Old Vineyard Hut – Les Sablons de Corquoy🤗 loop from Arçay

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Old Vineyard Hut – Les Sablons de Corquoy🤗 loop from Arçay

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Old Vineyard Hut – Les Sablons de Corquoy🤗 loop from Arçay

03:30

45.6km

210m

Mountain biking

Moderate mountain bike ride. Good fitness required. Advanced riding skills necessary. The starting point of the route is right next to a parking lot.

Last updated: August 26, 2026

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Includes a segment that goes up or down a series of steps

You may need to carry your bike.

After 36.5 km for 6 m

Waypoints

Start point

Parking

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6.98 km

Monotrace in the Forêt des Abbayes🤗

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A well-marked single track, although it tends to close up a little in the spring. Perhaps a little more difficult in the section towards the St Lunaise/Levet road.

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8.70 km

Monotrace in Soudrain🤗 Forest

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Pretty trail on the edge of the Abbayes national forest.

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21.7 km

Old Vineyard Hut

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Construction in dry stones which served as a shelter for the winegrower and as a reserve of tools. Two others are visible in the fields to the north.

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28.5 km

Foré Sur Le Petit Bras Du Cher🤗

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Just enough to clean up the bike. It is located on this small branch of the Cher, just downstream from the Complexe des Eaux Vives, a sports facility dedicated to the practice of rafting, whitewater swimming, air boating, tubing...

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28.8 km

Château de Châteauneuf-sur-Cher

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Château built during the Renaissance which belonged in particular to Colbert, the financial controller of Louis XIV.
In 2001, it was divided into 60 apartments by a real estate developer …

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35.9 km

Les Sablons de Corquoy🤗

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Sensitive Natural Area: Sablons de Corquoy, site, labeled Sensitive Natural Area of the Cher. On this site, the sandy-limestone lawns constitute a dry environment, poor in nutrients, where only a few plants can develop.

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37.3 km

Trail in the Uses of the Rock🤗

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Nice rolling path between Effe and Lapan, with a nice climb in the South/North direction.

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45.6 km

End point

Parking

Way Types & Surfaces

Way Types

29.5 km

7.42 km

6.50 km

1.18 km

925 m

110 m

Surfaces

25.5 km

10.4 km

5.24 km

3.77 km

359 m

309 m

Elevation

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Highest point (180 m)

Lowest point (130 m)

Weather

Sunday 18 October

12°C

2°C

85 %

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Max wind speed: 11.0 km/h

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Comments

May 9, 2024,Arçay Forêt de Soudrain Châteauneuf Corquoy 😎

A tour south of Arçay crossing the Soudrain forest with magnificent oaks and some single tracks without difficulty. We then go down through fields to Boissereau. We cross an arm of the Cher then go up to Châteauneuf sur Cher with a passage through the Complexe des Eaux Vives. By the path above the railway we go back to Corquoy …

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April 21, 2022,Châteauneuf Corquoy Arçay Forêt de Soudrain

From Châteauneuf sur Cher, we head by paths towards the north to reach Corquoy. In Effe we cross the Cher and we go up in the direction of Arçay by the communal of Lapan. The return goes through Ste Lunaise then you cross the forest of Soudrain with magnificent oaks and some single tracks without difficulty. We descend through fields, …

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April 6, 2022,Arçay Forêt de Soudrain Châteauneuf Corquoy

From Arçay, we go to Sainte Lunaise then we cross the forest of Soudrain with magnificent oaks and some single tracks without difficulty. You descend through fields and old vines where you can see old dry stone lodges to Boissereau. You cross an arm of the Cher then go up to Châteauneuf sur Cher with a passage through the Complexe …

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August 24, 2025,Châteauneuf marais de Chavannes par Lapan.

A tour south of Châteauneuf-sur-Cher with the Chavannes marshes as our destination, passing through Corquoy, Lapan and the ever-beautiful Soudrain forest. A quiet tour on good paths except for the Marsh. Indeed, a tree across the path restricted the passage and the reeds took advantage of this to reach a good height, making progress difficult for about fifty meters.

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November 4, 2024,Lapan Forêt de Soudrain Châteauneuf Corquoy

And there you have it, a 200th that we didn't see go by... since we were in the fog. Too bad, it's a nice outing, without difficulty with forest, farm track and some single tracks... and even a restaurant at the finish to have a drink or a bite to eat. Be careful, at km26, after the Chavannes marshes, there …

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