First pick
Domaine départemental de Chamarande
Park or garden · 390 m outside the commune
98 ha3.4 km of path
45 minto walk all 3.4 km of path
3.2 km north-eastfrom the center
Directionsto a point inside
Photo: Marianne Casamance · CC BY-SA 4.029%woodland
Outdoors in Étréchy · protected areas, woods and footpaths
Almost every home in Étréchy is within 800 m of a park or wood
Waymarked hiking routes add up to 17 km in Étréchy. 29% of Étréchy is mapped woodland. 40 km of footpaths cross Étréchy (2.8 km per km²). 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: Sites Géologiques du Département de l’Essonne nature reserve, 0.9 km
Woodland
29%
of the land, mapped on OpenStreetMap
Compared town: 13%
Footpaths
40 km
2.8 km per km²
Compared town: 1.7 km per km²
Hiking routes
17 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: Domaine départemental de Chamarande
Throughout this page, the Essonne 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 Étréchy?
Read from the data: what stands out first, good and less good.
On waymarked routes17 km of GR and other hiking routes cross the commune.Protected land nearbySites Géologiques du Département de l’Essonne nature reserve is 0.9 km from the town center.
What sets Étréchy apart: its hiking routes, then protected land close by.
Against French towns
How Étréchy 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
48out of 100
Woodland29%Share of the land mapped as forest or woods on OpenStreetMap
75out of 100
Footpaths2.8 km per km²Km of mapped footpath and track open on foot, per km² of the commune
71out of 100
Hiking routes1.2 km per km²Km of waymarked hiking routes (GR and others), per km² of the commune
88out of 100
Percentiles among compared French towns; ties count half.
Towns its size
Étréchy has the 13th most footpaths per km² of 41 towns its size
The 40 compared French towns nearest in population (6,905 to 7,062 residents), by km of footpath per km². Hover for each one’s protected land and woods; click for its page.
From Jacou (10.3 km per km²) to Cadaujac (0.2 km per km²).
Every town in the comparison
| Town | Paths (km/km²) | Woodland | Protected | Coast | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Jacou Hérault | 10.3 | 16% | 0% | 13 km |
| 2 | Sathonay-Camp Rhône | 8.3 | 17% | 0% | 259 km |
| 3 | Sainte-Adresse Seine-Maritime | 6.5 | 8.4% | 7.6% | On it |
| 4 | Bailly-Romainvilliers Seine-et-Marne | 4.6 | 10% | 0% | 169 km |
| 5 | Lésigny Seine-et-Marne | 4.2 | 42% | 0% | 171 km |
| 6 | Trévoux Ain | 3.9 | 8.3% | 0% | 270 km |
| 7 | Barr Bas-Rhin | 3.8 | 77% | 0% | 450 km |
| 8 | Cognin Savoie | 3.6 | 16% | 44% | 234 km |
| 9 | Luisant Eure-et-Loir | 3.4 | 11% | 6.4% | 139 km |
| 10 | Leforest Pas-de-Calais | 3.4 | 18% | 0% | 81 km |
| 11 | Binic-Étables-sur-Mer Côtes-d'Armor | 3.3 | 7.5% | 0% | On it |
| 12 | Fontaines-sur-Saône Rhône | 3 | 14% | 0% | 259 km |
| 13 | Étréchy Essonne | 2.8 | 29% | 0% | 170 km |
| 14 | Escalquens Haute-Garonne | 2.5 | 1.9% | 0% | 134 km |
| 15 | Soultz-Haut-Rhin Haut-Rhin | 2.4 | 60% | 100% | 456 km |
| 16 | Uckange Moselle | 2.3 | 3.2% | 0% | 312 km |
| 17 | Saint-Rambert-d'Albon Drôme | 1.8 | 6.2% | 1.6% | 201 km |
| 18 | Houdain Pas-de-Calais | 1.7 | 7% | 0% | 60 km |
| 19 | Saint-André-des-Eaux Loire-Atlantique | 1.5 | 7.8% | 100% | 6.4 km |
| 20 | Changé Sarthe | 1.5 | 33% | 0% | 142 km |
| 21 | Bourbourg Nord | 1.4 | 0.3% | 0% | 6.1 km |
| 22 | Castelnau-d'Estrétefonds Haute-Garonne | 1.4 | 16% | 2.6% | 161 km |
| 23 | Saint-Pol-de-Léon Finistère | 1.2 | 2% | 4% | On it |
| 24 | Morteau Doubs | 1.2 | 28% | 100% | 371 km |
| 25 | Brech Morbihan | 1.1 | 18% | 0% | On it |
| 26 | Trans-en-Provence Var | 1.1 | 26% | 0% | 23 km |
| 27 | Épône Yvelines | 1.1 | 16% | 0% | 119 km |
| 28 | Plédran Côtes-d'Armor | 1.1 | 8.8% | 0% | 6.7 km |
| 29 | Jurançon Pyrénées-Atlantiques | 1 | 45% | 5.5% | 94 km |
| 30 | Grandchamp-des-Fontaines Loire-Atlantique | 0.8 | 8.7% | 0% | 43 km |
| 31 | Bétheny Marne | 0.7 | 0% | 0% | 198 km |
| 32 | Saint-Bonnet-de-Mure Rhône | 0.7 | 4.8% | 0% | 249 km |
| 33 | Sénas Bouches-du-Rhône | 0.6 | 2.8% | 100% | 36 km |
| 34 | Marsillargues Hérault | 0.6 | 0.5% | 32% | 13 km |
| 35 | Valognes Manche | 0.5 | 4.7% | 0% | 12 km |
| 36 | Nérac Lot-et-Garonne | 0.5 | 6.7% | 0.5% | 122 km |
| 37 | La Plaine-des-Palmistes Réunion | 0.5 | 64% | 100% | 14 km |
| 38 | Manduel Gard | 0.5 | 0.5% | 63% | 40 km |
| 39 | Lucciana Haute-Corse | 0.4 | 4.8% | 3% | On it |
| 40 | Chauvigny Vienne | 0.4 | 24% | 0% | 140 km |
| 41 | Cadaujac Gironde | 0.2 | 14% | 45% | 29 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 Étréchy
Named parks, gardens and woods in the commune or within 400 m, the biggest and best-pathed first: Domaine départemental de Chamarande leads, at 98 ha. Directions go to a point inside.
Sablière
Wood or forest
8.3 ha0.6 km of path
10 minto walk all 0.6 km of path
1.3 km southfrom the center
Directionsto a point inside
Parc de l'Europe
Park or garden
0.4 ha0.2 km of path
Centralin the middle of Étréchy
Directionsto a point inside
Source: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL): named parks, gardens and woods; sizes are the whole site.
Protected areas
Gâtinais Français Regional Nature Park is the nearest protected area, 1.1 km away
The protected areas reaching the commune, and the nearest: national parks, regional nature parks, nature reserves and Natura 2000 sites.
Regional nature park
Gâtinais Français Regional Nature Park
1.1 km from the town center
Nature reserve
Sites Géologiques du Département de l’Essonne nature reserve
0.9 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.
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
40 km of footpaths and 17 km of hiking routes cross Étréchy
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
40 km
2.8 km per km²
Hiking routes
17 km
waymarked: 1.2 km per km²
Woodland
29%
about 4.1 km² of mapped woods
Km per km² of the commune · mapped on OpenStreetMap
ÉtréchyEssonne medianFrance median
Footpaths2.8
Hiking routes1.2
02.55 km per km²
Share of the land · mapped woods and forest
ÉtréchyEssonne medianFrance median
Woodland29%
0%50%100%
That is more than in 71% of compared French towns for footpaths per km², and for woodland more than in 75% 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 Étréchy is within 800 m of a mapped park or wood, as in most French towns.
8 named hiking routes within 2 km
GR (long-distance)Other named walk
GR 655ET6.3 km
Au grès de la Juine28 km
Du Val d'Yerres à l'Étampois15 km
Entre Essonne et Juine15 km
Grand Tour de Paris, Franchard - Villiers-Saint-Frédéric12 km
Sur les traces de la Renarde11 km
Via Turonensis par Orléans, Etréchy - Orléans5.2 km
Hespérides à Héliomonde3.9 km
GR 655ET passes within 2 km of Étréchy.
Source: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL), extracts of October 25, 2026 (Geofabrik).
When to get out
The best walking months in Étréchy: April to September
Météo-France’s 1991–2020 normals at Bretigny_Sapc, 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) | 7 | 9 | 13 | 16 | 20 | 23 | 26 | 26 | 22 | 17 | 11 | 8 |
| Rain (mm) | 48 | 45 | 45 | 45 | 61 | 56 | 53 | 58 | 49 | 53 | 55 | 63 |
April is the driest month (45 mm) and July the warmest (highs of 26 °C). 63 mm of rain falls in December, the wettest month. Frost comes on about 44 nights a year. The climate in Étréchy →
Neighbors
Next to Étréchy
The nearest towns of 2,500 or more, colored by the share of their land in protected areas.
Morigny-ChampignyÉtampesBoissy-sous-Saint-YonLardySaint-ChéronBreuilletÉtréchy
Under 1%1–10 %10–25 %25–50 %50 %+
| Town | Protected | Woodland | Paths (km/km²) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Étréchy | 0% | 29% | 2.8 |
| Morigny-Champigny 4,412 · 5 km | 0.4% | 22% | 0.9 |
| Étampes 26,857 · 6.7 km | 0% | 12% | 1 |
| Boissy-sous-Saint-Yon 3,882 · 7.3 km | 0% | 28% | 1.1 |
| Lardy 5,530 · 7.3 km | 0.1% | 46% | 2.7 |
| Saint-Chéron 5,132 · 8.2 km | 0% | 49% | 2.2 |
| Breuillet 9,157 · 9 km | 0% | 33% | 2.8 |
Lardy and Saint-Chéron 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 Étréchy
Is Étréchy in a national or regional nature park?
No. The nearest protected area is Sites Géologiques du Département de l’Essonne nature reserve, 0.9 km from the town center.
Are there good walks in Étréchy?
OpenStreetMap maps 40 km of footpaths and tracks open on foot in the commune, 2.8 km per km² (the median compared town: 1.7 km per km²); 17 km of waymarked hiking routes cross it.
How much of Étréchy is woodland?
29% of the commune is mapped woodland, private woods included; the median compared French town has 13%.
Is Étréchy near the sea?
No: the coast is 170 km from the town center, as the crow flies.
When is the best time for walking in Étréchy?
April 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.