First pick
Bois de la Perche
Wood or forest
52 ha4.9 km of path
1 h 5 minto walk all 4.9 km of path
1.6 km north-eastfrom the center
Directionsto a point inside
Photo: Menerlach · Public domain4.7%woodland
Outdoors in Quintin · protected areas, woods and footpaths
Quintin has more footpaths per km² than 8 in 10 French towns
Footpaths add up to 11 km across Quintin (3.6 km per km²). Quintin has 3 km of waymarked hiking routes. 4.7% of Quintin 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, 3.8 km
Woodland
4.7%
of the land, mapped on OpenStreetMap
Compared town: 13%
Footpaths
11 km
3.6 km per km²
Compared town: 1.7 km per km²
Hiking routes
2.5 km
waymarked, GR and others
Compared town: 0.3 km per km²
Parks & woods
5
named, in or within 400 m of the commune
First: Bois de la Perche
The sea
19 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 Quintin?
Read from the data: what stands out first, good and less good.
A place of footpaths3.6 km per km² of mapped footpath, against 1.7 km per km² for the median compared town.Protected land nearbyForêt de Lorge, landes de Lanfains, cime de Kerchouan (Natura 2000) is 3.8 km from the town center.
What sets Quintin apart: its footpaths, then protected land close by.
Against French towns
How Quintin 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
Woodland4.7%Share of the land mapped as forest or woods on OpenStreetMap
22out of 100
Footpaths3.6 km per km²Km of mapped footpath and track open on foot, per km² of the commune
81out of 100
Hiking routes0.8 km per km²Km of waymarked hiking routes (GR and others), per km² of the commune
77out of 100
Percentiles among compared French towns; ties count half.
Towns its size
Quintin has the 4th most footpaths per km² of 41 towns its size
The 40 compared French towns nearest in population (2,709 to 2,769 residents), by km of footpath per km². Hover for each one’s protected land and woods; click for its page.
From Andilly (7.1 km per km²) to Sains-du-Nord (0.1 km per km²).
Every town in the comparison
| Town | Paths (km/km²) | Woodland | Protected | Coast | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Andilly Val-d'Oise | 7.1 | 53% | 0% | 134 km |
| 2 | Chaligny Meurthe-et-Moselle | 5.1 | 72% | 0% | 364 km |
| 3 | Argelès-Gazost Hautes-Pyrénées | 4.3 | 17% | 100% | 130 km |
| 4 | Quintin Côtes-d'Armor | 3.6 | 4.7% | 0% | 19 km |
| 5 | Collioure Pyrénées-Orientales | 3.4 | 6.3% | 4% | On it |
| 6 | Saint-Lunaire Ille-et-Vilaine | 2.6 | 21% | 100% | On it |
| 7 | Balaruc-le-Vieux Hérault | 2.5 | 5.5% | 19% | 5.4 km |
| 8 | Anet Eure-et-Loir | 2.4 | 48% | 0.1% | 102 km |
| 9 | Chailles Loir-et-Cher | 2.3 | 48% | 4.8% | 222 km |
| 10 | Malaucène Vaucluse | 2.1 | 57% | 100% | 83 km |
| 11 | Loire-sur-Rhône Rhône | 1.9 | 44% | 84% | 229 km |
| 12 | Ampuis Rhône | 1.7 | 36% | 95% | 222 km |
| 13 | Capinghem Nord | 1.7 | 1.8% | 0% | 57 km |
| 14 | Venarey-les-Laumes Côte-d'Or | 1.5 | 18% | 2.2% | 357 km |
| 15 | Venette Oise | 1.4 | 7.3% | 0% | 117 km |
| 16 | Trieux Meurthe-et-Moselle | 1.3 | 31% | 0% | 299 km |
| 17 | Beaumont-le-Roger Eure | 1.2 | 79% | 2% | 50 km |
| 18 | Aouste-sur-Sye Drôme | 1.2 | 40% | 2.3% | 141 km |
| 19 | Saint-Witz Val-d'Oise | 1.2 | 8.3% | 0.1% | 137 km |
| 20 | Vert-le-Petit Essonne | 1.1 | 17% | 11% | 177 km |
| 21 | Bessines-sur-Gartempe Haute-Vienne | 0.9 | 36% | 0.4% | 181 km |
| 22 | Orgon Bouches-du-Rhône | 0.8 | 17% | 100% | 40 km |
| 23 | Magné Deux-Sèvres | 0.8 | 15% | 100% | 44 km |
| 24 | Ronchamp Haute-Saône | 0.8 | 73% | 100% | 440 km |
| 25 | Vulaines-sur-Seine Seine-et-Marne | 0.8 | 24% | 0% | 205 km |
| 26 | Saleux Somme | 0.7 | 22% | 0% | 53 km |
| 27 | Marigny-Le-Lozon Manche | 0.7 | 0.2% | 46% | 21 km |
| 28 | Confolens Charente | 0.6 | 12% | 3.7% | 127 km |
| 29 | Warmeriville Marne | 0.5 | 11% | 0% | 205 km |
| 30 | Montignac-Lascaux Dordogne | 0.5 | 52% | 1.6% | 138 km |
| 31 | Alixan Drôme | 0.5 | 0.2% | 0% | 170 km |
| 32 | Caux Hérault | 0.4 | 12% | 0% | 25 km |
| 33 | Montrevel-en-Bresse Ain | 0.4 | 7.8% | 0% | 319 km |
| 34 | Huttenheim Bas-Rhin | 0.3 | 32% | 35% | 460 km |
| 35 | Montholon Yonne | 0.2 | 36% | 0% | 279 km |
| 36 | Sarre-Union Bas-Rhin | 0.2 | 21% | 1.7% | 389 km |
| 37 | Thuré Vienne | 0.2 | 29% | 0% | 136 km |
| 38 | Yerville Seine-Maritime | 0.2 | 3.2% | 0% | 24 km |
| 39 | Ouveillan Aude | 0.2 | 1.4% | 0% | 22 km |
| 40 | Ennezat Puy-de-Dôme | 0.1 | 0.1% | 0% | 268 km |
| 41 | Sains-du-Nord Nord | 0.1 | 34% | 100% | 149 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 Quintin
Named parks, gardens and woods in the commune or within 400 m, the biggest and best-pathed first: Bois de la Perche leads, at 52 ha. Directions go to a point inside.
Bois de Robien
Wood or forest · 120 m outside the commune
36 ha
1.8 km south-westfrom the center
Directionsto a point inside
Parc Roz Maria
Park or garden
2.2 ha0.6 km of path
10 minto walk all 0.6 km of path
Centralin the middle of Quintin
Directionsto a point inside
Bosquet de l'Étang
Wood or forest
3.2 ha0.8 km of path
10 minto walk all 0.8 km of path
Centralin the middle of Quintin
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, 3.8 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
Forêt de Lorge, landes de Lanfains, cime de Kerchouan
3.8 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
Footpaths and woods in Quintin
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
11 km
3.6 km per km²
Hiking routes
2.5 km
waymarked: 0.8 km per km²
Woodland
4.7%
about 0.1 km² of mapped woods
Km per km² of the commune · mapped on OpenStreetMap
QuintinCôtes-d'Armor medianFrance median
Footpaths3.6
Hiking routes0.8
02.55 km per km²
Share of the land · mapped woods and forest
QuintinCôtes-d'Armor medianFrance median
Woodland4.7%
0%50%100%
That is more than in 81% of compared French towns for footpaths per km², and for woodland less than in 78% 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 Quintin is within 800 m of a mapped park or wood, as in most French towns.
Source: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL), extracts of October 25, 2026 (Geofabrik).
When to get out
The best walking months in Quintin: May to September
Météo-France’s 1991–2020 normals at Ploeuc-Sur-Lie, 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) | 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 Quintin →
Neighbors
Next to Quintin
The nearest towns of 2,500 or more, colored by the share of their land in protected areas.
PlaintelPlœuc-L'HermitagePloufraganPlédranTrégueuxChâtelaudren-PlouagatQuintin
Under 1%1–10 %10–25 %25–50 %50 %+
| Town | Protected | Woodland | Paths (km/km²) | Coast |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Quintin | 0% | 4.7% | 3.6 | 19 km |
| Plaintel 4,602 · 7 km | 0% | 7.6% | 1.7 | 13 km |
| Plœuc-L'Hermitage 4,103 · 12 km | 1.6% | 41% | 0.2 | 18 km |
| Ploufragan 11,507 · 13 km | 0.2% | 13% | 2.5 | 5.7 km |
| Plédran 6,933 · 13 km | 0% | 8.8% | 1.1 | 6.7 km |
| Trégueux 8,450 · 15 km | 0% | 5.5% | 2.4 | 4.1 km |
| Châtelaudren-Plouagat 3,974 · 16 km | 0% | 4.2% | 0.5 | 14 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 Quintin
Is Quintin in a national or regional nature park?
No. The nearest protected area is Forêt de Lorge, landes de Lanfains, cime de Kerchouan, 3.8 km from the town center.
Are there good walks in Quintin?
OpenStreetMap maps 11 km of footpaths and tracks open on foot in the commune, 3.6 km per km² (the median compared town: 1.7 km per km²); 3 km of waymarked hiking routes cross it.
How much of Quintin is woodland?
4.7% of the commune is mapped woodland, private woods included; the median compared French town has 13%.
Is Quintin 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 Quintin?
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.