First pick
Parc de l'arbre à l'oiseau
Park or garden · 190 m outside the commune
8.5 ha1 km of path
15 minto walk all 1 km of path
1.7 km south-westfrom the center
Directionsto a point inside
Photo: Havang(nl) · CC023%woodland
Outdoors in Crouy · protected areas, woods and footpaths
Almost every home in Crouy is within 800 m of a park or wood
3 km of footpaths cross Crouy (0.3 km per km²). Mapped woodland covers 23% of Crouy. No protected area reaches Crouy; the nearest, Forêts picardes : massif de Saint-Gobain (Natura 2000), is 13 km from the town center. 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: Forêts picardes : massif de Saint-Gobain, 13 km
Woodland
23%
of the land, mapped on OpenStreetMap
Compared town: 13%
Footpaths
3.5 km
0.3 km per km²
Compared town: 1.7 km per km²
Hiking routes
4.2 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: Parc de l'arbre à l'oiseau
Throughout this page, the Aisne median and the France median are the median of compared communes (those with an overall grade), each figure its own median.
Against French towns
How Crouy 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
Woodland23%Share of the land mapped as forest or woods on OpenStreetMap
67out of 100
Footpaths0.3 km per km²Km of mapped footpath and track open on foot, per km² of the commune
8out of 100
Hiking routes0.4 km per km²Km of waymarked hiking routes (GR and others), per km² of the commune
54out of 100
Percentiles among compared French towns; ties count half.
Towns its size
Crouy has the 7th fewest footpaths per km² of 41 towns its size
The 40 compared French towns nearest in population (3,016 to 3,081 residents), by km of footpath per km². Hover for each one’s protected land and woods; click for its page.
From Montlignon (5.5 km per km²) to La Roche-Chalais (0.1 km per km²).
Every town in the comparison
| Town | Paths (km/km²) | Woodland | Protected | Coast | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Montlignon Val-d'Oise | 5.5 | 50% | 0% | 133 km |
| 2 | Albigny-sur-Saône Rhône | 4.8 | 25% | 0% | 263 km |
| 3 | Coupvray Seine-et-Marne | 4.3 | 19% | 0% | 164 km |
| 4 | Brax Haute-Garonne | 3.4 | 29% | 0% | 162 km |
| 5 | Feucherolles Yvelines | 3.2 | 33% | 0% | 133 km |
| 6 | La Turbie Alpes-Maritimes | 3.1 | 32% | 18% | 2 km |
| 7 | Saint-Nazaire-les-Eymes Isère | 3 | 37% | 30% | 206 km |
| 8 | Pont-à-Vendin Pas-de-Calais | 2.9 | 13% | 0% | 72 km |
| 9 | Emmerin Nord | 2.8 | 6.3% | 0% | 64 km |
| 10 | Pont-à-Marcq Nord | 2.6 | 1% | 0% | 75 km |
| 11 | Chéreng Nord | 2.5 | 11% | 0% | 69 km |
| 12 | Chapareillan Isère | 2.2 | 57% | 98% | 221 km |
| 13 | Chens-sur-Léman Haute-Savoie | 1.9 | 41% | 5% | 299 km |
| 14 | Gandrange Moselle | 1.9 | 12% | 0% | 313 km |
| 15 | Paimbœuf Loire-Atlantique | 1.9 | 0.6% | 70% | 10 km |
| 16 | Agon-Coutainville Manche | 1.7 | 1.1% | 15% | On it |
| 17 | Damelevières Meurthe-et-Moselle | 1.6 | 46% | 0% | 386 km |
| 18 | La Motte Var | 1.3 | 34% | 25% | 18 km |
| 19 | Valmont Moselle | 1.2 | 28% | 0% | 357 km |
| 20 | Yenne Savoie | 1.2 | 35% | 19% | 252 km |
| 21 | Villeneuve-de-Berg Ardèche | 1.2 | 5.9% | 0% | 116 km |
| 22 | Aubusson Creuse | 1 | 42% | 0% | 235 km |
| 23 | Saint-Ouen Loir-et-Cher | 0.9 | 14% | 0% | 186 km |
| 24 | Gasny Eure | 0.8 | 35% | 9.7% | 98 km |
| 25 | Commelle-Vernay Loire | 0.7 | 6.3% | 34% | 271 km |
| 26 | Nontron Dordogne | 0.7 | 37% | 100% | 110 km |
| 27 | Port-Saint-Père Loire-Atlantique | 0.7 | 9.5% | 16% | 20 km |
| 28 | Breuillet Charente-Maritime | 0.7 | 20% | 13% | On it |
| 29 | Noé Haute-Garonne | 0.7 | 7.6% | 5.6% | 150 km |
| 30 | Senonches Eure-et-Loir | 0.7 | 68% | 100% | 109 km |
| 31 | Pommeuse Seine-et-Marne | 0.6 | 19% | 0% | 179 km |
| 32 | Lapeyrouse-Fossat Haute-Garonne | 0.5 | 14% | 0% | 146 km |
| 33 | Saint-Denis-de-l'Hôtel Loiret | 0.4 | 38% | 4% | 217 km |
| 34 | Châtillon-sur-Loire Loiret | 0.4 | 15% | 9.3% | 271 km |
| 35 | Crouy Aisne | 0.3 | 23% | 0% | 148 km |
| 36 | Brienon-sur-Armançon Yonne | 0.3 | 10% | 0% | 281 km |
| 37 | Blancs-Coteaux Marne | 0.2 | 35% | 2.1% | 220 km |
| 38 | Miramont-de-Guyenne Lot-et-Garonne | 0.2 | 11% | 0% | 88 km |
| 39 | Gémozac Charente-Maritime | 0.1 | 8.4% | 0% | 13 km |
| 40 | Montesquieu-Volvestre Haute-Garonne | 0.1 | 22% | 0% | 151 km |
| 41 | La Roche-Chalais Dordogne | 0.1 | 56% | 6.7% | 50 km |
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 Crouy
Named parks, gardens and woods in the commune or within 400 m, the biggest and best-pathed first: Parc de l'arbre à l'oiseau leads, at 8.5 ha. Directions go to a point inside.
Source: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL): named parks, gardens and woods; sizes are the whole site.
Protected areas
Forêts picardes : massif de Saint-Gobain is the nearest protected area, 13 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
Forêts picardes : massif de Saint-Gobain
13 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
3 km of footpaths cross Crouy
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
3.5 km
0.3 km per km²
Hiking routes
4.2 km
waymarked: 0.4 km per km²
Woodland
23%
about 2.4 km² of mapped woods
Km per km² of the commune · mapped on OpenStreetMap
CrouyAisne medianFrance median
Footpaths0.3
Hiking routes0.4
012 km per km²
Share of the land · mapped woods and forest
CrouyAisne medianFrance median
Woodland23%
0%50%100%
That is less than in 92% of compared French towns for footpaths per km², and for woodland more than in 67% 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 Crouy is within 800 m of a mapped park or wood, as in most French towns.
Source: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL), extracts of October 25, 2026 (Geofabrik).
When to get out
The best walking months in Crouy: April to September
Météo-France’s 1991–2020 normals at Braine, 14 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) | 8.6 | 10.0 | 11.7 | 13.7 | 15.3 | 16.2 | 15.9 | 14.4 | 12.5 | 10.7 | 9.0 | 8.2 |
| High (°C) | 7 | 8 | 12 | 16 | 20 | 23 | 25 | 25 | 21 | 16 | 10 | 7 |
| Rain (mm) | 59 | 47 | 49 | 43 | 60 | 56 | 61 | 61 | 46 | 56 | 54 | 72 |
April is the driest month (43 mm) and July the warmest (highs of 25 °C). 72 mm of rain falls in December, the wettest month. Frost comes on about 53 nights a year. The climate in Crouy →
Neighbors
Next to Crouy
The nearest towns of 2,500 or more, colored by the share of their land in protected areas.
Villeneuve-Saint-GermainSoissonsBelleuFère-en-TardenoisVillers-CotterêtsFismesCrouy
Under 1%1–10 %10–25 %25–50 %50 %+
| Town | Protected | Woodland | Paths (km/km²) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Crouy | 0% | 23% | 0.3 |
| Villeneuve-Saint-Germain 2,616 · 2.6 km | 0% | 11% | 0.8 |
| Soissons 28,046 · 3.4 km | 0% | 7.5% | 2.7 |
| Belleu 3,659 · 4.4 km | 0% | 17% | 0.9 |
| Fère-en-Tardenois 2,836 · 25 km | 0% | 40% | 0.7 |
| Villers-Cotterêts 10,489 · 25 km | 0% | 73% | 1.8 |
| Fismes 5,850 · 26 km | 0% | 21% | 0.4 |
Fère-en-Tardenois and Villers-Cotterêts are more wooded.
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 Crouy
Is Crouy in a national or regional nature park?
No. The nearest protected area is Forêts picardes : massif de Saint-Gobain, 13 km from the town center.
Are there good walks in Crouy?
OpenStreetMap maps 3 km of footpaths and tracks open on foot in the commune, 0.3 km per km² (the median compared town: 1.7 km per km²); 4 km of waymarked hiking routes cross it.
How much of Crouy is woodland?
23% of the commune is mapped woodland, private woods included; the median compared French town has 13%.
Is Crouy near the sea?
No: the coast is 148 km from the town center, as the crow flies.
When is the best time for walking in Crouy?
April to September: 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.