Yvelines plateau

La Celle-les-Bordes

This walk offers you contrasting landscapes between the Celle at the bottom of the valley, the Bordes on the edge of the Cernay plateau, the hillsides and finally the vast wooded expanse of the Rambouillet massif crossed by many straight royal roads.

Hiking Information

  • Duration ⌚
    • 2h
  • Range ↔
    • 16.5km

Description of the hike

Departure: On the D 906 between Cernay and Vieille-Eglise, take the D 61 towards Celle-les-Bordes, then
park at the cemetery immediately after a bridge.

1. Take the D 61 on the left and enter the village of La Celle-les-Bordes. At the stop straight ahead, you then walk along the Château de la Celle on your left and the church on the right. At a fork stay on the D 61 towards Bullion. You then cross the fields, then on your right you walk along the forest, then a meadow and again the forest.

2. Arrived in a large bend through the woods, turn right on the PR (yellow markings), cross the barrier and follow the path which runs along a fence on the right.

3. Pass a path on your left then at the left fork downhill via the PR.

4. At the crossroads 1st right still on the PR.

5. At the intersection turn left, then straight on following the PR markings to the wash house in Moutier.

6. At the washhouse straight on the PR to the main road where you turn right on the GR (white and red markings).

7. After crossing the houses you arrive at the hamlet of La Claye: take the path to the right with the GR marker and always straight ahead, following this marking until the D 72.

8. At the road, cross it and continue straight on the Chemin du Grand Veneur, always marked GR.

9. Arrived at a crossroads with an arrow post, continue straight ahead following the direction “Etang de la Tour”.
Follow the GR, PR and PNR markings.

10. At the Croix du Grand Veneur continue straight ahead on the GR and the PR, leaving the PNR on your left then at the crossroads where the GR and the PR turn right, continue straight ahead until the next crossroads.

11. At the junction between the forest plots 22.10 opposite on the left 22.17 behind on the left and 22.18 behind on the right, turn right then straight ahead.

12. At the Enclaves crossroads with forest plots 20.28 opposite on the left and 20.26 behind on the right, leave the GR and the PNR on your left, to take the PR on the right. Continue straight ahead until the Enclaves post.

13. At the arrow post, continue straight on the Enclaves road, be careful of the descent. At the bottom of the descent you come to a fence, cross the wooden footbridge, and follow the path that runs along the stream.
You then pass a second footbridge then you walk along a fence on your right. Arrived at a bridge on your left at the forest plot 20.11 do not cross the bridge and continue straight along the fence. Then 60m after this bridge take the path that goes up on your right. Arrived at the top continue this path which goes to the left until a crossing.

14. At the intersection straight on the PR. Soon you come out of the forest and cross the fields downhill. At the D 61
right always on the PR. You are back in the parking lot.

 

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