First pick
Forêt de Coëtquen
Wood or forest
413 ha8.2 km of path
1 h 50 minto walk all 8.2 km of path
4.9 km eastfrom the center
Découverte croissance d'un arbre
Directionsto a point inside
Photo: Florian Pépellin · CC BY-SA 3.0100%of the land protected
Outdoors in Lanvallay · protected areas, woods and footpaths
Lanvallay lies inside Vallée de la Rance - Côte d’Emeraude Regional Nature Park
Protected areas cover 100% of Lanvallay’s land. Mapped woodland covers 17% of Lanvallay. Footpaths add up to 27 km across Lanvallay (1.8 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
17%
of the land, mapped on OpenStreetMap
Compared town: 13%
Footpaths
27 km
1.8 km per km²
Compared town: 1.7 km per km²
Hiking routes
4.6 km
waymarked, GR and others
Compared town: 0.3 km per km²
Parks & woods
6
named, in or within 400 m of the commune
First: Forêt de Coëtquen
The sea
4.9 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 Lanvallay?
Read from the data: what stands out first, good and less good.
Inside Vallée de la Rance - Côte d’Emeraude Regional Nature Park100% of the commune is in the regional nature park.Near the seaThe coast is 4.9 km from the town center.
What sets Lanvallay apart: the regional nature park around it, then the sea nearby.
Against French towns
How Lanvallay 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
99out of 100
Woodland17%Share of the land mapped as forest or woods on OpenStreetMap
58out of 100
Footpaths1.8 km per km²Km of mapped footpath and track open on foot, per km² of the commune
53out of 100
Hiking routes0.3 km per km²Km of waymarked hiking routes (GR and others), per km² of the commune
47out of 100
Percentiles among compared French towns; ties count half.
Towns its size
Lanvallay has the 15th most footpaths per km² of 41 towns its size
The 40 compared French towns nearest in population (4,251 to 4,333 residents), by km of footpath per km². Hover for each one’s protected land and woods; click for its page.
From Sevrier (4.3 km per km²) to Breteuil (0.3 km per km²).
Every town in the comparison
| Town | Paths (km/km²) | Woodland | Protected | Coast | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Sevrier Haute-Savoie | 4.3 | 49% | 100% | 255 km |
| 2 | Saint-Maurice-de-Beynost Ain | 4 | 21% | 17% | 262 km |
| 3 | Leuville-sur-Orge Essonne | 3.8 | 15% | 0% | 166 km |
| 4 | Tigery Essonne | 3.6 | 41% | 0% | 176 km |
| 5 | Agneaux Manche | 3.5 | 10% | 0% | 25 km |
| 6 | Villard-de-Lans Isère | 3.4 | 57% | 100% | 188 km |
| 7 | Barbentane Bouches-du-Rhône | 3.1 | 36% | 8.1% | 50 km |
| 8 | Roquettes Haute-Garonne | 2.8 | 4.1% | 4.3% | 147 km |
| 9 | Courseulles-sur-Mer Calvados | 2.7 | 1% | 0% | On it |
| 10 | Coignières Yvelines | 2.3 | 29% | 0.1% | 137 km |
| 11 | La Norville Essonne | 2.2 | 4% | 0% | 168 km |
| 12 | Combrit Finistère | 2.2 | 20% | 3.3% | On it |
| 13 | Châtenois Bas-Rhin | 2 | 33% | 0% | 458 km |
| 14 | Steenvoorde Nord | 1.8 | 1.9% | 0% | 29 km |
| 15 | Lanvallay Côtes-d'Armor | 1.8 | 17% | 100% | 4.9 km |
| 16 | Is-sur-Tille Côte-d'Or | 1.6 | 41% | 0% | 388 km |
| 17 | Millery Rhône | 1.6 | 14% | 0% | 237 km |
| 18 | Désertines Allier | 1.5 | 20% | 0% | 281 km |
| 19 | Tonnerre Yonne | 1.5 | 41% | 0% | 308 km |
| 20 | Ecquevilly Yvelines | 1.4 | 26% | 0% | 124 km |
| 21 | Vimy Pas-de-Calais | 1.3 | 16% | 0% | 80 km |
| 22 | Maîche Doubs | 1.3 | 31% | 100% | 389 km |
| 23 | Beauvallon Rhône | 1.3 | 18% | 0% | 231 km |
| 24 | Rognonas Bouches-du-Rhône | 1.2 | 0% | 13% | 50 km |
| 25 | Saint-Aubin-d'Aubigné Ille-et-Vilaine | 0.8 | 12% | 0% | 38 km |
| 26 | Chabanière Rhône | 0.8 | 17% | 0% | 230 km |
| 27 | Rang-du-Fliers Pas-de-Calais | 0.6 | 23% | 13% | 4.7 km |
| 28 | Nozay Loire-Atlantique | 0.6 | 9.7% | 0% | 52 km |
| 29 | Cours Rhône | 0.6 | 46% | 0% | 283 km |
| 30 | Bessières Haute-Garonne | 0.6 | 9.9% | 2.4% | 145 km |
| 31 | Châteauneuf-sur-Isère Drôme | 0.6 | 6.5% | 2.1% | 173 km |
| 32 | Nanteuil-le-Haudouin Oise | 0.5 | 9.7% | 32% | 142 km |
| 33 | Friville-Escarbotin Somme | 0.5 | 2.1% | 100% | 7.2 km |
| 34 | Saint-Savin Isère | 0.5 | 17% | 15% | 244 km |
| 35 | Eyragues Bouches-du-Rhône | 0.5 | 0.4% | 0% | 43 km |
| 36 | Serémange-Erzange Moselle | 0.5 | 14% | 0% | 307 km |
| 37 | Valence-en-Poitou Vienne | 0.4 | 20% | 0% | 100 km |
| 38 | Ussac Corrèze | 0.4 | 24% | 0% | 167 km |
| 39 | Pontorson Manche | 0.4 | 0.4% | 6.2% | On it |
| 40 | Montélier Drôme | 0.3 | 2.2% | 0% | 165 km |
| 41 | Breteuil Eure | 0.3 | 31% | 0.2% | 78 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 Lanvallay
Named parks, gardens and woods in the commune or within 400 m, the biggest and best-pathed first: Forêt de Coëtquen leads, at 413 ha. Directions go to a point inside.
Bois de Tressaint
Wood or forest
23 ha2.5 km of path
35 minto walk all 2.5 km of path
1.8 km southfrom the center
Parcours Sportif
Directionsto a point inside
Jardin du Val Cocherel
Park or garden · 320 m outside the commune
3.3 ha1.8 km of path
25 minto walk all 1.8 km of path
2.1 km westfrom the center
Directionsto a point inside
Jardin public de la Madeleine
Park or garden
1.6 ha0.3 km of path
1.6 km north-westfrom the center
Directionsto a point inside
Jardin médiéval de l'abbaye
Park or garden · 0 m outside the commune
1.2 ha0.1 km of path
1.6 km south-westfrom the center
Directionsto a point inside
Jardin Anglais
Park or garden · 80 m outside the commune
0.5 ha0.3 km of path
1.7 km 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 Lanvallay
The protected areas reaching the commune, and the nearest: national parks, regional nature parks, nature reserves and Natura 2000 sites.
Regional nature park
Vallée de la Rance - Côte d’Emeraude Regional Nature Park
100% of the commune
Natura 2000 site
Estuaire de la Rance
7.6% of the commune1.2 km from the center
Share of the commune’s land
Any protected area100%
Regional nature park100%
Natura 2000 site7.6%
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 Lanvallay’s land is protected, more than in 99% of compared French towns; the median compared town in Côtes-d'Armor has 2%. 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
27 km of footpaths cross Lanvallay
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
27 km
1.8 km per km²
Hiking routes
4.6 km
waymarked: 0.3 km per km²
Woodland
17%
about 2.5 km² of mapped woods
Km per km² of the commune · mapped on OpenStreetMap
LanvallayCôtes-d'Armor medianFrance median
Footpaths1.8
Hiking routes0.3
01.53 km per km²
Share of the land · mapped woods and forest
LanvallayCôtes-d'Armor medianFrance median
Woodland17%
0%50%100%
That is more than in 53% of compared French towns for footpaths per km², and for woodland more than in 58% 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 Lanvallay is within 800 m of a mapped park or wood, as in most French towns.
4 named hiking routes within 2 km
Other named walk
De Néal au barrage de la Rance, tracé principal16 km
Balade Autour de Taden10 km
Chemin du Prat et du Lyvet6 km
Estuaire de la Rance - rive droite 221.3 km
Source: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL), extracts of October 25, 2026 (Geofabrik).
When to get out
The best walking months in Lanvallay: May to September
Météo-France’s 1991–2020 normals at Dinard, 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) | 9 | 10 | 12 | 15 | 17 | 20 | 22 | 22 | 20 | 17 | 12 | 10 |
| Rain (mm) | 64 | 56 | 48 | 54 | 56 | 54 | 46 | 58 | 60 | 81 | 89 | 86 |
July is the driest month (46 mm) and August the warmest (highs of 22 °C). 89 mm of rain falls in November, the wettest month. Frost comes on about 22 nights a year. The climate in Lanvallay →
Neighbors
Next to Lanvallay
The nearest towns of 2,500 or more, colored by the share of their land in protected areas.
DinanTadenQuévertTrélivanPleudihen-sur-RancePlouër-sur-RanceLanvallay
Under 1%1–10 %10–25 %25–50 %50 %+
| Town | Protected | Woodland | Paths (km/km²) | Coast |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lanvallay | 100% | 17% | 1.8 | 4.9 km |
| Dinan 14,764 · 2.3 km | 100% | 17% | 4.7 | 5.6 km |
| Taden 2,636 · 4.1 km | 100% | 19% | 1.1 | 3.6 km |
| Quévert 3,955 · 4.7 km | 100% | 12% | 1.3 | 6.9 km |
| Trélivan 2,865 · 6 km | 100% | 18% | 1.1 | 9.5 km |
| Pleudihen-sur-Rance 2,924 · 8.9 km | 100% | 17% | 1.1 | On it |
| Plouër-sur-Rance 3,416 · 9 km | 100% | 25% | 1.6 | On it |
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 Lanvallay
Is Lanvallay in a national or regional nature park?
Yes: Lanvallay lies in Vallée de la Rance - Côte d’Emeraude Regional Nature Park (100% of the commune).
Are there good walks in Lanvallay?
OpenStreetMap maps 27 km of footpaths and tracks open on foot in the commune, 1.8 km per km² (the median compared town: 1.7 km per km²); 5 km of waymarked hiking routes cross it.
How much of Lanvallay is woodland?
17% of the commune is mapped woodland, private woods included; the median compared French town has 13%.
Is Lanvallay near the sea?
No: the coast is 4.9 km from the town center, as the crow flies.
When is the best time for walking in Lanvallay?
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.