First pick
Parc Kohler
Park or garden
0.2 ha0.1 km of path
Centralin the middle of Barr
Directionsto a point inside
Photo: Torsade de Pointes · Public domain77%woodland
Outdoors in Barr · protected areas, woods and footpaths
77% of Barr is woodland, more than in 9 in 10 French towns
Waymarked hiking routes add up to 94 km in Barr. 80 km of footpaths cross Barr (3.8 km per km²). No protected area reaches Barr; the nearest, Secteur Alluvial Rhin-Ried-Bruch, Bas-Rhin (Natura 2000), is 3.7 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: Secteur Alluvial Rhin-Ried-Bruch, Bas-Rhin, 3.7 km
Woodland
77%
of the land, mapped on OpenStreetMap
Compared town: 13%
Footpaths
80 km
3.8 km per km²
Compared town: 1.7 km per km²
Hiking routes
94 km
waymarked, GR and others
Compared town: 0.3 km per km²
Parks & woods
3
named, in or within 400 m of the commune
First: Parc Kohler
Throughout this page, the Bas-Rhin 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 Barr?
Read from the data: what stands out first, good and less good.
A wooded commune77% mapped woodland, more than in 99% of compared French towns, against 13% for the median compared town.On waymarked routes94 km of GR and other hiking routes cross the commune.A place of footpaths3.8 km per km² of mapped footpath, against 1.7 km per km² for the median compared town.Protected land nearbySecteur Alluvial Rhin-Ried-Bruch, Bas-Rhin (Natura 2000) is 3.7 km from the town center.
What sets Barr apart: its woods, then its hiking routes.
Against French towns
How Barr 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
Woodland77%Share of the land mapped as forest or woods on OpenStreetMap
99out of 100
Footpaths3.8 km per km²Km of mapped footpath and track open on foot, per km² of the commune
82out of 100
Hiking routes4.4 km per km²Km of waymarked hiking routes (GR and others), per km² of the commune
100out of 100
Percentiles among compared French towns; ties count half.
Towns its size
Barr has the 6th most footpaths per km² of 41 towns its size
The 40 compared French towns nearest in population (6,969 to 7,157 residents), by km of footpath per km². Hover for each one’s protected land and woods; click for its page.
From Sathonay-Camp (8.3 km per km²) to Saint-Pierre-en-Auge (0.3 km per km²).
Every town in the comparison
| Town | Paths (km/km²) | Woodland | Protected | Coast | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Sathonay-Camp Rhône | 8.3 | 17% | 0% | 259 km |
| 2 | Guingamp Côtes-d'Armor | 6.8 | 16% | 0% | 16 km |
| 3 | Sainte-Adresse Seine-Maritime | 6.5 | 8.4% | 7.6% | On it |
| 4 | Bailly-Romainvilliers Seine-et-Marne | 4.6 | 10% | 0% | 169 km |
| 5 | Trévoux Ain | 3.9 | 8.3% | 0% | 270 km |
| 6 | Barr Bas-Rhin | 3.8 | 77% | 0% | 450 km |
| 7 | Balaruc-les-Bains Hérault | 3.5 | 0.7% | 33% | 3.8 km |
| 8 | Leforest Pas-de-Calais | 3.4 | 18% | 0% | 81 km |
| 9 | Binic-Étables-sur-Mer Côtes-d'Armor | 3.3 | 7.5% | 0% | On it |
| 10 | Notre-Dame-de-Bondeville Seine-Maritime | 3.3 | 52% | 0% | 47 km |
| 11 | Eckbolsheim Bas-Rhin | 3.1 | 7.3% | 0% | 448 km |
| 12 | Étréchy Essonne | 2.8 | 29% | 0% | 170 km |
| 13 | Auby Nord | 2.8 | 16% | 1.7% | 84 km |
| 14 | Soultz-Haut-Rhin Haut-Rhin | 2.4 | 60% | 100% | 456 km |
| 15 | Uckange Moselle | 2.3 | 3.2% | 0% | 312 km |
| 16 | Ugine Savoie | 2.2 | 58% | 2.4% | 236 km |
| 17 | Wissous Essonne | 2.1 | 5.8% | 0% | 159 km |
| 18 | Saint-Rambert-d'Albon Drôme | 1.8 | 6.2% | 1.6% | 201 km |
| 19 | Aulnoy-lez-Valenciennes Nord | 1.7 | 0.5% | 0% | 108 km |
| 20 | Bagnères-de-Bigorre Hautes-Pyrénées | 1.6 | 30% | 42% | 144 km |
| 21 | Saint-André-des-Eaux Loire-Atlantique | 1.5 | 7.8% | 100% | 6.4 km |
| 22 | La Talaudière Loire | 1.5 | 6.6% | 0% | 215 km |
| 23 | Castelnau-d'Estrétefonds Haute-Garonne | 1.4 | 16% | 2.6% | 161 km |
| 24 | Eyguières Bouches-du-Rhône | 1.4 | 13% | 100% | 30 km |
| 25 | Pont-Saint-Martin Loire-Atlantique | 1.3 | 17% | 1.7% | 33 km |
| 26 | Brech Morbihan | 1.1 | 18% | 0% | On it |
| 27 | Épône Yvelines | 1.1 | 16% | 0% | 119 km |
| 28 | Villemandeur Loiret | 1 | 13% | 0% | 236 km |
| 29 | Jurançon Pyrénées-Atlantiques | 1 | 45% | 5.5% | 94 km |
| 30 | Péronne Somme | 1 | 6.5% | 12% | 94 km |
| 31 | Trégunc Finistère | 0.9 | 9.6% | 6.1% | On it |
| 32 | Grandchamp-des-Fontaines Loire-Atlantique | 0.8 | 8.7% | 0% | 43 km |
| 33 | Bétheny Marne | 0.7 | 0% | 0% | 198 km |
| 34 | Saint-Bonnet-de-Mure Rhône | 0.7 | 4.8% | 0% | 249 km |
| 35 | Marsillargues Hérault | 0.6 | 0.5% | 32% | 13 km |
| 36 | Valognes Manche | 0.5 | 4.7% | 0% | 12 km |
| 37 | Nérac Lot-et-Garonne | 0.5 | 6.7% | 0.5% | 122 km |
| 38 | Viriat Ain | 0.5 | 21% | 0% | 311 km |
| 39 | Manduel Gard | 0.5 | 0.5% | 63% | 40 km |
| 40 | Chauvigny Vienne | 0.4 | 24% | 0% | 140 km |
| 41 | Saint-Pierre-en-Auge Calvados | 0.3 | 8.1% | 0% | 32 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 Barr
Named parks, gardens and woods in the commune or within 400 m, the biggest and best-pathed first: Parc Kohler leads, at 0.2 ha. Directions go to a point inside.
Source: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL): named parks, gardens and woods; sizes are the whole site.
Protected areas
Secteur Alluvial Rhin-Ried-Bruch, Bas-Rhin is the nearest protected area, 3.7 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
Secteur Alluvial Rhin-Ried-Bruch, Bas-Rhin
3.7 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
80 km of footpaths and 94 km of hiking routes cross Barr
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
80 km
3.8 km per km²
Hiking routes
94 km
waymarked: 4.4 km per km²
Woodland
77%
about 16.2 km² of mapped woods
Km per km² of the commune · mapped on OpenStreetMap
BarrBas-Rhin medianFrance median
Footpaths3.8
Hiking routes4.4
036 km per km²
Share of the land · mapped woods and forest
BarrBas-Rhin medianFrance median
Woodland77%
0%50%100%
That is more than in 82% of compared French towns for footpaths per km², and for woodland more than in 99% 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 Barr is within 800 m of a mapped park or wood, as in most French towns.
10 named hiking routes within 2 km
GR (long-distance)Other named walk
GR 529 km
GR 5315.4 km
Sentier des chameaux15 km
Sentier du Mur Païen9.2 km
Circuit de l'ex-chemin de fer de la forêt7.7 km
Grande boucle6 km
Petite boucle3 km
Circuit des remparts2.1 km
Parcours de santé du Hohwald1.8 km
Chemin de croix du mont Sainte-Odile0.6 km
2 GR routes pass within 2 km of Barr: GR 5 and GR 531.
Source: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL), extracts of October 25, 2026 (Geofabrik).
When to get out
The best walking months in Barr: April to September
Météo-France’s 1991–2020 normals at Ville, 13 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) | 8.7 | 10.1 | 11.7 | 13.6 | 15.2 | 16.1 | 15.7 | 14.3 | 12.5 | 10.7 | 9.1 | 8.3 |
| High (°C) | 6 | 7 | 12 | 17 | 21 | 25 | 27 | 26 | 22 | 16 | 10 | 6 |
| Rain (mm) | 91 | 81 | 79 | 58 | 84 | 78 | 75 | 69 | 62 | 88 | 87 | 108 |
April is the driest month (58 mm) and July the warmest (highs of 27 °C). 108 mm of rain falls in December, the wettest month. Frost comes on about 68 nights a year. The climate in Barr →
Neighbors
Next to Barr
The nearest towns of 2,500 or more, colored by the share of their land in protected areas.
ObernaiBischoffsheimRosheimHuttenheimBenfeldScherwillerBarr
Under 1%1–10 %10–25 %25–50 %50 %+
| Town | Protected | Woodland | Paths (km/km²) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Barr | 0% | 77% | 3.8 |
| Obernai 12,587 · 6.9 km | 1.9% | 16% | 2 |
| Bischoffsheim 3,342 · 9.4 km | 4.5% | 7% | 0.9 |
| Rosheim 5,457 · 10 km | 0% | 57% | 1.7 |
| Huttenheim 2,735 · 11 km | 35% | 32% | 0.3 |
| Benfeld 5,973 · 11 km | 20% | 24% | 2 |
| Scherwiller 3,099 · 13 km | 0% | 40% | 1.3 |
Huttenheim and Benfeld 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 Barr
Is Barr in a national or regional nature park?
No. The nearest protected area is Secteur Alluvial Rhin-Ried-Bruch, Bas-Rhin, 3.7 km from the town center.
Are there good walks in Barr?
OpenStreetMap maps 80 km of footpaths and tracks open on foot in the commune, 3.8 km per km² (the median compared town: 1.7 km per km²); 94 km of waymarked hiking routes cross it.
How much of Barr is woodland?
77% of the commune is mapped woodland, private woods included; the median compared French town has 13%.
Is Barr near the sea?
No: the coast is 450 km from the town center, as the crow flies.
When is the best time for walking in Barr?
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.