First pick
Parc des sports
Park or garden
36 ha4.4 km of path
1 hto walk all 4.4 km of path
1.9 km northfrom the center
Directionsto a point inside
Photo: Laurent Jerry · CC BY-SA 4.07.3%woodland
Outdoors in Eckbolsheim · protected areas, woods and footpaths
Almost every home in Eckbolsheim is within 800 m of a park or wood
Footpaths add up to 17 km across Eckbolsheim (3.1 km per km²). No protected area reaches Eckbolsheim; the nearest, Massif Forestier de Strasbourg-Neuhof/Illkirch-Graffenstaden nature reserve, is 6.1 km from the town center. 7.3% of Eckbolsheim is mapped woodland. 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: Massif Forestier de Strasbourg-Neuhof/Illkirch-Graffenstaden nature reserve, 6.1 km
Woodland
7.3%
of the land, mapped on OpenStreetMap
Compared town: 13%
Footpaths
17 km
3.1 km per km²
Compared town: 1.7 km per km²
Hiking routes
1.9 km
waymarked, GR and others
Compared town: 0.3 km per km²
Parks & woods
5
named, in or within 400 m of the commune
First: Parc des sports
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 Eckbolsheim 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
Woodland7.3%Share of the land mapped as forest or woods on OpenStreetMap
31out of 100
Footpaths3.1 km per km²Km of mapped footpath and track open on foot, per km² of the commune
75out of 100
Hiking routes0.4 km per km²Km of waymarked hiking routes (GR and others), per km² of the commune
51out of 100
Percentiles among compared French towns; ties count half.
Towns its size
Eckbolsheim has the 12th most footpaths per km² of 41 towns its size
The 40 compared French towns nearest in population (7,057 to 7,262 residents), by km of footpath per km². Hover for each one’s protected land and woods; click for its page.
From Guingamp (6.8 km per km²) to Herbignac (0.2 km per km²).
Every town in the comparison
| Town | Paths (km/km²) | Woodland | Protected | Coast | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Guingamp Côtes-d'Armor | 6.8 | 16% | 0% | 16 km |
| 2 | Colombelles Calvados | 4.9 | 3.1% | 0% | 9.7 km |
| 3 | Saint-Ismier Isère | 4.5 | 40% | 31% | 206 km |
| 4 | Labenne Landes | 4 | 54% | 20% | 2.8 km |
| 5 | Écouen Val-d'Oise | 4 | 16% | 0% | 135 km |
| 6 | Égly Essonne | 3.9 | 13% | 0% | 167 km |
| 7 | Barr Bas-Rhin | 3.8 | 77% | 0% | 450 km |
| 8 | Balaruc-les-Bains Hérault | 3.5 | 0.7% | 33% | 3.8 km |
| 9 | Leforest Pas-de-Calais | 3.4 | 18% | 0% | 81 km |
| 10 | Notre-Dame-de-Bondeville Seine-Maritime | 3.3 | 52% | 0% | 47 km |
| 11 | Vendargues Hérault | 3.3 | 11% | 0% | 12 km |
| 12 | Eckbolsheim Bas-Rhin | 3.1 | 7.3% | 0% | 448 km |
| 13 | Auby Nord | 2.8 | 16% | 1.7% | 84 km |
| 14 | Ugine Savoie | 2.2 | 58% | 2.4% | 236 km |
| 15 | Wissous Essonne | 2.1 | 5.8% | 0% | 159 km |
| 16 | Chauray Deux-Sèvres | 2 | 2.4% | 0% | 58 km |
| 17 | Montauroux Var | 1.8 | 61% | 9.8% | 16 km |
| 18 | Aulnoy-lez-Valenciennes Nord | 1.7 | 0.5% | 0% | 108 km |
| 19 | Bagnères-de-Bigorre Hautes-Pyrénées | 1.6 | 30% | 42% | 144 km |
| 20 | Kervignac Morbihan | 1.5 | 30% | 0% | On it |
| 21 | La Talaudière Loire | 1.5 | 6.6% | 0% | 215 km |
| 22 | Templeuve-en-Pévèle Nord | 1.4 | 11% | 0% | 76 km |
| 23 | Eyguières Bouches-du-Rhône | 1.4 | 13% | 100% | 30 km |
| 24 | Pont-Saint-Martin Loire-Atlantique | 1.3 | 17% | 1.7% | 33 km |
| 25 | Caudan Morbihan | 1.2 | 16% | 3.4% | On it |
| 26 | Mably Loire | 1.2 | 6.8% | 4.4% | 279 km |
| 27 | Pleurtuit Ille-et-Vilaine | 1.2 | 9.8% | 100% | On it |
| 28 | Divatte-sur-Loire Loire-Atlantique | 1.2 | 7.5% | 5.6% | 56 km |
| 29 | Orgeval Yvelines | 1.1 | 27% | 0% | 129 km |
| 30 | Les Trois-Bassins Réunion | 1 | 20% | 82% | On it |
| 31 | Villemandeur Loiret | 1 | 13% | 0% | 236 km |
| 32 | Lodève Hérault | 1 | 51% | 100% | 47 km |
| 33 | Péronne Somme | 1 | 6.5% | 12% | 94 km |
| 34 | Trégunc Finistère | 0.9 | 9.6% | 6.1% | On it |
| 35 | Grandchamp-des-Fontaines Loire-Atlantique | 0.8 | 8.7% | 0% | 43 km |
| 36 | Aubigny-Les Clouzeaux Vendée | 0.6 | 2.7% | 0% | 24 km |
| 37 | Sainte-Pazanne Loire-Atlantique | 0.6 | 4.9% | 0% | 15 km |
| 38 | Viriat Ain | 0.5 | 21% | 0% | 311 km |
| 39 | Verneuil d'Avre et d'Iton Eure | 0.4 | 20% | 1.5% | 87 km |
| 40 | Saint-Pierre-en-Auge Calvados | 0.3 | 8.1% | 0% | 32 km |
| 41 | Herbignac Loire-Atlantique | 0.2 | 14% | 100% | 7.8 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 Eckbolsheim
Named parks, gardens and woods in the commune or within 400 m, the biggest and best-pathed first: Parc des sports leads, at 36 ha. Directions go to a point inside.
Parc de Hautepierre
Park or garden · 170 m outside the commune
8.8 ha0.5 km of path
5 minto walk all 0.5 km of path
1.9 km northfrom the center
Directionsto a point inside
Parc des Poteries
Park or garden · 160 m outside the commune
3.1 ha
0.9 km north-eastfrom the center
Directionsto a point inside
Square Caius Largennius
Park or garden · 220 m outside the commune
0.5 ha0.5 km of path
0.8 km north-eastfrom the center
Directionsto a point inside
Micro-ferme pédagogique des Cols Verts
Park or garden · 310 m outside the commune
0.5 ha
0.9 km north-eastfrom the center
Directionsto a point inside
Source: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL): named parks, gardens and woods; sizes are the whole site.
Protected areas
Massif Forestier de Strasbourg-Neuhof/Illkirch-Graffenstaden nature reserve is the nearest protected area, 6.1 km away
The protected areas reaching the commune, and the nearest: national parks, regional nature parks, nature reserves and Natura 2000 sites.
Nature reserve
Massif Forestier de Strasbourg-Neuhof/Illkirch-Graffenstaden nature reserve
6.1 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
17 km of footpaths cross Eckbolsheim
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
17 km
3.1 km per km²
Hiking routes
1.9 km
waymarked: 0.4 km per km²
Woodland
7.3%
about 0.4 km² of mapped woods
Km per km² of the commune · mapped on OpenStreetMap
EckbolsheimBas-Rhin medianFrance median
Footpaths3.1
Hiking routes0.4
024 km per km²
Share of the land · mapped woods and forest
EckbolsheimBas-Rhin medianFrance median
Woodland7.3%
0%50%100%
That is more than in 75% of compared French towns for footpaths per km², and for woodland less than in 69% 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 Eckbolsheim is within 800 m of a mapped park or wood, as in most French towns.
3 named hiking routes within 2 km
GR (long-distance)Other named walk
GR 5347 km
Sentier de l'Ill3.4 km
La ceinture verte autour de Strasbourg2.2 km
GR 534 passes within 2 km of Eckbolsheim.
Source: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL), extracts of October 25, 2026 (Geofabrik).
When to get out
The best walking months in Eckbolsheim: April, August and September
Météo-France’s 1991–2020 normals at Strasbourg-Entzheim, 4.8 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) | 5 | 7 | 12 | 17 | 21 | 24 | 26 | 26 | 22 | 16 | 9 | 6 |
| Rain (mm) | 35 | 34 | 39 | 42 | 77 | 69 | 72 | 61 | 55 | 60 | 48 | 45 |
February is the driest month (34 mm) and July the warmest (highs of 26 °C). 77 mm of rain falls in May, the wettest month. Frost comes on about 60 nights a year. The climate in Eckbolsheim →
Neighbors
Next to Eckbolsheim
The nearest towns of 2,500 or more, colored by the share of their land in protected areas.
WolfisheimLingolsheimOberhausbergenOberschaeffolsheimOstwaldHoltzheimEckbolsheim
Under 1%1–10 %10–25 %25–50 %50 %+
| Town | Protected | Woodland | Paths (km/km²) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Eckbolsheim | 0% | 7.3% | 3.1 |
| Wolfisheim 4,217 · 1.6 km | 0% | 7.5% | 1.6 |
| Lingolsheim 20,826 · 2.4 km | 0% | 4.5% | 3.7 |
| Oberhausbergen 5,857 · 2.8 km | 0% | 6.2% | 3.1 |
| Oberschaeffolsheim 2,597 · 2.9 km | 0% | 2.6% | 0.8 |
| Ostwald 13,946 · 3.9 km | 0% | 10% | 4 |
| Holtzheim 3,850 · 4.2 km | 0% | 6.1% | 1 |
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 Eckbolsheim
Is Eckbolsheim in a national or regional nature park?
No. The nearest protected area is Massif Forestier de Strasbourg-Neuhof/Illkirch-Graffenstaden nature reserve, 6.1 km from the town center.
Are there good walks in Eckbolsheim?
OpenStreetMap maps 17 km of footpaths and tracks open on foot in the commune, 3.1 km per km² (the median compared town: 1.7 km per km²); 2 km of waymarked hiking routes cross it.
How much of Eckbolsheim is woodland?
7.3% of the commune is mapped woodland, private woods included; the median compared French town has 13%.
Is Eckbolsheim near the sea?
No: the coast is 448 km from the town center, as the crow flies.
When is the best time for walking in Eckbolsheim?
April, August and 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.