First pick
Forêt domaniale de Dabo
Wood or forest
7,017 ha172 km of path
38 h 15 minto walk all 172 km of path
2.3 km north-westfrom the center
Chemin vers Flohhutte
Directionsto a point inside
36%of the land protected
Outdoors in Wangenbourg-Engenthal · protected areas, woods and footpaths
89% of Wangenbourg-Engenthal is woodland, more than in 9 in 10 French towns
Wangenbourg-Engenthal has 55 km of waymarked hiking routes. 36% of Wangenbourg-Engenthal’s land lies in protected areas. Footpaths add up to 75 km across Wangenbourg-Engenthal (2.4 km per km²). France has no Outdoors Grade yet: these are the figures, each beside the compared towns’ median.
Protected areas
36%
of the commune’s land
Compared town: 0.1%
Woodland
89%
of the land, mapped on OpenStreetMap
Compared town: 13%
Footpaths
75 km
2.4 km per km²
Compared town: 1.7 km per km²
Hiking routes
55 km
waymarked, GR and others
Compared town: 0.3 km per km²
Parks & woods
1
named, in or within 400 m of the commune
First: Forêt domaniale de Dabo
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 Wangenbourg-Engenthal?
Read from the data: what stands out first, good and less good.
A wooded commune89% mapped woodland, more than in 99% of compared French towns, against 13% for the median compared town.On waymarked routes55 km of GR and other hiking routes cross the commune.Protected countryside36% of the land lies in protected areas.A nature reserveSchneeberg-Baerenberg nature reserve covers 8.9% of the commune.
What sets Wangenbourg-Engenthal apart: its woods, then its hiking routes.
Against French towns
How Wangenbourg-Engenthal 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 areas36%Share of the land in a national park, regional nature park, nature reserve or Natura 2000 site
84out of 100
Woodland89%Share of the land mapped as forest or woods on OpenStreetMap
100out of 100
Footpaths2.4 km per km²Km of mapped footpath and track open on foot, per km² of the commune
64out of 100
Hiking routes1.8 km per km²Km of waymarked hiking routes (GR and others), per km² of the commune
95out of 100
Percentiles among compared French towns; ties count half.
Towns its size
Wangenbourg-Engenthal has the 4th most footpaths per km² of 41 towns its size
The 40 compared French towns nearest in population (1,327 to 2,582 residents), by km of footpath per km². Hover for each one’s protected land and woods; click for its page.
From École-Valentin (3.9 km per km²) to Bouligny (0.1 km per km²).
Every town in the comparison
| Town | Paths (km/km²) | Woodland | Protected | Coast | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | École-Valentin Doubs | 3.9 | 16% | 0% | 405 km |
| 2 | Sainte-Foy-la-Grande Gironde | 3.7 | 0% | 8.7% | 66 km |
| 3 | Mers-les-Bains Somme | 3.5 | 10% | 100% | On it |
| 4 | Wangenbourg-Engenthal Bas-Rhin | 2.4 | 89% | 36% | 425 km |
| 5 | Villejust Essonne | 2.4 | 4.4% | 0% | 160 km |
| 6 | Sainte-Feyre Creuse | 2.1 | 30% | 0% | 222 km |
| 7 | Camiers Pas-de-Calais | 2 | 30% | 32% | On it |
| 8 | Sain-Bel Rhône | 1.9 | 12% | 0% | 253 km |
| 9 | La Rivière-Saint-Sauveur Calvados | 1.8 | 14% | 29% | On it |
| 10 | Fareins Ain | 1.8 | 8.8% | 0.1% | 279 km |
| 11 | Entzheim Bas-Rhin | 1.7 | 1.5% | 0% | 449 km |
| 12 | Mornas Vaucluse | 1.5 | 35% | 5% | 84 km |
| 13 | Watten Nord | 1.4 | 24% | 100% | 18 km |
| 14 | Rantigny Oise | 1.4 | 18% | 0% | 109 km |
| 15 | Beautor Aisne | 1.3 | 3.6% | 40% | 133 km |
| 16 | Conques-sur-Orbiel Aude | 1.3 | 8.1% | 0% | 60 km |
| 17 | Barcelonnette Alpes-de-Haute-Provence | 1.3 | 46% | 100% | 91 km |
| 18 | Granges-Aumontzey Vosges | 1.1 | 70% | 90% | 436 km |
| 19 | Cattenom Moselle | 1.1 | 37% | 0% | 308 km |
| 20 | Prayssac Lot | 1 | 42% | 0% | 151 km |
| 21 | Chatte Isère | 0.7 | 24% | 0% | 190 km |
| 22 | Arelaune-en-Seine Seine-Maritime | 0.7 | 69% | 100% | 29 km |
| 23 | La Croix-en-Touraine Indre-et-Loire | 0.7 | 24% | 0% | 199 km |
| 24 | Criel-sur-Mer Seine-Maritime | 0.7 | 4.9% | 7% | On it |
| 25 | Lusignan Vienne | 0.7 | 17% | 0% | 97 km |
| 26 | Avelin Nord | 0.6 | 6.1% | 0% | 72 km |
| 27 | Civray Vienne | 0.5 | 19% | 0% | 101 km |
| 28 | Le Cailar Gard | 0.4 | 2% | 68% | 17 km |
| 29 | Vervins Aisne | 0.4 | 1.1% | 0% | 164 km |
| 30 | Port-Sainte-Foy-et-Ponchapt Dordogne | 0.4 | 13% | 2.1% | 65 km |
| 31 | Frans Ain | 0.4 | 4% | 0% | 275 km |
| 32 | Toucy Yonne | 0.4 | 24% | 0% | 288 km |
| 33 | Auxi-le-Château Pas-de-Calais | 0.3 | 25% | 1% | 31 km |
| 34 | Vivy Maine-et-Loire | 0.3 | 15% | 100% | 140 km |
| 35 | Nogent-sur-Vernisson Loiret | 0.2 | 46% | 0.3% | 249 km |
| 36 | Eymet Dordogne | 0.2 | 8.6% | 0.4% | 86 km |
| 37 | Athies-sous-Laon Aisne | 0.2 | 8.9% | 0% | 159 km |
| 38 | Val-de-Scie Seine-Maritime | 0.1 | 18% | 0% | 23 km |
| 39 | Noyen-sur-Sarthe Sarthe | 0.1 | 28% | 0% | 126 km |
| 40 | Chalamont Ain | 0.1 | 20% | 69% | 284 km |
| 41 | Bouligny Meuse | 0.1 | 8.4% | 0% | 293 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 Wangenbourg-Engenthal
Named parks, gardens and woods in the commune or within 400 m, the biggest and best-pathed first: Forêt domaniale de Dabo leads, at 7,017 ha. Directions go to a point inside.
Source: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL): named parks, gardens and woods; sizes are the whole site.
Protected areas
36% of Wangenbourg-Engenthal 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
Schneeberg-Baerenberg nature reserve
8.9% of the commune2.7 km from the center
Natura 2000 site
Crêtes du Donon-Schneeberg, Bas-Rhin
36% of the commune0.1 km from the center
Natura 2000 site
Massif du Donon, du Schneeberg et du Grossmann
8.8% of the commune2.6 km from the center
Share of the commune’s land
Any protected area36%
Nature reserve8.9%
Natura 2000 site36%
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.
36% of Wangenbourg-Engenthal’s land is protected, more than in 84% 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
75 km of footpaths and 55 km of hiking routes cross Wangenbourg-Engenthal
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
75 km
2.4 km per km²
Hiking routes
55 km
waymarked: 1.8 km per km²
Woodland
89%
about 28 km² of mapped woods
Km per km² of the commune · mapped on OpenStreetMap
Wangenbourg-EngenthalBas-Rhin medianFrance median
Footpaths2.4
Hiking routes1.8
01.53 km per km²
Share of the land · mapped woods and forest
Wangenbourg-EngenthalBas-Rhin medianFrance median
Woodland89%
0%50%100%
That is more than in 64% 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 Wangenbourg-Engenthal is within 800 m of a mapped park or wood, as in most French towns.
12 named hiking routes within 2 km
GR (long-distance)Other named walk
GR 53122 km
GR 53220 km
GR 53417 km
Circuit du Spitzberg11 km
disque rouge 18.2 km
Circuit de la Croix du Loup4.9 km
criox jaune4.3 km
rectangle RBR 34 km
Triangle jaune3.6 km
Circuit du Schlosskopf2.2 km
Andreaskreuz gelb1.5 km
rectangle RBR 20.9 km
3 GR routes pass within 2 km of Wangenbourg-Engenthal: GR 531, GR 532 and GR 534.
Source: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL), extracts of October 25, 2026 (Geofabrik).
When to get out
The best walking months in Wangenbourg-Engenthal: May to September
Météo-France’s 1991–2020 normals at Wangenbourg_Sapc, 2.1 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) | 4 | 5 | 9 | 14 | 18 | 22 | 24 | 24 | 19 | 13 | 8 | 5 |
| Rain (mm) | 103 | 97 | 96 | 72 | 98 | 80 | 85 | 82 | 83 | 102 | 106 | 126 |
April is the driest month (72 mm) and July the warmest (highs of 24 °C). 126 mm of rain falls in December, the wettest month. Frost comes on about 71 nights a year. The climate in Wangenbourg-Engenthal →
Neighbors
Next to Wangenbourg-Engenthal
The nearest towns of 2,500 or more, colored by the share of their land in protected areas.
MarmoutierWasselonneSaverneMarlenheimMutzigPhalsbourgWangenbourg-Engenthal
Under 1%1–10 %10–25 %25–50 %50 %+
| Town | Protected | Woodland | Paths (km/km²) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wangenbourg-Engenthal | 36% | 89% | 2.4 |
| Marmoutier 2,699 · 9.3 km | 0% | 28% | 1.3 |
| Wasselonne 5,780 · 10 km | 0% | 18% | 1 |
| Saverne 11,460 · 14 km | 0% | 65% | 2.5 |
| Marlenheim 4,185 · 14 km | 0% | 9.8% | 2 |
| Mutzig 6,087 · 15 km | 0% | 44% | 3.4 |
| Phalsbourg 4,688 · 16 km | 25% | 19% | 0.5 |
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 Wangenbourg-Engenthal
Is Wangenbourg-Engenthal in a national or regional nature park?
No, but 36% of its land is in a nature reserve or a Natura 2000 site.
Are there good walks in Wangenbourg-Engenthal?
OpenStreetMap maps 75 km of footpaths and tracks open on foot in the commune, 2.4 km per km² (the median compared town: 1.7 km per km²); 55 km of waymarked hiking routes cross it.
How much of Wangenbourg-Engenthal is woodland?
89% of the commune is mapped woodland, private woods included; the median compared French town has 13%.
Is Wangenbourg-Engenthal near the sea?
No: the coast is 425 km from the town center, as the crow flies.
When is the best time for walking in Wangenbourg-Engenthal?
May 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.