Skip to main content

Grotte d'Usclats-du-Milieu

The grotte de la Croix, also called grotte de la Crouzade or grotte d'Usclats-du-Milieu, opens through a narrow entrance and shelters a rivière souterraine (underground river) that can be followed for two to three hundred metres.

Courniou

The grotte de la Croix, also called grotte de la Crouzade or grotte d'Usclats-du-Milieu, opens through a narrow entrance and shelters a rivière souterraine (underground river) that can be followed for two to three hundred metres.

Characteristics

  • Type: Cave
  • Municipality: Courniou
  • Record updated:

Location

Map

Entrances

Always verify coordinates and access conditions before setting out.

  1. Grotte d'Usclats-du-Milieu

    43.466438, 2.695470
Download all entrances as GPX

Description

Morphology

The entrance is small, about 60 centimetres in diameter.

Hydrology

In a spacious gallery, a calm but wide river can be followed both upstream and downstream for a total of two to three hundred metres.

Progression

A slide with several drops leads into a spacious gallery.

Other details

The cavity is also called grotte de la Crouzade or grotte d'Usclats-du-Milieu.

User Comments (0)

No comments yet.

Be the first to share your experience!

Registered Explorations (0)

No explorations registered yet.

Register your visit to this cave!

Contains information from Grottocenter (Wikicaves), grottocenter.org, made available under the Open Database License (ODbL 1.0, https://opendatacommons.org/licenses/odbl/1-0/), modified. · https://grottocenter.org/ui/entrances/6255 · The derived data is available on request under the ODbL: [email protected] · data as of 2026 · Source: Grottocenter (Association Wikicaves), worldwide collaborative cave database (grottocenter.org), modified. CC BY-SA 3.0, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/ Grottocenter (Wikicaves) · Text by Paul Guerin (Description sommaire de la grotte de la Croix, alias grotte de la Crouzade, alias grotte d'Usclats-du-Milieu) · adapted by Espeleoworld (normalized, translated); the adaptation is licensed CC BY-SA 3.0, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/ · https://grottocenter.org/ui/entrances/6255 · data as of 2026