Pilat Regional Natural Park

Pilat Regional Natural Park (French: Parc naturel régional du Pilat) is a protected area of mountainous countryside in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region of southeastern France.

The park spans the departments of Loire and Rhône, and covers a total area of 65,000 hectares (160,000 acres).

[2] Forty-seven communes dot the landscape,[3] with approximately fifty thousand residents.

[2] The land was officially designated a regional natural park in 1974.

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Saint-Appolinard commune, Massif Pilat in background