The Pays de St Bonnet-le-Château welcomes characteristic vegetation from a middle mountain area, with big forest: beech groves, plantations, pins forests. Territory of middle mountain, it shelters a fauna and flora preserved and for to the great delight of the nature lovers, 600 km of nature trail it criss-crossing it in which the GR3 and the way of “St Jacques de Compostelle”.

2 discovering tracks are provided:

• The botanic and historic track of "La Chapelle-en-Lafaye"
• Tracks of black pitch.

To the discovery of species forgotten most of the time, 2 gardens are available:

• The garden of the bishop at the "Ecomusée des monts du Forez" marked "Jardin remarquable"
• The Layes’s garden marked "Refuge LPO".