The guidebooks in the house give details of walks of varying lengths and levels of difficulty. Some guidebooks are in English; the ones in French have good maps and usually refer to waymarked walks There is also a collection of maps scale 1:25000. Several walks start from the house, giving interesting views over Lodeve and the surrounding area.
There are several walks near the Lac du Salagou. You can drive there from the house by a back road.
Our favourite walk along one side of the lake takes several hours,
or you can start from the Cirque de Moureze and climb Mount Liausson,
from where there are spectacular views of the lake.
A few kilometres to the north is the village of Gourgas, from where a walk leads to views of the Cirque du Bout du Monde Follow the road up the hill to the Forest of Parlatges, where there are several walks ideal for a morning or evening walk in the summer. One walk climbs to a spot where you have views over the Cévennes in one direction and the Larzac in the other.
From Octon, at the other end of Lac du Salagou, you can walk to Notre Dame de Roubignac (This is where we saw our sheep)
From the Pic St Baudille you can see to the sea on a clear day and across to the mountains. There is an interesting walk to the top, or you can drive - but that is cheating!
There are many options for longer walks nearby. Further afield there are many challenging walks less than an hour's drive away in the Haut Languedoc National Park and the Larzac Plateau.
