Parks, woods and footpaths in Bagard
Footpaths add up to 15 km across Bagard (1 km per km²). Protected areas cover 8.6% of Bagard’s land. Mapped woodland covers 14% of Bagard. France has no Outdoors Grade yet: these are the figures, each beside the compared towns’ median.
Throughout this page, the Gard median and the France median are the median of compared communes (those with an overall grade), each figure its own median.
How Bagard 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.
Percentiles among compared French towns; ties count half.
Bagard has the 19th most footpaths per km² of 41 towns its size
The 40 compared French towns nearest in population (2,582 to 2,628 residents), by km of footpath per km². Hover for each one’s protected land and woods; click for its page.
From Couzon-au-Mont-d'Or (7.2 km per km²) to Hilsenheim (0 km per km²).
Every town in the comparison
| Town | Paths (km/km²) | Woodland | Protected | Coast | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Couzon-au-Mont-d'Or Rhône | 7.2 | 42% | 0% | 261 km |
| 2 | Josselin Morbihan | 3.7 | 15% | 0% | 36 km |
| 3 | Champlan Essonne | 2.2 | 14% | 0% | 161 km |
| 4 | Tourville-la-Rivière Seine-Maritime | 2 | 15% | 15% | 55 km |
| 5 | Camiers Pas-de-Calais | 2 | 30% | 32% | On it |
| 6 | Wahagnies Nord | 1.9 | 30% | 0% | 76 km |
| 7 | Le Bourg-d'Oisans Isère | 1.7 | 33% | 100% | 180 km |
| 8 | Damparis Jura | 1.6 | 35% | 0% | 401 km |
| 9 | Hardricourt Yvelines | 1.6 | 15% | 0.4% | 118 km |
| 10 | Longueil-Annel Oise | 1.5 | 21% | 0% | 116 km |
| 11 | Bourguébus Calvados | 1.5 | 1.1% | 0% | 18 km |
| 12 | Le Palais Morbihan | 1.5 | 5% | 26% | On it |
| 13 | Saint-Jean-du-Gard Gard | 1.4 | 84% | 100% | 62 km |
| 14 | Longeville-sur-Mer Vendée | 1.3 | 18% | 100% | On it |
| 15 | Bessèges Gard | 1.3 | 66% | 100% | 81 km |
| 16 | Villenauxe-la-Grande Aube | 1.3 | 13% | 0% | 223 km |
| 17 | Foug Meurthe-et-Moselle | 1.3 | 73% | 1.2% | 342 km |
| 18 | La Broque Bas-Rhin | 1.1 | 79% | 8% | 432 km |
| 19 | Bagard Gard | 1 | 14% | 8.6% | 56 km |
| 20 | Vendres Hérault | 1 | 1.9% | 60% | On it |
| 21 | Pîtres Eure | 0.9 | 47% | 0.2% | 64 km |
| 22 | Ivry-la-Bataille Eure | 0.8 | 2.6% | 3.2% | 101 km |
| 23 | Villeneuve-Saint-Germain Aisne | 0.8 | 11% | 0% | 150 km |
| 24 | Grâces Côtes-d'Armor | 0.8 | 12% | 0% | 17 km |
| 25 | Villages du Lac de Paladru Isère | 0.8 | 21% | 0% | 230 km |
| 26 | La Calmette Gard | 0.7 | 29% | 0% | 43 km |
| 27 | Frelinghien Nord | 0.7 | 1% | 0% | 51 km |
| 28 | La Châtaigneraie Vendée | 0.6 | 4.5% | 0% | 48 km |
| 29 | Trélon Nord | 0.6 | 78% | 100% | 156 km |
| 30 | Xertigny Vosges | 0.4 | 42% | 0% | 417 km |
| 31 | Beychac-et-Caillau Gironde | 0.4 | 16% | 4.7% | 22 km |
| 32 | Frans Ain | 0.4 | 4% | 0% | 275 km |
| 33 | Baldersheim Haut-Rhin | 0.4 | 63% | 60% | 446 km |
| 34 | Saint-Yzan-de-Soudiac Gironde | 0.3 | 13% | 3% | 19 km |
| 35 | Charly-sur-Marne Aisne | 0.3 | 21% | 0% | 177 km |
| 36 | Clairac Lot-et-Garonne | 0.3 | 7.7% | 0% | 105 km |
| 37 | Semussac Charente-Maritime | 0.3 | 3.8% | 6.9% | 5.1 km |
| 38 | Vivy Maine-et-Loire | 0.3 | 15% | 100% | 140 km |
| 39 | Haspres Nord | 0.2 | 1.8% | 0% | 111 km |
| 40 | Cauchy-à-la-Tour Pas-de-Calais | 0.1 | 0.4% | 0% | 54 km |
| 41 | Hilsenheim Bas-Rhin | 0 | 28% | 18% | 465 km |
Parks, woods, footpaths & countryside
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7 in 10 residents of Bagard 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).
Residents within 800 m of green space · share of residents
About 900 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.
8.6% of Bagard lies in protected areas
The protected areas reaching the commune, and the nearest: national parks, regional nature parks, nature reserves and Natura 2000 sites.
Cévennes National Park
Falaises d’Anduze
Share of the commune’s land
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.
8.6% of Bagard’s land is protected, more than in 70% of compared French towns; the median compared town in Gard has 13%. A national park’s outer area (aire d’adhésion) is made of the communes that signed the park’s charter: it guides how they grow, but it isn’t strict protection like the core.
Source: INPN / PatriNat, protected areas July 2026, Natura 2000 December 2024; shares of IGN’s commune boundary.
15 km of footpaths cross Bagard
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.
Km per km² of the commune · mapped on OpenStreetMap
Share of the land · mapped woods and forest
That is less than in 68% of compared French towns for footpaths per km², and for woodland more than in 51% of compared French towns. Hiking routes often follow paths and lanes already counted, so the two lengths overlap: don’t add them.
Source: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL), extracts of October 25, 2026 (Geofabrik).
The best walking months in Bagard: April to June
Météo-France’s 1991–2020 normals at St Christol-Les-Ales, 3.5 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) | 9.2 | 10.4 | 11.8 | 13.4 | 14.7 | 15.5 | 15.2 | 14.0 | 12.4 | 10.9 | 9.6 | 8.9 |
| High (°C) | 11 | 13 | 17 | 20 | 24 | 29 | 33 | 32 | 27 | 21 | 15 | 12 |
| Rain (mm) | 82 | 56 | 73 | 83 | 78 | 49 | 39 | 50 | 161 | 154 | 133 | 90 |
July is the driest month (39 mm) and the warmest (highs of 33 °C). 161 mm of rain falls in September, the wettest month. Frost comes on about 44 nights a year. Summer highs reach 33 °C, too hot for the outline. The climate in Bagard →
Next to Bagard
The nearest towns of 2,500 or more, colored by the share of their land in protected areas.
| Town | Protected | Woodland | Paths (km/km²) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bagard | 8.6% | 14% | 1 |
| Saint-Christol-lez-Alès 7,310 · 2.6 km | 0% | 21% | 1.2 |
| Boisset-et-Gaujac 2,707 · 3 km | 9.4% | 15% | 0.4 |
| Saint-Hilaire-de-Brethmas 4,670 · 6 km | 0% | 4.6% | 0.6 |
| Anduze 3,391 · 6.1 km | 100% | 49% | 2.9 |
| Alès 46,125 · 7.2 km | 0% | 8% | 2.2 |
| Saint-Privat-des-Vieux 5,703 · 10 km | 0% | 24% | 1.4 |
Anduze has at least twice as much protected land. Saint-Christol-lez-Alès, Anduze and Saint-Privat-des-Vieux are more wooded.
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 Bagard
Is Bagard in a national or regional nature park?
No, but 8.6% of its land is in a nature reserve or a Natura 2000 site.
Are there good walks in Bagard?
OpenStreetMap maps 15 km of footpaths and tracks open on foot in the commune, 1 km per km² (the median compared town: 1.7 km per km²).
How much of Bagard is woodland?
14% of the commune is mapped woodland, private woods included; the median compared French town has 13%.
Is Bagard near the sea?
No: the coast is 56 km from the town center, as the crow flies.
When is the best time for walking in Bagard?
April to June: 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.