal (refuge-observatory and jasseries).
Updated by
Conseil départemental du Puy-de-Dôme - 02/07/2026
www.puydedome-tourisme.com/
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Environments
Forest location
Mountain view
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 95 56 49
Email : contact.olliergues@vacances-livradois-forez.fr
Website : https://www.auvergne-livradois-forez.com/
Location complements
From Olliergues, take the D906 towards Thiers. After 4km, turn left onto the D40 towards Marat. Cross Marat and follow the D40 towards Saint-Pierre la Bourlhonne for 6km.
Topo guides and map references
Topo guides references :
2016 - Randos vues d'en haut - 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/ Opposite Saint-Pierre-la-Bourlhonne town hall. Reach the church and turn left onto the D66. At the end of the village, turn left up a small road. After the hamlets of Missonnier and Grangette (with views over the Fossat valley), you come to Goth-de-la-Montagne. Turn left after this hamlet, then left again 50 m further on. Climb a paved path.
2/ Cross the road onto a grassy path. Cross the road again and follow the track opposite. At the Roches-Brunes stream, take the track to the left for 20 m, then climb again to the left on a stony track. At the crow's-foot, continue left. Turn right onto the cross-country ski trail and continue to a clearing. Turn left before a ruin, signposted "Chalet de la Roche". After 250 m, take the second track on the left, passing a wetland. Climb up to heather moorland (view of Peyre-Mayou rocks).
3/ At Col de la Chamboite, climb a stony track marked with red posts. After 500 m, turn left. At Peyre-Mayou (you can go to Peyre Mayou and back on the left), take a downhill path to the right along the fence. Walk alongside the airstrip and continue along the path. At the wider path, turn left to reach the col du béal.
4/ At the Col du Béal, take the well-marked path immediately to the left behind the restaurant. Turn left at the orientation table and continue straight ahead through the heather, as well as at the crossroads. At the jasseries du Béal, continue straight ahead. Turn left onto a wide track, then right after 100 m.
5/ At the crossroads, turn left, then, after 300 m, go right again and continue straight ahead. The path crosses several small roads. At the barbecue, turn left towards Saint-Pierre-la-Bourlhonne.
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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