Crédits photo bandeau Le village de Montgreleix
Montgreleix : great spaces allowing you to overlook at the same time Sancy and Cantal’s uplands.
Montgreleix is located in the Cezallier area, in-between two French counties: Puy de Dôme and Cantal. In the middle of summer pastures and vast meadows, you can practice horse or foot hiking, horse riding, mountain biking, fishing and explore wonderful landscape in this peaceful village.
Montgreleix situé sur la carte du Massif du Sancy
Overhanging Montgreleix, 1476m (4842 ft.) long, there is Chamaroux Mount. The view at the top of the hill is exceptional, feel free to climb it.
Before climbing, look, it is very particular. The low part is green, whereas the top doesn’t have any vegetation.
Did you know?
A legend is saying that heat from an old volcano is still emerging and this is why snow is melting very rapidly and grass doesn’t grow!
Le Mont Chamaroux in Montgreleix
Montgreleix is a stopover village on the Tour des Vaches Rouges hiking trail, also known as the Tour du Cézallier, which can be completed in 5 or 8 days.
Hiking around Montgreleix
Your guilty pleasure is fishing? Montgreleix is offering to you its lac des Estives, a three hectares lake, bordered by a pine forest and clear waters where rainbow and brown trouts, fountain salmons and some trophies trouts can be found. Only fly fishing is allowed.
Added bonus
The fly-fishing Reserve welcomes every year in the lac des Estives every fishing lover.
Le lac des Estives in Montgreleix
Montgreleix is the starting point of a 17km marked trail (11 miles) to discover in cross-country skiing and snowshoeing the greatest spaces.
Snowy landscapes in Montgreleix
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