Le nom \u00ab Pont des F\u00e9es \u00bb vient d’une l\u00e9gende locale, mais son \u00e9tymologie est plus prosa\u00efque : en patois vosgien, \u00ab fies \u00bb d\u00e9signe les \u00e9pic\u00e9as. La sombre for\u00eat qui surplombe la Vologne \u00e0 cet endroit lui a donn\u00e9 son nom bien avant que les f\u00e9es s’en m\u00ealent. Ce pont vo\u00fbt\u00e9 en pierres, construit en 1763, \u00e9tait \u00e0 l’\u00e9poque le seul passage reliant Saint-Di\u00e9 \u00e0 la maison-forte de Martimpr\u00e9. Il est aujourd’hui class\u00e9 Monument Historique.<\/p>\n
Attention d\u00e8s la travers\u00e9e : le pont n’a pas de garde-fou. C’est ce qui lui donne son allure brute, mais cela demande de tenir les enfants fermement par la main \u2014 et d’\u00e9viter de s’arr\u00eater sur le parapet pour photographier.<\/p>\n
Quelques minutes plus loin, la Vologne se divise en plusieurs bras et forme les \u00eeles Marie-Louise, reli\u00e9es entre elles par des passerelles. On les parcourt depuis les berges et les pontons \u2014 l’accostage sur les \u00eeles est interdit pour pr\u00e9server l’\u00e9cosyst\u00e8me. Des tables et bancs \u00e0 l’ombre permettent d’y pique-niquer tranquillement. En basses eaux, il n’est pas rare d’apercevoir le cincle plongeur, ce petit oiseau qui dispara\u00eet litt\u00e9ralement sous le courant de la Vologne.<\/p>\n
La boucle courte depuis le parking forestier fait environ 4 km pour 1h05 de marche. Le sentier, large et sableux, longe la rivi\u00e8re sous une belle futaie de sapins \u2014 praticable en poussette tout-terrain jusqu’aux \u00eeles, la travers\u00e9e du pont restant d\u00e9licate avec une poussette (\u00e9troit, sans garde-fou).<\/p>\n
Pour le parking : ne pas chercher \u00e0 se garer au Saut des Cuves, souvent satur\u00e9 en \u00e9t\u00e9. Depuis G\u00e9rardmer, prendre la D417 direction Colmar et, au 2e giratoire, tourner vers la for\u00eat \u00e0 droite (route foresti\u00e8re pav\u00e9e sur quelques m\u00e8tres). Le parking est gratuit. Coordonn\u00e9es GPS : 48.0848\u00b0 N, 6.9093\u00b0 E.<\/p>\n
Le site change sensiblement selon la saison : eaux gonfl\u00e9es et puissantes au printemps, ombre fra\u00eeche en \u00e9t\u00e9, reflets dor\u00e9s dans les bras de la Vologne en automne \u2014 p\u00e9riode particuli\u00e8rement favorable pour la photographie. En hiver, les sentiers peuvent \u00eatre verglac\u00e9s, prudence \u00e0 pr\u00e9voir.<\/p>","protected":false},"featured_media":6533,"template":"","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}}},"class_list":["post-6532","decouverte-vosges","type-decouverte-vosges","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vosges-grandeur-nature.fr\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/decouverte-vosges\/6532","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vosges-grandeur-nature.fr\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/decouverte-vosges"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vosges-grandeur-nature.fr\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/decouverte-vosges"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vosges-grandeur-nature.fr\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6533"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vosges-grandeur-nature.fr\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6532"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}