First pick
Parc de Betteville-Senghor
Park or garden
0.9 ha
Centralin the middle of Verson
Directionsto a point inside
Photo: Roi.dagobert · CC BY-SA 3.00.7%woodland
Outdoors in Verson · protected areas, woods and footpaths
Almost every home in Verson is within 800 m of a park or wood
0.7% of Verson is mapped woodland. No protected area reaches Verson; the nearest, Combles de l’église d’Amayé-sur-Orne (Natura 2000), is 7.8 km from the town center. 20 km of footpaths cross Verson (2 km per km²). 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: Combles de l’église d’Amayé-sur-Orne, 7.8 km
Woodland
0.7%
of the land, mapped on OpenStreetMap
Compared town: 13%
Footpaths
20 km
2 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
1
named, in or within 400 m of the commune
First: Parc de Betteville-Senghor
The sea
19 km
from the town center to the coast
Throughout this page, the Calvados 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 Verson?
Read from the data: what stands out first, good and less good.
Protected land nearbyCombles de l’église d’Amayé-sur-Orne (Natura 2000) is 7.8 km from the town center.Little mapped woodland0.7% of the land, against 13% for the median compared town.
What sets Verson apart: protected land close by. It is shorter on woodland.
Against French towns
How Verson 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
Woodland0.7%Share of the land mapped as forest or woods on OpenStreetMap
5out of 100
Footpaths2 km per km²Km of mapped footpath and track open on foot, per km² of the commune
56out 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
Verson has the 12th most footpaths per km² of 41 towns its size
The 40 compared French towns nearest in population (4,029 to 4,091 residents), by km of footpath per km². Hover for each one’s protected land and woods; click for its page.
From Le Croisic (6.7 km per km²) to Bâgé-Dommartin (0.1 km per km²).
Every town in the comparison
| Town | Paths (km/km²) | Woodland | Protected | Coast | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Le Croisic Loire-Atlantique | 6.7 | 3.3% | 3.3% | On it |
| 2 | Seignosse Landes | 4.4 | 70% | 9.7% | On it |
| 3 | Le Revest-les-Eaux Var | 4 | 27% | 28% | 5.3 km |
| 4 | La Châtre Indre | 3.7 | 6.5% | 0% | 239 km |
| 5 | Leffrinckoucke Nord | 3.4 | 0.6% | 25% | On it |
| 6 | Saint-Georges-d'Oléron Charente-Maritime | 3.4 | 25% | 40% | On it |
| 7 | Le Coudray Eure-et-Loir | 3 | 2.6% | 0% | 140 km |
| 8 | Offemont Territoire de Belfort | 2.9 | 39% | 0% | 433 km |
| 9 | Juziers Yvelines | 2.6 | 38% | 66% | 117 km |
| 10 | Aramon Gard | 2.4 | 2.4% | 15% | 51 km |
| 11 | Saint-Cézaire-sur-Siagne Alpes-Maritimes | 2.2 | 70% | 100% | 18 km |
| 12 | Verson Calvados | 2 | 0.7% | 0% | 19 km |
| 13 | Issou Yvelines | 1.6 | 21% | 0% | 116 km |
| 14 | Saint-Rémy-sur-Avre Eure-et-Loir | 1.6 | 26% | 0.8% | 99 km |
| 15 | Baccarat Meurthe-et-Moselle | 1.6 | 39% | 17% | 412 km |
| 16 | Pont-Scorff Morbihan | 1.5 | 23% | 3.8% | On it |
| 17 | Staffelfelden Haut-Rhin | 1.5 | 34% | 0% | 449 km |
| 18 | Loctudy Finistère | 1.4 | 1.4% | 0.3% | On it |
| 19 | Avermes Allier | 1.2 | 4.2% | 13% | 338 km |
| 20 | Le Cellier Loire-Atlantique | 1.2 | 29% | 12% | 57 km |
| 21 | Survilliers Val-d'Oise | 1.1 | 23% | 71% | 135 km |
| 22 | Pleslin-Trigavou Côtes-d'Armor | 0.9 | 15% | 100% | 5.1 km |
| 23 | Caissargues Gard | 0.9 | 10% | 1.7% | 34 km |
| 24 | Bresles Oise | 0.8 | 19% | 0% | 95 km |
| 25 | Générac Gard | 0.8 | 4.5% | 19% | 27 km |
| 26 | Savigné-l'Évêque Sarthe | 0.7 | 10% | 0% | 137 km |
| 27 | La Haye Manche | 0.7 | 3.6% | 51% | On it |
| 28 | Hochfelden Bas-Rhin | 0.7 | 6.8% | 0% | 428 km |
| 29 | Val-Couesnon Ille-et-Vilaine | 0.7 | 7.2% | 1.5% | 19 km |
| 30 | Plélan-le-Grand Ille-et-Vilaine | 0.7 | 12% | 0.2% | 55 km |
| 31 | Chevry-Cossigny Seine-et-Marne | 0.6 | 32% | 0% | 175 km |
| 32 | Paulhan Hérault | 0.5 | 1% | 0% | 23 km |
| 33 | Allassac Corrèze | 0.4 | 21% | 2.2% | 164 km |
| 34 | Cuxac-d'Aude Aude | 0.4 | 4.6% | 14% | 17 km |
| 35 | Trouy Cher | 0.4 | 2.7% | 0.1% | 280 km |
| 36 | Campbon Loire-Atlantique | 0.4 | 6.8% | 1.6% | 21 km |
| 37 | Bressols Tarn-et-Garonne | 0.4 | 3% | 0.6% | 173 km |
| 38 | Beauvoir-sur-Mer Vendée | 0.3 | 0.3% | 83% | On it |
| 39 | Hourtin Gironde | 0.3 | 66% | 100% | On it |
| 40 | Benet Vendée | 0.2 | 0.7% | 100% | 41 km |
| 41 | Bâgé-Dommartin Ain | 0.1 | 13% | 0% | 315 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 Verson
Named parks, gardens and woods in the commune or within 400 m, the biggest and best-pathed first: Parc de Betteville-Senghor leads, at 0.9 ha. Directions go to a point inside.
Source: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL): named parks, gardens and woods; sizes are the whole site.
Protected areas
Combles de l’église d’Amayé-sur-Orne is the nearest protected area, 7.8 km away
The protected areas reaching the commune, and the nearest: national parks, regional nature parks, nature reserves and Natura 2000 sites.
Natura 2000 site
Combles de l’église d’Amayé-sur-Orne
7.8 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
20 km of footpaths cross Verson
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
20 km
2 km per km²
Hiking routes
0 km
waymarked: 0 km per km²
Woodland
0.7%
about 0.1 km² of mapped woods
Km per km² of the commune · mapped on OpenStreetMap
VersonCalvados medianFrance median
Footpaths2
Hiking routes0
01.53 km per km²
Share of the land · mapped woods and forest
VersonCalvados medianFrance median
Woodland0.7%
0%50%100%
That is more than in 56% of compared French towns for footpaths per km², and for woodland less than in 95% 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 Verson is within 800 m of a mapped park or wood, as in most French towns.
2 named hiking routes within 2 km
GR (long-distance)Other named walk
GR 221C9.5 km
Chemin de Caen9.1 km
GR 221C passes within 2 km of Verson.
Source: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL), extracts of October 25, 2026 (Geofabrik).
When to get out
The best walking months in Verson: May to September
Météo-France’s 1991–2020 normals at Caen-Carpiquet, 2.7 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) | 8.6 | 10.1 | 11.7 | 13.6 | 15.3 | 16.2 | 15.8 | 14.4 | 12.5 | 10.7 | 9.0 | 8.2 |
| High (°C) | 8 | 9 | 12 | 14 | 17 | 21 | 23 | 23 | 20 | 16 | 12 | 9 |
| Rain (mm) | 63 | 53 | 50 | 53 | 59 | 58 | 51 | 60 | 54 | 79 | 79 | 81 |
March is the driest month (50 mm) and August the warmest (highs of 23 °C). 81 mm of rain falls in December, the wettest month. Frost comes on about 29 nights a year. The climate in Verson →
Neighbors
Next to Verson
The nearest towns of 2,500 or more, colored by the share of their land in protected areas.
Fontaine-ÉtoupefourBretteville-sur-OdonCarpiquetLouvignyFleury-sur-OrneRotsVerson
Under 1%1–10 %10–25 %25–50 %50 %+
| Town | Protected | Woodland | Paths (km/km²) | Coast |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Verson | 0% | 0.7% | 2 | 19 km |
| Fontaine-Étoupefour 2,810 · 1.2 km | 0% | 1% | 1.2 | 20 km |
| Bretteville-sur-Odon 4,494 · 3.2 km | 0% | 4.3% | 3.2 | 17 km |
| Carpiquet 3,428 · 3.6 km | 0% | 0.2% | 1.4 | 16 km |
| Louvigny 2,612 · 4.2 km | 0% | 5.4% | 2.9 | 17 km |
| Fleury-sur-Orne 5,941 · 6 km | 0% | 3.3% | 3.6 | 17 km |
| Rots 2,544 · 6.8 km | 0% | 2.9% | 0.6 | 14 km |
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 Verson
Is Verson in a national or regional nature park?
No. The nearest protected area is Combles de l’église d’Amayé-sur-Orne, 7.8 km from the town center.
Are there good walks in Verson?
OpenStreetMap maps 20 km of footpaths and tracks open on foot in the commune, 2 km per km² (the median compared town: 1.7 km per km²).
How much of Verson is woodland?
0.7% of the commune is mapped woodland, private woods included; the median compared French town has 13%.
Is Verson near the sea?
No: the coast is 19 km from the town center, as the crow flies.
When is the best time for walking in Verson?
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 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.