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Departure Point

In the text directions to the start of each walk (‘How to Get There’) are given from a specific town (Le Vigan or Florac). Where possible the walks start from points where there is a car park or good roadside parking.

Signposting

This gives an indication as to how well the walk is signposted and whether you are following a Grand Randonnée (long-distance footpath), a local path with its own different coloured splashes or wooden signposts.

If you see white and red horizontal paint splashes on your route you are on one of the Grandes Randonnées, which go all over France and are usually well maintained. Please remember that a cross instead of a splash (of the colour you are following) means that you are about to go in the wrong direction! Some of the local walks join these paths for a while and then break away to circle back to the starting point. Local walks have different coloured splashes, but in some areas these are rather arbitrary and can suddenly disappear for no reason. In others there are so many colours that one gets bewildered!