Tour du Grand Taureau
Key facts
- Distance
- 19.8 km
- Ascent
- +677 m
- Descent
- −600 m
- Estimated time
- 5 hr 40
- hiking
- Difficulty
- Difficult
- official rating
- Route
- Loop
- back to the start
Official time: 5 h 30 min
Profile and gradient
- under 10%
- 10 to 20%
- over 20%
Gradient along the route: 16.3 km under 10% and 3.5 km at 10 to 20%. Elevation from 887 m to 1,232 m over 19.8 km.
Surface and path types
- Surface
- Paved 28%
- Dirt & gravel 67%
- Unknown 5%
- Path types
- Trail 33%
- Track 44%
- Road 19%
- Off-network 4%
Difficulty
Official rating: difficult, by Département du Doubs.
Getting there
Start: Gounefay, Pontarlier, Pontarlier (25).
Sources
- Track: Département du Doubs (explore.doubs.fr), ODbL, ODbL 1.0 (explore.doubs.fr/trek/953-Tour-du-Grand-Taureau). Time estimated by GPX Path with the Mac app rule, breaks not included.
- Official time: 5 h 30 min, explore.doubs.fr
- Surface and path types: © OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL, extract of 28 October 2026, matched to the track every 10 m (openstreetmap.org/copyright)
- Official elevation gain: 677 m, Département du Doubs
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