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Boucle de la Pointe des Cascades
On Gros Piton, Piton de la Fournaise
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7-day forecast
Open-Meteo (CC BY 4.0)Best time to hike
Best months: Oct · highs 23–23 °C (73–73 °F)
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Average high °C · low °C · precipitation mm per month. Highlighted: best months.
How we pick months
Best months are those where the 1981–2010 average daily high is 10–27 °C (50–81 °F), the average overnight low is 0 °C (32 °F) or warmer, and average precipitation is 200 mm (7.9 in) or less. Values are long-term monthly averages for the ~1 km cell at the trail point on the map, from CHELSA V2.1 climatologies (Karger et al., CC0), not a forecast. Higher or more exposed parts of a route can be colder, wetter or snowier.
Trail facts
- Length (signed)
- 3.7 km · 2.3 mi (OSM distance tag)
- Mapped length
- 3.7 km · 2.3 mi (OSM route, Waymarked Trails)
- Mountain
- Gros Piton (peak; GeoNames)
- Mountain range
- Piton de la Fournaise (Western Indian Ocean Islands; GMBA)
- Nearest town
- 7.1 km SE of Sainte-Rose (Réunion, Reunion, Reunion) · GeoNames
- Best months
- Oct
- Country
- France
- Region
- Réunion
- Continent
- Europe
- Route type
- Local route
- From / to
- Embarcadère anse des Cascades → Embarcadère anse des Cascades
- Shape
- Loop (OSM roundtrip=yes)
- Route centre
- -21.1745, 55.8318
- Route start
- -21.1856, 55.8269
- OpenStreetMap
- relation 17069514
How it’s scored
Hikers can rate difficulty from 1 to 10 (1 = flat, short, easy walk for anyone; 3 = gentle hills, a little effort; 5 = moderate climbs, some fitness needed; 7 = steep or long, solid fitness required; 10 = extremely strenuous or technical; long steep climbing; experienced hikers only). The community average is shown once at least 3 people have rated the trail; until then the official or computed score is used when we have one.