Route details
Description
A short course from the Port Boinot reception base which will allow you to warm up quickly and follow up with a great technical session with the VMA and short hill workshops. A great mix to get started with trail running and running!
-> Handisport course
-> Marked trail Trail Station
Your itinerary
Step 1
"Former chamois until 2006, then National Center for Street Arts from 2010 to 2015, Le Port Boinot is between the Main and Sèvre Niortaise bridges:
– A large urban park connected to the Marais Poitevin Regional Natural Park (2020)
– A variation of 6 thematic gardens
– The conversion of industrial buildings: the employer's house into a restaurant (2023), the factory into an event venue for businesses and the general public (2023), the large dryer into a counter for roaming and hiking (Tourist Office in 2021), information space and awareness of the heritage riches of Niort Agglo and place of memory of chamois making (2021), the port workshops in a space dedicated to sports leisure practices (rental of bicycles and light boats) and events (bar- contemporary art restaurant-concert-exhibition L’ilôt sauvage)…”
Step 2
"Built in 1862, this navigation structure, still in working order, allows boats to cross the difference in level between the reach of Comporté and that of La Roussille. Since mid-May 2020, its renovation (restoration of masonry structures, replacement of metal doors and footbridges, revision of mechanisms) is carried out by the Interdepartmental Institution of the Sèvre Niortaise Basin (IIBSN), in charge of the public river domain. This operation is part of the project to develop tourist navigation between Niort and Marans. It follows the restorations of the La Tiffardière and La Roussille locks carried out in 2018.
Many nesting birds, including the heron, appreciate the wooded surroundings of the Comporté lock.”
Step 3
"Sailing and kayaking school for schools, leisure centers and groups. Activities possible with or without supervision for half-day, full-day or in the form of courses.
Its body of water is one of the only ones in the region to allow all water sports to coexist over a 1 km long space (kayak, rowing, jet-ski, sailing boat, water skiing, motor boat, paddle). ).”
Step 4
The Quai Métayer follows the navigable canal. In 1808, an imperial decree was declared to facilitate the navigability of the river. The course of the Sèvre is clear of any obstacle (mills, factories, fisheries, etc.).
The width of the towpath is set at 6 meters so that the barges, long flat-bottomed boats used for transporting goods, can be “hauled” (pulled using ropes by men or horses). This results in the uprooting of trees and bush stumps responsible for tearing ship sails.
Step 5
At the gates of the city, this protected green confetti extends over 40 hectares, on the banks of the Sèvre. It is made up of livestock meadows, a small alluvial forest ("Guiana Niortaise"), an old fishery (10 hectares of 6 meter ditches and 3 meter wide earthen mounds), a reed bed, a megaphorbia (universe of large hygrophilous grasses resulting from the abandonment of wet meadows), a hillside and the largest heronry in South Deux-Sèvres.