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Lake Gravelle – Ourcq Canal loop from Vaires - Torcy

Lake Gravelle – Ourcq Canal loop from Vaires - Torcy

Moderate

4.2

(25)

437

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Lake Gravelle – Ourcq Canal loop from Vaires - Torcy

02:38

61.9km

280m

Road cycling

Moderate road ride. Good fitness required. Some segments of this route may be unpaved and difficult to ride. The starting point of the route is accessible with public transport.

Last updated: March 27, 2026

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Includes a segment in which cycling is not permitted

After 33.6 km for 59 m

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7.75 km

House on the banks of the Marne - Île Fanac

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Nice house on the banks of the Marne

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21.1 km

Located to the south-east of the Bois de Vincennes, Lac de Gravelle is the smallest of the four local lakes. Its area revolves around one hectare. Formerly supplied by the Marne, today the water is brought back from the Seine thanks to a hydraulic system provided by the pumping plant of the Pont d'Austerlitz. This preserved natural site is in fact quite artificial. But no less charming!

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33.6 km

Canal de L'Ourcq

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Waterways of the Seine basin. The Ourcq and the Ourcq canal are to the north-east of Paris.

Along the forest park of Sevran, a trench had to be dug to pass the canal.
Before starting at Mareuil-sur-Ourcq to join the Villette basin in Paris, the Ourcq river is canalized and navigable from the “Port aux Perches” in the town of Silly-la-Poterie.

With the Canal Saint-Denis, the Bassin de la Villette and the Canal Saint-Martin, it constitutes the network of Parisian canals, 130 km long and belonging to the city of Paris. Its construction began in 1802 and was completed in 1825. It was subsequently subject to several changes including the addition of five locks, a factory supplying the water to the canal at Trilbardou and the widening of the gauge on the first eleven kilometers.

Originally, the main objective of the canal was to supply Paris with drinking water; today, its use is reserved for roads. Until the 1960s, it was traversed over its entire length by the Ourcq flutes, barges adapted to the small size of most of the canal. Since 1962, only the first eleven kilometers, between the basin of Villette and Aulnay-sous-Bois, free of locks, have been open to commercial traffic: approximately one million tonnes are transported each year by barges, the deadweight of which are cannot exceed 400 tonnes. Beyond that, the canal, whose depth is now 80 cm, is intended for yachting. The Ourcq canal has also been used since its creation to supply the Saint-Martin and Saint-Denis canals with water. Since the end of the 1990s, the surroundings of the canal located in the Parisian agglomeration have been rehabilitated and developed to make it a green axis open to leisure activities such as cycle tourism and hiking.

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