First pick
Niederwald
Wood or forest
196 ha1.7 km of path
20 minto walk all 1.7 km of path
4.4 km north-westfrom the center
Directionsto a point inside
Photo: Buchsweiler · CC BY-SA 3.011%woodland
Outdoors in Bouxwiller · protected areas, woods and footpaths
Almost every home in Bouxwiller is within 800 m of a park or wood
Footpaths add up to 19 km across Bouxwiller (0.7 km per km²). No protected area reaches Bouxwiller; the nearest, Colline du Bastberg nature reserve, is 1.9 km from the town center. Mapped woodland covers 11% of Bouxwiller. France has no Outdoors Grade yet: these are the figures, each beside the compared towns’ median.
Protected areas
0.3%
of the commune’s land
Nearest: Colline du Bastberg nature reserve, 1.9 km
Woodland
11%
of the land, mapped on OpenStreetMap
Compared town: 13%
Footpaths
19 km
0.7 km per km²
Compared town: 1.7 km per km²
Hiking routes
9.5 km
waymarked, GR and others
Compared town: 0.3 km per km²
Parks & woods
7
named, in or within 400 m of the commune
First: Niederwald
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.
Against French towns
How Bouxwiller 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 areas0.3%Share of the land in a national park, regional nature park, nature reserve or Natura 2000 site
53out of 100
Woodland11%Share of the land mapped as forest or woods on OpenStreetMap
43out of 100
Footpaths0.7 km per km²Km of mapped footpath and track open on foot, per km² of the commune
22out of 100
Hiking routes0.4 km per km²Km of waymarked hiking routes (GR and others), per km² of the commune
52out of 100
Percentiles among compared French towns; ties count half.
Towns its size
Bouxwiller has the 13th fewest footpaths per km² of 41 towns its size
The 40 compared French towns nearest in population (3,725 to 3,782 residents), by km of footpath per km². Hover for each one’s protected land and woods; click for its page.
From Barby (6.7 km per km²) to Courtenay (0 km per km²).
Every town in the comparison
| Town | Paths (km/km²) | Woodland | Protected | Coast | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Barby Savoie | 6.7 | 35% | 39% | 232 km |
| 2 | Bailly Yvelines | 5.5 | 31% | 0% | 140 km |
| 3 | Cabourg Calvados | 4.3 | 0.4% | 0% | 0.8 km |
| 4 | Doussard Haute-Savoie | 2.7 | 53% | 100% | 244 km |
| 5 | Pélussin Loire | 2.7 | 50% | 100% | 212 km |
| 6 | Bohars Finistère | 2.6 | 11% | 0% | 3.3 km |
| 7 | Lourches Nord | 2.5 | 5.6% | 0% | 103 km |
| 8 | Grand-Aigueblanche Savoie | 2.4 | 63% | 0.1% | 208 km |
| 9 | La Ferté-Alais Essonne | 2.3 | 26% | 100% | 181 km |
| 10 | Les Rousses Jura | 2.3 | 52% | 100% | 321 km |
| 11 | Saint-Hippolyte-du-Fort Gard | 2.2 | 38% | 58% | 47 km |
| 12 | Audierne Finistère | 2.2 | 16% | 12% | On it |
| 13 | Saint-Mihiel Meuse | 1.8 | 66% | 7.4% | 314 km |
| 14 | Charlieu Loire | 1.7 | 5.4% | 0% | 289 km |
| 15 | Malville Loire-Atlantique | 1.7 | 17% | 1.9% | 24 km |
| 16 | Alénya Pyrénées-Orientales | 1.5 | 0.1% | 5.7% | 4.4 km |
| 17 | Torreilles Pyrénées-Orientales | 1.5 | 0.4% | 20% | On it |
| 18 | Ploubezre Côtes-d'Armor | 1.3 | 17% | 6.5% | 3.3 km |
| 19 | Saint-Ay Loiret | 1.3 | 6.3% | 10% | 203 km |
| 20 | Varennes-sur-Seine Seine-et-Marne | 1.3 | 1.7% | 38% | 218 km |
| 21 | Échillais Charente-Maritime | 1.2 | 9% | 8.5% | On it |
| 22 | Saint-Clair-du-Rhône Isère | 1.2 | 19% | 0.2% | 216 km |
| 23 | Rœulx Nord | 1.2 | 0.4% | 0% | 103 km |
| 24 | Saïx Tarn | 0.9 | 12% | 3.3% | 93 km |
| 25 | Saint-Martin-la-Plaine Loire | 0.9 | 11% | 0% | 224 km |
| 26 | Brantôme en Périgord Dordogne | 0.8 | 48% | 20% | 104 km |
| 27 | Bapaume Pas-de-Calais | 0.8 | 0.9% | 0% | 84 km |
| 28 | Pujols Lot-et-Garonne | 0.8 | 12% | 0% | 123 km |
| 29 | Bouxwiller Bas-Rhin | 0.7 | 11% | 0.3% | 418 km |
| 30 | Bénesse-Maremne Landes | 0.7 | 42% | 0.1% | 6.6 km |
| 31 | Pannes Loiret | 0.7 | 8.9% | 0% | 233 km |
| 32 | Fougerolles-Saint-Valbert Haute-Saône | 0.7 | 36% | 100% | 429 km |
| 33 | Sartène Corse-du-Sud | 0.4 | 17% | 39% | On it |
| 34 | Labastide-Saint-Pierre Tarn-et-Garonne | 0.4 | 3.4% | 1.5% | 169 km |
| 35 | Puiseux-en-France Val-d'Oise | 0.4 | 2.2% | 0% | 138 km |
| 36 | Plémet Côtes-d'Armor | 0.3 | 10% | 0% | 35 km |
| 37 | Nazelles-Négron Indre-et-Loire | 0.3 | 17% | 4.5% | 202 km |
| 38 | Ribérac Dordogne | 0.3 | 9% | 12% | 77 km |
| 39 | Terres-de-Haute-Charente Charente | 0.3 | 23% | 0% | 116 km |
| 40 | Montreuil-Bellay Maine-et-Loire | 0.2 | 8.5% | 100% | 119 km |
| 41 | Courtenay Loiret | 0 | 20% | 0% | 253 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 Bouxwiller
Named parks, gardens and woods in the commune or within 400 m, the biggest and best-pathed first: Niederwald leads, at 196 ha. Directions go to a point inside.
Reiherwald
Wood or forest
95 ha1.7 km of path
25 minto walk all 1.7 km of path
2.4 km north-eastfrom the center
Directionsto a point inside
Oberholz
Wood or forest
85 ha2 km of path
25 minto walk all 2 km of path
2.2 km westfrom the center
Directionsto a point inside
Source: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL): named parks, gardens and woods; sizes are the whole site.
Protected areas
Vosges du Nord Regional Nature Park is the nearest protected area, 2.3 km away
The protected areas reaching the commune, and the nearest: national parks, regional nature parks, nature reserves and Natura 2000 sites.
Regional nature park
Vosges du Nord Regional Nature Park
2.3 km from the town center
Nature reserve
Colline du Bastberg nature reserve
1.9 km from the town center
Share of the commune’s land
Any protected area0.3%
Nature reserve0.2%
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.
A regional nature park is a charter between communes to look after a landscape: farming, building and hunting go on inside it.
Source: INPN / PatriNat, protected areas July 2026, Natura 2000 December 2024; shares of IGN’s commune boundary.
Footpaths and woods
19 km of footpaths and 9 km of hiking routes cross Bouxwiller
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
19 km
0.7 km per km²
Hiking routes
9.5 km
waymarked: 0.4 km per km²
Woodland
11%
about 2.8 km² of mapped woods
Km per km² of the commune · mapped on OpenStreetMap
BouxwillerBas-Rhin medianFrance median
Footpaths0.7
Hiking routes0.4
012 km per km²
Share of the land · mapped woods and forest
BouxwillerBas-Rhin medianFrance median
Woodland11%
0%50%100%
That is less than in 78% of compared French towns for footpaths per km², and for woodland less than in 57% of compared French towns. Hiking routes often follow paths and lanes already counted, so the two lengths overlap: don’t add them. 98% of Bouxwiller’s residents live within 800 m of a mapped park or wood, close to the typical town.
3 named hiking routes within 2 km
Other named walk
Sentier Géologique / Sentier des Chortens5.8 km
Tour du Pays de la Zorn3.7 km
Sentier de la Moder1 km
Source: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL), extracts of October 25, 2026 (Geofabrik).
When to get out
The best walking months in Bouxwiller: April to September
Météo-France’s 1991–2020 normals at Mouterhouse, 18 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 | 15.8 | 14.4 | 12.5 | 10.7 | 9.1 | 8.3 |
| High (°C) | 5 | 7 | 12 | 17 | 21 | 24 | 26 | 26 | 21 | 15 | 9 | 5 |
| Rain (mm) | 92 | 80 | 79 | 55 | 78 | 69 | 76 | 69 | 72 | 83 | 89 | 112 |
April is the driest month (55 mm) and July the warmest (highs of 26 °C). 112 mm of rain falls in December, the wettest month. Frost comes on about 99 nights a year. The climate in Bouxwiller →
Gardens
A garden to visit in Bouxwiller
Named gardens in the commune.
Jardin de l'hôpitalIn Bouxwiller
DirectionsSource: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL) and Wikidata.
Neighbors
Next to Bouxwiller
The nearest towns of 2,500 or more, colored by the share of their land in protected areas.
IngwillerDettwillerHochfeldenVal-de-ModerSaverneMarmoutierBouxwiller
Under 1%1–10 %10–25 %25–50 %50 %+
| Town | Protected | Woodland | Paths (km/km²) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bouxwiller | 0.3% | 11% | 0.7 |
| Ingwiller 3,995 · 5.8 km | 100% | 61% | 1.2 |
| Dettwiller 2,558 · 7.2 km | 0% | 4.9% | 0.4 |
| Hochfelden 4,038 · 10 km | 0% | 6.8% | 0.7 |
| Val-de-Moder 5,102 · 11 km | 0.1% | 5.9% | 0.5 |
| Saverne 11,460 · 12 km | 0% | 65% | 2.5 |
| Marmoutier 2,699 · 16 km | 0% | 28% | 1.3 |
Ingwiller has at least twice as much protected land. Ingwiller, Saverne and Marmoutier 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 Bouxwiller
Is Bouxwiller in a national or regional nature park?
No. The nearest protected area is Colline du Bastberg nature reserve, 1.9 km from the town center.
Are there good walks in Bouxwiller?
OpenStreetMap maps 19 km of footpaths and tracks open on foot in the commune, 0.7 km per km² (the median compared town: 1.7 km per km²); 9 km of waymarked hiking routes cross it.
How much of Bouxwiller is woodland?
11% of the commune is mapped woodland, private woods included; the median compared French town has 13%.
Is Bouxwiller near the sea?
No: the coast is 418 km from the town center, as the crow flies.
When is the best time for walking in Bouxwiller?
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.