Activities
Come to Lake Eguzon for your next sporting adventure!
Enjoy the centre’s range of sporting activities, all in a breathtaking environment!
Whether for beginners or old-hands, young or mature guests, we offer a wide range of groups activities either with equipment rental or under the expert guidance of an instructor.
Sailing, windsurfing, paddling, canoeing, pedal-boating, orienteering, mountain biking, climbing, or archery! What are you waiting for?
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Our activities
OUR OFFERS
Would you like to enjoy a group sporting activity? Let us tempt you with one of our many activities! 2 hour group sessions for 8 to 12 people, with an instructor are available for reservation. We will adapt to your needs and objectives. The ideal way to discover a new sport, while enjoying yourself and improving your sporting abilities.
Are you on vacation in Eguzon? Throughout the summer, sign up for sailing courses on the lake, to learn and improve your sailing skills.
Not sure what you prefer? Then the multi-sport courses are for you! Play a different sport every day: Climbing, mountain biking, paddling, archery, canoeing… there’s something for everyone!
Our courses are open to all.
Looking for a single day activity?
No problem! We organize multi-sports days. 2 group sporting activities in one day: you could try climbing in the morning, and navigate the lake in the afternoon!
Benefit from individual lessons. Our instructors will teach you the basics for each activity you choose or push you to your limits as you progress.
Would you prefer to alternate paddling and sunbathing? Or to experience a sport at your own pace?
All activities are also available with equipment rental (except climbing and archery). Letting you organize your day as you wish!
Practical information : Available between 2pm and 6pm every weekend from the end of May, then between 2pm and 7pm every day in July and August.
Take to the water in a sailboat
There’s no need to explain this legendary pastime.
People have been sailing on Lake Eguzon for generations.
Come aboard and get away from the hurly-burly, sail the lake with the wind and wild as your only companions.
Available for rental for experienced sailors. Courses and private lessons by reservation.
Equipment:
Group leisure dinghy
Single or double Boxy dinghy
For 8 years and over
Take off on a windsurfing trip
Let the breeze guide you while you windsurf on the lake!
An Olympic sport since 1984, windsurfing allows you to harness the power of the wind to transport you around the water.
Equipped with a board and a large sail, let yourself get carried away. What better way to get a breath of fresh air?
Available for rental for experienced sailors. Private lessons by reservation.
Take a canoeing trip
Ideal to discover all the hidden beauties of the lake alone or as a duo.
Set off from Chambon, take a break to bathe at Bonnu beach, and discover Eguzon dam as you’ve never seen it before!
Available for rental. Courses and private lessons by reservation.
Equipment:
Canoe (2 places) or Kayak (1 place)
Paddle around the lake
Another original activity to discover the lake, a Paddle excursion!
More active than it sounds, once you have got your balance, this activity lets you take to the water standing or kneeling, to discover new experiences.
A unique adventure on the water.
Available for rental. Courses and private lessons by reservation.
Relax on a Pedal’o
Ideal for an outing as a family or between friends, you can also enjoy the classic pedal boat experience.
Lounge about on the lake, take a swim, and sunbathe on the beach, then head back out on the water.
Available for rental.
On your marks for Orienteering
Ready for a challenge? Make your way to the Chambon (FFCO) orienteering course! For children accompanied by an adult or independently for older participants, it’s up to you!
For older participant the course is also available as a race against time or a treasure hunt. Ready, steady… GO!
Available for free, just send us an email.
Equipment:
- 1 blank card provided
- 1 answer card provided
- 1 treasure hunt model provided
Climb to new heights
Want to reach new levels? Climb our open air natural cliff face. The cliff of Pont des Piles, a magnificent shale cliff downstream from the Eguzon dam, at a height of about thirty meters will push you to your limits.
Prefer to stay inside?
Train in our block room. It offers a more playful approach to balance work or, with different modules, a more intense technical workout.
Courses and private lessons by reservation only.
Mountain biking on the multiple trails (with or without electric assistance)
Explore the wilderness of the Creuse Valley by mountain bike. The tour of the lake will satisfy even the most athletic among you, with its steep climbs.
Or develop your mountain biking skills with the benefit of our different training aids; pumptrack or downhill tracks, which can be adapted to different age groups.
Available for rental. Courses and private lessons by reservation.
NEW! Electrically assisted mountain bikes (EAMB) are also available for rental at the centre. A circuit ideal for EAMBs has been marked out around the edge of the lake.
Download the free map here to experience the EAMB on a hill circuit.
Archery / Floofloo by the lake
Young and old alike, awake your inner Robin Hood!
Work on your concentration and accuracy by aiming for our targets!
Courses and private lessons by reservation only.
You are in good hands
All the centre’s instructors are trained and have a state diploma for the different activities on offer. Under the capable guidance of our team: Philippe, Xavier, François and Didier, you will have a great time in total safety.
Other activities around the base
- More than 1000 kms of marked hiking trails (the GR de Pays Val de Creuse, the Rocher de la Fileuse, the boucle du Pin, and many others…)
- A free pedestrian ferry to cross the lake
- Barge trips from Crozant
- Towed buoys
- Waterskiing, wakeboarding
- Supervised swimming on the beach of Chambon
- Aquafun Park
- Swimming pool + slide
To find out more about all the activities available around the base and in our region, please contact the Creuse Valley Tourist Office directly – 02 54 47 43 69
