The path of the fellows - GR®107

Possibility to arrive by train at Foix (Latour de carol – Toulouse line) or to leave your car at Foix station where parking is free.

The start of the route takes you from the city centre of Foix to the heights of Montgailhard and offers an exceptional view of the Ariège valley, the Prat d'Albis and Mont Fourcat. You can feel through the vegetation a double climatic influence between the Atlantic and the Mediterranean. Thus, you cross fresh and humid beech forests and drier lands where thorny broom and lavender grow, as well as many varieties of orchids.

Walking time: 6h00
Distance: 20 km
Elevation +/-: 1160 m / 893 m

🛏️ Sleeping
– Foix: many accommodations welcome you: sleep at once
– Montgailhard: the Hotel Pyrene (05 61 65 48 66) or La Roucateille campsite (05.61.64.05.92)
– Roquefixade: the stopover lodge of the town (05 34 14 04 48). Home in free management. Go introduce yourself at the Roquefixade gite to the managers Fabienne, Maëlys, Pierre-Luc, Sébastien who will direct you to the places where to put your tent.

🍴 Refueling
In Foix and Montgailhard, you can get supplies without any difficulty, many shops.

Beautiful ridge route that allows a spectacular approach to the Montségur castle starting from the foot of Roquefixity. Montségur one of the most important sites of Catharism, the last stronghold of the resistance and the starting point for fleeing men.

Walking time: 4h05
Distance: 17 km
Elevation +/-: 560 m / 562 m

🛏️ Sleeping
– Montferrier – The Ninouninettes - 05 61 64 36 91

– Montsegur:
Guest rooms :
The house under the castle - 06 88 74 39 64
Pilgrim - info@pelerin111.com - 06 66 20 91 37
the Sarrat House - 09 82 35 51 66

Gite d’tape – gite.etape-montsegur@laposte.net – 06 89 17 58 91

When camping, the youth reception point : space dedicated to tents (05 61 01 10 27)

🍴 Refueling
– Montferrier – The mountain house (05 61 01 05 87) – Opening hours: Monday Closed – every day 7 a.m. – 20 p.m. (high season) – 7 a.m. – 13 p.m. / 15 p.m. – 19 p.m. (low season)
– Montségur – The grocery store, caterer, butcher Le Montségurien (05 61 01 54 46)

In Montségur, you are at the gates of the high Pyrenean mountains. From the top of the Pog, take the time to discover the wide panorama stretching out in front of you. To the east, the Corbières and the Audoises Pyrenees, dominated by the Pech de Bugarach; to the north the Montagne Noire and the Toulouse plain, and finally to the west the high peaks of the Pays Couserans.

Further on, the impressive gorges of the Frau (or dread).

Walking time: 4h00
Distance: 14 km
Elevation +/-: 707 m / 550 m

🛏️ Sleep
– Comus:
Comus stopover gite The Presbytery - 04 68 20 33 69
The Oustal of Annetta - 04 68 74 81 26
The Silence of the South - 04 68 20 36 26

🍴 Refueling
At the next stage in Camurac (variant).

Your steps take you over the vast expanses of the Sault plateau between Comus and the Refuge du Chioula. Make a detour to Montaillou (a Mecca of Catharism marked by the work of the famous historian Emmanuel Leroi Ladurie).

Walking time: 4h00
Distance: 14km
Elevation +/-: 610m / 346m
Variant: passage through Camurac

🛏️ Sleeping
– Camurac:
Camurac Castles - 04 68 31 32 01
Le Gite de la Marmitte - 06 08 35 43 64

– Montaillou:
la Caminada Vielha - 07 83 60 84 64

– Signals:
Chioula Refuge - 05 61 64 06 97

🍴 Refueling
Camurac: The Mountain Grocery 6 Place Du, Rue du Gât – 09 75 85 09 97
Opening hours: Monday Closed – other days 08:30 a.m.–12 p.m., 00 p.m.–17 p.m. / Wednesday 00:19 a.m.–00 p.m.

Soon you dominate the Haute-Vallée de l'Ariège and its center Ax-les-Thermes. You are here close to the wildlife reserve from Orlu, in the heart of the high Pyrenean mountain. In these places the chamois and the marmot reign supreme, the beech has given way to the hook pine and the rhododendrons.

Walking time: 3h00
Distance: 12km
Elevation +/-: 316m / 820m
Variant: Chioula Refuge - Ascou La Forge
To recharge your batteries even better during your roaming, take a detour through the city of Ax-les-Thermes and enjoy the bubbles of the thermo-ludic center, the Couloubret baths.

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– Signals:
The barns of ignaux – 05 61 01 88 39

– Sorgeat:
The balconies of Sorgeat - 06 12 43 48 21
Campsite Sorgeat - 05 61 64 36 34

– Ascou:
Le Belvedere - 05 61 64 04 40
Gîte and campsite La Forge d'Ascou - 05 61 64 60 06

– Orlu / Orgeix:
The Relais Montagnard - 05 61 02 79 75
Orlu campsite - 05 61 64 30 09

The Bivouac stopover lodge - 06 72 82 77 05

From the Orlu valley, climb to the Col de Joux offering a 360 ° panorama. Descent to Mérens-les-Vals and its XNUMXth century Catalan-style Romanesque church, passing by the famous hot springs.

Walking time: 5h07
Distance: 16.4 km
Elevation +/-: 1 m / 100 m

🛏️ Sleeping
– Mérens-les-Vals:
Nabre Inn - 05 61 01 89 36
Mérens-les-Vals campsite - 05 61 02 85 40

🍴 Refueling
Grocery: La gare des vals restaurant, bar, grocery store – 8:30 a.m. – 12 p.m. / closed on Fridays / Bar: 8 a.m.-15 p.m. / Summer opening hours: 8 a.m.-15 p.m. / 17 p.m.-22 p.m.
Info: 06 37 65 78 62 / sophiedesbrosses1970@gmail.com / www.merenslesvals.fr

Between Mérens-les-Vals and Porta You have the choice between a quiet path along the valley floor on the left bank of the Ariège, called the winter variant, or the mountain variant through the Nabre valley to the Bésines Refuge (For those who love wildlife and high-altitude lakes, we recommend this variant - to be undertaken only in summer and before the first cold weather). At the Col du Puymorens, join Catalonia by a short descent along the Carol.

Walking time: 6h00
Distance: 22 km
Elevation +/-: 1 m / 059 m
Mérens-Refuge des Bésines-Porté-Puymorens. Walking time of the variant: 8h45 – 23km
Possibility to sleep at Bésines hut - 09 88 77 35 28

🛏️ Sleeping
– L’hospitalet near Andorra:
Hospitality stopover gite – 06 74 87 05 05 – ribeironunes@orange.fr
Puymorens Hotel - 05 61 05 20 03
Campsite the gate of the peaks - 05 61 05 21 10

– Carried Puymorens:
Gite and equestrian guides In Garcie - 04 68 04 95 44

– Carry:
Campcardos Hostel - 04 68 30 38 90
equilibre - 04 68 04 59 42

🍴 Refueling
Grocery: L'hospitalet near Andorra – the Hospicerie - 09 67 43 89 88
Porté Puymorens grocery store: Garcie farm - 04 68 04 95 44

You will walk through the wide valley of Campcardos before switching to the Portella Blanca (2517m) towards Catalonia. This pass marks the border between the 3 nations (Spain-Andorra and France). The Esparvers cabin is only a precarious shelter, provide bivouac equipment for this stage. You continue along the river to reach Viliela.

There is a variant between Porta and Belver de Cerdanya which allows you to avoid Portella Blanca in bad weather. From Porta to Latour de Carol to Guis de Cerdanya to Méranges à éller then Bellver de Cerdanya.

For all the information on accommodation in the Pyrénées-Orientales, visit this site: pyrenees-cerdagne.com. For Andorran accommodation: visitandorra.com

Go with an agency can allow you to avoid this long stage: they organize transfers to take you to the next one. The advantage is that you will have crossed the Franco-Spanish border by yourself!

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– Méranges:

Hotel Rural Can Borrell Restaurant – +34 9 72 88 00 33

Casa Rural Vilamaroto – Bed and Breakfast – +34 6 83 52 11 13

- She R :

Hostal d’Éller – +34 6 90 36 23 49

Walking time: 6h10
Distance: 23km
Elevation +/-: 900m / 968m

You will descend the LLosa valley, dotted with hermitages, to that of Segre which drains the entire Cerdane plain. The Stage ends in the medieval village of Bellver de Cerdagne. It is recommended to be careful between Prullans and Bellver, the trail crosses the N-260 several times.

Walking time: 2h35
Distance: 12km
Elevation +/-: 177m / 460m

🛏️ Sleeping
– Cal Jan:
Located 1 hour after the Esparvers hut. This private farm house offers the possibility of camping in the meadows and has tents for rent to hikers by prior reservation. This is NOT a campsite, they don't offer any services except tents, there are no toilets, no showers, no bar, no restaurant, just the meadow. +638 438 686

– Viliella:
Casa rural Molí del Salt – 750m from the trail – +34677 262 166

– Prullans:
Cerdanya Eco Resort - +34973 510 260

– Bellver de cerdagne:
Alberg La Bruna - +34973 510 876
Hotel Bellavista - +34973 510 000
Refuge Cortals de l'Ingla – +34686 693 305 – refugicortalsdelingla@gmail.com

🍴 Refueling
Many shops in Bellver de cerdagne.

You will cross the Sierra del Cadi between Bellver and Baga, you are in the heart of the Cadi Moxeiro Natural Park. Begin the descent in a beech grove and arrive at the Sant Jordi refuge.

Walking time: 6h30
Distance: 22 km
Elevation +/-: 948 m / 869 m

🛏️ Sleep
–Guardiola de Bergueda
Refugee of Sant Jordi - +34 937 441 573

– Baga:
Ca l’Amagat – Rustic – Gastrohotel - +34938 244 032

Campsite Bastareny – +34 9 38 24 44 20
other accommodation http://www.turismebaga.cat/

🍴 Refueling
Many shops in Bellver de Cerdanya and Bagà.

This portion of the route will make you discover the impressive massif of Pedraforca (Pierre-Fourchu). The slopes are wooded covered with Scots pine with red trunks. The stage is made in Gosol which protected a country where the Cathars took refuge and where later the painter Pablo Picasso stayed.

Walking time: 7h30
Distance: 26 km
Elevation +/-: 1m / 443 m

🛏️ Sleep
– Gosol:
Refuge Moli de Gosol - +34636 564 310
Hostal Cal Francisco - +34973 37 00 75

🍴 Refueling
Shops in Gosol.

Take the time for a real break in the abandoned village of Péguera located in the heart of peaceful meadows. A good option is to stay at the rural hotel Cal Barbuts in Fumanya, where Charlotte will welcome you with a smile and a drink! To get to Cal Barbut, you have to deviate about 4 km from the trail.

Another accommodation option in this stage is the Chalet-Refuge des Rasos de Peguera, to get there there is a path, the PR-C 73 (Sender de Sant Corneli) that connects the GR®107 from Espinalbet to the refuge (8,27km)

Gosol – Cal Barbut
Walking time: 8h15
Distance: 23 km
Elevation +/-: 910m / 950m

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Gosol – Refugi Rasos de Peguera
Walking time: 5h
Distance: 18 km
Elevation +/-: 944m / 817m

🛏️ Sleep
– Figols:
Hostel Cal Barbut – (4 km. from Peguera) – +34938 240 102
If you make a reservation, you can ask them to pick you up to save you miles of asphalt. Especially book it in advance because there is no good network coverage on this stretch.

– Castellar del Riu:
Refugee Rasos de Peguera – (8 km. from the Espinalbet GR) +34640 161 482

🍴 Refueling
⚠️ Please note, no refueling possible.

You arrive at the end of this short stage marked by the visit of the Sanctuary of Queralt marking the end of the Chemin des Bonshommes. Many Cathars from Languedoc found refuge there. In the distance, we can see the mountains of Montserrat. The small town of Berga is the capital of the Comarca du Bergueda. You are 1 hour from Barcelona.

Cal Barbut – Berga
Walking time: 6h30
Distance: 20 km
Elevation +/-: 530m / 1m

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Refuge Rasos de Peguera – Berga
Walking time: 3h
Distance: 12 km
Elevation +/-: 423m / 762m

🛏️ Sleeping
Berga Resort - +34938 211 250
Bergueda Tourist Office / Berga - +34654 125 696

In 2 days the path can be done all year round without difficulty. Possibility to arrive by train in Foix (Latour de carol - Toulouse line) or to leave your car at Foix station where parking is free.

For the return, take the 450 Bus line from Montségur to Pamiers. If you are parked at Foix station, take a train from Pamiers to Foix to collect your car.

Otherwise contact the taxis:

Taxi Cazalbou Cédric: 06 42 27 44 04

Taxi Deramond: 06 08 99 15 62

Taxi Chantal: 07 70 18 84 35

Taxi Alex: 06 02 13 61 96

Audabram Taxi : 05.61.01.34.54 or 06.80.71.41.59

Occitanie region public transport website: www.mestrajets.lio.laregion.fr

Foix ➡️ Roquefixade ➡️ Montségur ➡️ Comus ➡️ Chioula Refuge ➡️ Ax les thermes

In 5 days the path can be done from May to the end of October without difficulty. Possibility to arrive by train in Foix (line Latour de carol -> Toulouse) or to leave your car at Foix station where parking is free.

Arrive at Ax-les-thermes and take the train towards Toulouse (Latour de Carol ➡️ Toulouse line)

Occitanie region public transport website:  www.mestrajets.lio.laregion.fr

🛏️ Sleeping in Ax-les-Thermes

Numerous accommodations in Ax les Thermes – 05 61 64 60 60 – www.pyrenees-ariegeoises.com

Possibility of extending the route: one or two days using the same rail line (Latour de Carol line ➡️ Toulouse) 

Foix ➡️ Roquefixade ➡️ Montségur ➡️ Comus ➡️ Refuge du Chioula ➡️ Orlu/Orgeix ➡️ Mérens les Vals

Departure station: Foix / Arrival station: Mérens les Vals

Foix ➡️ Roquefixade ➡️ Montségur ➡️ Comus ➡️ Refuge du Chioula ➡️ Orlu/Orgeix ➡️ Mérens les Vals ➡️ L’hospitalet near Andorra

Departure station: Foix / Arrival station: L'hospitalet near Andorra