LES VERRIERS ET LE MASSIF FORESTIER DE MORIVILLE ROUTE

Thanks to the FRPP for the creation of this hike and for the work done by its teams throughout the year to mark out and maintain these paths.

A trail that is mostly in forest, shaded in summer, with many cultural and natural attractions.
Distance: 11km, duration approx. 3.5 hours
Marking: Red ring
Different departures: MORIVILLE Salle de la Louvière or PORTIEUX Verrerie
This hiking trail takes you to La Louvière and its path in the Forêt Communale, composed mostly of hundred-year-old pedunculate oaks.
At the curve in the path, two Siamese hornbeams invite you to visit the old Charmes-Rambervillers railway line, which was put into service in 1871 and disused in 1943. The platform of the traveller's halt and its period lime trees are the only witnesses of that time.
The cavities in the Scots pine forest in the Hichère ravines remind us of an old plaster quarry and in the hillock, a shooting range lined with badger burrows.
Rancerot and its stream, partly supplied by the Fontaine Ferrée, its wild boar park (private) and the communal Arboretum with its many species.
At the top of the Tranchée du Torlot, the crossing of the magnificent beech forest leads us to the foot of a Cormier (remarkable tree).
Below, the reed bed of the Hemmerey stream, filled with irises, and higher up, a young oak-hemlock forest coming from natural regeneration.
Leaving the communal forest, stop at the Portieux glassworks on the hillside and its three centuries of history