Lac des Rousses, lake in Les Rousses, Bourgogne-Franche-Comté, France
Lac des Rousses is a lake located in the Jura region of France. The water body stretches across several kilometers and is surrounded by forested shorelines with rolling hills in the background.
Lac des Rousses is a glacial overdeepening lake in the upper Orbe valley, a syncline held between the limestone anticlines of Risoux and Noirmont. It was formerly called Quinsonnet or Quintenois. It is the only lake in Bourgogne-Franche-Comté lying in the Rhine watershed, and it drains through the Orbe toward Lac de Joux in Switzerland.
The lake lies northeast of Les Rousses village, in the high Orbe valley between the Risoux and Noirmont ridges, close to the Swiss border. In winter it freezes over, allowing ice skating and ice sailing on the surface. Its shores are bordered by peat bogs and marshes, so keep to marked paths and wear footwear suited to wet ground.
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