All stages on Veloscenic : Paris to Mont-Saint-Michel cycle route
St-Arnoult / Rambouillet
Enter the magnificent Rambouillet Forest, crisscrossed by cycle paths. Do make the detours to the Moulin de Villeneuve, a mill close to surrealist poet Louis Aragonâs heart, and, focusing on nature, the Espace Rambouillet animal park.
Gradients and elevation
Ascents: 104m
Descents: 72m
Lowest point: 116m
Highest point: 183m
Road types
14km (72%) By road
5km (28%) Cycle path
Surface
9km (46%) Smooth
10km (54%) Unknown
đČ Stage description and details:
This stage leads you along a cycle path through Rambouillet Forest, then, as you enter the town of Rambouillet, along small roads.
â Donât miss:
- The Maison Elsa Triolet et Aragon puts on both exhibitions and shows evoking the spirit of this couple, both avant-garde literary figures and members of the Resistance, who once lived in this mill set in five hectares of grounds.
- The Espace Rambouillet is a forest animal park offering the likes of shows of birds of prey, guided tours in a forest train, a tree-top assault course, an explorersâ notebook, themed trails and seasonal events.
- The ChĂąteau de Rambouillet, a former French royal residence, proposes a tour of the queenâs dairy, a shell-decorated thatched cottage and the French- and English-style gardens.
đŽ Food and drink en route:
- Saint-Arnoult-en-Yvelines: food and drinks stores and a market on Sunday mornings on Rue Henri Grivot.
- Clairefontaine-en-Yvelines: boulangerie and restaurant
- Rambouillet: many food and drinks stores and markets on Wednesday and Saturday mornings on Place de la Libération
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đ§ Repair Service:
Consult the list of all the bike repairers along or near the route.
đ Train stations nearby:
- Gare de Rambouillet
đĄ Also see our section on reaching the veloscenic cycle route, including conditions for taking a bicycle on board trains.






