The Cévennes France

Day 8 Wednesday 13th May 2026

The Cévennes National Park is a UNESCO World Heritage site and is a large park spanning over a few departments. It offers many hiking trails and other diverse outdoor activities. We have driven through several times before, so we decided this time to take roads we have not previously travelled.

It’s another cold start to the day but luckily no rain. Pradelles proved too difficult to visit so we moved on. We used the dump point before we set off. 

We did some shopping in LANGOGNE. We then managed to find a closer parking spot to visit the medieval centre. 

Just out of town was the Barrage de Naussac which is very popular for nautical pursuits. 

We the drove south along the D906 and had to stop once again to visit the Beautiful  Classified village, La Garde Guerin (2022).  It’s set quite dramatically on the edge of the Chassezac gorge. We scrambled up the tower for the best views and strolled round the cobbled laneways. 

The drive down to Villefort Lake was very picturesque. We settled in one of the parking areas and enjoyed a cooked lunch, one of Marks favourites, schnitzel, but made with turkey breasts. We then went for a walk to the dam wall to help the digestion. 

From here we wound our way down to Genolhac where we thought we would find a place to park but it was just too narrow for comfort… Mark did n amazing job getting us out of there… phew!

We pointed Bluey in a westerly direction along the D998 through more tight villages, narrow windy roads and gorgeous countryside.

Bluey was just too big for the parking spots along here and so we continued on to COCURES just near Florac where we finally had a good sized parking area that was flat. The houses in this small village are very rustic and have been built higgly piggly on a hill.. making it quite interesting to explore.

131km today