First pick
Les Etangs de la Palombière
Park or garden · 80 m outside the commune
9.1 ha
6.1 km eastfrom the center
Directionsto a point inside
Photo: Damien M. · CC BY-SA 4.02.2%of the land protected
Outdoors in Vexin-sur-Epte · protected areas, woods and footpaths
Parks, woods and footpaths in Vexin-sur-Epte
Footpaths add up to 36 km across Vexin-sur-Epte (0.3 km per km²). Vexin-sur-Epte has 6 km of waymarked hiking routes. 16% of Vexin-sur-Epte is mapped woodland. France has no Outdoors Grade yet: these are the figures, each beside the compared towns’ median.
Protected areas
2.2%
of the commune’s land
Compared town: 0.1%
Woodland
16%
of the land, mapped on OpenStreetMap
Compared town: 13%
Footpaths
36 km
0.3 km per km²
Compared town: 1.7 km per km²
Hiking routes
5.7 km
waymarked, GR and others
Compared town: 0.3 km per km²
Green space nearby
93%
of residents within 800 m of a park or wood
Compared town: 100%
Throughout this page, the Eure 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 Vexin-sur-Epte 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 areas2.2%Share of the land in a national park, regional nature park, nature reserve or Natura 2000 site
59out of 100
Woodland16%Share of the land mapped as forest or woods on OpenStreetMap
56out of 100
Footpaths0.3 km per km²Km of mapped footpath and track open on foot, per km² of the commune
7out of 100
Hiking routes0.1 km per km²Km of waymarked hiking routes (GR and others), per km² of the commune
28out of 100
Green space nearby93%Share of residents within 800 m of a mapped park or wood
11out of 100
Percentiles among compared French towns; ties count half.
Towns its size
Vexin-sur-Epte has the 3rd fewest footpaths per km² of 41 towns its size
The 40 compared French towns nearest in population (5,952 to 6,078 residents), by km of footpath per km². Hover for each one’s protected land and woods; click for its page.
From Clapiers (9.8 km per km²) to Mesnils-sur-Iton (0.2 km per km²).
Every town in the comparison
| Town | Paths (km/km²) | Woodland | Protected | Coast | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Clapiers Hérault | 9.8 | 42% | 3.1% | 14 km |
| 2 | Ablon-sur-Seine Val-de-Marne | 5.8 | 6.2% | 0% | 165 km |
| 3 | Saint-Martin-le-Vinoux Isère | 5.7 | 52% | 71% | 207 km |
| 4 | La Verrière Yvelines | 5.3 | 14% | 1.3% | 139 km |
| 5 | Saint-Mandrier-sur-Mer Var | 3.9 | 35% | 0% | On it |
| 6 | Villennes-sur-Seine Yvelines | 3.7 | 17% | 0% | 128 km |
| 7 | Noyelles-Godault Pas-de-Calais | 3.5 | 6.9% | 0.2% | 81 km |
| 8 | Esbly Seine-et-Marne | 3 | 12% | 0% | 164 km |
| 9 | Roost-Warendin Nord | 2.9 | 22% | 7.5% | 85 km |
| 10 | Bois-le-Roi Seine-et-Marne | 2.8 | 31% | 18% | 199 km |
| 11 | Mondonville Haute-Garonne | 2.8 | 27% | 0% | 161 km |
| 12 | Saint-Jean-de-Boiseau Loire-Atlantique | 2.4 | 15% | 29% | 26 km |
| 13 | Trith-Saint-Léger Nord | 2.1 | 6.9% | 0% | 106 km |
| 14 | Lavelanet Ariège | 2 | 40% | 0% | 97 km |
| 15 | Marnaz Haute-Savoie | 2 | 51% | 9.8% | 265 km |
| 16 | Benfeld Bas-Rhin | 2 | 24% | 20% | 460 km |
| 17 | Hombourg-Haut Moselle | 1.9 | 48% | 0% | 357 km |
| 18 | Saint-Girons Ariège | 1.5 | 36% | 100% | 155 km |
| 19 | Jouars-Pontchartrain Yvelines | 1.4 | 20% | 100% | 133 km |
| 20 | Loon-Plage Nord | 1.3 | 2.6% | 0.2% | On it |
| 21 | Le Castellet Var | 1.3 | 18% | 81% | 7.5 km |
| 22 | Mortagne-sur-Sèvre Vendée | 1.3 | 7.8% | 0% | 77 km |
| 23 | Vias Hérault | 1.3 | 5.5% | 44% | On it |
| 24 | Donzère Drôme | 1.2 | 22% | 8.5% | 110 km |
| 25 | Vaison-la-Romaine Vaucluse | 1.2 | 29% | 100% | 90 km |
| 26 | Naintré Vienne | 1.1 | 33% | 0% | 134 km |
| 27 | Pavilly Seine-Maritime | 1 | 21% | 0% | 36 km |
| 28 | Marly-la-Ville Val-d'Oise | 0.9 | 5.5% | 0% | 135 km |
| 29 | Gévezé Ille-et-Vilaine | 0.9 | 4% | 0% | 34 km |
| 30 | Blanzy Saône-et-Loire | 0.8 | 17% | 0% | 349 km |
| 31 | Luc-la-Primaube Aveyron | 0.8 | 7.6% | 0% | 131 km |
| 32 | Condé-en-Normandie Calvados | 0.7 | 8.1% | 18% | 52 km |
| 33 | Corbie Somme | 0.6 | 16% | 4.5% | 66 km |
| 34 | Commentry Allier | 0.5 | 13% | 0% | 288 km |
| 35 | Fontenay-Trésigny Seine-et-Marne | 0.5 | 25% | 0% | 185 km |
| 36 | Aubignan Vaucluse | 0.5 | 3.8% | 42% | 73 km |
| 37 | Bouillargues Gard | 0.5 | 0.8% | 29% | 37 km |
| 38 | Beauvoisin Gard | 0.4 | 7.3% | 46% | 25 km |
| 39 | Vexin-sur-Epte Eure | 0.3 | 16% | 2.2% | 91 km |
| 40 | Saint-Denis-de-Pile Gironde | 0.2 | 11% | 14% | 31 km |
| 41 | Mesnils-sur-Iton Eure | 0.2 | 13% | 0% | 82 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 Vexin-sur-Epte
Named parks, gardens and woods in the commune or within 400 m, the biggest and best-pathed first: Les Etangs de la Palombière leads, at 9.1 ha. Directions go to a point inside.
Source: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL): named parks, gardens and woods; sizes are the whole site.
Close to home
9 in 10 residents of Vexin-sur-Epte live within 800 m of a park or wood
Each square is 1 resident in 100: in green, those within 800 m, as the crow flies, of a mapped park, garden or woodland edge (INSEE’s 200 m population grid against OpenStreetMap).
93% within 800 m6.6% further
Residents within 800 m of green space · share of residents
Vexin-sur-EpteEure medianFrance median
Within 800 m93%
0%50%100%
About 400 residents live further away. The distance is a straight line to the edge of a mapped park or wood, not a walk to a gate, and a wood can be private.
Protected areas
2.2% of Vexin-sur-Epte lies in protected areas
The protected areas reaching the commune, and the nearest: national parks, regional nature parks, nature reserves and Natura 2000 sites.
Regional nature park
Vexin Français Regional Nature Park
5.7 km from the town center
Natura 2000 site
Vallée de l’Epte
2.2% of the commune4.4 km from the center
Natura 2000 site
Vallée de l’Epte francilienne et ses affluents
5.7 km from the town center
Share of the commune’s land
Any protected area2.2%
Natura 2000 site2.2%
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.
2.2% of Vexin-sur-Epte’s land is protected, more than in 59% of compared French towns; the median compared town in Eure has 0.3%. 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
36 km of footpaths and 6 km of hiking routes cross Vexin-sur-Epte
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
36 km
0.3 km per km²
Hiking routes
5.7 km
waymarked: 0.1 km per km²
Woodland
16%
about 18.7 km² of mapped woods
Km per km² of the commune · mapped on OpenStreetMap
Vexin-sur-EpteEure medianFrance median
Footpaths0.3
Hiking routes0.1
012 km per km²
Share of the land · mapped woods and forest
Vexin-sur-EpteEure medianFrance median
Woodland16%
0%50%100%
That is less than in 93% of compared French towns for footpaths per km², and for woodland more than in 56% of compared French towns. Hiking routes often follow paths and lanes already counted, so the two lengths overlap: don’t add them.
2 named hiking routes within 2 km
GR (long-distance)Other named walk
GR 27.2 km
Forêt de la Roche-Guyon3.8 km
GR 2 passes within 2 km of Vexin-sur-Epte.
Source: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL), extracts of October 25, 2026 (Geofabrik).
When to get out
The best walking months in Vexin-sur-Epte: April to September
Météo-France’s 1991–2020 normals at Etrepagny, 15 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) | 8.6 | 10.1 | 11.7 | 13.6 | 15.3 | 16.2 | 15.8 | 14.4 | 12.5 | 10.7 | 9.0 | 8.2 |
| High (°C) | 7 | 9 | 12 | 16 | 20 | 23 | 25 | 25 | 21 | 16 | 11 | 8 |
| Rain (mm) | 74 | 57 | 57 | 54 | 65 | 61 | 59 | 62 | 55 | 68 | 71 | 92 |
April is the driest month (54 mm) and July the warmest (highs of 25 °C). 92 mm of rain falls in December, the wettest month. Frost comes on about 53 nights a year. The climate in Vexin-sur-Epte →
Neighbors
Next to Vexin-sur-Epte
The nearest towns of 2,500 or more, colored by the share of their land in protected areas.
GasnyVernonSaint-MarcelLa Chapelle-LonguevilleLes AndelysFreneuseVexin-sur-Epte
Under 1%1–10 %10–25 %25–50 %50 %+
| Town | Protected | Woodland | Paths (km/km²) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Vexin-sur-Epte | 2.2% | 16% | 0.3 |
| Gasny 3,062 · 9.2 km | 9.7% | 35% | 0.8 |
| Vernon 25,290 · 12 km | 3.5% | 56% | 2.5 |
| Saint-Marcel 4,512 · 13 km | 0% | 24% | 1.8 |
| La Chapelle-Longueville 3,282 · 13 km | 0% | 31% | 1.3 |
| Les Andelys 7,706 · 14 km | 6.1% | 22% | 1.1 |
| Freneuse 4,505 · 15 km | 51% | 34% | 0.4 |
Freneuse has at least twice as much protected land. Gasny, Vernon and La Chapelle-Longueville 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 Vexin-sur-Epte
Is Vexin-sur-Epte in a national or regional nature park?
No, but 2.2% of its land is in a nature reserve or a Natura 2000 site.
Are there good walks in Vexin-sur-Epte?
OpenStreetMap maps 36 km of footpaths and tracks open on foot in the commune, 0.3 km per km² (the median compared town: 1.7 km per km²); 6 km of waymarked hiking routes cross it.
How much of Vexin-sur-Epte is woodland?
16% of the commune is mapped woodland, private woods included; the median compared French town has 13%.
Is Vexin-sur-Epte near the sea?
No: the coast is 91 km from the town center, as the crow flies.
When is the best time for walking in Vexin-sur-Epte?
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 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.