Pink Granite Coast
40 km (25 miles), 1 hr, beginner
Photo: Spendeau, CC BY-SA 3.0, resizedMotorcycle ride in Brittany
Ménez-Hom and the Crozon peninsula
72 km (44 miles), 1 hr 35 min, beginner
The highest point of the Montagnes Noires, Ménez-Hom guards the way into the Crozon peninsula. A straight departmental road, the D83, leads to a car park just below the summit. On a clear day the view stretches over the Rade de Brest and Douarnenez Bay. The peninsula is then explored along the line of the coast path. Through Crozon and Morgat, the road runs out to Cap de la Chèvre, a lookout over the ocean popular with walkers. It then comes back towards Camaret-sur-Mer and ends at Pointe de Pen-Hir, facing the Tas de Pois rocks, on a Conservatoire du littoral site with free access. Cap de la Chèvre and Pen-Hir are dead ends whose car parks fill up fast in summer (paid in season at Pen-Hir), and the wind can be violent on the headlands.
Stops along the way
- SStart: Châteaulin
- 1Ménez-Hom, after 14 km (9 miles)
- 2Crozon, after 38 km (24 miles)
- 3Morgat, after 42 km (26 miles)
- 4Cap de la Chèvre, after 49 km (30 miles)
- 5Camaret-sur-Mer, after 68 km (42 miles)
- FFinish: Pointe de Pen-Hir, after 72 km (44 miles)
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