About a hundred routes in the heart of the city, in the old quarry turned Jardin extraordinaire, and the other crags of Loire-Atlantique.
In the middle of Nantes, by the Loire, the former Misery quarry has been turned into the Jardin extraordinaire. Since 2017 its walls have hosted a climbing site of about a hundred routes, in the eastern part of the garden and in the Aubin square.
The site is for autonomous climbers, comfortable leading and handling ropes. The garden (1 rue Joseph-Cholet) is open every day, from 8:30am to 8pm in summer, and can be reached by public transport, stop Carrière Misery. Since June 2026, two via ferrata routes complete the offer, by reservation.
The Carrière Misery guidebook is available in the OneTopo app, with its sectors and every route on a photo, available offline.
OneTopo covers Carrière Misery. For the department's other crags, this is the reference printed guidebook.
FFME Loire-Atlantique committee · 2024 edition · 218 pages
The department's sites: Pont-Caffino, Pierres Meslières, Clisson, Le Pallet, Roche-Ballue, Le Croisic, La Montagne and Carrière Misery.
Sold at the ElCap and Altissimo gyms in Nantes, at La Géothèque and Decathlon, or from the COC Escalade Couëron club (around €25).
The main site is Carrière Misery, in the Jardin extraordinaire, with about a hundred routes in the city. Around Nantes, Pont-Caffino is the largest crag in the department.
Yes: the Jardin extraordinaire was built in the former Misery quarry. The climbing routes are in the eastern part of the garden and in the Aubin square.
The site is for autonomous climbers who can lead and handle ropes. For a first taste of the wall, supervised via ferrata introductions are available by reservation.
In the OneTopo app, available offline; most of every sale goes to the people who bolt the sites. In print, the FFME “Escalade en Loire-Atlantique” guidebook also covers the department's other crags.
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