Distance: 3.6 km
Average duration) : min
Level: Easy-to-use
Châteaubourg
Discovery trail
The site is of great ecological value. Please take care to preserve it.

Walking

The Corbière forest is a magnificent wooded site punctuated by streams and water points including a very beautiful pond.
This landscape ensemble, the Corbière forest, is a departmental natural area of ​​630 hectares, straddling the municipalities of Châteaubourg, La Bouëxière, Marpiré and Saint-Jean-sur-Vilaine.
The diversity of the natural environments present makes this forest a remarkable natural space that the department has decided to preserve.
A discovery circuit has been set up there to allow the walker to appreciate all its riches and to preserve sensitive areas.
This magnificent wooded site with many streams, the pond and its mill can be explored on foot.

Departure from the car park of the departmental natural space on the D29 between Châteaubourg and Marpiré.

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Châteaubourg

The Corbière forest is a magnificent wooded site punctuated by streams and water points including a very beautiful pond.
This landscape ensemble, the Corbière forest, is a departmental natural area of ​​630 hectares, straddling the municipalities of Châteaubourg, La Bouëxière, Marpiré and Saint-Jean-sur-Vilaine.
The diversity of the natural environments present makes this forest a remarkable natural space that the department has decided to preserve.
A discovery circuit has been set up there to allow the walker to appreciate all its riches and to preserve sensitive areas.
This magnificent wooded site with many streams, the pond and its mill can be explored on foot.

Departure from the car park of the departmental natural space on the D29 between Châteaubourg and Marpiré.
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The Corbière pond It was used as a water reserve. We fished there. The mill wheel provided the energy needed to make bread. Long a private property, the site was also a precious reserve of black shale. The rock was exploited to build the paths of Marpiré or to shape the slates of the roofs of the houses in the region.