Waterfalls of Saut du Loup, France

Saut du Loup was nothing grand, but it was an intriguing stop driving through the rugged Loup Gorge. Visiting this waterfall was pretty much a piece of cake. There was a car park with room for about a dozen vehicles or so, then we went over to the automated cashier (caisse) where we dropped 1 euro per person. Once you drop in the euro coin, it enabled the nearby turnstile to unlock for enough of a turn to let one person through. We thought it was a pretty nifty self-help contraption that still earned money for whoever owns this land without actually needing to man a booth to collect money.

Anyways once we went past the turnstile, we walked down some steps in a tunnel before emerging at the other end where there was a viewing and walking area set atop a protruding ridge. Towards the end of that walkway, there were additional steps to get a little lower and different perspective of the waterfall action here.

What made this waterfall (or should I say waterfalls) interesting was the convergence of at least three weeping waterfalls accompanied by a loud drop on the main Loup Stream, which I believe was the Saut du Loup itself. In addition to the waterfalls, this short viewing and walking platform also allowed us to observe the rugged gorge scenery around us, which was something we didn’t really get to do while driving the narrow and windy D6 road within the Loup Gorge.

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