First pick
Île de la Serre
Wood or forest
8.8 ha
6 km south-westfrom the center
Directionsto a point inside
Photo: LucasD · CC BY-SA 4.035%woodland
Outdoors in Lagnieu · protected areas, woods and footpaths
35% of Lagnieu is woodland, more than in 8 in 10 French towns
No protected area reaches Lagnieu; the nearest, L’Isle Crémieu (Natura 2000), is 2.9 km from the town center. 31 km of footpaths cross Lagnieu (1.1 km per km²). Waymarked hiking routes add up to 9 km in Lagnieu. France has no Outdoors Grade yet: these are the figures, each beside the compared towns’ median.
Protected areas
0%
of the commune’s land
Nearest: L’Isle Crémieu, 2.9 km
Woodland
35%
of the land, mapped on OpenStreetMap
Compared town: 13%
Footpaths
31 km
1.1 km per km²
Compared town: 1.7 km per km²
Hiking routes
8.9 km
waymarked, GR and others
Compared town: 0.3 km per km²
Parks & woods
1
named, in or within 400 m of the commune
First: Île de la Serre
Throughout this page, the Ain median and the France median are the median of compared communes (those with an overall grade), each figure its own median.
What kind of place
What kind of outdoors place is Lagnieu?
Read from the data: what stands out first, good and less good.
A wooded commune35% mapped woodland, more than in 82% of compared French towns, against 13% for the median compared town.Protected land nearbyL’Isle Crémieu (Natura 2000) is 2.9 km from the town center.
What sets Lagnieu apart: its woods, then protected land close by.
Against French towns
How Lagnieu compares with French towns
Each figure against the 3,798 compared French towns (communes with an overall grade): the marked bar is the town’s, the line the median. Described, not graded.
Protected areas0%Share of the land in a national park, regional nature park, nature reserve or Natura 2000 site
22out of 100
Woodland35%Share of the land mapped as forest or woods on OpenStreetMap
82out of 100
Footpaths1.1 km per km²Km of mapped footpath and track open on foot, per km² of the commune
36out of 100
Hiking routes0.3 km per km²Km of waymarked hiking routes (GR and others), per km² of the commune
48out of 100
Percentiles among compared French towns; ties count half.
Towns its size
Lagnieu has the 10th fewest footpaths per km² of 41 towns its size
The 40 compared French towns nearest in population (7,311 to 7,509 residents), by km of footpath per km². Hover for each one’s protected land and woods; click for its page.
From Gières (7.2 km per km²) to Lanton (0.2 km per km²).
Every town in the comparison
| Town | Paths (km/km²) | Woodland | Protected | Coast | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Gières Isère | 7.2 | 35% | 0% | 202 km |
| 2 | Gournay-sur-Marne Seine-Saint-Denis | 6 | 4.3% | 0% | 159 km |
| 3 | Huningue Haut-Rhin | 4.9 | 0.9% | 0% | 423 km |
| 4 | Saint-Germain-lès-Corbeil Essonne | 4.8 | 28% | 0% | 177 km |
| 5 | Villemoisson-sur-Orge Essonne | 4.3 | 13% | 0% | 167 km |
| 6 | Lisses Essonne | 3.8 | 22% | 2.9% | 176 km |
| 7 | Soisy-sur-Seine Essonne | 3.6 | 64% | 0% | 173 km |
| 8 | Remiremont Vosges | 3.5 | 70% | 18% | 432 km |
| 9 | Cournonterral Hérault | 3.4 | 3.1% | 62% | 13 km |
| 10 | Saint-Benoît Vienne | 3.3 | 25% | 0% | 116 km |
| 11 | Clisson Loire-Atlantique | 3.1 | 9% | 0% | 54 km |
| 12 | Audun-le-Tiche Moselle | 3 | 42% | 0% | 288 km |
| 13 | Courdimanche Val-d'Oise | 3 | 17% | 0% | 118 km |
| 14 | Fabrègues Hérault | 2.9 | 7.6% | 8.4% | 9.4 km |
| 15 | Barlin Pas-de-Calais | 2.9 | 5.8% | 0% | 65 km |
| 16 | Perros-Guirec Côtes-d'Armor | 2.9 | 17% | 7% | On it |
| 17 | Saint-Didier-au-Mont-d'Or Rhône | 2.7 | 20% | 0% | 256 km |
| 18 | Courtry Seine-et-Marne | 2.5 | 19% | 0% | 155 km |
| 19 | Moyeuvre-Grande Moselle | 2.4 | 45% | 0% | 310 km |
| 20 | Crozon Finistère | 2.4 | 15% | 100% | On it |
| 21 | Pontcharra Isère | 2 | 39% | 0% | 217 km |
| 22 | Carhaix-Plouguer Finistère | 1.9 | 12% | 0% | 40 km |
| 23 | Paimpol Côtes-d'Armor | 1.9 | 12% | 12% | On it |
| 24 | Saujon Charente-Maritime | 1.8 | 4% | 14% | 4.1 km |
| 25 | Villard-Bonnot Isère | 1.7 | 28% | 0% | 203 km |
| 26 | Toulouges Pyrénées-Orientales | 1.6 | 0.2% | 0% | 17 km |
| 27 | Fresnes-sur-Escaut Nord | 1.5 | 24% | 100% | 100 km |
| 28 | Saint-Berthevin Mayenne | 1.5 | 17% | 0% | 74 km |
| 29 | Langres Haute-Marne | 1.2 | 9.7% | 0.1% | 371 km |
| 30 | Pordic Côtes-d'Armor | 1.2 | 8.1% | 0% | On it |
| 31 | Yssingeaux Haute-Loire | 1.2 | 39% | 15% | 176 km |
| 32 | Lagnieu Ain | 1.1 | 35% | 0% | 274 km |
| 33 | Trélissac Dordogne | 0.9 | 43% | 0% | 109 km |
| 34 | Saint-Nicolas-de-Port Meurthe-et-Moselle | 0.9 | 11% | 0% | 376 km |
| 35 | Ruelle-sur-Touvre Charente | 0.8 | 6.5% | 8% | 81 km |
| 36 | Digoin Saône-et-Loire | 0.8 | 12% | 6.1% | 325 km |
| 37 | Rosny-sur-Seine Yvelines | 0.7 | 60% | 62% | 104 km |
| 38 | Rethel Ardennes | 0.6 | 2.9% | 0% | 207 km |
| 39 | Chaumes-en-Retz Loire-Atlantique | 0.5 | 14% | 0% | 9.6 km |
| 40 | Guipry-Messac Ille-et-Vilaine | 0.5 | 8.9% | 0% | 55 km |
| 41 | Lanton Gironde | 0.2 | 83% | 100% | On it |
The map
Parks, woods, footpaths & countryside
Tap a number to zoom to a park or wood. Tap a layer to hide it. The dashed line is the commune’s boundary.
Green: parks, gardens and woods mapped on OpenStreetMap, named or not.© OpenStreetMap contributors · INPN / PatriNat · IGN
Places to walk
Parks and woods to walk in, in and around Lagnieu
Named parks, gardens and woods in the commune or within 400 m, the biggest and best-pathed first: Île de la Serre leads, at 8.8 ha. Directions go to a point inside.
Source: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL): named parks, gardens and woods; sizes are the whole site.
Protected areas
L’Isle Crémieu is the nearest protected area, 2.9 km away
The protected areas reaching the commune, and the nearest: national parks, regional nature parks, nature reserves and Natura 2000 sites.
Natura 2000 site
L’Isle Crémieu
2.9 km from the town center
Share of the commune’s land
Any protected area0%
Designations overlap (a regional park can hold a Natura 2000 site), so the rows don’t add up; the first counts each piece of land once.
Source: INPN / PatriNat, protected areas July 2026, Natura 2000 December 2024; shares of IGN’s commune boundary.
Footpaths and woods
31 km of footpaths and 9 km of hiking routes cross Lagnieu
Paths, bridleways, steps and tracks open on foot, and waymarked hiking routes, mapped on OpenStreetMap inside the commune; woods are mapped forest and woodland, private woods included.
Footpaths
31 km
1.1 km per km²
Hiking routes
8.9 km
waymarked: 0.3 km per km²
Woodland
35%
about 9.7 km² of mapped woods
Km per km² of the commune · mapped on OpenStreetMap
LagnieuAin medianFrance median
Footpaths1.1
Hiking routes0.3
012 km per km²
Share of the land · mapped woods and forest
LagnieuAin medianFrance median
Woodland35%
0%50%100%
That is less than in 64% of compared French towns for footpaths per km², and for woodland more than in 82% of compared French towns. Hiking routes often follow paths and lanes already counted, so the two lengths overlap: don’t add them. Every home in Lagnieu is within 800 m of a mapped park or wood, as in most French towns.
4 named hiking routes within 2 km
GR (long-distance)Other named walk
GR 5910 km
Beaujolais au Bugey, de Trévoux à Souclin15 km
Chemin d'Assise, Cluny - Montcenis15 km
Via Lugdunum, Geneva to Lyon3 km
GR 59 passes within 2 km of Lagnieu.
Source: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL), extracts of October 25, 2026 (Geofabrik).
When to get out
The best walking months in Lagnieu: April and June to August
Météo-France’s 1991–2020 normals at Amberieu, 8.7 km away, and the daylight at the town’s latitude. Outlined months have long days, highs of 15 to 30 °C and little rain for the place.
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Daylight (h) | 9.0 | 10.3 | 11.8 | 13.5 | 14.9 | 15.7 | 15.4 | 14.1 | 12.5 | 10.8 | 9.4 | 8.7 |
| High (°C) | 7 | 8 | 14 | 17 | 21 | 25 | 28 | 27 | 22 | 17 | 11 | 7 |
| Rain (mm) | 85 | 70 | 75 | 87 | 106 | 89 | 86 | 83 | 106 | 118 | 118 | 95 |
February is the driest month (70 mm) and July the warmest (highs of 28 °C). 118 mm of rain falls in November, the wettest month. Frost comes on about 65 nights a year. The climate in Lagnieu →
Neighbors
Next to Lagnieu
The nearest towns of 2,500 or more, colored by the share of their land in protected areas.
Ambérieu-en-BugeyVillieu-Loyes-MollonMontalieu-VercieuMeximieuxAmbronaySaint-Maurice-de-GourdansLagnieu
Under 1%1–10 %10–25 %25–50 %50 %+
| Town | Protected | Woodland | Paths (km/km²) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lagnieu | 0% | 35% | 1.1 |
| Ambérieu-en-Bugey 15,934 · 6.7 km | 0% | 49% | 3.3 |
| Villieu-Loyes-Mollon 3,849 · 9.3 km | 17% | 24% | 0.4 |
| Montalieu-Vercieu 3,510 · 11 km | 4.2% | 25% | 1.9 |
| Meximieux 8,247 · 11 km | 2.7% | 12% | 1 |
| Ambronay 2,841 · 12 km | 1.3% | 28% | 1 |
| Saint-Maurice-de-Gourdans 2,903 · 15 km | 47% | 19% | 1 |
Villieu-Loyes-Mollon and Saint-Maurice-de-Gourdans have at least twice as much protected land.
How to read these numbers
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Protected areas. National-park cores, national parks’ outer areas, regional nature parks, nature reserves and Natura 2000 sites, from INPN. A national park’s core is strictly protected; its outer area and a regional park are charters between communes, not bans. Designations overlap, so the total counts each piece of land once.
- Woodland. Forest and woods as OpenStreetMap maps them, private woods included: woods nobody has mapped are missing, and a mapped wood isn’t necessarily open to walkers.
- Footpaths and hiking routes. Footpaths, bridleways, steps and tracks open on foot, then waymarked hiking routes (GR and others) measured apart. A route often follows a path or lane already counted: the two overlap. Paths nobody has mapped are missing.
- Green space nearby. The share of residents (INSEE’s 200 m grid) within 800 m, as the crow flies, of a mapped park, garden or wood edge. It measures nearness, not a way in. Guadeloupe and French Guiana have no grid: their pages say whether the town center is within 800 m.
- The coast. The straight-line distance from the town center to OpenStreetMap’s coastline, which follows the tide line into estuaries. A commune is on the coast when the coastline crosses its boundary.
- No grade yet. U.S. and UK towns have an Outdoors Grade; French towns don’t yet. Each figure is set beside the median of compared communes (those with an overall grade) in the département and in France, each figure its own median.
Questions about the outdoors in Lagnieu
Is Lagnieu in a national or regional nature park?
No. The nearest protected area is L’Isle Crémieu, 2.9 km from the town center.
Are there good walks in Lagnieu?
OpenStreetMap maps 31 km of footpaths and tracks open on foot in the commune, 1.1 km per km² (the median compared town: 1.7 km per km²); 9 km of waymarked hiking routes cross it.
How much of Lagnieu is woodland?
35% of the commune is mapped woodland, private woods included; the median compared French town has 13%.
Is Lagnieu near the sea?
No: the coast is 274 km from the town center, as the crow flies.
When is the best time for walking in Lagnieu?
April and June to August: long days, mild highs and little rain, from Météo-France’s 1991–2020 normals at the nearest suitable station.
Why is there no Outdoors Grade for French towns?
TownRatings grades the outdoors in the U.S. and the UK; the French figures are new and not graded yet. This page sets each one beside the median compared French town instead.
Sources: INPN / PatriNat (protected areas 2026, Natura 2000 2024) · © OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL (paths, hiking routes, woods, coast, gardens) · INSEE, Filosofi 2021 200 m grid (residents) · IGN Admin Express (boundaries) · Météo-France normals 1991–2020 · Medians and percentiles: TownRatings, over compared French towns, updated November 4, 2026. Under the Licence Ouverte / Open Licence 2.0 (Etalab).
Contains public sector information under the Licence Ouverte / Open Licence 2.0 (Etalab): INSEE, DGFiP, the Interior Ministry’s statistics service (SSMSI), the Ministry of Education (DEPP), the Health Ministry’s statistics service (DREES) and the Housing Ministry (Carte des loyers). Commune boundaries: IGN Admin Express.