Lozère is a territory of wide open spaces: the Tarn gorges, the causses, the Cévennes and Mont Lozère. It is the least populated département in France, which preserves wild landscapes.
This itinerary spreads the best-rated sites in the catalogue over three days. Roads are slow: choose few sites per day.
The map shows the numbered stops in visiting order, with one colour per day. The line follows the roads where available; otherwise it joins the stops as the crow flies. Distances and times are approximate (by car, without traffic).
This day brings together 3 sites close to each other: waterfalls, natural wonders and villages. It passes through Sainte-Énimie. Allow half an hour to an hour and a half per site, plus travel time.
Driving for the day: about 63.0 km, or 1 h 14 behind the wheel in total (excluding visits).
The Déroc waterfall falls 32 m over volcanic organ pipes. The Déroc waterfall is a few tens of minutes' drive from Verlac. You must go to Nasbinals, and there you will find the path without difficulty.
View full page →↓ 61.8 km · about 1 h 11 by car to the next stop
A 27 km limestone canyon carved by the Tarn between the Causse de Sauveterre and the Causse Méjean, dotted with hilltop villages and dizzying viewpoints.
View full page →↓ 1.2 km · about 3 min by car to the next stop
Of the monastery raised to an abbey in the fourteenth century, the Romanesque chapter house and the Sainte-Madeleine chapel survive.
View full page →This day brings together 4 sites close to each other: villages and waterfalls. It passes through Florac-Trois-Rivières. Allow half an hour to an hour and a half per site, plus travel time.
Driving for the day: about 167.8 km, or 2 h 52 behind the wheel in total (excluding visits).
A small town, seat of the Cévennes National Park, nestled at the confluence of three rivers at the foot of the rocky bar of the Rocher de Rochefort.
View full page →↓ 14.5 km · about 24 min by car to the next stop
The Rûnes waterfall has become the most visited place around Pont-de-Montvert. Guides present it as one of the most beautiful natural sites in France. A good walker needs a quarter of an hour to go down to the waterfall.
View full page →↓ 66.2 km · about 1 h 03 by car to the next stop
This old fortified village was founded in the tenth century to ensure security at this spot on the Lozère plateau where many brigands raged.
View full page →↓ 87.2 km · about 1 h 25 by car to the next stop
It is on the way up towards Sainte-Croix-Vallée-Française that you will find this swimming spot.
View full page →This day brings together 5 sites close to each other: natural wonders, caves and waterfalls. Allow half an hour to an hour and a half per site, plus travel time.
Driving for the day: about 90.0 km, or 1 h 48 behind the wheel in total (excluding visits).
The Arcs de Saint-Pierre are in the commune of Saint-Pierre-des-Tripiers. These arches are due mainly to wind and rain erosion.
View full page →↓ 15.7 km · about 29 min by car to the next stop
In September 1897, Louis Armand, Édouard-Alfred Martel and Armand Viré discovered this fantastic cavern for the first time.
View full page →↓ 19.9 km · about 26 min by car to the next stop
On the Causse Noir, overlooking the Jonte gorges, it is the largest cave of the Causses and the Cévennes and one of the largest underground halls in France.
View full page →↓ 23.0 km · about 25 min by car to the next stop
It is true that this group of ruin-shaped rocks can be deceptive.
View full page →↓ 31.4 km · about 28 min by car to the next stop
The Tarn rises on Mont Lozère at 1,575 metres' altitude and descends the slopes of the Cévennes in a fast and torrential course.
View full page →Summer is the easiest time to visit, but also the busiest. Spring and autumn offer beautiful light. Winter is cold, and many high-altitude roads are snowy.
A car is essential. Roads are winding, and distances are counted in time rather than kilometres. The Tarn gorges can also be explored by canoe.
Swimming in the famous Tarn Gorges offers you paradise corners in water of always exceptional quality.
The Capluc rock is an isolated limestone peak overlooking the confluence of the Gorges du Tarn and the Jonte, just above the village of Le Rozier, in Lozère.
The Jonte gorges, a tributary of the Tarn, a sabre-cut between the Causse Méjean and the Causse Noir, offer climbers fine wild cliffs, haunted by griffon vultures. In short, a grandiose site in Roquefort country.
The Cévennes National Park is the only inhabited park among the seven French national parks.
The Pas de Soucy is a site in the Gorges du Tarn, in Lozère, where the river partly disappears under a chaos of rocky blocks before reappearing downstream.
At 870 m altitude, the classified site of the "Point Sublime" is one of the most visited places in the Tarn gorges.