First pick
Parc de la Brasserie "Struch's Matten"
Park or garden
1.6 ha0.4 km of path
Centralin the middle of Lutterbach
Directionsto a point inside
Photo: SimonKEMPF · CC BY-SA 3.012%of the land protected
Outdoors in Lutterbach · protected areas, woods and footpaths
43% of Lutterbach is woodland, more than in 8 in 10 French towns
Waymarked hiking routes add up to 11 km in Lutterbach. Footpaths add up to 32 km across Lutterbach (3.7 km per km²). Protected areas cover 12% of Lutterbach’s land. France has no Outdoors Grade yet: these are the figures, each beside the compared towns’ median.
Protected areas
12%
of the commune’s land
Compared town: 0.1%
Woodland
43%
of the land, mapped on OpenStreetMap
Compared town: 13%
Footpaths
32 km
3.7 km per km²
Compared town: 1.7 km per km²
Hiking routes
11 km
waymarked, GR and others
Compared town: 0.3 km per km²
Parks & woods
2
named, in or within 400 m of the commune
First: Parc de la Brasserie "Struch's Matten"
Throughout this page, the Haut-Rhin 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 Lutterbach?
Read from the data: what stands out first, good and less good.
A wooded commune43% mapped woodland, more than in 87% of compared French towns, against 13% for the median compared town.On waymarked routes11 km of GR and other hiking routes cross the commune.A place of footpaths3.7 km per km² of mapped footpath, against 1.7 km per km² for the median compared town.
What sets Lutterbach apart: its woods, then its hiking routes.
Against French towns
How Lutterbach 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 areas12%Share of the land in a national park, regional nature park, nature reserve or Natura 2000 site
74out of 100
Woodland43%Share of the land mapped as forest or woods on OpenStreetMap
87out of 100
Footpaths3.7 km per km²Km of mapped footpath and track open on foot, per km² of the commune
82out of 100
Hiking routes1.3 km per km²Km of waymarked hiking routes (GR and others), per km² of the commune
89out of 100
Percentiles among compared French towns; ties count half.
Towns its size
Lutterbach has the 6th most footpaths per km² of 41 towns its size
The 40 compared French towns nearest in population (6,784 to 6,925 residents), by km of footpath per km². Hover for each one’s protected land and woods; click for its page.
From Jacou (10.3 km per km²) to Saint-Yrieix-la-Perche (0.1 km per km²).
Every town in the comparison
| Town | Paths (km/km²) | Woodland | Protected | Coast | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Jacou Hérault | 10.3 | 16% | 0% | 13 km |
| 2 | Noyelles-sous-Lens Pas-de-Calais | 5 | 10% | 0% | 77 km |
| 3 | Saint-Thibault-des-Vignes Seine-et-Marne | 4.3 | 11% | 0% | 164 km |
| 4 | Lésigny Seine-et-Marne | 4.2 | 42% | 0% | 171 km |
| 5 | Domène Isère | 3.8 | 24% | 0% | 202 km |
| 6 | Lutterbach Haut-Rhin | 3.7 | 43% | 12% | 442 km |
| 7 | Castries Hérault | 3.6 | 9.3% | 0.1% | 14 km |
| 8 | Liancourt Oise | 3.4 | 26% | 0% | 110 km |
| 9 | Carnoux-en-Provence Bouches-du-Rhône | 3.4 | 31% | 0% | 5 km |
| 10 | Loos-en-Gohelle Pas-de-Calais | 3 | 3.6% | 0% | 71 km |
| 11 | Montfort-sur-Meu Ille-et-Vilaine | 2.5 | 30% | 0% | 40 km |
| 12 | Nyons Drôme | 2.5 | 44% | 100% | 103 km |
| 13 | Escalquens Haute-Garonne | 2.5 | 1.9% | 0% | 134 km |
| 14 | Beuvrages Nord | 1.9 | 4.2% | 99% | 102 km |
| 15 | Les Essarts-le-Roi Yvelines | 1.8 | 34% | 100% | 137 km |
| 16 | Auvers-sur-Oise Val-d'Oise | 1.7 | 19% | 100% | 122 km |
| 17 | Poussan Hérault | 1.5 | 2.1% | 38% | 8.5 km |
| 18 | Changé Sarthe | 1.5 | 33% | 0% | 142 km |
| 19 | Acigné Ille-et-Vilaine | 1.4 | 11% | 0% | 52 km |
| 20 | Le Coteau Loire | 1.4 | 0% | 0% | 274 km |
| 21 | Laudun-l'Ardoise Gard | 1.3 | 19% | 2.1% | 73 km |
| 22 | Douvaine Haute-Savoie | 1.3 | 22% | 0.9% | 296 km |
| 23 | Saint-Maurice-l'Exil Isère | 1.2 | 11% | 5.4% | 211 km |
| 24 | Trans-en-Provence Var | 1.1 | 26% | 0% | 23 km |
| 25 | Ploeren Morbihan | 1.1 | 13% | 96% | 3.1 km |
| 26 | Saint-Jean-d'Angély Charente-Maritime | 1 | 8% | 0% | 35 km |
| 27 | Quesnoy-sur-Deûle Nord | 1 | 0.8% | 0% | 52 km |
| 28 | Surgères Charente-Maritime | 0.9 | 5% | 0% | 24 km |
| 29 | Veigné Indre-et-Loire | 0.7 | 35% | 0% | 179 km |
| 30 | Les Abrets en Dauphiné Isère | 0.7 | 17% | 0% | 238 km |
| 31 | Sénas Bouches-du-Rhône | 0.6 | 2.8% | 100% | 36 km |
| 32 | Montluel Ain | 0.5 | 27% | 35% | 267 km |
| 33 | Lucciana Haute-Corse | 0.4 | 4.8% | 3% | On it |
| 34 | Chabeuil Drôme | 0.4 | 5.6% | 0% | 162 km |
| 35 | Loudun Vienne | 0.3 | 6.4% | 0% | 122 km |
| 36 | Essarts-en-Bocage Vendée | 0.3 | 4.1% | 0% | 46 km |
| 37 | Beaufort-en-Anjou Maine-et-Loire | 0.3 | 12% | 100% | 141 km |
| 38 | Cadaujac Gironde | 0.2 | 14% | 45% | 29 km |
| 39 | Caussade Tarn-et-Garonne | 0.2 | 5.6% | 0% | 172 km |
| 40 | Le Controis-en-Sologne Loir-et-Cher | 0.2 | 24% | 6.7% | 229 km |
| 41 | Saint-Yrieix-la-Perche Haute-Vienne | 0.1 | 24% | 0% | 151 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 Lutterbach
Named parks, gardens and woods in the commune or within 400 m, the biggest and best-pathed first: Parc de la Brasserie "Struch's Matten" leads, at 1.6 ha. Directions go to a point inside.
Parc de la Cotonnade
Park or garden · 320 m outside the commune
0.5 ha
1.3 km eastfrom the center
Directionsto a point inside
Source: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL): named parks, gardens and woods; sizes are the whole site.
Protected areas
12% of Lutterbach lies in protected areas
The protected areas reaching the commune, and the nearest: national parks, regional nature parks, nature reserves and Natura 2000 sites.
Nature reserve
Marais et Landes du Rothmoos et des Silbermaettle nature reserve
2.6 km from the town center
Natura 2000 site
Vallée de la Doller
12% of the commune0.6 km from the center
Share of the commune’s land
Any protected area12%
Natura 2000 site12%
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.
12% of Lutterbach’s land is protected, more than in 74% of compared French towns; the median compared town in Haut-Rhin has 12%.
Source: INPN / PatriNat, protected areas July 2026, Natura 2000 December 2024; shares of IGN’s commune boundary.
Footpaths and woods
32 km of footpaths and 11 km of hiking routes cross Lutterbach
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
32 km
3.7 km per km²
Hiking routes
11 km
waymarked: 1.3 km per km²
Woodland
43%
about 3.6 km² of mapped woods
Km per km² of the commune · mapped on OpenStreetMap
LutterbachHaut-Rhin medianFrance median
Footpaths3.7
Hiking routes1.3
02.55 km per km²
Share of the land · mapped woods and forest
LutterbachHaut-Rhin medianFrance median
Woodland43%
0%50%100%
That is more than in 82% of compared French towns for footpaths per km², and for woodland more than in 87% 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 Lutterbach is within 800 m of a mapped park or wood, as in most French towns.
6 named hiking routes within 2 km
Other named walk
Circuit du Muguet - Noennenbruch6.6 km
Circuit du Steinbachlein Morschwiller-le-bas5.9 km
Circuit Au fil de l’eau5.4 km
Circuit du Nonnenbruch - Richwiller3.3 km
Circuit de la Mémoire2.1 km
Circuit de la Porte sud-ouest - Mulhouse1.5 km
Source: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL), extracts of October 25, 2026 (Geofabrik).
When to get out
The best walking months in Lutterbach: April and June to September
Météo-France’s 1991–2020 normals at Mulhouse, 1.1 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) | 8.8 | 10.2 | 11.8 | 13.6 | 15.1 | 16.0 | 15.6 | 14.3 | 12.5 | 10.7 | 9.2 | 8.4 |
| High (°C) | 5 | 7 | 12 | 17 | 21 | 24 | 26 | 26 | 22 | 16 | 10 | 6 |
| Rain (mm) | 58 | 49 | 50 | 50 | 78 | 68 | 63 | 67 | 61 | 70 | 59 | 75 |
February is the driest month (49 mm) and July the warmest (highs of 26 °C). 78 mm of rain falls in May, the wettest month. Frost comes on about 69 nights a year. The climate in Lutterbach →
Neighbors
Next to Lutterbach
The nearest towns of 2,500 or more, colored by the share of their land in protected areas.
PfastattMorschwiller-le-BasRichwillerMulhouseBrunstatt-DidenheimKingersheimLutterbach
Under 1%1–10 %10–25 %25–50 %50 %+
| Town | Protected | Woodland | Paths (km/km²) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lutterbach | 12% | 43% | 3.7 |
| Pfastatt 10,314 · 1.9 km | 0.1% | 22% | 2.2 |
| Morschwiller-le-Bas 3,694 · 2.5 km | 13% | 9.4% | 0.9 |
| Richwiller 3,905 · 2.6 km | 0% | 25% | 1.7 |
| Mulhouse 104,978 · 3.7 km | 0% | 4.3% | 5.7 |
| Brunstatt-Didenheim 8,259 · 4.9 km | 0% | 25% | 2.7 |
| Kingersheim 13,354 · 5.1 km | 0% | 13% | 2.7 |
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 Lutterbach
Is Lutterbach in a national or regional nature park?
No, but 12% of its land is in a nature reserve or a Natura 2000 site.
Are there good walks in Lutterbach?
OpenStreetMap maps 32 km of footpaths and tracks open on foot in the commune, 3.7 km per km² (the median compared town: 1.7 km per km²); 11 km of waymarked hiking routes cross it.
How much of Lutterbach is woodland?
43% of the commune is mapped woodland, private woods included; the median compared French town has 13%.
Is Lutterbach near the sea?
No: the coast is 442 km from the town center, as the crow flies.
When is the best time for walking in Lutterbach?
April and June 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.