The 11 ponds from Saint-Nizier-le-Désert

Hiking trails & Routes

France

Auvergne Rhône Alpes

Bourg-En-Bresse

Saint-Nizier-Le-Désert

The 11 ponds from Saint-Nizier-le-Désert

Moderate

3.7

(16)

hikers

The 11 ponds from Saint-Nizier-le-Désert

03:08

12.4km

20m

Hiking

Welcome to the land of a thousand ponds. This is how Dombes is nicknamed. This part of the Ain territory offers hikers a landscape that is certainly flat, but also changing and unexpected.

This very easy hike from Saint-Nizier-le-Désert takes you to some notorious bodies of water.

It is the…

by Ain Tourisme

Last updated: September 5, 2024

Waypoints

Start point

Parking

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1.01 km

Abbaye Notre-Dame des Dombes

Highlight • Religious Site

This abbey is relatively new. It was built at the end of the 1850s by 44 monks from the Notre-Dame d'Aiguebelle monastery. The estate is 160 hectares.

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7.81 km

The ponds of the Dombes

Highlight • Lake

The Dombes ponds are part of the large collection ponds of the Dombes departmental reserve. There are more than 1,000 of them.

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9.54 km

Remarkable Oaks in the Dombes

Highlight • Natural Monument

You will find a lot of water here but also some remarkable oak trees.

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12.4 km

End point

Parking

Way Types & Surfaces

Way Types

7.75 km

4.55 km

< 100 m

Surfaces

4.65 km

4.53 km

3.10 km

< 100 m

Elevation

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Weather

Thursday 5 November

12°C

6°C

22 %

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Max wind speed: 8.0 km/h

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Comments

November 16, 2024,Les 11 étangs depuis Saint-Nizier-le-Désert

This hike is nice, half of the route is on the tarmac, a fairly busy road, too bad! the other part on more interesting paths where you are close to ponds, you can see various species of birds and small animals, hedgehogs etc., beautiful autumn colours, especially if there is a ray of sunshine accompanying you. It is not the …

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June 19, 2024

Welcome to the land of a thousand ponds. This is how Dombes is nicknamed. This part of the Ain territory offers hikers a landscape that is certainly flat, but also changing and unexpected.
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This very easy hike from Saint-Nizier-le-Désert takes you to some notorious bodies of water. 
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It is the first freshwater

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