First pick
La Sapinette
Park or garden
0.5 ha
Centralin the middle of Le Pouzin
Directionsto a point inside
Photo: Lothur · CC028%of the land protected
Outdoors in Le Pouzin · protected areas, woods and footpaths
28% of Le Pouzin’s land is protected for nature
Le Pouzin has 7 km of waymarked hiking routes. 4.6% of Le Pouzin is mapped woodland. Footpaths add up to 28 km across Le Pouzin (2.5 km per km²). France has no Outdoors Grade yet: these are the figures, each beside the compared towns’ median.
Protected areas
28%
of the commune’s land
Compared town: 0.1%
Woodland
4.6%
of the land, mapped on OpenStreetMap
Compared town: 13%
Footpaths
28 km
2.5 km per km²
Compared town: 1.7 km per km²
Hiking routes
7.4 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: La Sapinette
Throughout this page, the Ardèche 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 Le Pouzin 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 areas28%Share of the land in a national park, regional nature park, nature reserve or Natura 2000 site
82out of 100
Woodland4.6%Share of the land mapped as forest or woods on OpenStreetMap
21out of 100
Footpaths2.5 km per km²Km of mapped footpath and track open on foot, per km² of the commune
67out of 100
Hiking routes0.7 km per km²Km of waymarked hiking routes (GR and others), per km² of the commune
70out of 100
Percentiles among compared French towns; ties count half.
Towns its size
Le Pouzin has the 4th most footpaths per km² of 41 towns its size
The 40 compared French towns nearest in population (2,860 to 2,911 residents), by km of footpath per km². Hover for each one’s protected land and woods; click for its page.
From Batz-sur-Mer (6.4 km per km²) to Précigné (0.1 km per km²).
Every town in the comparison
| Town | Paths (km/km²) | Woodland | Protected | Coast | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Batz-sur-Mer Loire-Atlantique | 6.4 | 1.4% | 52% | On it |
| 2 | Giromagny Territoire de Belfort | 3 | 42% | 100% | 443 km |
| 3 | Sainte-Anne-d'Auray Morbihan | 2.9 | 12% | 100% | 2.5 km |
| 4 | Le Pouzin Ardèche | 2.5 | 4.6% | 28% | 142 km |
| 5 | Blaye-les-Mines Tarn | 2.5 | 10% | 0% | 127 km |
| 6 | Fresnoy-le-Grand Aisne | 2.2 | 2.4% | 0% | 127 km |
| 7 | Pérignat-lès-Sarliève Puy-de-Dôme | 2.2 | 3.7% | 4.6% | 251 km |
| 8 | Vitry-sur-Orne Moselle | 2.2 | 63% | 0% | 313 km |
| 9 | Montbazin Hérault | 2 | 1.9% | 58% | 11 km |
| 10 | Saint-Jean-en-Royans Drôme | 1.7 | 60% | 100% | 177 km |
| 11 | Charquemont Doubs | 1.5 | 39% | 100% | 385 km |
| 12 | Argentat-sur-Dordogne Corrèze | 1.4 | 59% | 2.2% | 199 km |
| 13 | Orcet Puy-de-Dôme | 1.4 | 5.6% | 0% | 248 km |
| 14 | Megève Haute-Savoie | 1.3 | 40% | 0% | 241 km |
| 15 | Tresserve Savoie | 1.3 | 6.1% | 66% | 245 km |
| 16 | Trélivan Côtes-d'Armor | 1.1 | 18% | 100% | 9.5 km |
| 17 | Cany-Barville Seine-Maritime | 1.1 | 20% | 0% | 7.9 km |
| 18 | Rozay-en-Brie Seine-et-Marne | 1.1 | 1.1% | 0.3% | 191 km |
| 19 | Toulenne Gironde | 1.1 | 8.9% | 7.5% | 56 km |
| 20 | L'Étrat Loire | 1 | 19% | 0% | 215 km |
| 21 | Colombier-Saugnieu Rhône | 1 | 2.7% | 0% | 252 km |
| 22 | Chavanay Loire | 0.8 | 21% | 99% | 213 km |
| 23 | Noailles Oise | 0.8 | 46% | 0% | 101 km |
| 24 | Bourg-Argental Loire | 0.8 | 42% | 100% | 197 km |
| 25 | Saint-Priest-Taurion Haute-Vienne | 0.6 | 45% | 0% | 175 km |
| 26 | Aoste Isère | 0.6 | 13% | 4.6% | 245 km |
| 27 | Balbigny Loire | 0.6 | 12% | 5.8% | 251 km |
| 28 | Allonnes Maine-et-Loire | 0.5 | 20% | 100% | 141 km |
| 29 | Argentré Mayenne | 0.5 | 3.1% | 0% | 80 km |
| 30 | Labouheyre Landes | 0.5 | 74% | 100% | 30 km |
| 31 | Dormans Marne | 0.4 | 24% | 0% | 188 km |
| 32 | Neuville-sur-Escaut Nord | 0.4 | 0.8% | 0% | 105 km |
| 33 | Pennautier Aude | 0.3 | 7.6% | 0% | 65 km |
| 34 | Sennecey-le-Grand Saône-et-Loire | 0.3 | 33% | 0% | 348 km |
| 35 | Rosières-en-Santerre Somme | 0.3 | 0.2% | 0% | 84 km |
| 36 | Yvrac Gironde | 0.3 | 7.7% | 0% | 17 km |
| 37 | Lafrançaise Tarn-et-Garonne | 0.3 | 19% | 0.8% | 175 km |
| 38 | Thiviers Dordogne | 0.2 | 27% | 0.1% | 127 km |
| 39 | Auneuil Oise | 0.2 | 17% | 4.7% | 88 km |
| 40 | Avord Cher | 0.1 | 3.2% | 0% | 300 km |
| 41 | Précigné Sarthe | 0.1 | 23% | 0% | 123 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 Le Pouzin
Named parks, gardens and woods in the commune or within 400 m, the biggest and best-pathed first: La Sapinette leads, at 0.5 ha. Directions go to a point inside.
Source: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL): named parks, gardens and woods; sizes are the whole site.
Protected areas
Protected land in and around Le Pouzin
The protected areas reaching the commune, and the nearest: national parks, regional nature parks, nature reserves and Natura 2000 sites.
Natura 2000 site
Printegarde
14% of the commune0.5 km from the center
Natura 2000 site
Rompon-Ouvèze-Payre
13% of the commune0.8 km from the center
Natura 2000 site
Milieux alluviaux du Rhône aval
1.6% of the commune1.7 km from the center
Share of the commune’s land
Any protected area28%
Natura 2000 site28%
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.
28% of Le Pouzin’s land is protected, more than in 82% of compared French towns; the median compared town in Ardèche has 8.6%.
Source: INPN / PatriNat, protected areas July 2026, Natura 2000 December 2024; shares of IGN’s commune boundary.
Footpaths and woods
28 km of footpaths and 7 km of hiking routes cross Le Pouzin
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
28 km
2.5 km per km²
Hiking routes
7.4 km
waymarked: 0.7 km per km²
Woodland
4.6%
about 0.5 km² of mapped woods
Km per km² of the commune · mapped on OpenStreetMap
Le PouzinArdèche medianFrance median
Footpaths2.5
Hiking routes0.7
01.53 km per km²
Share of the land · mapped woods and forest
Le PouzinArdèche medianFrance median
Woodland4.6%
0%50%100%
That is more than in 67% of compared French towns for footpaths per km², and for woodland less than in 79% of compared French towns. Hiking routes often follow paths and lanes already counted, so the two lengths overlap: don’t add them. 99% of Le Pouzin’s residents live within 800 m of a mapped park or wood, close to the typical town.
3 named hiking routes within 2 km
GR (long-distance)Other named walk
GR 4213 km
SPHC, étape 198.4 km
SPHC, étape 204.7 km
GR 42 passes within 2 km of Le Pouzin.
Source: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL), extracts of October 25, 2026 (Geofabrik).
When to get out
The best walking months in Le Pouzin: April and June to August
Météo-France’s 1991–2020 normals at Livron, 8.2 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) | 9.2 | 10.4 | 11.8 | 13.4 | 14.8 | 15.6 | 15.2 | 14.0 | 12.4 | 10.9 | 9.5 | 8.8 |
| High (°C) | 9 | 10 | 15 | 19 | 23 | 27 | 30 | 29 | 25 | 19 | 13 | 9 |
| Rain (mm) | 64 | 42 | 48 | 76 | 83 | 56 | 56 | 69 | 109 | 132 | 124 | 59 |
February is the driest month (42 mm) and July the warmest (highs of 30 °C). 132 mm of rain falls in October, the wettest month. Frost comes on about 41 nights a year. The climate in Le Pouzin →
Neighbors
Next to Le Pouzin
The nearest towns of 2,500 or more, colored by the share of their land in protected areas.
Loriol-sur-DrômeLa Voulte-sur-RhôneLivron-sur-DrômeChoméracCruasPrivasLe Pouzin
Under 1%1–10 %10–25 %25–50 %50 %+
| Town | Protected | Woodland | Paths (km/km²) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Le Pouzin | 28% | 4.6% | 2.5 |
| Loriol-sur-Drôme 6,614 · 5.4 km | 4.7% | 12% | 0.7 |
| La Voulte-sur-Rhône 4,854 · 7 km | 33% | 15% | 1.5 |
| Livron-sur-Drôme 9,329 · 8 km | 4.3% | 11% | 0.8 |
| Chomérac 3,183 · 8 km | 1.3% | 24% | 1.2 |
| Cruas 2,898 · 10 km | 1.5% | 47% | 1.4 |
| Privas 8,538 · 12 km | 1.6% | 32% | 2.1 |
Chomérac, Cruas and Privas 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 Le Pouzin
Is Le Pouzin in a national or regional nature park?
No, but 28% of its land is in a nature reserve or a Natura 2000 site.
Are there good walks in Le Pouzin?
OpenStreetMap maps 28 km of footpaths and tracks open on foot in the commune, 2.5 km per km² (the median compared town: 1.7 km per km²); 7 km of waymarked hiking routes cross it.
How much of Le Pouzin is woodland?
4.6% of the commune is mapped woodland, private woods included; the median compared French town has 13%.
Is Le Pouzin near the sea?
No: the coast is 142 km from the town center, as the crow flies.
When is the best time for walking in Le Pouzin?
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 9, 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.