The common Saint-Étienne-du-Bois is located 10 km north of Bourg-en-Bresse, in the direction of Lons-le-Saunier by the National Highway 83.
This town is home to a thriving business due to the passage, but also cereal crops and rearing of poultry from Bresse, including the famous "blue legs.
A landscape based offers travelers and makes them want to stop: Rainbow Bridge Railway and its pond, its houses bressanes his long climb beautifully flowered shaded by plane trees leading to the village at the foot of the tower.