First pick
Koad Kerbescont
Wood or forest
57 ha6.5 km of path
1 h 25 minto walk all 6.5 km of path
1.6 km south-westfrom the center
Directionsto a point inside
Photo: Gwendal · CC BY-SA 3.018%woodland
Outdoors in Rostrenen · protected areas, woods and footpaths
Almost every home in Rostrenen is within 800 m of a park or wood
Rostrenen has 28 km of waymarked hiking routes. No protected area reaches Rostrenen; the nearest, Complexe de l’est des montagnes noires (Natura 2000), is 4.8 km from the town center. Mapped woodland covers 18% of Rostrenen. 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: Complexe de l’est des montagnes noires, 4.8 km
Woodland
18%
of the land, mapped on OpenStreetMap
Compared town: 13%
Footpaths
45 km
1.4 km per km²
Compared town: 1.7 km per km²
Hiking routes
28 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: Koad Kerbescont
The sea
45 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 Rostrenen?
Read from the data: what stands out first, good and less good.
On waymarked routes28 km of GR and other hiking routes cross the commune.Protected land nearbyComplexe de l’est des montagnes noires (Natura 2000) is 4.8 km from the town center.
What sets Rostrenen apart: its hiking routes, then protected land close by.
Against French towns
How Rostrenen 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
Woodland18%Share of the land mapped as forest or woods on OpenStreetMap
58out of 100
Footpaths1.4 km per km²Km of mapped footpath and track open on foot, per km² of the commune
43out of 100
Hiking routes0.9 km per km²Km of waymarked hiking routes (GR and others), per km² of the commune
79out of 100
Percentiles among compared French towns; ties count half.
Towns its size
Rostrenen has the 19th most footpaths per km² of 41 towns its size
The 40 compared French towns nearest in population (3,243 to 3,321 residents), by km of footpath per km². Hover for each one’s protected land and woods; click for its page.
From Frépillon (4.3 km per km²) to Ambès (0.1 km per km²).
Every town in the comparison
| Town | Paths (km/km²) | Woodland | Protected | Coast | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Frépillon Val-d'Oise | 4.3 | 19% | 0.2% | 126 km |
| 2 | Exincourt Doubs | 3.3 | 4% | 0% | 416 km |
| 3 | Amfreville-la-Mi-Voie Seine-Maritime | 3.2 | 24% | 3.5% | 56 km |
| 4 | Lavérune Hérault | 3.1 | 6.9% | 0% | 11 km |
| 5 | Volx Alpes-de-Haute-Provence | 3.1 | 37% | 100% | 71 km |
| 6 | Les Noës-près-Troyes Aube | 3.1 | 0% | 0% | 270 km |
| 7 | Luc-sur-Mer Calvados | 3 | 1.1% | 0% | On it |
| 8 | Lespinasse Haute-Garonne | 2.8 | 1.6% | 0% | 156 km |
| 9 | La Membrolle-sur-Choisille Indre-et-Loire | 2.2 | 19% | 0% | 184 km |
| 10 | Carantec Finistère | 2.2 | 3.6% | 14% | On it |
| 11 | Saint-Nicolas-de-Redon Loire-Atlantique | 2.2 | 18% | 31% | 29 km |
| 12 | Dieulefit Drôme | 2 | 66% | 0% | 120 km |
| 13 | Le Folgoët Finistère | 1.9 | 3.7% | 0% | 8.1 km |
| 14 | Bonne Haute-Savoie | 1.7 | 34% | 3.3% | 281 km |
| 15 | Mireval Hérault | 1.6 | 0.1% | 18% | 4.3 km |
| 16 | La Roche-Blanche Puy-de-Dôme | 1.5 | 12% | 7.8% | 249 km |
| 17 | Pontpoint Oise | 1.5 | 41% | 100% | 120 km |
| 18 | Bernis Gard | 1.4 | 26% | 2.6% | 28 km |
| 19 | Rostrenen Côtes-d'Armor | 1.4 | 18% | 0% | 45 km |
| 20 | La Chapelle-Longueville Eure | 1.3 | 31% | 0% | 86 km |
| 21 | Montmorot Jura | 1.3 | 17% | 0% | 357 km |
| 22 | Magnac-sur-Touvre Charente | 1 | 22% | 3.1% | 82 km |
| 23 | Carling Moselle | 0.9 | 11% | 0% | 351 km |
| 24 | Montanay Rhône | 0.8 | 7.1% | 0% | 265 km |
| 25 | Moussy-le-Neuf Seine-et-Marne | 0.8 | 26% | 0.2% | 141 km |
| 26 | Wizernes Pas-de-Calais | 0.7 | 6.8% | 100% | 32 km |
| 27 | Frévent Pas-de-Calais | 0.7 | 13% | 0% | 44 km |
| 28 | Podensac Gironde | 0.5 | 14% | 4.6% | 44 km |
| 29 | Gouville-sur-Mer Manche | 0.5 | 2.6% | 0.4% | 2.9 km |
| 30 | Rouans Loire-Atlantique | 0.5 | 5.5% | 30% | 18 km |
| 31 | Morhange Moselle | 0.5 | 7% | 0% | 367 km |
| 32 | Sainte-Florine Haute-Loire | 0.5 | 8.3% | 0% | 213 km |
| 33 | Bavay Nord | 0.4 | 4% | 100% | 121 km |
| 34 | Dordives Loiret | 0.4 | 30% | 0% | 228 km |
| 35 | Sarrola-Carcopino Corse-du-Sud | 0.3 | 6.7% | 0% | 6.1 km |
| 36 | Évry-Grégy-sur-Yerre Seine-et-Marne | 0.3 | 13% | 0% | 180 km |
| 37 | Vonnas Ain | 0.3 | 9.9% | 0% | 304 km |
| 38 | Malissard Drôme | 0.3 | 0.3% | 0% | 161 km |
| 39 | Airvault Deux-Sèvres | 0.2 | 13% | 18% | 95 km |
| 40 | Puiseaux Loiret | 0.2 | 2.6% | 1% | 207 km |
| 41 | Ambès Gironde | 0.1 | 5.4% | 58% | 4.6 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 Rostrenen
Named parks, gardens and woods in the commune or within 400 m, the biggest and best-pathed first: Koad Kerbescont leads, at 57 ha. Directions go to a point inside.
Coat ar Forn
Wood or forest
72 ha1.9 km of path
25 minto walk all 1.9 km of path
1.4 km southfrom the center
Directionsto a point inside
Forêt du Miniou
Wood or forest
5.1 ha0.9 km of path
10 minto walk all 0.9 km of path
Centralin the middle of Rostrenen
Directionsto a point inside
Square de la Fontaine
Park or garden
0.3 ha0.3 km of path
Centralin the middle of Rostrenen
Directionsto a point inside
Source: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL): named parks, gardens and woods; sizes are the whole site.
Protected areas
Complexe de l’est des montagnes noires is the nearest protected area, 4.8 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
Complexe de l’est des montagnes noires
4.8 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
45 km of footpaths and 28 km of hiking routes cross Rostrenen
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
45 km
1.4 km per km²
Hiking routes
28 km
waymarked: 0.9 km per km²
Woodland
18%
about 5.7 km² of mapped woods
Km per km² of the commune · mapped on OpenStreetMap
RostrenenCôtes-d'Armor medianFrance median
Footpaths1.4
Hiking routes0.9
012 km per km²
Share of the land · mapped woods and forest
RostrenenCôtes-d'Armor medianFrance median
Woodland18%
0%50%100%
That is less than in 57% 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. 99% of Rostrenen’s residents live within 800 m of a mapped park or wood, close to the typical town.
3 named hiking routes within 2 km
Other named walk
Circuit du Larron7.5 km
Circuit de la Grande Tranchée3.1 km
Sentier des landes de Lan Bern et Grande Tranchée2.3 km
Source: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL), extracts of October 25, 2026 (Geofabrik).
When to get out
The best walking months in Rostrenen: May to September
Météo-France’s 1991–2020 normals at Rostrenen, 1.6 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 | 16.1 | 15.7 | 14.3 | 12.5 | 10.7 | 9.1 | 8.4 |
| High (°C) | 8 | 9 | 11 | 14 | 17 | 20 | 22 | 22 | 19 | 15 | 11 | 9 |
| Rain (mm) | 135 | 109 | 83 | 81 | 76 | 57 | 67 | 68 | 76 | 120 | 128 | 146 |
June is the driest month (57 mm) and August the warmest (highs of 22 °C). 146 mm of rain falls in December, the wettest month. Frost comes on about 22 nights a year. The climate in Rostrenen →
Neighbors
Next to Rostrenen
The nearest towns of 2,500 or more, colored by the share of their land in protected areas.
Carhaix-PlouguerCléguérecGourinGuerlédanLe FaouëtRostrenen
Under 1%1–10 %10–25 %25–50 %50 %+
| Town | Protected | Woodland | Paths (km/km²) | Coast |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rostrenen | 0% | 18% | 1.4 | 45 km |
| Carhaix-Plouguer 7,412 · 19 km | 0% | 12% | 1.9 | 40 km |
| Cléguérec 2,885 · 22 km | 0% | 15% | 0.2 | 37 km |
| Gourin 3,960 · 24 km | 1.7% | 12% | 0.6 | 34 km |
| Guerlédan 2,532 · 25 km | 1.3% | 9.3% | 0.7 | 39 km |
| Le Faouët 2,814 · 26 km | 7.3% | 21% | 1.4 | 24 km |
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 Rostrenen
Is Rostrenen in a national or regional nature park?
No. The nearest protected area is Complexe de l’est des montagnes noires, 4.8 km from the town center.
Are there good walks in Rostrenen?
OpenStreetMap maps 45 km of footpaths and tracks open on foot in the commune, 1.4 km per km² (the median compared town: 1.7 km per km²); 28 km of waymarked hiking routes cross it.
How much of Rostrenen is woodland?
18% of the commune is mapped woodland, private woods included; the median compared French town has 13%.
Is Rostrenen near the sea?
No: the coast is 45 km from the town center, as the crow flies.
When is the best time for walking in Rostrenen?
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 9, 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.