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Champeaux waterfall
Description
Starting from Servant, this hike will take you to the Etang de la Prade, the Gorges de la Sioule and the Champeaux waterfall.
Technical Information
Altimetric profile
Starting point
Points of interest
Additional information
Updated by
Office de Tourisme des Combrailles - 02/06/2026
www.combrailles-auvergne-tourisme.fr/
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Open period
All year round daily.
Contact
Phone : 04 73 52 72 72
Email : accueil@paysdesainteloy.fr
Location complements
Reach Servant, 61 km north-north-west of Clermont-Ferrand. Departure sign and car park at Place de l'église.
Reception complements
For your own safety, always take a bottle of water, a hat, warm clothing and footwear suitable for walking.
Depending on the weather conditions, some routes 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 paths. Avoid picking wild flowers and disturbing wildlife. Pick up your rubbish.
Animals are not allowed on some routes.
Guidebook with maps/step-by-step
Departure point: From Place de l'Eglise, walk down Rue de la Liberté, then left onto the D18 and right into Passage de l'Aigue.
Turn right onto the road and after 100m turn left towards the lake. At the fork in the road, turn right and take the path running alongside the lake as far as the dyke.
1 - Continue straight ahead. At the road, turn left and take the first track on the left.
At the crossroads in the hamlet, go straight on and turn onto the first road on the right. Follow this road for 600m.
Leave the hamlet of l'Etang on your right and at the crossroads take the track on your right. Ignore a track on the right (blue PR).
At the road go straight on, cross the hamlet and at the fork go right up to the road.
2 - Follow the road to the left and after 150m turn left through Les Bournats. Go straight down the track (with a view of the Sioule gorges) until you reach the road running alongside the Sioule.
Follow this road to the right for 700m until you reach a small bridge over a stream.
3 - Go right up a steep path along the left bank of the stream (Cascade de Champeaux) and join a cross-country track. Climb to the right to reach the plateau.
Leave a track on the right. At the road, turn left and go as far as the intersection at the entrance to Crozet.
4 - Keep left to go through the hamlet.
At the end of the bend, take the track on the right.
At the road, turn right and take the second track on the left. Continue for 800 m (view of Servant).
At the junction with a tarmac track, turn left. At the crossroads, turn left onto the road and at the crossroads, turn left onto a track. Go up to a road, turn right and then immediately left onto Rue des Rochers. At the crossroads, follow the route du Presbytère back to the starting point.
Animals
Yes. Dogs must be kept on a lead because of the presence of herds.
