First pick
Parc de la Lizaine
Park or garden
2.6 ha1.5 km of path
20 minto walk all 1.5 km of path
Centralin the middle of Héricourt
Directionsto a point inside
Photo: Jérôme METTETAL · CC BY-SA 3.036%woodland
Outdoors in Héricourt · protected areas, woods and footpaths
36% of Héricourt is woodland, more than in 8 in 10 French towns
Footpaths add up to 59 km across Héricourt (2.8 km per km²). No protected area reaches Héricourt; the nearest, Ballons des Vosges Regional Nature Park, is 6.2 km from the town center. Waymarked hiking routes add up to 11 km in Héricourt. 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: Ballons des Vosges Regional Nature Park, 6.2 km
Woodland
36%
of the land, mapped on OpenStreetMap
Compared town: 13%
Footpaths
59 km
2.8 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
5
named, in or within 400 m of the commune
First: Parc de la Lizaine
Throughout this page, the Haute-Saône 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 Héricourt?
Read from the data: what stands out first, good and less good.
A wooded commune36% mapped woodland, more than in 82% of compared French towns, against 13% for the median compared town.Protected land nearbyBallons des Vosges Regional Nature Park is 6.2 km from the town center.
What sets Héricourt apart: its woods, then protected land close by.
Against French towns
How Héricourt 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
Woodland36%Share of the land mapped as forest or woods on OpenStreetMap
82out of 100
Footpaths2.8 km per km²Km of mapped footpath and track open on foot, per km² of the commune
71out of 100
Hiking routes0.5 km per km²Km of waymarked hiking routes (GR and others), per km² of the commune
63out of 100
Percentiles among compared French towns; ties count half.
Towns its size
Héricourt has the 19th most footpaths per km² of 41 towns its size
The 40 compared French towns nearest in population (10,467 to 10,772 residents), by km of footpath per km². Hover for each one’s protected land and woods; click for its page.
From Voisins-le-Bretonneux (13.8 km per km²) to Seysses (0.5 km per km²).
Every town in the comparison
| Town | Paths (km/km²) | Woodland | Protected | Coast | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Voisins-le-Bretonneux Yvelines | 13.8 | 8.8% | 5.4% | 144 km |
| 2 | Eybens Isère | 7.6 | 17% | 0% | 201 km |
| 3 | Chantilly Oise | 6.8 | 70% | 100% | 124 km |
| 4 | Beaumont Puy-de-Dôme | 6 | 2.4% | 0.1% | 255 km |
| 5 | Bondoufle Essonne | 5.3 | 7.9% | 0% | 173 km |
| 6 | Dinard Ille-et-Vilaine | 5 | 7.9% | 100% | On it |
| 7 | Épinay-sur-Orge Essonne | 4.3 | 10% | 0% | 165 km |
| 8 | La Riche Indre-et-Loire | 4.2 | 4.5% | 16% | 182 km |
| 9 | Biot Alpes-Maritimes | 3.8 | 34% | 11% | 3.7 km |
| 10 | Valentigney Doubs | 3.8 | 36% | 0% | 412 km |
| 11 | Longuenesse Pas-de-Calais | 3.7 | 8.8% | 100% | 29 km |
| 12 | Clermont Oise | 3.6 | 30% | 0% | 103 km |
| 13 | Chantepie Ille-et-Vilaine | 3.5 | 4% | 0% | 53 km |
| 14 | Saint-Gély-du-Fesc Hérault | 3.4 | 39% | 0% | 21 km |
| 15 | Allonnes Sarthe | 3.2 | 15% | 0% | 134 km |
| 16 | Étaples Pas-de-Calais | 3.2 | 29% | 7% | On it |
| 17 | Fosses Val-d'Oise | 3.1 | 5.1% | 57% | 134 km |
| 18 | Tinqueux Marne | 2.8 | 2.4% | 0% | 196 km |
| 19 | Héricourt Haute-Saône | 2.8 | 36% | 0% | 425 km |
| 20 | Portes-lès-Valence Drôme | 2.7 | 5.9% | 0% | 158 km |
| 21 | Charvieu-Chavagneux Isère | 2.7 | 10% | 0% | 255 km |
| 22 | Urrugne Pyrénées-Atlantiques | 2.3 | 23% | 28% | 3.1 km |
| 23 | Caudebec-lès-Elbeuf Seine-Maritime | 2.1 | 1.4% | 0% | 51 km |
| 24 | Treillières Loire-Atlantique | 2.1 | 15% | 0% | 41 km |
| 25 | Argelès-sur-Mer Pyrénées-Orientales | 2 | 30% | 39% | On it |
| 26 | Villers-Cotterêts Aisne | 1.8 | 73% | 0% | 145 km |
| 27 | La Londe-les-Maures Var | 1.8 | 27% | 49% | On it |
| 28 | La Trinité Alpes-Maritimes | 1.8 | 59% | 25% | 3.6 km |
| 29 | Vieux-Condé Nord | 1.7 | 7.4% | 100% | 96 km |
| 30 | Port-Jérôme-sur-Seine Seine-Maritime | 1.6 | 11% | 23% | 17 km |
| 31 | Mainvilliers Eure-et-Loir | 1.4 | 9.3% | 0% | 136 km |
| 32 | Oloron-Sainte-Marie Pyrénées-Atlantiques | 1.3 | 52% | 4.8% | 83 km |
| 33 | Léognan Gironde | 1.2 | 39% | 0% | 30 km |
| 34 | Wittelsheim Haut-Rhin | 1.2 | 34% | 6.2% | 447 km |
| 35 | Marck Pas-de-Calais | 0.9 | 3.4% | 0% | On it |
| 36 | Parempuyre Gironde | 0.9 | 6.7% | 8.1% | 6.3 km |
| 37 | Brumath Bas-Rhin | 0.8 | 32% | 0% | 437 km |
| 38 | Limoux Aude | 0.8 | 26% | 0.1% | 68 km |
| 39 | Pernes-les-Fontaines Vaucluse | 0.7 | 8.6% | 44% | 62 km |
| 40 | Boulazac Isle Manoire Dordogne | 0.7 | 48% | 0% | 108 km |
| 41 | Seysses Haute-Garonne | 0.5 | 2.6% | 0% | 153 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 Héricourt
Named parks, gardens and woods in the commune or within 400 m, the biggest and best-pathed first: Parc de la Lizaine leads, at 2.6 ha. Directions go to a point inside.
Parc municipal de la Roseraie
Park or garden
2 ha0.3 km of path
1.1 km north-eastfrom the center
Directionsto a point inside
Parc Maunoury
Park or garden
1.2 ha0.5 km of path
5 minto walk all 0.5 km of path
0.7 km southfrom the center
Directionsto a point inside
Square Jacques Brel
Park or garden
0.6 ha0.2 km of path
1.5 km north-eastfrom the center
Directionsto a point inside
Source: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL): named parks, gardens and woods; sizes are the whole site.
Protected areas
Ballons des Vosges Regional Nature Park is the nearest protected area, 6.2 km away
The protected areas reaching the commune, and the nearest: national parks, regional nature parks, nature reserves and Natura 2000 sites.
Regional nature park
Ballons des Vosges Regional Nature Park
6.2 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
59 km of footpaths and 11 km of hiking routes cross Héricourt
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
59 km
2.8 km per km²
Hiking routes
11 km
waymarked: 0.5 km per km²
Woodland
36%
about 7.6 km² of mapped woods
Km per km² of the commune · mapped on OpenStreetMap
HéricourtHaute-Saône medianFrance median
Footpaths2.8
Hiking routes0.5
024 km per km²
Share of the land · mapped woods and forest
HéricourtHaute-Saône medianFrance median
Woodland36%
0%50%100%
That is more than in 71% of compared French towns for footpaths per km², and for woodland more than in 82% 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 Héricourt is within 800 m of a mapped park or wood, as in most French towns.
5 named hiking routes within 2 km
GR (long-distance)GR de PaysOther named walk
GR 5 Vosges, Ballon d'Alsace - Fesches-le-Châtel10 km
GRP BF9.2 km
Sentier des Ducs17 km
Liaison GR 5/GR 5911 km
La Boucle Châtenaise2.4 km
GR 5 Vosges, Ballon d'Alsace - Fesches-le-Châtel passes within 2 km of Héricourt.
Source: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL), extracts of October 25, 2026 (Geofabrik).
When to get out
The best walking months in Héricourt: April and June to September
Météo-France’s 1991–2020 normals at Joncherey, 19 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) | 6 | 8 | 12 | 16 | 21 | 24 | 26 | 26 | 21 | 16 | 10 | 6 |
| Rain (mm) | 83 | 78 | 79 | 80 | 102 | 93 | 84 | 98 | 83 | 101 | 98 | 109 |
February is the driest month (78 mm) and July the warmest (highs of 26 °C). 109 mm of rain falls in December, the wettest month. Frost comes on about 95 nights a year. The climate in Héricourt →
Neighbors
Next to Héricourt
The nearest towns of 2,500 or more, colored by the share of their land in protected areas.
BethoncourtGrand-CharmontChâtenois-les-ForgesMontbéliardVieux-CharmontBavilliersHéricourt
Under 1%1–10 %10–25 %25–50 %50 %+
| Town | Protected | Woodland | Paths (km/km²) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Héricourt | 0% | 36% | 2.8 |
| Bethoncourt 5,308 · 5.4 km | 0% | 38% | 4.4 |
| Grand-Charmont 5,873 · 6.6 km | 0% | 39% | 5.8 |
| Châtenois-les-Forges 2,608 · 6.9 km | 0% | 49% | 3.4 |
| Montbéliard 24,672 · 7.6 km | 0% | 22% | 4.9 |
| Vieux-Charmont 2,786 · 7.9 km | 0.1% | 15% | 1.8 |
| Bavilliers 4,678 · 8.1 km | 0% | 16% | 4.6 |
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 Héricourt
Is Héricourt in a national or regional nature park?
No. The nearest protected area is Ballons des Vosges Regional Nature Park, 6.2 km from the town center.
Are there good walks in Héricourt?
OpenStreetMap maps 59 km of footpaths and tracks open on foot in the commune, 2.8 km per km² (the median compared town: 1.7 km per km²); 11 km of waymarked hiking routes cross it.
How much of Héricourt is woodland?
36% of the commune is mapped woodland, private woods included; the median compared French town has 13%.
Is Héricourt near the sea?
No: the coast is 425 km from the town center, as the crow flies.
When is the best time for walking in Héricourt?
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 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.