Depuis le parking du stade de football Henri Millan sur la D69, le sentier balis\u00e9 disque bleu grimpe tranquillement jusqu’au sommet de la T\u00eate de M\u00e9relle. La boucle principale fait 5,4 km pour 240 m de d\u00e9nivel\u00e9 \u2014 comptez environ 2h30, difficult\u00e9 moyenne, accessible en famille avec des enfants qui marchent bien.<\/p>\n
Sur le chemin, deux curiosit\u00e9s m\u00e9ritent qu’on s’arr\u00eate : la cascade de M\u00e9relle et, un peu plus loin, une source d’eau ferrugineuse dont la teinte rouge\u00e2tre surprend toujours. Beaucoup de gens passent sans les remarquer. Pr\u00e8s du sommet, une tourbi\u00e8re discr\u00e8te rappelle que le nom \u00ab M\u00e9relle \u00bb d\u00e9signait d\u00e9j\u00e0, en gallo-romain, une petite \u00e9tendue d’eau \u2014 l’\u00e9cosyst\u00e8me est l\u00e0 depuis longtemps, restez sur les sentiers.<\/p>\n
La tour elle-m\u00eame \u2014 15 m\u00e8tres de bois, 85 marches \u2014 a \u00e9t\u00e9 construite en juillet 1964 par un groupe de scouts. La plateforme culmine \u00e0 environ 912 m d’altitude. Le panorama \u00e0 360\u00b0 embrasse le lac de G\u00e9rardmer, les cr\u00eates vosgiennes et le domaine skiable. En automne, les feuillages qui cerclent le lac valent particuli\u00e8rement le d\u00e9tour.<\/p>\n
Quelques points pratiques \u00e0 conna\u00eetre avant de partir : depuis le 1er juin 2023, l’acc\u00e8s en voiture est interdit du 1er juin au 30 septembre \u2014 le parking du stade est le point de d\u00e9part obligatoire sur cette p\u00e9riode. La tour est limit\u00e9e \u00e0 4 personnes simultan\u00e9ment ; en haute saison, une petite attente est possible. Par neige ou verglas, l’acc\u00e8s \u00e0 la tour est interdit, quelle que soit la p\u00e9riode.<\/p>\n
Le site est tr\u00e8s fr\u00e9quent\u00e9 les week-ends et pendant les vacances scolaires. Pour profiter du panorama au calme, une sortie en semaine, t\u00f4t le matin, change tout. Une alternative plus longue existe depuis le parking du Saut de la Bourrique (environ 7 km, 350 m de d\u00e9nivel\u00e9), avec un passage par la cascade du m\u00eame nom \u2014 pr\u00e9voir de partir t\u00f4t, ce parking sature vite en \u00e9t\u00e9.<\/p>","protected":false},"featured_media":7325,"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-7324","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\/7324","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\/7325"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vosges-grandeur-nature.fr\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7324"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}