Les Hautes Chaumes (1640 m), a small paradise for naturalists, nature lovers, mountain bikers and hikers, between St Etienne and Ambert. This bare plateau is Forez’s reference site for dreaming and escaping. It dominates the south of France. This is the essential place of the peaks of Forez to discover a constellation of mountains, the Alps at sunset, the Cantal Mountains, the Sancy, the Velay van de Puy de Dome.