The Rivers Saône & Doubs with Locaboat

Bases at Scey-sur-Saône and St Léger-sur-Dheune 

The Saône is one of France's most attractive rivers, with few locks, rural scenery, and generously proportioned farmhouses, their window boxes gay with flowers.
On the forest floor, too, the earth brings forth a generous offering of mushrooms.
The well-preserved villages in the Mâconnais and the Dôle region are a constant delight.
Climbing north on the Canal des Vosges through the forests of the Vosges, you glide through an amphitheatre of ash, silver birch and other trees.
The towns of Fontenoy-le-Château and Epinal reveal their many charms.

From Dôle to Besançon, the Canal du Rhone au Rhin follows the course of the River Doubs past rocky cliffs and between wooded slopes.
Arriving in Besançon is truly dramatic. A 394 m-long tunnel allows you to pass right underneath the great fortress built by Vauban in the 17th century and to make a complete circuit of the city by water.

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10 or 11-day cruises from Scey-sur-Saone

• Scey, Gray, Auxonne, Dole, Scey
  Cruise distance 266km (165.28 miles), 46 locks, 45 hours of cruising

One-week cruises from Scey-sur-Saone

• Scey, Gray, Pontailler, Auxonne, Scey
  Cruise distance 202km (125.52 miles), 26 locks, 30 hours of cruising

• Scey, Port sur Saone, Corre, Fontenoy, Scey
  Cruise distance 138km (85.75 miles), 36 locks, 27 hours of cruising

Two-week cruises from Scey-sur-Saone

• Scey, Gray, Seurre, Tournus, Louhans, Scey
  Cruise distance 506km (314.41 miles), 42 locks, 63 hours of cruising

• Scey, Gray, Dole, Besançon, Scey
  Cruise distance 368km (228.66 miles), 86 locks, 66 hours of cruising

One-week cruises from St Leger-sur-Dheune

• St Leger, Chagny, Chalon, Tournus, Pont de Vaux and return
  Cruise distance 168km (104.39 miles), 36 locks, 30 hours of cruising

10 or 11-day cruises from St Leger-sur-Dheune

• St Leger, Chagny, Verdun sur le Doubs, St Jean de Losne and return
  Cruise distance 190km (118.06 miles), 36 locks, 45 hours of cruising

Two-week cruises from St Leger-sur-Dheune

• St Leger, Chagny, Chalon sur Saone, Seurre, Dole, Besancon and return
  Cruise distance 334km (207.54 miles), 84 locks, 45 hours of cruising