11 km
43 min
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Mortain
St-Hilaire-du-Harcouët
Nature & small heritage

The enchanting Cance waterfalls are a focal point of the powerful local terrain, carving between steep hills, an untamed heart of ‘Armorican Normandy’. The greenway then heads towards St-Hilaire which precedes your arrival in the Bay of Mont Saint-Michel.

Gradients and elevation

Ascents: 50m
Descents: 97m
Lowest point: 73m
Highest point: 130m
Pentes mesurées sur 500 m

Répartition des pentes

5km descente légère (-5% à -1%)
5km plat (-1% à 2%)
1km montée (2% à 5%)

Road types

11km (100%) de voies cyclables

Surface

10km (89%) de surface lisse
1km (11%) de surface rugueuse

Maintenance work in progress

At the entrance of St-Hilaire-du-Harcouët, a 300-meter-section of greenways is closed for pedestrians, cyclists and horse riders from 6 January to 5 June 2020. Please find the following detour via Rue du Champ du Chêne. 

 

Itinerary

Leave Mortain and reach the greenway. Rolling and very wide, the greenway pass you in front of many old railway stations and guard houses restored.

Be careful on the D977, the link to get Saint-Hilaire-du-Harcouët.

 

Tourism Offices

Mortain: 02 33 59 19 74

 

Not to be missed

Mortain: the ‘large and small’ waterfalls; former Benedictine Abbey and collegiate church of St-Evroult – the ‘white abbey’.

Trains and transport on the route

  • Gare de Vire (ligne Paris-Granville) accessible en suivant la voie verte sur l'itinéraire de la Vélomaritime pendant 43 km.

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