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
8.8 km north-eastfrom the center
Au Fil de l'eauChemin de la MesseParcours VTT
Directionsto a point inside
Photo: Anonymous Unknown author · Public domain14%woodland
Outdoors in Loudéac · protected areas, woods and footpaths
Almost every home in Loudéac is within 800 m of a park or wood
Footpaths add up to 59 km across Loudéac (0.7 km per km²). No protected area reaches Loudéac; the nearest, Forêt de Lorge, landes de Lanfains, cime de Kerchouan (Natura 2000), is 13 km from the town center. 14% of Loudéac 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, 13 km
Woodland
14%
of the land, mapped on OpenStreetMap
Compared town: 13%
Footpaths
59 km
0.7 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
3
named, in or within 400 m of the commune
First: Forêt de Loudéac
The sea
35 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 Loudéac 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
Woodland14%Share of the land mapped as forest or woods on OpenStreetMap
51out of 100
Footpaths0.7 km per km²Km of mapped footpath and track open on foot, per km² of the commune
22out 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
Loudéac has the 4th fewest footpaths per km² of 41 towns its size
The 40 compared French towns nearest in population (9,839 to 10,160 residents), by km of footpath per km². Hover for each one’s protected land and woods; click for its page.
From Maxéville (5.5 km per km²) to Saint-Loubès (0.2 km per km²).
Every town in the comparison
| Town | Paths (km/km²) | Woodland | Protected | Coast | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Maxéville Meurthe-et-Moselle | 5.5 | 24% | 0% | 363 km |
| 2 | Saint-Max Meurthe-et-Moselle | 5.1 | 4.9% | 0.3% | 366 km |
| 3 | Villerupt Meurthe-et-Moselle | 4.2 | 30% | 0% | 288 km |
| 4 | Beauchamp Val-d'Oise | 4.2 | 12% | 0% | 129 km |
| 5 | Saint-Grégoire Ille-et-Vilaine | 4.2 | 5% | 0% | 44 km |
| 6 | Méry-sur-Oise Val-d'Oise | 3.6 | 35% | 0% | 124 km |
| 7 | Grigny-sur-Rhône Rhône | 3.5 | 16% | 0% | 234 km |
| 8 | Le Rheu Ille-et-Vilaine | 3.4 | 5.5% | 0% | 46 km |
| 9 | Soyaux Charente | 3.3 | 35% | 9% | 78 km |
| 10 | Voreppe Isère | 3.3 | 42% | 35% | 213 km |
| 11 | Auchel Pas-de-Calais | 3.1 | 8.6% | 0% | 55 km |
| 12 | Neuville-en-Ferrain Nord | 2.4 | 5.6% | 0% | 54 km |
| 13 | Pierrelaye Val-d'Oise | 2.4 | 20% | 0% | 126 km |
| 14 | Ézanville Val-d'Oise | 2.2 | 0.7% | 0% | 134 km |
| 15 | Foix Ariège | 2.2 | 28% | 21% | 117 km |
| 16 | Fillière Haute-Savoie | 2.1 | 49% | 20% | 266 km |
| 17 | Parthenay Deux-Sèvres | 2 | 3.8% | 0.1% | 78 km |
| 18 | Avranches Manche | 1.9 | 1.5% | 0% | 2.5 km |
| 19 | Pont-Audemer Eure | 1.8 | 20% | 65% | 15 km |
| 20 | Roche-la-Molière Loire | 1.8 | 8.5% | 0% | 209 km |
| 21 | Jeumont Nord | 1.8 | 25% | 0.1% | 133 km |
| 22 | Ingré Loiret | 1.8 | 11% | 0% | 200 km |
| 23 | Le Muy Var | 1.7 | 35% | 46% | 16 km |
| 24 | Saint-Pierre-du-Mont Landes | 1.5 | 58% | 3.4% | 69 km |
| 25 | Léguevin Haute-Garonne | 1.5 | 14% | 0% | 161 km |
| 26 | Saint-Lys Haute-Garonne | 1.5 | 9.5% | 0% | 162 km |
| 27 | Aniche Nord | 1.4 | 6.8% | 0.1% | 98 km |
| 28 | Lambesc Bouches-du-Rhône | 1.3 | 32% | 65% | 33 km |
| 29 | Saint-Amand-Montrond Cher | 1.3 | 10% | 6.4% | 282 km |
| 30 | Apt Vaucluse | 1.2 | 29% | 100% | 58 km |
| 31 | Chambly Oise | 1.2 | 5.4% | 0.1% | 117 km |
| 32 | Saint-Laurent-de-la-Salanque Pyrénées-Orientales | 1.2 | 0.1% | 45% | 3.8 km |
| 33 | Mazamet Tarn | 1.2 | 77% | 0.1% | 74 km |
| 34 | La Farlède Var | 1.1 | 8.7% | 15% | 7.4 km |
| 35 | Douchy-les-Mines Nord | 1 | 11% | 0% | 106 km |
| 36 | Bourg-de-Péage Drôme | 0.9 | 0.4% | 0% | 176 km |
| 37 | Lançon-Provence Bouches-du-Rhône | 0.7 | 2.7% | 80% | 23 km |
| 38 | Loudéac Côtes-d'Armor | 0.7 | 14% | 0% | 35 km |
| 39 | Lorgues Var | 0.6 | 53% | 6.3% | 30 km |
| 40 | Carmaux Tarn | 0.4 | 3.3% | 0% | 127 km |
| 41 | Saint-Loubès Gironde | 0.2 | 4% | 28% | 16 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 Loudéac
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.
Aquarev Loudéac
Park or garden
35 ha6.2 km of path
1 h 25 minto walk all 6.2 km of path
2.2 km eastfrom the center
La Promenade
Directionsto a point inside
Source: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL): named parks, gardens and woods; sizes are the whole site.
Protected areas
Forêt de Lorge, landes de Lanfains, cime de Kerchouan is the nearest protected area, 13 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
13 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
59 km of footpaths cross Loudéac
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
59 km
0.7 km per km²
Hiking routes
0 km
waymarked: 0 km per km²
Woodland
14%
about 11.3 km² of mapped woods
Km per km² of the commune · mapped on OpenStreetMap
LoudéacCôtes-d'Armor medianFrance median
Footpaths0.7
Hiking routes0
012 km per km²
Share of the land · mapped woods and forest
LoudéacCôtes-d'Armor medianFrance median
Woodland14%
0%50%100%
That is less than in 78% of compared French towns for footpaths per km², and for woodland more than in 51% of compared French towns. Hiking routes often follow paths and lanes already counted, so the two lengths overlap: don’t add them. 96% of Loudéac’s residents live within 800 m of a mapped park or wood, close to the typical town.
A named hiking route within 2 km
Other named walk
De Lanester au Lac de Guerlédan, Saint-Gérand - Mûr-de-Bretagne6.5 km
Source: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL), extracts of October 25, 2026 (Geofabrik).
When to get out
The best walking months in Loudéac: May to September
Météo-France’s 1991–2020 normals at Loudeac, 1.5 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) | 8.8 | 10.1 | 11.7 | 13.6 | 15.2 | 16.0 | 15.7 | 14.3 | 12.5 | 10.7 | 9.1 | 8.4 |
| High (°C) | 9 | 10 | 12 | 15 | 18 | 21 | 23 | 23 | 20 | 16 | 12 | 9 |
| Rain (mm) | 104 | 83 | 67 | 66 | 62 | 58 | 47 | 55 | 61 | 102 | 104 | 114 |
July is the driest month (47 mm) and the warmest (highs of 23 °C). 114 mm of rain falls in December, the wettest month. Frost comes on about 32 nights a year. The climate in Loudéac →
Neighbors
Next to Loudéac
The nearest towns of 2,500 or more, colored by the share of their land in protected areas.
PlémetNoyal-PontivyGuerlédanPlœuc-L'HermitagePontivyLe MenéLoudéac
Under 1%1–10 %10–25 %25–50 %50 %+
| Town | Protected | Woodland | Paths (km/km²) | Coast |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Loudéac | 0% | 14% | 0.7 | 35 km |
| Plémet 3,764 · 12 km | 0% | 10% | 0.3 | 35 km |
| Noyal-Pontivy 3,606 · 16 km | 0% | 3.1% | 0.2 | 40 km |
| Guerlédan 2,532 · 17 km | 1.3% | 9.3% | 0.7 | 39 km |
| Plœuc-L'Hermitage 4,103 · 18 km | 1.6% | 41% | 0.2 | 18 km |
| Pontivy 14,640 · 20 km | 0% | 14% | 2.8 | 36 km |
| Le Mené 6,556 · 21 km | 0% | 12% | 0.2 | 25 km |
Plœuc-L'Hermitage 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 Loudéac
Is Loudéac in a national or regional nature park?
No. The nearest protected area is Forêt de Lorge, landes de Lanfains, cime de Kerchouan, 13 km from the town center.
Are there good walks in Loudéac?
OpenStreetMap maps 59 km of footpaths and tracks open on foot in the commune, 0.7 km per km² (the median compared town: 1.7 km per km²).
How much of Loudéac is woodland?
14% of the commune is mapped woodland, private woods included; the median compared French town has 13%.
Is Loudéac near the sea?
No: the coast is 35 km from the town center, as the crow flies.
When is the best time for walking in Loudéac?
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.