Hiking - Pointe des Châteaux trail

This coastline trail connects two sites, both with a great environmental and historical value. For that matter, La Pointe des Châteaux is currently under development with the city plan “Opération Grand Site”.

On this trail under the sea pray, hikers will witness the amazing harmony between the marine and the lagoon environments.

Hiking trail colour : yellow.

Start at Anse à la Gourde beach and make a right (overlooking l’Eperon, a rock located in the sea, about half a mile away from the coast). The sand path roams between bushes. White sand and coral reef protected turquoise water make Anse à la Gourde a true paradise beach. But it also is a historic site : excavations revealed a succession of Amerindian settlings over a thousand years.
Reach the heights of Anse à la Gourde. Pass by a sheet metal shack and start your climb on a white gravel path. Keep going straight downhill until you reach Pointe Tarare.
Enter the copse to your right and reach the cliffs (view of La Desirade, La Grande Saline, la Pointe des Châteaux). Keep going straight until you get to Anse à Plume. Bypass La Grande Saline by the left (depending on the season, you might be able to observe wader colonies feeding of the mud) following first the shore, then Anse des Salines. Get out on D118 road, cross the parking lot and start climbing Morne Pavillon to get to the tip of Pointe des Châteaux, symbolized by the cross.
Follow the same route on your way back.

Stay on marked path, particularly by the lagoons. Do not take the banks.

The lagoons are a sensitive nesting environment for protected species.

Please note : the parking and swimming areas are not supervised.