First pick
Base de la Saline
Park or garden
34 ha4.9 km of path
1 h 5 minto walk all 4.9 km of path
2.5 km southfrom the center
Directionsto a point inside
Photo: A.BourgeoisP · CC BY 4.047%woodland
Outdoors in Lure · protected areas, woods and footpaths
47% of Lure is woodland, more than in 8 in 10 French towns
No protected area reaches Lure; the nearest, Ballons des Vosges Regional Nature Park, is 2.8 km from the town center. 32 km of footpaths cross Lure (1.3 km per km²). France has no Outdoors Grade yet: these are the figures, each beside the compared towns’ median.
Protected areas
0.1%
of the commune’s land
Nearest: Ballons des Vosges Regional Nature Park, 2.8 km
Woodland
47%
of the land, mapped on OpenStreetMap
Compared town: 13%
Footpaths
32 km
1.3 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
Parks & woods
5
named, in or within 400 m of the commune
First: Base de la Saline
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 Lure?
Read from the data: what stands out first, good and less good.
A wooded commune47% mapped woodland, more than in 90% of compared French towns, against 13% for the median compared town.Protected land nearbyBallons des Vosges Regional Nature Park is 2.8 km from the town center.
What sets Lure apart: its woods, then protected land close by.
Against French towns
How Lure 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 areas0.1%Share of the land in a national park, regional nature park, nature reserve or Natura 2000 site
51out of 100
Woodland47%Share of the land mapped as forest or woods on OpenStreetMap
90out of 100
Footpaths1.3 km per km²Km of mapped footpath and track open on foot, per km² of the commune
41out of 100
Hiking routes0 km per km²Km of waymarked hiking routes (GR and others), per km² of the commune
12out of 100
Percentiles among compared French towns; ties count half.
Towns its size
Lure has the 13th fewest footpaths per km² of 41 towns its size
The 40 compared French towns nearest in population (7,766 to 7,987 residents), by km of footpath per km². Hover for each one’s protected land and woods; click for its page.
From Chessy (11.5 km per km²) to Saint-Étienne-de-Montluc (0.4 km per km²).
Every town in the comparison
| Town | Paths (km/km²) | Woodland | Protected | Coast | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Chessy Seine-et-Marne | 11.5 | 14% | 0% | 165 km |
| 2 | Malzéville Meurthe-et-Moselle | 6.6 | 19% | 32% | 364 km |
| 3 | Jouy-en-Josas Yvelines | 5.9 | 42% | 0% | 151 km |
| 4 | Terville Moselle | 4.6 | 24% | 0% | 307 km |
| 5 | Libercourt Pas-de-Calais | 4.5 | 23% | 0% | 75 km |
| 6 | Lagord Charente-Maritime | 4.3 | 3% | 0% | 2.8 km |
| 7 | Langueux Côtes-d'Armor | 3.7 | 8% | 8.6% | On it |
| 8 | Achicourt Pas-de-Calais | 3.6 | 4% | 0% | 78 km |
| 9 | Billy-Montigny Pas-de-Calais | 3.6 | 8.6% | 0% | 79 km |
| 10 | Claix Isère | 3.5 | 55% | 64% | 196 km |
| 11 | Publier Haute-Savoie | 3.4 | 17% | 6.1% | 300 km |
| 12 | Neuville-sur-Saône Rhône | 3.3 | 18% | 0% | 264 km |
| 13 | Courcelles-lès-Lens Pas-de-Calais | 2.9 | 7.7% | 0% | 82 km |
| 14 | Montreuil-Juigné Maine-et-Loire | 2.9 | 8.8% | 15% | 117 km |
| 15 | Bompas Pyrénées-Orientales | 2.9 | 0.2% | 0% | 8.5 km |
| 16 | Linas Essonne | 2.5 | 32% | 0% | 166 km |
| 17 | Gargenville Yvelines | 2.4 | 16% | 42% | 117 km |
| 18 | Romagnat Puy-de-Dôme | 2.3 | 22% | 3.1% | 252 km |
| 19 | Baillargues Hérault | 2.3 | 1.7% | 0% | 12 km |
| 20 | La Verpillière Isère | 2.3 | 30% | 0% | 243 km |
| 21 | Le Soler Pyrénées-Orientales | 2 | 4.9% | 0% | 20 km |
| 22 | Cappelle-la-Grande Nord | 2 | 0.2% | 0% | 4.6 km |
| 23 | Lège-Cap-Ferret Gironde | 1.6 | 73% | 21% | On it |
| 24 | Houplines Nord | 1.4 | 1.4% | 0% | 51 km |
| 25 | Moirans Isère | 1.4 | 9.7% | 0% | 215 km |
| 26 | Contes Alpes-Maritimes | 1.4 | 37% | 0% | 9.9 km |
| 27 | Corte Haute-Corse | 1.3 | 22% | 100% | 32 km |
| 28 | Saint-Aubin-de-Médoc Gironde | 1.3 | 70% | 0% | 15 km |
| 29 | Lure Haute-Saône | 1.3 | 47% | 0.1% | 440 km |
| 30 | Saint-Denis-en-Val Loiret | 1.3 | 8.5% | 14% | 209 km |
| 31 | Sisteron Alpes-de-Haute-Provence | 1.2 | 38% | 7.1% | 106 km |
| 32 | Saint-Pierre-en-Faucigny Haute-Savoie | 1.2 | 28% | 0.2% | 269 km |
| 33 | Saint-Affrique Aveyron | 1.2 | 37% | 100% | 85 km |
| 34 | Geispolsheim Bas-Rhin | 1.1 | 17% | 0.5% | 451 km |
| 35 | Mordelles Ille-et-Vilaine | 1.1 | 5.4% | 0% | 48 km |
| 36 | Saint-Julien-de-Concelles Loire-Atlantique | 0.9 | 6.1% | 17% | 50 km |
| 37 | Hettange-Grande Moselle | 0.8 | 28% | 0.4% | 304 km |
| 38 | Coulounieix-Chamiers Dordogne | 0.7 | 33% | 0% | 102 km |
| 39 | Pézenas Hérault | 0.7 | 10% | 6.9% | 19 km |
| 40 | Ustaritz Pyrénées-Atlantiques | 0.6 | 47% | 28% | 11 km |
| 41 | Saint-Étienne-de-Montluc Loire-Atlantique | 0.4 | 4.4% | 36% | 29 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 Lure
Named parks, gardens and woods in the commune or within 400 m, the biggest and best-pathed first: Base de la Saline leads, at 34 ha. Directions go to a point inside.
Bois du Mortard
Wood or forest
18 ha2.8 km of path
40 minto walk all 2.8 km of path
1.1 km north-eastfrom the center
Directionsto a point inside
Parc de l'Abbaye
Park or garden
2.8 ha1.1 km of path
15 minto walk all 1.1 km of path
0.9 km westfrom the center
Directionsto a point inside
Square de la Pologne
Park or garden
0.2 ha0.2 km of path
Centralin the middle of Lure
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, 2.8 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
2.8 km from the town center
Natura 2000 site
Plateau des mille étangs
2.8 km from the town center
Natura 2000 site
Plateau des mille Etangs
2.8 km from the town center
Share of the commune’s land
Any protected area0.1%
Natura 2000 site0.1%
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 regional nature park is a charter between communes to look after a landscape: farming, building and hunting go on inside it.
Source: INPN / PatriNat, protected areas July 2026, Natura 2000 December 2024; shares of IGN’s commune boundary.
Footpaths and woods
32 km of footpaths cross Lure
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
1.3 km per km²
Hiking routes
0 km
waymarked: 0 km per km²
Woodland
47%
about 11.6 km² of mapped woods
Km per km² of the commune · mapped on OpenStreetMap
LureHaute-Saône medianFrance median
Footpaths1.3
Hiking routes0
012 km per km²
Share of the land · mapped woods and forest
LureHaute-Saône medianFrance median
Woodland47%
0%50%100%
That is less than in 59% of compared French towns for footpaths per km², and for woodland more than in 90% 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 Lure is within 800 m of a mapped park or wood, as in most French towns.
2 named hiking routes within 2 km
Other named walk
Balade à 1000 temps4.8 km
Sentier des Ducs3.8 km
Source: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL), extracts of October 25, 2026 (Geofabrik).
When to get out
The best walking months in Lure: April and June to September
Météo-France’s 1991–2020 normals at Villersexel Sa, 16 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 | 16 | 20 | 24 | 26 | 25 | 21 | 16 | 10 | 6 |
| Rain (mm) | 80 | 74 | 75 | 70 | 100 | 82 | 86 | 89 | 87 | 100 | 96 | 100 |
April is the driest month (70 mm) and July the warmest (highs of 26 °C). 100 mm of rain falls in May, the wettest month. Frost comes on about 73 nights a year. The climate in Lure →
Neighbors
Next to Lure
The nearest towns of 2,500 or more, colored by the share of their land in protected areas.
RonchampChampagneyLuxeuil-les-BainsHéricourtFougerolles-Saint-ValbertEssertLure
Under 1%1–10 %10–25 %25–50 %50 %+
| Town | Protected | Woodland | Paths (km/km²) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lure | 0.1% | 47% | 1.3 |
| Ronchamp 2,737 · 10 km | 100% | 73% | 0.8 |
| Champagney 3,647 · 14 km | 100% | 76% | 1.1 |
| Luxeuil-les-Bains 6,663 · 17 km | 59% | 68% | 5.7 |
| Héricourt 10,621 · 23 km | 0% | 36% | 2.8 |
| Fougerolles-Saint-Valbert 3,764 · 24 km | 100% | 36% | 0.7 |
| Essert 3,417 · 25 km | 0% | 41% | 2.4 |
Ronchamp, Champagney and Luxeuil-les-Bains have at least twice as much protected land. Ronchamp and Champagney 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 Lure
Is Lure in a national or regional nature park?
No. The nearest protected area is Ballons des Vosges Regional Nature Park, 2.8 km from the town center.
Are there good walks in Lure?
OpenStreetMap maps 32 km of footpaths and tracks open on foot in the commune, 1.3 km per km² (the median compared town: 1.7 km per km²).
How much of Lure is woodland?
47% of the commune is mapped woodland, private woods included; the median compared French town has 13%.
Is Lure near the sea?
No: the coast is 440 km from the town center, as the crow flies.
When is the best time for walking in Lure?
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.