Category Archives: Walks around Pays de Gex

France: Parc de la tire and airplane watching!

Features: River – Views – Birds- Threes – Playground- Airplanes

Overview: Accessible for all.  Make sure to not wear your best shoes in the autumn to spring period as parts of the tracks get muddy.

Description: Start from the big parking in Ferney-Voltaire and walk up to Route de Prevessin.  Enter Parc de la Tire and walk down the main path; you will pass the big playground and a football and basketball area.

When you reach the end of the park walk across Rue de Meyrin and continue straight on. This is the stretch that can be muddy when its rainy weather. Continue straight on until you reach the big and busy road and make sure that you cross using the tunnel that goes under the road.  Continue straight on into the woods to a mix of birdsong and airplane noise. 

You will soon come to one of the good spots for looking across at Geneva international airport where you can watch airplanes as they take off and land.

Continue to the right on the circuits and after around 700 meters you will find another good spot to watch the airplanes.

You will also walk past one of the few vineyards in the area!

When you reach the crossing continue onto rue de Meyrin and walk until you come back to the Parc de la tire.  Walk trough the parc back to your starting point.

Happy walking!

France: Pleasant walk from Sergy to Chevry!

Features: River – Views – Birds

Overview: Short and easy and excellent for smaller children.

Description: Start from place du Tilleul in Sergy. Walk along Chemin des Borrax until you come to a carriage road. Follow this carriage road along the river and you will pas a cabane called Le Renadiere.

Cross the river and you will soon be on Sentier des Boraz follow this path until you come to rue the Moraines.  Go left and walk along rue de Moraines for a few meters until you come to chemain des Hautins. 

Follow chemin des Hautins until you are back and on the sentier des Boraz and continue the same way back to you starting point.

Happy walking!