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Les Peytoux
Description
A lovely looping route through the typical wild landscapes of the Combrailles, with beautiful views of the Puys mountain range, the Puy de Dôme and the Combrailles.
Technical Information
Altimetric profile
Starting point
Additional information
Tips
- Views of the Puy de Dôme and the Puys mountain range.
- Small heritage crosses.
Updated by
Conseil départemental du Puy-de-Dôme - 22/09/2026
www.puydedome-tourisme.com/
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Environments
In the country
Presence of livestock and guard dogs
Distinctions
Listed PDIPR
Open period
All year round daily.
Subject to favorable weather.
Location complements
At Saint-Pardoux (north-west of Riom), on the D2144, take the D50 as far as Blot-l'Eglise, follow signs for Manzat and then the D122 towards Combronde as far as the crossroads at the sports ground. Start sign on the left at the entrance to the tarmac road.
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/
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/ Take this path. At the first crossroads, turn right. Continue straight ahead until you reach a T-junction. Turn right. 100 m after the pond, turn right. At the crossroads, go right for 20 m and then left to ferme des Roberts. Cross the locality. At the crossroads with the chalets, fork left (view of the Puy de Dôme and the Chaîne des Puys), go straight on to the main road in Gourlanges.
2/ Turn right and take the first track on the left (horseshoeing loom). Turn left onto the road. Take the first track on the left and keep to it on the long descent into the valley. At the crossroads, turn right onto the small road running alongside the river. At the intersection, turn left down the road to Les Peytoux. Continue straight on towards Péry, passing the inn and taking the path opposite. At the fork in the road, turn right uphill through the woods to the intersection with a road (cross) in Péry.
3/ Turn right onto the road and drive through the hamlet. After the parking area (horseshoeing loom), turn left down the road and continue along the main road to Place du Lavoir in Bort (cross). Turn right onto Chemin de Chabot and continue straight ahead. Turn left at two successive T-junctions. Go up to Villemorie and turn left onto the D50 as far as the fountain.
4/ Turn right on rue des Entraves, then left on rue des Noyers. Cross rue des Goëllats and take the track opposite. Go down to a fork in the road and turn right. At the crossroads, at the corner of a wood, go right (view of the Puy de Dôme and the Puys chain). Ignore the side paths until you reach the crossroads west of Les Berniards. Go straight ahead. Turn left on the D50, then right on the first track to the D122. Reach the starting point on the left.
Proposed and managed by the Conseil départemental du Puy-de-Dôme - PDIPR.
Animals
Yes. Dogs must be kept on a lead due to the presence of herds.
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