400 ha of outdoor sports: backpacking trails, Nordic marches, mountain biking, fitness trails, land-art, picnic areas – exceptional flora and fauna, unbelievable landscapes typical to the sandstone plateaus of the region with their stone walls and ancient cabins.
A perfect mix of sport and fun for the family, all year round, accessible and free!
The wooded plateau, covered with typical South-Western vegetation, shelters rare species likes the ocillated lizard. Its unique heritage of bories, kilometers of stone walls, sunken paths and foundations of a village testimony the presence of humans since the Middle-Ages. For more than 10 years, the ADDCI association have worked for towards the preservation and reconstruction of the site, witness of the long agricultural history of the plateau, which makes up some of the most stunning vernacular architecture of the department. There, you can still travel in time, but nowadays, the outdoor sports take over from agricultural activities.
Facilities have been created to allow you to discover the plateau whilst walking on marked trails and being active with friends or family!
All trails are accessible by foot, mountain bike, horse - access is free and open all year round.
No motor vehicles, except parking.
- Three Nordic walking routes of 6, 7 and 9 km are marked out. Billboards show you the different exercises to do during your walk, if you have a smartphone, you can flash the QR codes and view the videos of the exercises on our youtube channel.
- There is a 2.7 km health course,
- An outdoor fitness area with 8 workshops for cardiovascular work, bodybuilding, stretching,
- A 5.8 km long mountain bike trail, as well as three large FFC-labeled loops (details below),
- A Randoland loop, a fun way to introduce children to this place with games,
- An artistic itinerary "Art sur le Causse" is renewed every year in June. The exhibition is open all year round, freely accessible along a 3.5 km shaded and marked path. It has been organized by ADDCI (Association for Sustainable Development of the Causse de l'Isle) for 14 years now.
- Two stone hut loops of about 3.5 km will allow you to discover more than twenty of these exceptional architectural works in dry stone, largely restored by the ADDCI.
- Four picnic areas and dry toilets are available.
- On the parking lot you will find billboards indicating the different loops.
Hiking maps
(clic to download)
The Naturellement Périgord mountain bike base is approved by the French Cycling Federation and proposes 350 km of marked trails separeted into 14 loops with levels of difficulty going from green to black - here are the three loops starting from the Causse car park:All the other biking loops and downloadable gpx traces are available in our leisure and nature / mountain biking section. You can find out about mountain bike rentals (with or without electric assistance) and guides in our dedicated section.
Directions: Coming from Exideuil towards Périgeux, on the D704: pass through Coulaures and bear right after Chardeuil, the D74 towards Sorges. After aproximatly 5 km turn left and follow the "Causse de Savignac" sign. Coming from Perigeux on the D704, in the town of Savignac les Eglises, bear left and follow the “Causse de Savignac” sign.
GPS: N 45, 28907 – E 0.91580
