First pick
Forêt de Frohret
Wood or forest · 10 m outside the commune
272 ha0.6 km of path
10 minto walk all 0.6 km of path
3.5 km westfrom the center
TMV
Directionsto a point inside
Photo: olive.titus · CC BY 2.0100%of the land protected
Outdoors in Reichshoffen · protected areas, woods and footpaths
Reichshoffen lies inside Vosges du Nord Regional Nature Park
Protected areas cover 100% of Reichshoffen’s land. 27% of Reichshoffen is mapped woodland. Footpaths add up to 9 km across Reichshoffen (0.5 km per km²). France has no Outdoors Grade yet: these are the figures, each beside the compared towns’ median.
Protected areas
100%
of the commune’s land
Compared town: 0.1%
Woodland
27%
of the land, mapped on OpenStreetMap
Compared town: 13%
Footpaths
9.3 km
0.5 km per km²
Compared town: 1.7 km per km²
Hiking routes
0 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: Forêt de Frohret
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 Reichshoffen?
Read from the data: what stands out first, good and less good.
Inside Vosges du Nord Regional Nature Park100% of the commune is in the regional nature park.Few mapped footpaths0.5 km per km², against 1.7 km per km² for the median compared town.
What sets Reichshoffen apart: the regional nature park around it. It is shorter on footpaths.
Against French towns
How Reichshoffen 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 areas100%Share of the land in a national park, regional nature park, nature reserve or Natura 2000 site
93out of 100
Woodland27%Share of the land mapped as forest or woods on OpenStreetMap
72out of 100
Footpaths0.5 km per km²Km of mapped footpath and track open on foot, per km² of the commune
15out of 100
Hiking routes0 km per km²Km of waymarked hiking routes (GR and others), per km² of the commune
12out of 100
Percentiles among compared French towns; ties count half.
Towns its size
Reichshoffen has the 6th fewest footpaths per km² of 41 towns its size
The 40 compared French towns nearest in population (5,369 to 5,459 residents), by km of footpath per km². Hover for each one’s protected land and woods; click for its page.
From Cormelles-le-Royal (7.2 km per km²) to Noyant-Villages (0.1 km per km²).
Every town in the comparison
| Town | Paths (km/km²) | Woodland | Protected | Coast | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Cormelles-le-Royal Calvados | 7.2 | 2.2% | 0% | 15 km |
| 2 | Heillecourt Meurthe-et-Moselle | 6.1 | 1.5% | 0% | 369 km |
| 3 | Marsannay-la-Côte Côte-d'Or | 6 | 47% | 49% | 405 km |
| 4 | Marles-les-Mines Pas-de-Calais | 3.6 | 3.7% | 0% | 57 km |
| 5 | Crégy-lès-Meaux Seine-et-Marne | 3.5 | 10% | 0% | 159 km |
| 6 | Le Cendre Puy-de-Dôme | 3.4 | 3.3% | 1.8% | 249 km |
| 7 | Levens Alpes-Maritimes | 3 | 64% | 12% | 17 km |
| 8 | Charbonnières-les-Bains Rhône | 2.8 | 16% | 0% | 252 km |
| 9 | Saint-Genis-les-Ollières Rhône | 2.5 | 14% | 0% | 250 km |
| 10 | Roques Haute-Garonne | 2.4 | 4.3% | 40% | 148 km |
| 11 | Peyrolles-en-Provence Bouches-du-Rhône | 2.4 | 63% | 69% | 38 km |
| 12 | La Roque-d'Anthéron Bouches-du-Rhône | 2.3 | 36% | 51% | 39 km |
| 13 | Plouhinec Morbihan | 2 | 24% | 32% | On it |
| 14 | Calonne-Ricouart Pas-de-Calais | 1.8 | 1.5% | 0% | 56 km |
| 15 | Saint-Pierre-lès-Nemours Seine-et-Marne | 1.8 | 45% | 29% | 214 km |
| 16 | Wervicq-Sud Nord | 1.8 | 3% | 0% | 48 km |
| 17 | Ollainville Essonne | 1.7 | 37% | 0% | 165 km |
| 18 | Rosheim Bas-Rhin | 1.7 | 57% | 0% | 443 km |
| 19 | Rousset Bouches-du-Rhône | 1.7 | 7.1% | 7.7% | 27 km |
| 20 | Arnage Sarthe | 1.6 | 11% | 0% | 138 km |
| 21 | Cruseilles Haute-Savoie | 1.6 | 40% | 21% | 273 km |
| 22 | Flers-en-Escrebieux Nord | 1.5 | 12% | 1% | 85 km |
| 23 | Bordères-sur-l'Échez Hautes-Pyrénées | 1.4 | 22% | 0% | 128 km |
| 24 | Vic-le-Comte Puy-de-Dôme | 1.2 | 19% | 100% | 241 km |
| 25 | Lacroix-Saint-Ouen Oise | 1.2 | 73% | 76% | 121 km |
| 26 | Coulogne Pas-de-Calais | 1.2 | 1.1% | 0% | 4.7 km |
| 27 | Saint-Astier Dordogne | 1 | 33% | 8% | 89 km |
| 28 | Aiffres Deux-Sèvres | 1 | 3.4% | 14% | 54 km |
| 29 | Le Lion-d'Angers Maine-et-Loire | 1 | 5.4% | 0.8% | 115 km |
| 30 | Fenain Nord | 1 | 10% | 99% | 97 km |
| 31 | Drusenheim Bas-Rhin | 0.8 | 29% | 17% | 449 km |
| 32 | Saint-Memmie Marne | 0.7 | 4.7% | 0% | 239 km |
| 33 | La Ferrière Vendée | 0.7 | 9.6% | 0% | 38 km |
| 34 | Boulay-Moselle Moselle | 0.7 | 11% | 0% | 339 km |
| 35 | Mouguerre Pyrénées-Atlantiques | 0.5 | 40% | 7.9% | 11 km |
| 36 | Reichshoffen Bas-Rhin | 0.5 | 27% | 100% | 420 km |
| 37 | Garons Gard | 0.5 | 0.1% | 0% | 35 km |
| 38 | Ploumagoar Côtes-d'Armor | 0.5 | 20% | 0% | 19 km |
| 39 | Châtillon-sur-Seine Côte-d'Or | 0.4 | 12% | 100% | 334 km |
| 40 | Aubigny-sur-Nère Cher | 0.3 | 25% | 24% | 265 km |
| 41 | Noyant-Villages Maine-et-Loire | 0.1 | 23% | 13% | 164 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 Reichshoffen
Named parks, gardens and woods in the commune or within 400 m, the biggest and best-pathed first: Forêt de Frohret leads, at 272 ha. Directions go to a point inside.
Sandholz
Wood or forest
81 ha0.8 km of path
10 minto walk all 0.8 km of path
1.8 km south-westfrom the center
Directionsto a point inside
Source: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL): named parks, gardens and woods; sizes are the whole site.
Protected areas
Protected land in and around Reichshoffen
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
100% of the commune
Nature reserve
Plan d’Eau de Reichshoffen nature reserve
1.4% of the commune1.8 km from the center
Natura 2000 site
La Moder et ses affluents
1.5% of the commune2.6 km from the center
Share of the commune’s land
Any protected area100%
Regional nature park100%
Nature reserve1.4%
Natura 2000 site1.5%
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.
100% of Reichshoffen’s land is protected, more than in 93% of compared French towns; the median compared town in Bas-Rhin has 0.1%. 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
9 km of footpaths cross Reichshoffen
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
9.3 km
0.5 km per km²
Hiking routes
0 km
waymarked: 0 km per km²
Woodland
27%
about 4.5 km² of mapped woods
Km per km² of the commune · mapped on OpenStreetMap
ReichshoffenBas-Rhin medianFrance median
Footpaths0.5
Hiking routes0
012 km per km²
Share of the land · mapped woods and forest
ReichshoffenBas-Rhin medianFrance median
Woodland27%
0%50%100%
That is less than in 85% of compared French towns for footpaths per km², and for woodland more than in 72% 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 Reichshoffen 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 5319.4 km
Variante Sentier de la Ligne Maginot3.3 km
Green triangle1.4 km
GR 531 passes within 2 km of Reichshoffen.
Source: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL), extracts of October 25, 2026 (Geofabrik).
When to get out
The best walking months in Reichshoffen: April to September
Météo-France’s 1991–2020 normals at Preuschdorf, 10 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 | 15.3 | 16.2 | 15.8 | 14.4 | 12.5 | 10.7 | 9.1 | 8.3 |
| High (°C) | 5 | 7 | 12 | 17 | 21 | 25 | 27 | 27 | 22 | 16 | 9 | 6 |
| Rain (mm) | 77 | 65 | 64 | 51 | 76 | 64 | 69 | 59 | 62 | 75 | 79 | 92 |
April is the driest month (51 mm) and July the warmest (highs of 27 °C). 92 mm of rain falls in December, the wettest month. Frost comes on about 66 nights a year. The climate in Reichshoffen →
Neighbors
Next to Reichshoffen
The nearest towns of 2,500 or more, colored by the share of their land in protected areas.
Niederbronn-les-BainsGundershoffenMertzwillerVal-de-ModerSchweighouse-sur-ModerIngwillerReichshoffen
Under 1%1–10 %10–25 %25–50 %50 %+
| Town | Protected | Woodland | Paths (km/km²) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Reichshoffen | 100% | 27% | 0.5 |
| Niederbronn-les-Bains 4,347 · 2.9 km | 100% | 74% | 2.6 |
| Gundershoffen 3,834 · 3.2 km | 0.1% | 23% | 0.3 |
| Mertzwiller 3,343 · 7.7 km | 8.6% | 11% | 0.7 |
| Val-de-Moder 5,102 · 10 km | 0.1% | 5.9% | 0.5 |
| Schweighouse-sur-Moder 5,182 · 13 km | 5.4% | 40% | 2 |
| Ingwiller 3,995 · 15 km | 100% | 61% | 1.2 |
Niederbronn-les-Bains, Schweighouse-sur-Moder and Ingwiller 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 Reichshoffen
Is Reichshoffen in a national or regional nature park?
Yes: Reichshoffen lies in Vosges du Nord Regional Nature Park (100% of the commune).
Are there good walks in Reichshoffen?
OpenStreetMap maps 9 km of footpaths and tracks open on foot in the commune, 0.5 km per km² (the median compared town: 1.7 km per km²).
How much of Reichshoffen is woodland?
27% of the commune is mapped woodland, private woods included; the median compared French town has 13%.
Is Reichshoffen near the sea?
No: the coast is 420 km from the town center, as the crow flies.
When is the best time for walking in Reichshoffen?
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 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.