Full introduction to the Cevennes region and the best walking in the area.

• 16 day-walks in the southern Cevennes (based around Le Vignan)
• 15 day-walks in the northern Cevennes (based around Florac)
• Plus the 5-day trek around Mont Lozère

Although just across the River Rhone from Provence, the Cevennes is one of France's wild and unknown regions. Resembling the Scottish Highlands in places (similar in height at a maximum of 1567m, but warmer and with fewer midges), the region includes the 230,000 sq. km Parc National des Cevennes and the upper reaches of the Tarn gorge. First introduced to a wider world by Caesar's crossing and then by the young Robert Louis Stevenson and his Walks with a donkey (1879), the Cevennes still has much that can be freshly explored.

Compared with Provence the landscapes are harsher, more mountainous, less populated. The weather is more extreme: winters are cold, windblown and snowy, summers are dry and hot. The Cevennes attracts the walker and explorer who has a taste for a more rugged and subtler landscape.

This is Janette Norton's third Cicerone guide to France, following on from her Haute Savoie and Provence guides. Based in the north around Florac and in the south around Le Vigan, the guide explores the walking potential of the region in 31 half- to full-day walks and the well-known five-day circuit of Mt Lozère.

CONTENTS:

INTRODUCTION
The Cevennes
Southern Cevennes
Northern Cevennes
A Short History of the Cevennes
Cevenese Life
Using the Guide
Guidelines for Walking in the Cevennes
Travelling to the Cevennes
When to Go
Accommodation
Clothing and Equipment
Flowers and Vegetation
Wildlife
SOUTHERN CEVENNES
Walk 1 Circuit de L'Arre
Walk 2 Circuit des Maures
Walk 3 Roc de L'Esparon
Walk 4 Pic d'Anjeau/Rochers de la Tude
Walk 5 La Cirque de Navacelles
Walk 6 Sentier de la Trescoulade
Walk 7 Sentier des Ruisseaux
Walk 8 Circuit des Camisards
Walk 9 Le Sentier des Anes
Walk 10 Truc de Montaigu
Walk 11 La Draille de la Transhumance
Walk 12 Les Cascades d'Orgon
Walk 13 Lac des Pises
Walk 14 Circuit de Mont St-Guiral
Walk 15 L'Abîme de Bramabiau
Walk 16 Vallée du Bonheur
NORTHERN CEVENNES
Walk 17 Round Mont Puecheral
Walk 18 Sentier des Menhirs
Walk 19 Walk around Le Pont-de-Montvert
Walk 20 Sentier du Pic Finiels
Walk 21 Ste-Enimie (Gorges du Tarn)
Walk 22 Gorges du Tarn from La Malène
Walk 23 Sentier des Couronnes
Walk 24 Sentier du Tarn and Causse Méjean
Walk 25 Sentier de Vernagues
Walk 26 Le Chaos de Nîmes Le Vieux
Walk 27 Sentier de Fourques
Walk 28 Sentier de Pompidou
Walk 29 Round Barre-des-Cévennes
Walk 30 Round Fontmort Forest
Walk 31 Sentier des Cans
TOUR OF MONT LOZÈRE
Day 1 Florac to Mijavols
Day 2 Mijavols to Les Bastides
Day 3 Les Bastides to Le Bleymard
Day 4 Le Bleymard to Les Laubies or La Fage
Day 5 Les Laubies or La Fage to Florac

Appendix A Glossary of local words
Appendix B Table of Walk Times
Appendix C Maps
Appendix D Tourist Offices and Syndicats d'Initiative
Appendix E Market Days