Liaison de Saint-Flour-de-Mercoire à Luc - Trail n°44 bis
This route does not return to its starting point, and no station or stop is listed at the other end: plan to come back the same way, about 35.7 km in total.
Un sympathique itinéraire qui permet de relier le parking des Fées de Saint-Flour-de-Mercoire au village de Luc.
- 💧 2 drinking water points mapped on the route (OpenStreetMap)
At a glance
17.8 km round trip starting from Luc station, 9 minutes' walk from the platform. Allow 5h30 of walking, 521 m of ascent, estimated difficulty: hard. 2 drinking water points are mapped on the route. Seasonality: snow possible from December to March.
Description provided by Conseil Departemental Lozere, in French; the rest is a summary generated from the route data.
When to go
Snow possible from December to March Highest point: 1,235 m.
Above 1,200 m, snow can cover the waymarks and make the route hard to follow. Ask locally before setting off out of season.
Best season: April to November.
Getting there by train
The station serves the end that the source describes as the finish: the trail is walked in the opposite direction to its original description, on foot from the station and without a car.
- Luc station · 9 min walk (walking time measured on the IGN footpath network)
Travel time from the main stations
- Montpellier Saint-Roch 3h20 by train
- Nîmes 2h41 by train
Indicative times from SNCF GTFS data. Actual times, there and back, are worked out on the interactive map.
Other hikes from Luc
Data source
Data produced by Conseil Departemental Lozere, licence: CC-BY-NC-SA, updated on 16 March 2026
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