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Cevennes Corniche starting at Florac

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Recorded distance
79 km
Riding-time estimate
1 h 27
Journey
Recorded itinerary
Distance and timing basis

The recorded total and the leg detail need reconciliation. Inspect the leg notes before using this record for timing or navigation. Stops, delays, approach and any separate return travel add time. Basis: producer-declared routed record.

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Why this ride

Open upland riding with long sight lines and varied gradients. It also links naturally to Causses and Cevennes.

Access context

Check mountain-pass openings, low-emission zones and local restrictions. Specific flag: weather.

Seasonal context

Apr-Oct

Scenic road chapters

Cevennes Corniche

Expect company on a summer weekend. Early is better than fast. For 34 km this is Cevennes Corniche, a road with a name of its own and a reason for it.

Rider note

Check the pass is open before you commit to it.

Chapter facts
Length
34 km
Named road
Cevennes Corniche
Pass
Col des Faisses

Waypoint introductions and full write-ups

  1. 1. Florac

    Florac sits where several small rivers and several landscapes meet, at the foot of the great limestone plateaus of the Causses and the schist ridges of the Cévennes. A small town of nearly two thousand people, it is the headquarters of the Cévennes National Park, which occupies the old château, and it has a cheerful, unfussy air, with plane trees along the main street and a spring that gushes out of the rock just above town. The Tarnon river runs through, and the Tarn, a little way north, starts its journey toward the famous gorges.

    Read the complete Florac write-up.

    Recorded stop-planning note

    May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.

    Planning note

    Florac sits at 0 km, early in the day. Next is Saint-Jean-du-Gard.

  2. 2. Saint-Jean-du-Gard

    On a day in early October 1878, Robert Louis Stevenson ended his walk through the Cévennes at Saint-Jean-du-Gard, and sold his donkey. The Scottish writer, then twenty-seven, had spent twelve days crossing the mountains with a stubborn grey animal called Modestine, and he recorded the adventure in Travels with a Donkey in the Cévennes, one of the first books about hiking for pleasure. The route he followed is now a long-distance path, the GR70, the Chemin de Stevenson, and walkers with sticks and rucksacks are a common sight in the town.

    Read the complete Saint-Jean-du-Gard write-up.

    Recorded stop-planning note

    May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.

    Planning note

    Saint-Jean-du-Gard comes up 25 km in. Next is Alès.

  3. 3. Alès

    Planning note

    79 km in you reach Alès.

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