First pick
Parc Sihem Belouahmia
Park or garden · 300 m outside the commune
0.6 ha
2.5 km south-eastfrom the center
Directionsto a point inside
Photo: Vpe · Public domain71%woodland
Outdoors in La Grand-Combe · protected areas, woods and footpaths
71% of La Grand-Combe is woodland, more than in 9 in 10 French towns
No protected area reaches La Grand-Combe; the nearest, Cévennes National Park, is 0.7 km from the town center. Waymarked hiking routes add up to 6 km in La Grand-Combe. 21 km of footpaths cross La Grand-Combe (1.7 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: Cévennes National Park, 0.7 km
Woodland
71%
of the land, mapped on OpenStreetMap
Compared town: 13%
Footpaths
21 km
1.7 km per km²
Compared town: 1.7 km per km²
Hiking routes
6.1 km
waymarked, GR and others
Compared town: 0.3 km per km²
Parks & woods
1
named, in or within 400 m of the commune
First: Parc Sihem Belouahmia
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.
What kind of place
What kind of outdoors place is La Grand-Combe?
Read from the data: what stands out first, good and less good.
A wooded commune71% mapped woodland, more than in 98% of compared French towns, against 13% for the median compared town.Protected land nearbyCévennes National Park is 0.7 km from the town center.
What sets La Grand-Combe apart: its woods, then protected land close by.
Against French towns
How La Grand-Combe 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
Woodland71%Share of the land mapped as forest or woods on OpenStreetMap
98out of 100
Footpaths1.7 km per km²Km of mapped footpath and track open on foot, per km² of the commune
51out of 100
Hiking routes0.5 km per km²Km of waymarked hiking routes (GR and others), per km² of the commune
61out of 100
Percentiles among compared French towns; ties count half.
Towns its size
La Grand-Combe has the 11th most footpaths per km² of 41 towns its size
The 40 compared French towns nearest in population (4,743 to 4,817 residents), by km of footpath per km². Hover for each one’s protected land and woods; click for its page.
From Marolles-en-Brie (6.1 km per km²) to Sanilhac (0.1 km per km²).
Every town in the comparison
| Town | Paths (km/km²) | Woodland | Protected | Coast | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Marolles-en-Brie Val-de-Marne | 6.1 | 42% | 0% | 169 km |
| 2 | Pompey Meurthe-et-Moselle | 5.3 | 68% | 0% | 356 km |
| 3 | Chasseneuil-du-Poitou Vienne | 3.4 | 6.9% | 30% | 121 km |
| 4 | Teyran Hérault | 3.2 | 11% | 10% | 15 km |
| 5 | Dagneux Ain | 2.5 | 18% | 0% | 266 km |
| 6 | Écouflant Maine-et-Loire | 2.1 | 10% | 46% | 123 km |
| 7 | Ingersheim Haut-Rhin | 2 | 17% | 1.3% | 469 km |
| 8 | L'Horme Loire | 2 | 3.4% | 0% | 217 km |
| 9 | Robion Vaucluse | 1.8 | 24% | 100% | 48 km |
| 10 | La Haie-Fouassière Loire-Atlantique | 1.7 | 12% | 0% | 47 km |
| 11 | La Grand-Combe Gard | 1.7 | 71% | 0% | 73 km |
| 12 | Saint-Martin-des-Champs Finistère | 1.7 | 17% | 1.4% | On it |
| 13 | Charly Rhône | 1.7 | 0.2% | 0% | 239 km |
| 14 | Locminé Morbihan | 1.6 | 7.8% | 0% | 24 km |
| 15 | Rilhac-Rancon Haute-Vienne | 1.6 | 33% | 0% | 170 km |
| 16 | Marvejols Lozère | 1.6 | 19% | 0.1% | 125 km |
| 17 | Bourgbarré Ille-et-Vilaine | 1.5 | 5.3% | 0% | 62 km |
| 18 | Limas Rhône | 1.4 | 8.5% | 0% | 273 km |
| 19 | Sadirac Gironde | 1.4 | 37% | 3.6% | 29 km |
| 20 | Saint-Romain-de-Colbosc Seine-Maritime | 1.4 | 3.5% | 0% | 9.6 km |
| 21 | Verneuil-en-Halatte Oise | 1.3 | 49% | 58% | 117 km |
| 22 | Le Coudray-Montceaux Essonne | 1.2 | 19% | 0% | 182 km |
| 23 | Cléon Seine-Maritime | 1.1 | 16% | 2% | 51 km |
| 24 | Cerizay Deux-Sèvres | 1.1 | 3.5% | 0% | 67 km |
| 25 | Vittel Vosges | 1.1 | 23% | 0% | 381 km |
| 26 | Milizac-Guipronvel Finistère | 0.9 | 6.1% | 0% | 9.1 km |
| 27 | Tinchebray-Bocage Orne | 0.8 | 4.9% | 0% | 48 km |
| 28 | Casteljaloux Lot-et-Garonne | 0.7 | 49% | 0.8% | 94 km |
| 29 | La Plaine-sur-Mer Loire-Atlantique | 0.7 | 6% | 0.1% | On it |
| 30 | Maraussan Hérault | 0.6 | 1.3% | 0% | 17 km |
| 31 | Les Monts d'Aunay Calvados | 0.6 | 23% | 25% | 37 km |
| 32 | Venansault Vendée | 0.5 | 6.2% | 0% | 27 km |
| 33 | La Ferté-Gaucher Seine-et-Marne | 0.4 | 7.6% | 0% | 195 km |
| 34 | Ruy-Montceau Isère | 0.4 | 21% | 12% | 240 km |
| 35 | Saint-Germain-du-Puy Cher | 0.4 | 7.4% | 0% | 290 km |
| 36 | Billom Puy-de-Dôme | 0.4 | 7.1% | 100% | 247 km |
| 37 | Argenton-sur-Creuse Indre | 0.3 | 25% | 3.9% | 205 km |
| 38 | Saverdun Ariège | 0.2 | 13% | 0.7% | 123 km |
| 39 | Legé Loire-Atlantique | 0.2 | 7.2% | 0% | 33 km |
| 40 | Salbris Loir-et-Cher | 0.2 | 81% | 100% | 256 km |
| 41 | Sanilhac Dordogne | 0.1 | 56% | 0% | 105 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 La Grand-Combe
Named parks, gardens and woods in the commune or within 400 m, the biggest and best-pathed first: Parc Sihem Belouahmia leads, at 0.6 ha. Directions go to a point inside.
Source: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL): named parks, gardens and woods; sizes are the whole site.
Protected areas
Cévennes National Park is the nearest protected area, 0.7 km away
The protected areas reaching the commune, and the nearest: national parks, regional nature parks, nature reserves and Natura 2000 sites.
National park, outer area
Cévennes National Park
0.7 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 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.
Footpaths and woods
21 km of footpaths and 6 km of hiking routes cross La Grand-Combe
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
1.7 km per km²
Hiking routes
6.1 km
waymarked: 0.5 km per km²
Woodland
71%
about 8.8 km² of mapped woods
Km per km² of the commune · mapped on OpenStreetMap
La Grand-CombeGard medianFrance median
Footpaths1.7
Hiking routes0.5
012 km per km²
Share of the land · mapped woods and forest
La Grand-CombeGard medianFrance median
Woodland71%
0%50%100%
That is more than in 51% of compared French towns for footpaths per km², and for woodland more than in 98% 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 La Grand-Combe is within 800 m of a mapped park or wood, as in most French towns.
3 named hiking routes within 2 km
GR (long-distance)Other named walk
GR 44B1.3 km
Chemin de Régordane, Villefort - Alès11 km
Sentier du Puech6.1 km
GR 44B passes within 2 km of La Grand-Combe.
Source: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL), extracts of October 25, 2026 (Geofabrik).
When to get out
The best walking months in La Grand-Combe: April to June
Météo-France’s 1991–2020 normals at Salindres, 11 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 | 14.8 | 15.5 | 15.2 | 14.0 | 12.4 | 10.9 | 9.5 | 8.9 |
| High (°C) | 11 | 12 | 16 | 19 | 23 | 28 | 31 | 31 | 26 | 20 | 14 | 11 |
| Rain (mm) | 84 | 56 | 72 | 85 | 86 | 55 | 45 | 54 | 166 | 158 | 142 | 89 |
July is the driest month (45 mm) and the warmest (highs of 31 °C). 166 mm of rain falls in September, the wettest month. Frost comes on about 46 nights a year. Summer highs reach 31 °C, too hot for the outline. The climate in La Grand-Combe →
Neighbors
Next to La Grand-Combe
The nearest towns of 2,500 or more, colored by the share of their land in protected areas.
Saint-Martin-de-ValgalguesSaint-Julien-les-RosiersRoussonBessègesSaint-Privat-des-VieuxAlèsLa Grand-Combe
Under 1%1–10 %10–25 %25–50 %50 %+
| Town | Protected | Woodland | Paths (km/km²) |
|---|---|---|---|
| La Grand-Combe | 0% | 71% | 1.7 |
| Saint-Martin-de-Valgalgues 4,840 · 7.4 km | 0% | 49% | 1.3 |
| Saint-Julien-les-Rosiers 3,533 · 7.5 km | 0% | 55% | 1.8 |
| Rousson 4,456 · 10 km | 0% | 28% | 1.8 |
| Bessèges 2,606 · 10 km | 100% | 66% | 1.3 |
| Saint-Privat-des-Vieux 5,703 · 11 km | 0% | 24% | 1.4 |
| Alès 46,125 · 11 km | 0% | 8% | 2.2 |
Bessèges 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 La Grand-Combe
Is La Grand-Combe in a national or regional nature park?
No. The nearest protected area is Cévennes National Park, 0.7 km from the town center.
Are there good walks in La Grand-Combe?
OpenStreetMap maps 21 km of footpaths and tracks open on foot in the commune, 1.7 km per km² (the median compared town: 1.7 km per km²); 6 km of waymarked hiking routes cross it.
How much of La Grand-Combe is woodland?
71% of the commune is mapped woodland, private woods included; the median compared French town has 13%.
Is La Grand-Combe near the sea?
No: the coast is 73 km from the town center, as the crow flies.
When is the best time for walking in La Grand-Combe?
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 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.