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Canal de Carentan – Utah Beach Museum loop from Auxais

Canal de Carentan – Utah Beach Museum loop from Auxais

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Canal de Carentan – Utah Beach Museum loop from Auxais

03:52

69.0km

180m

Road cycling

Moderate road ride. Good fitness required. Some segments of this route may be unpaved and difficult to ride.

Last updated: August 25, 2026

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Includes a segment in which cycling is not permitted

After 34.8 km for 160 m

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15.1 km

Canal de Carentan

Highlight • River

The port in the northeast of the city is located at the end of a channel connecting the bay of Les veys and was inaugurated in 1982. When the tide rises, the so-called muscaret can be seen from the lock that closes the entrance to the harbour: a phenomenon in which a wave that flows into the canal from the sea is broken by the resistance of the river water that flows into the sea in the opposite direction. (Michelin)

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27.5 km

View of Baie des Veys

Highlight • Viewpoint

34.9 km

Utah Beach Museum

Highlight • Monument

Utah Beach is one of the five beaches of the Normandy landings of June 6, 1944. In comparison to Omaha Beach which was catastrophic on a human level and which was nicknamed "the bloody one", the landing of Utah Beach was a real success.

In the first twelve hours of the operation, 23,250 men, 1,700 combat vehicles and 1,695 tons of supplies will be landed on this beach.

You will learn all this and more by visiting this very interesting museum in more detail.

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34.9 km

Sherman tank at Utah Beach

Highlight • Monument

One of the beaches where the US Army landed in 1944.

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34.9 km

Higgins Boat (LCVP) Memorial at Utah Beach

Highlight • Monument

Illustrates only too well how short-lived such a moment can be

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35.8 km

Utah Beach

Highlight • Beach

The tranquility of this beach makes it difficult to imagine the events of June 1944. The armored vehicles and soldiers of that time have made way for oyster beds, birds and walkers.

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51.6 km