"La Prisonnière" hiking trail

Installed in a recently refurbished area, this “commented” orientation table provides a reading of the surrounding landscape. From up here, you can see the Pays de Gaultier, the Sillé and Pail forests, and even Mont Rochard. It’s said that on a clear day, you can see 10 of the surrounding church towers…

Nearly 3,000 hectares of private forest in the Mayenne department. It ends to the west with the Corniche de Pail (classified as a natural heritage site), which rises to 350 metres and offers a vast panorama of the surrounding area. Originally, this vast forest was mainly made up of oak (over 80%), which was used to make framing and furniture. After the Second World War, for economic reasons, spruces and firs replaced the oaks.

The north of the department is dotted with numerous archaic crosses, some of them crossroads, others boundary markers or pilgrimage crosses… their shapes are sometimes irregular, with or without inscriptions or symbols. Yet they all bear witness to a very distant past.