First pick
Jardin Public des Isnards
Park or garden
1 ha0.3 km of path
Centralin the middle of Salindres
Directionsto a point inside
Photo: Dark-Chronos13 · CC BY-SA 4.04.3%woodland
Outdoors in Salindres · protected areas, woods and footpaths
Parks, woods and footpaths in Salindres
4.3% of Salindres is mapped woodland. Footpaths add up to 9 km across Salindres (0.8 km per km²). No protected area reaches Salindres; the nearest, Cévennes National Park, is 3.9 km from the town center. 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, 3.9 km
Woodland
4.3%
of the land, mapped on OpenStreetMap
Compared town: 13%
Footpaths
8.7 km
0.8 km per km²
Compared town: 1.7 km per km²
Hiking routes
0 km
waymarked, GR and others
Compared town: 0.3 km per km²
Green space nearby
91%
of residents within 800 m of a park or wood
Compared town: 100%
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.
Against French towns
How Salindres 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
22out of 100
Woodland4.3%Share of the land mapped as forest or woods on OpenStreetMap
20out of 100
Footpaths0.8 km per km²Km of mapped footpath and track open on foot, per km² of the commune
24out of 100
Hiking routes0 km per km²Km of waymarked hiking routes (GR and others), per km² of the commune
12out of 100
Green space nearby91%Share of residents within 800 m of a mapped park or wood
8out of 100
Percentiles among compared French towns; ties count half.
Towns its size
Salindres has the 14th fewest footpaths per km² of 41 towns its size
The 40 compared French towns nearest in population (3,620 to 3,675 residents), by km of footpath per km². Hover for each one’s protected land and woods; click for its page.
From Le Vaudreuil (3.9 km per km²) to Étrépagny (0.2 km per km²).
Every town in the comparison
| Town | Paths (km/km²) | Woodland | Protected | Coast | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Le Vaudreuil Eure | 3.9 | 43% | 6.2% | 64 km |
| 2 | Champhol Eure-et-Loir | 3.7 | 9.3% | 0% | 137 km |
| 3 | Saint-Erblon Ille-et-Vilaine | 2.3 | 8.1% | 0% | 58 km |
| 4 | Ézy-sur-Eure Eure | 2.3 | 42% | 8.3% | 100 km |
| 5 | Plestin-les-Grèves Côtes-d'Armor | 2.3 | 16% | 6% | On it |
| 6 | Saint-Léger-du-Bourg-Denis Seine-Maritime | 2.2 | 39% | 4.6% | 55 km |
| 7 | Saint-Vallier-de-Thiey Alpes-Maritimes | 2.1 | 64% | 100% | 19 km |
| 8 | Templemars Nord | 2.1 | 0.6% | 0% | 68 km |
| 9 | Fillinges Haute-Savoie | 2 | 45% | 3.2% | 280 km |
| 10 | Saint-Germain-du-Corbéis Orne | 1.8 | 11% | 4.1% | 98 km |
| 11 | Saint-Jean-de-Moirans Isère | 1.8 | 5.5% | 0% | 217 km |
| 12 | Saint-Brès Hérault | 1.8 | 0.7% | 0% | 12 km |
| 13 | Forges-les-Eaux Seine-Maritime | 1.7 | 24% | 4.9% | 47 km |
| 14 | Montussan Gironde | 1.6 | 11% | 0% | 19 km |
| 15 | Gallargues-le-Montueux Gard | 1.3 | 2% | 2% | 19 km |
| 16 | Viviers Ardèche | 1.3 | 49% | 2.6% | 113 km |
| 17 | Breteil Ille-et-Vilaine | 1.3 | 1.4% | 0% | 39 km |
| 18 | Gelos Pyrénées-Atlantiques | 1.3 | 37% | 7.4% | 96 km |
| 19 | Bourgueil Indre-et-Loire | 1.1 | 49% | 100% | 148 km |
| 20 | Champagney Haute-Saône | 1.1 | 76% | 100% | 440 km |
| 21 | Châteauneuf-du-Faou Finistère | 1 | 9.4% | 8% | 20 km |
| 22 | Martillac Gironde | 1 | 18% | 0% | 32 km |
| 23 | Arcangues Pyrénées-Atlantiques | 1 | 32% | 7.3% | 5.2 km |
| 24 | Pont-de-Buis-lès-Quimerch Finistère | 1 | 27% | 100% | On it |
| 25 | Estrées-Saint-Denis Oise | 1 | 2% | 0% | 109 km |
| 26 | Belleu Aisne | 0.9 | 17% | 0% | 150 km |
| 27 | Penta-di-Casinca Haute-Corse | 0.9 | 40% | 0.2% | On it |
| 28 | Salindres Gard | 0.8 | 4.3% | 0% | 68 km |
| 29 | Saint-Clair-de-la-Tour Isère | 0.7 | 19% | 0% | 240 km |
| 30 | Saint-Philbert-de-Bouaine Vendée | 0.7 | 2.5% | 0% | 35 km |
| 31 | Champagné Sarthe | 0.7 | 40% | 3.5% | 142 km |
| 32 | Gouffern en Auge Orne | 0.6 | 25% | 33% | 59 km |
| 33 | Marzy Nièvre | 0.6 | 8.6% | 20% | 332 km |
| 34 | Lizy-sur-Ourcq Seine-et-Marne | 0.4 | 17% | 0% | 161 km |
| 35 | Rivery Somme | 0.4 | 6.1% | 9.4% | 56 km |
| 36 | Chauffailles Saône-et-Loire | 0.4 | 32% | 0% | 295 km |
| 37 | Lectoure Gers | 0.4 | 10% | 0% | 154 km |
| 38 | Garchizy Nièvre | 0.3 | 9% | 12% | 333 km |
| 39 | Montoire-sur-le-Loir Loir-et-Cher | 0.3 | 14% | 0.4% | 185 km |
| 40 | Saint-Nicolas-d'Aliermont Seine-Maritime | 0.2 | 14% | 2.4% | 9.8 km |
| 41 | Étrépagny Eure | 0.2 | 12% | 0% | 78 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 Salindres
Named parks, gardens and woods in the commune or within 400 m, the biggest and best-pathed first: Jardin Public des Isnards leads, at 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 Salindres 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).
91% within 800 m9.3% further
Residents within 800 m of green space · share of residents
SalindresGard medianFrance median
Within 800 m91%
0%50%100%
About 300 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
Cévennes National Park is the nearest protected area, 3.9 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
3.9 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.
Source: INPN / PatriNat, protected areas July 2026, Natura 2000 December 2024; shares of IGN’s commune boundary.
Footpaths and woods
9 km of footpaths cross Salindres
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
8.7 km
0.8 km per km²
Hiking routes
0 km
waymarked: 0 km per km²
Woodland
4.3%
about 0.5 km² of mapped woods
Km per km² of the commune · mapped on OpenStreetMap
SalindresGard medianFrance median
Footpaths0.8
Hiking routes0
012 km per km²
Share of the land · mapped woods and forest
SalindresGard medianFrance median
Woodland4.3%
0%50%100%
That is less than in 76% of compared French towns for footpaths per km², and for woodland less than in 80% of compared French towns. Hiking routes often follow paths and lanes already counted, so the two lengths overlap: don’t add them.
A named hiking route within 2 km
PR (local walk)
PR 80.5 km
Source: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL), extracts of October 25, 2026 (Geofabrik).
When to get out
The best walking months in Salindres: April to June
Météo-France’s 1991–2020 normals at Salindres, 0.8 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 | 9.5 | 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 Salindres →
Neighbors
Next to Salindres
The nearest towns of 2,500 or more, colored by the share of their land in protected areas.
RoussonSaint-Privat-des-VieuxSaint-Julien-les-RosiersSaint-Martin-de-ValgalguesAlèsSaint-Hilaire-de-BrethmasSalindres
Under 1%1–10 %10–25 %25–50 %50 %+
| Town | Protected | Woodland | Paths (km/km²) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Salindres | 0% | 4.3% | 0.8 |
| Rousson 4,456 · 1.9 km | 0% | 28% | 1.8 |
| Saint-Privat-des-Vieux 5,703 · 4.1 km | 0% | 24% | 1.4 |
| Saint-Julien-les-Rosiers 3,533 · 4.5 km | 0% | 55% | 1.8 |
| Saint-Martin-de-Valgalgues 4,840 · 6.2 km | 0% | 49% | 1.3 |
| Alès 46,125 · 7.6 km | 0% | 8% | 2.2 |
| Saint-Hilaire-de-Brethmas 4,670 · 9.2 km | 0% | 4.6% | 0.6 |
Rousson, Saint-Privat-des-Vieux and Saint-Julien-les-Rosiers 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 Salindres
Is Salindres in a national or regional nature park?
No. The nearest protected area is Cévennes National Park, 3.9 km from the town center.
Are there good walks in Salindres?
OpenStreetMap maps 9 km of footpaths and tracks open on foot in the commune, 0.8 km per km² (the median compared town: 1.7 km per km²).
How much of Salindres is woodland?
4.3% of the commune is mapped woodland, private woods included; the median compared French town has 13%.
Is Salindres near the sea?
No: the coast is 68 km from the town center, as the crow flies.
When is the best time for walking in Salindres?
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.