First pick
Bois du Palacret
Wood or forest
87 ha5.5 km of path
1 h 15 minto walk all 5.5 km of path
3.6 km eastfrom the center
Directionsto a point inside
Photo: Louis Marie Preau · CC BY-SA 4.011%woodland
Outdoors in Bégard · protected areas, woods and footpaths
Almost every home in Bégard is within 800 m of a park or wood
20 km of footpaths cross Bégard (0.5 km per km²). No protected area reaches Bégard; the nearest, Rivière Leguer, forêts de Beffou, Coat an Noz et Coat an Hay (Natura 2000), is 8.1 km from the town center. Mapped woodland covers 11% of Bégard. 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: Rivière Leguer, forêts de Beffou, Coat an Noz et Coat an Hay, 8.1 km
Woodland
11%
of the land, mapped on OpenStreetMap
Compared town: 13%
Footpaths
20 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
4
named, in or within 400 m of the commune
First: Bois du Palacret
The sea
13 km
from the town center to the coast
Throughout this page, the Côtes-d'Armor 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 Bégard?
Read from the data: what stands out first, good and less good.
Protected land nearbyRivière Leguer, forêts de Beffou, Coat an Noz et Coat an Hay (Natura 2000) is 8.1 km from the town center.Few mapped footpaths0.5 km per km², against 1.7 km per km² for the median compared town.
What sets Bégard apart: protected land close by. It is shorter on footpaths.
Against French towns
How Bégard 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
Woodland11%Share of the land mapped as forest or woods on OpenStreetMap
43out of 100
Footpaths0.5 km per km²Km of mapped footpath and track open on foot, per km² of the commune
16out 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
Bégard has the 15th fewest footpaths per km² of 41 towns its size
The 40 compared French towns nearest in population (4,849 to 4,926 residents), by km of footpath per km². Hover for each one’s protected land and woods; click for its page.
From Quiberon (6.6 km per km²) to Charny Orée de Puisaye (0.1 km per km²).
Every town in the comparison
| Town | Paths (km/km²) | Woodland | Protected | Coast | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Quiberon Morbihan | 6.6 | 2.8% | 18% | On it |
| 2 | Grand-Fort-Philippe Nord | 4.5 | 0.1% | 0% | On it |
| 3 | Bogny-sur-Meuse Ardennes | 4.3 | 79% | 100% | 200 km |
| 4 | Ceyreste Bouches-du-Rhône | 3.7 | 42% | 49% | 2.9 km |
| 5 | Le Versoud Isère | 3.2 | 18% | 0% | 202 km |
| 6 | Pechbonnieu Haute-Garonne | 2.8 | 15% | 0% | 150 km |
| 7 | Gratentour Haute-Garonne | 2.8 | 1.8% | 0% | 153 km |
| 8 | L'Île-d'Yeu Vendée | 2.8 | 21% | 44% | On it |
| 9 | La Turballe Loire-Atlantique | 2.7 | 13% | 24% | On it |
| 10 | Ballainvilliers Essonne | 2.4 | 2.3% | 0% | 164 km |
| 11 | Uchaud Gard | 2.1 | 32% | 2.7% | 26 km |
| 12 | Sainte-Marie-aux-Mines Haut-Rhin | 2 | 76% | 100% | 450 km |
| 13 | Volvic Puy-de-Dôme | 1.9 | 57% | 100% | 269 km |
| 14 | Plateau d'Hauteville Ain | 1.9 | 65% | 1.2% | 284 km |
| 15 | Lambres-lez-Douai Nord | 1.8 | 4.4% | 0% | 90 km |
| 16 | Laigneville Oise | 1.5 | 29% | 0% | 112 km |
| 17 | La Voulte-sur-Rhône Ardèche | 1.5 | 15% | 33% | 149 km |
| 18 | Le Quesnoy Nord | 1.4 | 2.1% | 100% | 120 km |
| 19 | Montbazon Indre-et-Loire | 1.2 | 29% | 0% | 178 km |
| 20 | Blendecques Pas-de-Calais | 1.1 | 18% | 84% | 32 km |
| 21 | Claira Pyrénées-Orientales | 1.1 | 0% | 0% | 7 km |
| 22 | Bruyères-sur-Oise Val-d'Oise | 1 | 3.1% | 0.2% | 122 km |
| 23 | Verneuil-sur-Vienne Haute-Vienne | 1 | 23% | 0% | 154 km |
| 24 | Mourmelon-le-Grand Marne | 1 | 29% | 0.1% | 226 km |
| 25 | Briare Loiret | 0.8 | 27% | 7.9% | 266 km |
| 26 | Sainte-Eulalie Gironde | 0.6 | 7.3% | 0% | 14 km |
| 27 | Bégard Côtes-d'Armor | 0.5 | 11% | 0% | 13 km |
| 28 | Fagnières Marne | 0.5 | 0.4% | 0% | 235 km |
| 29 | Écommoy Sarthe | 0.5 | 28% | 0.2% | 151 km |
| 30 | La Côte-Saint-André Isère | 0.5 | 10% | 0% | 218 km |
| 31 | Amplepuis Rhône | 0.4 | 29% | 0% | 269 km |
| 32 | Saint-Pourçain-sur-Sioule Allier | 0.4 | 6.2% | 9.3% | 311 km |
| 33 | Cazères Haute-Garonne | 0.4 | 4.1% | 11% | 162 km |
| 34 | Saint-Père-en-Retz Loire-Atlantique | 0.3 | 5.6% | 5.7% | 8.1 km |
| 35 | Saint-Sulpice-et-Cameyrac Gironde | 0.3 | 6.2% | 7.7% | 20 km |
| 36 | Bazas Gironde | 0.2 | 30% | 2.9% | 69 km |
| 37 | Castelnau-de-Médoc Gironde | 0.2 | 82% | 100% | 10 km |
| 38 | Vitry-en-Artois Pas-de-Calais | 0.2 | 5.6% | 0% | 90 km |
| 39 | Bonneval Eure-et-Loir | 0.1 | 9.3% | 30% | 159 km |
| 40 | Saint-Laurent-Médoc Gironde | 0.1 | 61% | 100% | 7.6 km |
| 41 | Charny Orée de Puisaye Yonne | 0.1 | 22% | 0% | 266 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 Bégard
Named parks, gardens and woods in the commune or within 400 m, the biggest and best-pathed first: Bois du Palacret leads, at 87 ha. Directions go to a point inside.
Parc Eugénie Le Sommer
Park or garden
1.5 ha0.3 km of path
Centralin the middle of Bégard
Directionsto a point inside
Le royaume des petits pieds
Park or garden
0.3 ha0.2 km of path
0.7 km southfrom the center
Directionsto a point inside
Source: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL): named parks, gardens and woods; sizes are the whole site.
Protected areas
Rivière Leguer, forêts de Beffou, Coat an Noz et Coat an Hay is the nearest protected area, 8.1 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
Rivière Leguer, forêts de Beffou, Coat an Noz et Coat an Hay
8.1 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
20 km of footpaths cross Bégard
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
0.5 km per km²
Hiking routes
0 km
waymarked: 0 km per km²
Woodland
11%
about 4 km² of mapped woods
Km per km² of the commune · mapped on OpenStreetMap
BégardCôtes-d'Armor medianFrance median
Footpaths0.5
Hiking routes0
012 km per km²
Share of the land · mapped woods and forest
BégardCôtes-d'Armor medianFrance median
Woodland11%
0%50%100%
That is less than in 84% of compared French towns for footpaths per km², and for woodland less than in 57% 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 Bégard is within 800 m of a mapped park or wood, as in most French towns.
A named hiking route within 2 km
Other named walk
Les Côtes-d'Armor, variante par Ménez Bré5 km
Source: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL), extracts of October 25, 2026 (Geofabrik).
When to get out
The best walking months in Bégard: May to September
Météo-France’s 1991–2020 normals at Pommerit-Jaudy, 13 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) | 10 | 10 | 12 | 14 | 17 | 20 | 22 | 22 | 20 | 16 | 13 | 10 |
| Rain (mm) | 90 | 82 | 62 | 68 | 59 | 55 | 49 | 53 | 54 | 94 | 104 | 118 |
July is the driest month (49 mm) and August the warmest (highs of 22 °C). 118 mm of rain falls in December, the wettest month. Frost comes on about 15 nights a year. The climate in Bégard →
Neighbors
Next to Bégard
The nearest towns of 2,500 or more, colored by the share of their land in protected areas.
GrâcesLa Roche-JaudyPabuGuingampPloubezrePloumagoarBégard
Under 1%1–10 %10–25 %25–50 %50 %+
| Town | Protected | Woodland | Paths (km/km²) | Coast |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bégard | 0% | 11% | 0.5 | 13 km |
| Grâces 2,601 · 12 km | 0% | 12% | 0.8 | 17 km |
| La Roche-Jaudy 2,629 · 13 km | 1.5% | 9.4% | 0.8 | On it |
| Pabu 2,771 · 13 km | 0% | 22% | 3.6 | 15 km |
| Guingamp 7,111 · 13 km | 0% | 16% | 6.8 | 16 km |
| Ploubezre 3,780 · 14 km | 6.5% | 17% | 1.3 | 3.3 km |
| Ploumagoar 5,414 · 16 km | 0% | 20% | 0.5 | 19 km |
Pabu is 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 Bégard
Is Bégard in a national or regional nature park?
No. The nearest protected area is Rivière Leguer, forêts de Beffou, Coat an Noz et Coat an Hay, 8.1 km from the town center.
Are there good walks in Bégard?
OpenStreetMap maps 20 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 Bégard is woodland?
11% of the commune is mapped woodland, private woods included; the median compared French town has 13%.
Is Bégard near the sea?
No: the coast is 13 km from the town center, as the crow flies.
When is the best time for walking in Bégard?
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.