First pick
Parc du Bergopré
Park or garden · 80 m outside the commune
1.8 ha1 km of path
15 minto walk all 1 km of path
1.4 km north-eastfrom the center
Directionsto a point inside
Photo: Ji-Elle · CC BY-SA 3.08%of the land protected
Outdoors in La Broque · protected areas, woods and footpaths
79% of La Broque is woodland, more than in 9 in 10 French towns
Waymarked hiking routes add up to 56 km in La Broque. 25 km of footpaths cross La Broque (1.1 km per km²). Protected areas cover 8% of La Broque’s land. France has no Outdoors Grade yet: these are the figures, each beside the compared towns’ median.
Protected areas
8%
of the commune’s land
Compared town: 0.1%
Woodland
79%
of the land, mapped on OpenStreetMap
Compared town: 13%
Footpaths
25 km
1.1 km per km²
Compared town: 1.7 km per km²
Hiking routes
56 km
waymarked, GR and others
Compared town: 0.3 km per km²
Parks & woods
2
named, in or within 400 m of the commune
First: Parc du Bergopré
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 La Broque?
Read from the data: what stands out first, good and less good.
A wooded commune79% mapped woodland, more than in 99% of compared French towns, against 13% for the median compared town.On waymarked routes56 km of GR and other hiking routes cross the commune.
What sets La Broque apart: its woods, then its hiking routes.
Against French towns
How La Broque 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 areas8%Share of the land in a national park, regional nature park, nature reserve or Natura 2000 site
69out of 100
Woodland79%Share of the land mapped as forest or woods on OpenStreetMap
99out of 100
Footpaths1.1 km per km²Km of mapped footpath and track open on foot, per km² of the commune
35out of 100
Hiking routes2.4 km per km²Km of waymarked hiking routes (GR and others), per km² of the commune
98out of 100
Percentiles among compared French towns; ties count half.
Towns its size
La Broque has the 20th most footpaths per km² of 41 towns its size
The 40 compared French towns nearest in population (2,598 to 2,653 residents), by km of footpath per km². Hover for each one’s protected land and woods; click for its page.
From Couzon-au-Mont-d'Or (7.2 km per km²) to Hilsenheim (0 km per km²).
Every town in the comparison
| Town | Paths (km/km²) | Woodland | Protected | Coast | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Couzon-au-Mont-d'Or Rhône | 7.2 | 42% | 0% | 261 km |
| 2 | Gometz-le-Châtel Essonne | 2.5 | 24% | 0.2% | 155 km |
| 3 | Champlan Essonne | 2.2 | 14% | 0% | 161 km |
| 4 | Dorlisheim Bas-Rhin | 2.1 | 12% | 0% | 442 km |
| 5 | Wahagnies Nord | 1.9 | 30% | 0% | 76 km |
| 6 | Coquelles Pas-de-Calais | 1.8 | 1.7% | 0.7% | 2.8 km |
| 7 | Le Bourg-d'Oisans Isère | 1.7 | 33% | 100% | 180 km |
| 8 | Hardricourt Yvelines | 1.6 | 15% | 0.4% | 118 km |
| 9 | Bourguébus Calvados | 1.5 | 1.1% | 0% | 18 km |
| 10 | Le Palais Morbihan | 1.5 | 5% | 26% | On it |
| 11 | Saint-Yorre Allier | 1.4 | 23% | 15% | 283 km |
| 12 | Longeville-sur-Mer Vendée | 1.3 | 18% | 100% | On it |
| 13 | Bessèges Gard | 1.3 | 66% | 100% | 81 km |
| 14 | Villenauxe-la-Grande Aube | 1.3 | 13% | 0% | 223 km |
| 15 | Foug Meurthe-et-Moselle | 1.3 | 73% | 1.2% | 342 km |
| 16 | Auboué Meurthe-et-Moselle | 1.2 | 21% | 0% | 311 km |
| 17 | Cauffry Oise | 1.2 | 17% | 0% | 110 km |
| 18 | Châteauneuf-en-Thymerais Eure-et-Loir | 1.2 | 57% | 62% | 115 km |
| 19 | Taden Côtes-d'Armor | 1.1 | 19% | 100% | 3.6 km |
| 20 | La Broque Bas-Rhin | 1.1 | 79% | 8% | 432 km |
| 21 | Vendres Hérault | 1 | 1.9% | 60% | On it |
| 22 | Montréjeau Haute-Garonne | 0.9 | 5.7% | 2.6% | 175 km |
| 23 | Ivry-la-Bataille Eure | 0.8 | 2.6% | 3.2% | 101 km |
| 24 | Villeneuve-Saint-Germain Aisne | 0.8 | 11% | 0% | 150 km |
| 25 | Grâces Côtes-d'Armor | 0.8 | 12% | 0% | 17 km |
| 26 | Villages du Lac de Paladru Isère | 0.8 | 21% | 0% | 230 km |
| 27 | Marpent Nord | 0.7 | 15% | 0% | 133 km |
| 28 | La Calmette Gard | 0.7 | 29% | 0% | 43 km |
| 29 | Frelinghien Nord | 0.7 | 1% | 0% | 51 km |
| 30 | Soual Tarn | 0.6 | 1.4% | 0% | 95 km |
| 31 | Le Thoronet Var | 0.6 | 49% | 31% | 29 km |
| 32 | La Châtaigneraie Vendée | 0.6 | 4.5% | 0% | 48 km |
| 33 | Rieux-Volvestre Haute-Garonne | 0.6 | 6.6% | 7% | 154 km |
| 34 | Trélon Nord | 0.6 | 78% | 100% | 156 km |
| 35 | Toury Eure-et-Loir | 0.5 | 0.8% | 0% | 180 km |
| 36 | Beychac-et-Caillau Gironde | 0.4 | 16% | 4.7% | 22 km |
| 37 | Noyers-sur-Cher Loir-et-Cher | 0.3 | 34% | 0.6% | 221 km |
| 38 | Clairac Lot-et-Garonne | 0.3 | 7.7% | 0% | 105 km |
| 39 | Ailly-sur-Noye Somme | 0.2 | 22% | 0% | 68 km |
| 40 | Haspres Nord | 0.2 | 1.8% | 0% | 111 km |
| 41 | Hilsenheim Bas-Rhin | 0 | 28% | 18% | 465 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 La Broque
Named parks, gardens and woods in the commune or within 400 m, the biggest and best-pathed first: Parc du Bergopré leads, at 1.8 ha. Directions go to a point inside.
Parc d'Albé
Park or garden
1.6 ha0.4 km of path
Centralin the middle of La Broque
Directionsto a point inside
Source: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL): named parks, gardens and woods; sizes are the whole site.
Protected areas
8% of La Broque lies in protected areas
The protected areas reaching the commune, and the nearest: national parks, regional nature parks, nature reserves and Natura 2000 sites.
Nature reserve
Chatte Pendue nature reserve
1.3% of the commune6.3 km from the center
Nature reserve
Tourbières et rochers du Donon nature reserve
5.9 km from the town center
Natura 2000 site
Crêtes du Donon-Schneeberg, Bas-Rhin
8% of the commune5.2 km from the center
Natura 2000 site
Massif du Donon, du Schneeberg et du Grossmann
2.9% of the commune5.3 km from the center
Natura 2000 site
Massif vosgien
6.6 km from the town center
Share of the commune’s land
Any protected area8%
Nature reserve1.6%
Natura 2000 site8%
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.
8% of La Broque’s land is protected, more than in 69% of compared French towns; the median compared town in Bas-Rhin has 0.1%.
Source: INPN / PatriNat, protected areas July 2026, Natura 2000 December 2024; shares of IGN’s commune boundary.
Footpaths and woods
25 km of footpaths and 56 km of hiking routes cross La Broque
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
25 km
1.1 km per km²
Hiking routes
56 km
waymarked: 2.4 km per km²
Woodland
79%
about 18.2 km² of mapped woods
Km per km² of the commune · mapped on OpenStreetMap
La BroqueBas-Rhin medianFrance median
Footpaths1.1
Hiking routes2.4
01.53 km per km²
Share of the land · mapped woods and forest
La BroqueBas-Rhin medianFrance median
Woodland79%
0%50%100%
That is less than in 65% 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 La Broque is within 800 m of a mapped park or wood, as in most French towns.
5 named hiking routes within 2 km
GR (long-distance)Other named walk
GR 53222 km
GR 512 km
Sentier de la Poésie8.7 km
Chemin des déportés5.6 km
Sentier des Passeurs4.6 km
2 GR routes pass within 2 km of La Broque: GR 532 and GR 5.
Source: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL), extracts of October 25, 2026 (Geofabrik).
When to get out
The best walking months in La Broque: April to September
Météo-France’s 1991–2020 normals at Ville, 16 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 La Broque →
Neighbors
Next to La Broque
The nearest towns of 2,500 or more, colored by the share of their land in protected areas.
BarrRosheimMutzigObernaiBischoffsheimDorlisheimLa Broque
Under 1%1–10 %10–25 %25–50 %50 %+
| Town | Protected | Woodland | Paths (km/km²) |
|---|---|---|---|
| La Broque | 8% | 79% | 1.1 |
| Barr 7,057 · 19 km | 0% | 77% | 3.8 |
| Rosheim 5,457 · 19 km | 0% | 57% | 1.7 |
| Mutzig 6,087 · 20 km | 0% | 44% | 3.4 |
| Obernai 12,587 · 21 km | 1.9% | 16% | 2 |
| Bischoffsheim 3,342 · 21 km | 4.5% | 7% | 0.9 |
| Dorlisheim 2,636 · 21 km | 0% | 12% | 2.1 |
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 La Broque
Is La Broque in a national or regional nature park?
No, but 8% of its land is in a nature reserve or a Natura 2000 site.
Are there good walks in La Broque?
OpenStreetMap maps 25 km of footpaths and tracks open on foot in the commune, 1.1 km per km² (the median compared town: 1.7 km per km²); 56 km of waymarked hiking routes cross it.
How much of La Broque is woodland?
79% of the commune is mapped woodland, private woods included; the median compared French town has 13%.
Is La Broque near the sea?
No: the coast is 432 km from the town center, as the crow flies.
When is the best time for walking in La Broque?
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.