First pick
Forêt régionale de Cheptainville
Wood or forest
790 ha18.3 km of path
4 h 5 minto walk all 18.3 km of path
0.7 km northfrom the center
Chemin de la Grande RuelleChemin Sentier LouchettesChemin du Four à Chaux
Directionsto a point inside
Photo: Marianne Casamance · CC BY-SA 4.046%woodland
Outdoors in Lardy · protected areas, woods and footpaths
46% of Lardy is woodland, more than in 8 in 10 French towns
Lardy has 7 km of waymarked hiking routes. 21 km of footpaths cross Lardy (2.7 km per km²). No protected area reaches Lardy; the nearest, Gâtinais Français Regional Nature Park, is 0.2 km from the town center. France has no Outdoors Grade yet: these are the figures, each beside the compared towns’ median.
Protected areas
0.1%
of the commune’s land
Nearest: Gâtinais Français Regional Nature Park, 0.2 km
Woodland
46%
of the land, mapped on OpenStreetMap
Compared town: 13%
Footpaths
21 km
2.7 km per km²
Compared town: 1.7 km per km²
Hiking routes
6.7 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: Forêt régionale de Cheptainville
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 Lardy?
Read from the data: what stands out first, good and less good.
A wooded commune46% mapped woodland, more than in 89% of compared French towns, against 13% for the median compared town.On waymarked routes7 km of GR and other hiking routes cross the commune.Protected land nearbyGâtinais Français Regional Nature Park is 0.2 km from the town center.
What sets Lardy apart: its woods, then its hiking routes.
Against French towns
How Lardy 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 areas0.1%Share of the land in a national park, regional nature park, nature reserve or Natura 2000 site
51out of 100
Woodland46%Share of the land mapped as forest or woods on OpenStreetMap
89out of 100
Footpaths2.7 km per km²Km of mapped footpath and track open on foot, per km² of the commune
69out 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
Lardy has the 6th most footpaths per km² of 41 towns its size
The 40 compared French towns nearest in population (5,457 to 5,605 residents), by km of footpath per km². Hover for each one’s protected land and woods; click for its page.
From Le Port-Marly (5.9 km per km²) to Nueil-les-Aubiers (0.2 km per km²).
Every town in the comparison
| Town | Paths (km/km²) | Woodland | Protected | Coast | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Le Port-Marly Yvelines | 5.9 | 13% | 0% | 138 km |
| 2 | Saint-Martin-d'Uriage Isère | 3.8 | 65% | 9.9% | 197 km |
| 3 | Nouzonville Ardennes | 3 | 67% | 100% | 203 km |
| 4 | Chevreuse Yvelines | 2.9 | 50% | 100% | 147 km |
| 5 | Ternay Rhône | 2.7 | 18% | 0% | 234 km |
| 6 | Lardy Essonne | 2.7 | 46% | 0.1% | 173 km |
| 7 | Coublevie Isère | 2.7 | 18% | 73% | 220 km |
| 8 | Liverdun Meurthe-et-Moselle | 2.6 | 72% | 0.1% | 355 km |
| 9 | Penmarch Finistère | 2.5 | 0% | 18% | On it |
| 10 | Beaurains Pas-de-Calais | 2.5 | 1.1% | 0% | 79 km |
| 11 | La Roque-d'Anthéron Bouches-du-Rhône | 2.3 | 36% | 51% | 39 km |
| 12 | Saint-Sébastien-de-Morsent Eure | 2.2 | 35% | 0% | 71 km |
| 13 | Aussillon Tarn | 2 | 41% | 100% | 75 km |
| 14 | Le Boulou Pyrénées-Orientales | 2 | 19% | 7.4% | 18 km |
| 15 | Guînes Pas-de-Calais | 1.8 | 34% | 100% | 10 km |
| 16 | Baisieux Nord | 1.8 | 2.5% | 0% | 70 km |
| 17 | Saint-Gilles Ille-et-Vilaine | 1.7 | 6.4% | 0% | 40 km |
| 18 | Rosheim Bas-Rhin | 1.7 | 57% | 0% | 443 km |
| 19 | Nogent-sur-Seine Aube | 1.6 | 18% | 2.5% | 230 km |
| 20 | Wormhout Nord | 1.5 | 0.3% | 0% | 19 km |
| 21 | Ille-sur-Têt Pyrénées-Orientales | 1.4 | 7.9% | 0.1% | 34 km |
| 22 | Foulayronnes Lot-et-Garonne | 1.4 | 9.9% | 0% | 130 km |
| 23 | Pollestres Pyrénées-Orientales | 1.3 | 0.9% | 0% | 14 km |
| 24 | Genay Rhône | 1.2 | 9% | 0% | 266 km |
| 25 | Ambazac Haute-Vienne | 1.2 | 50% | 8.1% | 177 km |
| 26 | Grans Bouches-du-Rhône | 1.2 | 13% | 43% | 22 km |
| 27 | Viarmes Val-d'Oise | 1.1 | 31% | 100% | 126 km |
| 28 | Quincy-Voisins Seine-et-Marne | 1.1 | 30% | 0% | 166 km |
| 29 | Neuville-de-Poitou Vienne | 1 | 0.3% | 26% | 114 km |
| 30 | Les Achards Vendée | 0.9 | 4.6% | 0% | 15 km |
| 31 | Bohain-en-Vermandois Aisne | 0.8 | 12% | 0% | 129 km |
| 32 | Drap Alpes-Maritimes | 0.8 | 33% | 0% | 4.8 km |
| 33 | Carbonne Haute-Garonne | 0.6 | 9.8% | 7.6% | 153 km |
| 34 | Chazelles-sur-Lyon Loire | 0.6 | 13% | 0% | 232 km |
| 35 | Étoile-sur-Rhône Drôme | 0.5 | 8.7% | 1.6% | 154 km |
| 36 | Roquemaure Gard | 0.3 | 12% | 13% | 66 km |
| 37 | Ernée Mayenne | 0.3 | 1.4% | 0.1% | 48 km |
| 38 | Servian Hérault | 0.3 | 7.4% | 0% | 17 km |
| 39 | La Garnache Vendée | 0.2 | 9.8% | 0% | 18 km |
| 40 | Ludon-Médoc Gironde | 0.2 | 5.6% | 100% | 3.7 km |
| 41 | Nueil-les-Aubiers Deux-Sèvres | 0.2 | 4.2% | 0% | 83 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 Lardy
Named parks, gardens and woods in the commune or within 400 m, the biggest and best-pathed first: Forêt régionale de Cheptainville leads, at 790 ha. Directions go to a point inside.
Forêt régionale de Saint-Vrain
Wood or forest
73 ha1.4 km of path
20 minto walk all 1.4 km of path
3.1 km north-eastfrom the center
Directionsto a point inside
Domaine de Gillevoisin
Park or garden · 0 m outside the commune
22 ha1.1 km of path
15 minto walk all 1.1 km of path
2.6 km south-westfrom the center
Directionsto a point inside
Parc de l'Hôtel de Ville
Park or garden
6.7 ha1.3 km of path
20 minto walk all 1.3 km of path
0.8 km south-westfrom the center
Directionsto a point inside
Parc Boussard
Park or garden
0.5 ha0.5 km of path
0.6 km south-westfrom the center
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, 0.2 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
0.2 km from the town center
Share of the commune’s land
Any protected area0.1%
Regional nature park0.1%
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
21 km of footpaths and 7 km of hiking routes cross Lardy
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
21 km
2.7 km per km²
Hiking routes
6.7 km
waymarked: 0.9 km per km²
Woodland
46%
about 3.6 km² of mapped woods
Km per km² of the commune · mapped on OpenStreetMap
LardyEssonne medianFrance median
Footpaths2.7
Hiking routes0.9
02.55 km per km²
Share of the land · mapped woods and forest
LardyEssonne medianFrance median
Woodland46%
0%50%100%
That is more than in 69% of compared French towns for footpaths per km², and for woodland more than in 89% 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 Lardy is within 800 m of a mapped park or wood, as in most French towns.
5 named hiking routes within 2 km
GR (long-distance)Other named walk
GR 655ET3.7 km
Du Val d'Yerres à l'Étampois14 km
Entre Essonne et Juine14 km
Au grès de la Juine14 km
Chemin des Marais7.8 km
GR 655ET passes within 2 km of Lardy.
Source: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL), extracts of October 25, 2026 (Geofabrik).
When to get out
The best walking months in Lardy: April to September
Météo-France’s 1991–2020 normals at Bretigny_Sapc, 9.2 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 Lardy →
Neighbors
Next to Lardy
The nearest towns of 2,500 or more, colored by the share of their land in protected areas.
Saint-VrainMarolles-en-HurepoixBoissy-sous-Saint-YonIttevilleCernyLa NorvilleLardy
Under 1%1–10 %10–25 %25–50 %50 %+
| Town | Protected | Woodland | Paths (km/km²) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lardy | 0.1% | 46% | 2.7 |
| Saint-Vrain 3,089 · 4.1 km | 0.6% | 31% | 0.9 |
| Marolles-en-Hurepoix 5,708 · 4.6 km | 0% | 14% | 1.2 |
| Boissy-sous-Saint-Yon 3,882 · 5.4 km | 0% | 28% | 1.1 |
| Itteville 6,746 · 5.7 km | 7.1% | 33% | 0.6 |
| Cerny 3,531 · 6.5 km | 100% | 41% | 1.2 |
| La Norville 4,268 · 6.6 km | 0% | 4% | 2.2 |
Cerny has at least twice as much protected land.
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 Lardy
Is Lardy in a national or regional nature park?
No. The nearest protected area is Gâtinais Français Regional Nature Park, 0.2 km from the town center.
Are there good walks in Lardy?
OpenStreetMap maps 21 km of footpaths and tracks open on foot in the commune, 2.7 km per km² (the median compared town: 1.7 km per km²); 7 km of waymarked hiking routes cross it.
How much of Lardy is woodland?
46% of the commune is mapped woodland, private woods included; the median compared French town has 13%.
Is Lardy near the sea?
No: the coast is 173 km from the town center, as the crow flies.
When is the best time for walking in Lardy?
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.