Stage 8. Logroño – Nájera (29 km)

We have before us a stage of almost 30 km, but of a very manageable difficulty. We leave Logroño towards Nájera through the park of San Miguel, passing through the natural environment of the Grajera reservoir. We will cross lands of wine and fruit trees, with wide valleys and gentle slopes. We will visit villages with a great pottery tradition such as Navarrete and we will face the challenge of the day, the ascent to the Alto de San Antón, so progressive that we will hardly notice it.

This stage is part of the French Way. Would you like to walk it with your accommodation already booked? These organised trips include it: French Way from Roncesvalles to Santiago de Compostela and French Way from Logroño to Burgos.

You leave Logroño through Plaza de Santiago and soon enter the lovely Parque de la Grajera, by the reservoir, among squirrels and swans. You climb the Alto de la Grajera —with its Osborne bull— and reach Navarrete, once a border of the kingdom. Between vineyards and the legendary Poyo de Roldán, you descend to the Najerilla river and the historic town of Nájera.