Robert's Causeway – La Montagne viewpoint loop from Bouguenais

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Robert's Causeway – La Montagne viewpoint loop from Bouguenais

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Robert's Causeway – La Montagne viewpoint loop from Bouguenais

02:48

38.4km

270m

Cycling

Moderate bike ride. Good fitness required. Mostly paved surfaces. Suitable for all skill levels. The starting point of the route is accessible with public transport.

Last updated: August 25, 2026

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Includes a segment in which cycling is not permitted

After 11.2 km for 69 m

Waypoints

Start point

Bus stop

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9.17 km

Chemin de la Caillère

Highlight • Other

Pleasant path that winds along a stream. With any luck you will see donkeys, sheep and barnyard animals up close. My son loved this place.
The path continues beyond rue du Jauvray towards the roundabout of rue de Beauvoir, where it becomes more inclined and humid depending on the season.

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13.1 km

La Roche Ballue jump track

Highlight • Forest

3 very nice lines of bumps, very fun.

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13.6 km

Forest Trail of La Roche Ballue

Highlight • Trail

Rather for MTB and gravel. Wet in winter.

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14.5 km

Robert's Causeway

Highlight • Other

The path that ran along this old 18th century dike was renovated in 2022.
A long wooden pontoon on stilts now makes it possible to cross the wet area in a dry place almost all year round. The Chaussée de Robert connects the bottom of the Montagne hillside to the Loire ferry at Indret.

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15.1 km

La Montagne viewpoint

Highlight • Viewpoint

Beautiful bird's eye view of the Chaussée de Robert in the foreground and the town of Indre on the other bank of the Loire.

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20.0 km

View of the Couëron Shot Tower

Highlight • Monument

The last tower in France built for the production of hunting pellets, one of the last 15 remaining in the world, the Couëron Lead Tower was classified as a Historic Monument in 1993 as a witness to these once numerous buildings.
The manufacture of hunting lead
Lead towers appeared in France in the 18th century to produce lead or shot. A mixture of lead, arsenic (for malleability) and antimony (for hardness) is prepared in the lower part. The ingots obtained are taken to the casting chamber where the equipment necessary for production is located: boilers for remelting the lead with their hoods, 21 pierced pans stored in a rack, ladles, shovels, buckets, cruets... The fall of the balls over a great height makes it possible to obtain perfectly spherical balls collected in two tanks filled with water placed at the lower level. The pellets produced in Couëron were renowned for their high quality. In the tower as in the rest of the factory, the workers then worked in difficult conditions, due in particular to the harmfulness of lead.
Source: ville-coueron.fr/culture/decouvert-le-patrimoine/la-tour-a-plomb

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21.5 km

Bethlehem Chapel

Highlight • Other

True must-see in the region. On the other hand, to photograph gargoyles, it is better to have a correct zoom.
Picnic tables and cool gravel / mountain bike paths that avoid the unpleasant road that runs along the chapel.

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26.3 km