First pick
Forêt de Loudéac
Wood or forest
2,934 ha39.6 km of path
8 h 45 minto walk all 39.6 km of path
12 km south-westfrom the center
Au Fil de l'eauChemin de la MesseParcours VTT
Directionsto a point inside
Photo: Thérèse Gaigé · CC BY-SA 4.012%woodland
Outdoors in Le Mené · protected areas, woods and footpaths
Parks, woods and footpaths in Le Mené
Footpaths add up to 31 km across Le Mené (0.2 km per km²). No protected area reaches Le Mené; the nearest, Forêt de Lorge, landes de Lanfains, cime de Kerchouan (Natura 2000), is 19 km from the town center. 12% of Le Mené is mapped woodland. 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: Forêt de Lorge, landes de Lanfains, cime de Kerchouan, 19 km
Woodland
12%
of the land, mapped on OpenStreetMap
Compared town: 13%
Footpaths
31 km
0.2 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
Green space nearby
70%
of residents within 800 m of a park or wood
Compared town: 100%
The sea
25 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.
Against French towns
How Le Mené 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
Woodland12%Share of the land mapped as forest or woods on OpenStreetMap
46out of 100
Footpaths0.2 km per km²Km of mapped footpath and track open on foot, per km² of the commune
3out of 100
Hiking routes0 km per km²Km of waymarked hiking routes (GR and others), per km² of the commune
12out of 100
Green space nearby70%Share of residents within 800 m of a mapped park or wood
2out of 100
Percentiles among compared French towns; ties count half.
Towns its size
Le Mené has the 2nd fewest footpaths per km² of 41 towns its size
The 40 compared French towns nearest in population (6,507 to 6,605 residents), by km of footpath per km². Hover for each one’s protected land and woods; click for its page.
From Bouffémont (9.6 km per km²) to Longué-Jumelles (0.2 km per km²).
Every town in the comparison
| Town | Paths (km/km²) | Woodland | Protected | Coast | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Bouffémont Val-d'Oise | 9.6 | 54% | 0.9% | 131 km |
| 2 | Champigneulles Meurthe-et-Moselle | 4.7 | 77% | 0% | 361 km |
| 3 | Ceyrat Puy-de-Dôme | 4.6 | 48% | 100% | 254 km |
| 4 | Gémenos Bouches-du-Rhône | 4.1 | 22% | 92% | 11 km |
| 5 | La Mulatière Rhône | 4 | 9.1% | 0% | 248 km |
| 6 | Marange-Silvange Moselle | 3.4 | 52% | 0% | 317 km |
| 7 | Limours Essonne | 3.1 | 22% | 0.1% | 153 km |
| 8 | Saint-Alban Haute-Garonne | 3.1 | 0% | 0% | 152 km |
| 9 | Cormontreuil Marne | 2.9 | 6.1% | 1.5% | 202 km |
| 10 | La Penne-sur-Huveaune Bouches-du-Rhône | 2.8 | 41% | 37% | 7.3 km |
| 11 | L'Arbresle Rhône | 2.7 | 4.5% | 0% | 256 km |
| 12 | Ondres Landes | 2.5 | 59% | 5.2% | On it |
| 13 | Thoiry Ain | 2.4 | 44% | 63% | 298 km |
| 14 | La Bouilladisse Bouches-du-Rhône | 2.4 | 40% | 0% | 21 km |
| 15 | Marignier Haute-Savoie | 2.3 | 56% | 3.3% | 268 km |
| 16 | Neuves-Maisons Meurthe-et-Moselle | 2.2 | 5.8% | 0% | 365 km |
| 17 | Bouchemaine Maine-et-Loire | 2.2 | 14% | 11% | 113 km |
| 18 | Chasse-sur-Rhône Isère | 2.2 | 12% | 0% | 232 km |
| 19 | Eaunes Haute-Garonne | 1.9 | 15% | 0% | 146 km |
| 20 | Furiani Haute-Corse | 1.9 | 0.6% | 6.3% | On it |
| 21 | Saint-Juéry Tarn | 1.8 | 11% | 0% | 116 km |
| 22 | Ploudalmézeau Finistère | 1.7 | 3.4% | 4.3% | On it |
| 23 | Labarthe-sur-Lèze Haute-Garonne | 1.6 | 5.1% | 2% | 144 km |
| 24 | Bon-Encontre Lot-et-Garonne | 1.6 | 8.4% | 0% | 134 km |
| 25 | Saint-Jean-Bonnefonds Loire | 1.4 | 12% | 0% | 212 km |
| 26 | Labruguière Tarn | 1.4 | 44% | 100% | 84 km |
| 27 | Rives Isère | 1.1 | 13% | 0% | 217 km |
| 28 | Montauban-de-Bretagne Ille-et-Vilaine | 1 | 13% | 0% | 32 km |
| 29 | Longuenée-en-Anjou Maine-et-Loire | 1 | 6.8% | 2.3% | 114 km |
| 30 | La Chevrolière Loire-Atlantique | 0.7 | 16% | 11% | 29 km |
| 31 | Ambert Puy-de-Dôme | 0.7 | 44% | 100% | 223 km |
| 32 | Brioude Haute-Loire | 0.7 | 7.1% | 1.6% | 200 km |
| 33 | Chatuzange-le-Goubet Drôme | 0.6 | 11% | 0% | 175 km |
| 34 | Gueugnon Saône-et-Loire | 0.5 | 17% | 0% | 338 km |
| 35 | Sainte-Rose Réunion | 0.5 | 48% | 100% | On it |
| 36 | Estaires Nord | 0.4 | 0.7% | 0% | 50 km |
| 37 | Héric Loire-Atlantique | 0.4 | 13% | 0% | 42 km |
| 38 | Sainte-Livrade-sur-Lot Lot-et-Garonne | 0.3 | 2.4% | 0.2% | 115 km |
| 39 | Lezoux Puy-de-Dôme | 0.2 | 19% | 5.3% | 258 km |
| 40 | Le Mené Côtes-d'Armor | 0.2 | 12% | 0% | 25 km |
| 41 | Longué-Jumelles Maine-et-Loire | 0.2 | 21% | 100% | 143 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 Le Mené
Named parks, gardens and woods in the commune or within 400 m, the biggest and best-pathed first: Forêt de Loudéac leads, at 2,934 ha. Directions go to a point inside.
Forêt de Boquen
Wood or forest
1,029 ha1.2 km of path
15 minto walk all 1.2 km of path
4.7 km north-eastfrom the center
Directionsto a point inside
Circuit Freeride MTB de Saint-Goueno
Wood or forest
7.8 ha2.8 km of path
35 minto walk all 2.8 km of path
2.9 km south-westfrom the center
Directionsto a point inside
Source: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL): named parks, gardens and woods; sizes are the whole site.
Close to home
7 in 10 residents of Le Mené live within 800 m of a park or wood
Each square is 1 resident in 100: in green, those within 800 m, as the crow flies, of a mapped park, garden or woodland edge (INSEE’s 200 m population grid against OpenStreetMap).
70% within 800 m30% further
Residents within 800 m of green space · share of residents
Le MenéCôtes-d'Armor medianFrance median
Within 800 m70%
0%50%100%
About 2,000 residents live further away. The distance is a straight line to the edge of a mapped park or wood, not a walk to a gate, and a wood can be private.
Protected areas
Forêt de Lorge, landes de Lanfains, cime de Kerchouan is the nearest protected area, 19 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
Forêt de Lorge, landes de Lanfains, cime de Kerchouan
19 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
31 km of footpaths cross Le Mené
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
31 km
0.2 km per km²
Hiking routes
0 km
waymarked: 0 km per km²
Woodland
12%
about 19.9 km² of mapped woods
Km per km² of the commune · mapped on OpenStreetMap
Le MenéCôtes-d'Armor medianFrance median
Footpaths0.2
Hiking routes0
012 km per km²
Share of the land · mapped woods and forest
Le MenéCôtes-d'Armor medianFrance median
Woodland12%
0%50%100%
That is less than in 97% of compared French towns for footpaths per km², and for woodland less than in 54% of compared French towns. Hiking routes often follow paths and lanes already counted, so the two lengths overlap: don’t add them.
Source: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL), extracts of October 25, 2026 (Geofabrik).
When to get out
The best walking months in Le Mené: May to September
Météo-France’s 1991–2020 normals at Ploeuc-Sur-Lie, 18 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) | 8 | 9 | 12 | 15 | 18 | 21 | 23 | 23 | 20 | 16 | 12 | 9 |
| Rain (mm) | 104 | 87 | 69 | 71 | 63 | 57 | 46 | 59 | 66 | 103 | 113 | 119 |
July is the driest month (46 mm) and August the warmest (highs of 23 °C). 119 mm of rain falls in December, the wettest month. Frost comes on about 40 nights a year. The climate in Le Mené →
Neighbors
Next to Le Mené
The nearest towns of 2,500 or more, colored by the share of their land in protected areas.
Plénée-JugonPlémetMerdrignacQuessoyPlœuc-L'HermitageJugon-les-LacsLe Mené
Under 1%1–10 %10–25 %25–50 %50 %+
| Town | Protected | Woodland | Paths (km/km²) | Coast |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Le Mené | 0% | 12% | 0.2 | 25 km |
| Plénée-Jugon 2,579 · 13 km | 0% | 8.5% | 0.1 | 23 km |
| Plémet 3,764 · 13 km | 0% | 10% | 0.3 | 35 km |
| Merdrignac 3,139 · 14 km | 0% | 32% | 0.2 | 39 km |
| Quessoy 3,969 · 18 km | 0% | 5.9% | 0.5 | 7.1 km |
| Plœuc-L'Hermitage 4,103 · 19 km | 1.6% | 41% | 0.2 | 18 km |
| Jugon-les-Lacs 2,541 · 20 km | 0% | 17% | 0.7 | 18 km |
Merdrignac and Plœuc-L'Hermitage 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 Le Mené
Is Le Mené in a national or regional nature park?
No. The nearest protected area is Forêt de Lorge, landes de Lanfains, cime de Kerchouan, 19 km from the town center.
Are there good walks in Le Mené?
OpenStreetMap maps 31 km of footpaths and tracks open on foot in the commune, 0.2 km per km² (the median compared town: 1.7 km per km²).
How much of Le Mené is woodland?
12% of the commune is mapped woodland, private woods included; the median compared French town has 13%.
Is Le Mené near the sea?
No: the coast is 25 km from the town center, as the crow flies.
When is the best time for walking in Le Mené?
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 8, 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.