St-Arnoult / Rambouillet Veloscenic : Paris to Mont-Saint-Michel cycle route

🚲 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.

⭐ Don’t 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 explorers’ notebook, themed trails and seasonal events. 
• The Château de Rambouillet, a former French royal residence, proposes a tour of the queen’s dairy, a shell-decorated thatched cottage and the French- and English-style gardens.

🍴 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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🚆 Train stations nearby:

• Gare de Rambouillet 

💡 Also see our section on reaching the veloscenic cycle route, including conditions for taking a bicycle on board trains.