First pick
Bois de la Saulnaire
Wood or forest
121 ha
2.8 km north-westfrom the center
Directionsto a point inside
Photo: A.BourgeoisP · CC BY-SA 4.0100%of the land protected
Outdoors in Ronchamp · protected areas, woods and footpaths
Ronchamp lies inside Ballons des Vosges Regional Nature Park
Protected areas cover 100% of Ronchamp’s land. Mapped woodland covers 73% of Ronchamp. Waymarked hiking routes add up to 14 km in Ronchamp. France has no Outdoors Grade yet: these are the figures, each beside the compared towns’ median.
Protected areas
100%
of the commune’s land
Compared town: 0.1%
Woodland
73%
of the land, mapped on OpenStreetMap
Compared town: 13%
Footpaths
20 km
0.8 km per km²
Compared town: 1.7 km per km²
Hiking routes
14 km
waymarked, GR and others
Compared town: 0.3 km per km²
Parks & woods
6
named, in or within 400 m of the commune
First: Bois de la Saulnaire
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 Ronchamp?
Read from the data: what stands out first, good and less good.
Inside Ballons des Vosges Regional Nature Park100% of the commune is in the regional nature park.A wooded commune73% mapped woodland, more than in 99% of compared French towns, against 13% for the median compared town.
What sets Ronchamp apart: the regional nature park around it, then its woods.
Against French towns
How Ronchamp 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 areas100%Share of the land in a national park, regional nature park, nature reserve or Natura 2000 site
95out of 100
Woodland73%Share of the land mapped as forest or woods on OpenStreetMap
99out of 100
Footpaths0.8 km per km²Km of mapped footpath and track open on foot, per km² of the commune
26out of 100
Hiking routes0.6 km per km²Km of waymarked hiking routes (GR and others), per km² of the commune
68out of 100
Percentiles among compared French towns; ties count half.
Towns its size
Ronchamp has the 19th fewest footpaths per km² of 41 towns its size
The 40 compared French towns nearest in population (2,706 to 2,769 residents), by km of footpath per km². Hover for each one’s protected land and woods; click for its page.
From Andilly (7.1 km per km²) to Sains-du-Nord (0.1 km per km²).
Every town in the comparison
| Town | Paths (km/km²) | Woodland | Protected | Coast | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Andilly Val-d'Oise | 7.1 | 53% | 0% | 134 km |
| 2 | Chaligny Meurthe-et-Moselle | 5.1 | 72% | 0% | 364 km |
| 3 | Argelès-Gazost Hautes-Pyrénées | 4.3 | 17% | 100% | 130 km |
| 4 | Quintin Côtes-d'Armor | 3.6 | 4.7% | 0% | 19 km |
| 5 | Collioure Pyrénées-Orientales | 3.4 | 6.3% | 4% | On it |
| 6 | Saint-Lunaire Ille-et-Vilaine | 2.6 | 21% | 100% | On it |
| 7 | Balaruc-le-Vieux Hérault | 2.5 | 5.5% | 19% | 5.4 km |
| 8 | Anet Eure-et-Loir | 2.4 | 48% | 0.1% | 102 km |
| 9 | Chailles Loir-et-Cher | 2.3 | 48% | 4.8% | 222 km |
| 10 | Malaucène Vaucluse | 2.1 | 57% | 100% | 83 km |
| 11 | Loire-sur-Rhône Rhône | 1.9 | 44% | 84% | 229 km |
| 12 | Capinghem Nord | 1.7 | 1.8% | 0% | 57 km |
| 13 | Venarey-les-Laumes Côte-d'Or | 1.5 | 18% | 2.2% | 357 km |
| 14 | Venette Oise | 1.4 | 7.3% | 0% | 117 km |
| 15 | Trieux Meurthe-et-Moselle | 1.3 | 31% | 0% | 299 km |
| 16 | Beaumont-le-Roger Eure | 1.2 | 79% | 2% | 50 km |
| 17 | Aouste-sur-Sye Drôme | 1.2 | 40% | 2.3% | 141 km |
| 18 | Saint-Witz Val-d'Oise | 1.2 | 8.3% | 0.1% | 137 km |
| 19 | Vert-le-Petit Essonne | 1.1 | 17% | 11% | 177 km |
| 20 | Bessines-sur-Gartempe Haute-Vienne | 0.9 | 36% | 0.4% | 181 km |
| 21 | Orgon Bouches-du-Rhône | 0.8 | 17% | 100% | 40 km |
| 22 | Magné Deux-Sèvres | 0.8 | 15% | 100% | 44 km |
| 23 | Ronchamp Haute-Saône | 0.8 | 73% | 100% | 440 km |
| 24 | Vulaines-sur-Seine Seine-et-Marne | 0.8 | 24% | 0% | 205 km |
| 25 | Saleux Somme | 0.7 | 22% | 0% | 53 km |
| 26 | Marigny-Le-Lozon Manche | 0.7 | 0.2% | 46% | 21 km |
| 27 | Confolens Charente | 0.6 | 12% | 3.7% | 127 km |
| 28 | Warmeriville Marne | 0.5 | 11% | 0% | 205 km |
| 29 | Montignac-Lascaux Dordogne | 0.5 | 52% | 1.6% | 138 km |
| 30 | Alixan Drôme | 0.5 | 0.2% | 0% | 170 km |
| 31 | Caux Hérault | 0.4 | 12% | 0% | 25 km |
| 32 | Montrevel-en-Bresse Ain | 0.4 | 7.8% | 0% | 319 km |
| 33 | Huttenheim Bas-Rhin | 0.3 | 32% | 35% | 460 km |
| 34 | Chanas Isère | 0.3 | 19% | 0% | 204 km |
| 35 | Montholon Yonne | 0.2 | 36% | 0% | 279 km |
| 36 | Sarre-Union Bas-Rhin | 0.2 | 21% | 1.7% | 389 km |
| 37 | Thuré Vienne | 0.2 | 29% | 0% | 136 km |
| 38 | Yerville Seine-Maritime | 0.2 | 3.2% | 0% | 24 km |
| 39 | Ouveillan Aude | 0.2 | 1.4% | 0% | 22 km |
| 40 | Ennezat Puy-de-Dôme | 0.1 | 0.1% | 0% | 268 km |
| 41 | Sains-du-Nord Nord | 0.1 | 34% | 100% | 149 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 Ronchamp
Named parks, gardens and woods in the commune or within 400 m, the biggest and best-pathed first: Bois de la Saulnaire leads, at 121 ha. Directions go to a point inside.
Terril du puits Saint-Charles
Wood or forest
13 ha1.9 km of path
25 minto walk all 1.9 km of path
1.2 km eastfrom the center
Directionsto a point inside
Manège à chevaux
Park or garden · 360 m outside the commune
3.8 ha1.2 km of path
15 minto walk all 1.2 km of path
2.2 km south-eastfrom the center
Directionsto a point inside
Terril rouge de Ronchamp
Wood or forest
16 ha
1.3 km south-westfrom the center
Directionsto a point inside
Parc des Cyprès
Park or garden
0.9 ha0.2 km of path
0.7 km south-eastfrom the center
Directionsto a point inside
Source: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL): named parks, gardens and woods; sizes are the whole site.
Protected areas
Protected land in and around Ronchamp
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
100% of the commune
Share of the commune’s land
Any protected area100%
Regional nature park100%
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.
100% of Ronchamp’s land is protected, more than in 95% of compared French towns; the median compared town in Haute-Saône has 28%. 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
20 km of footpaths and 14 km of hiking routes cross Ronchamp
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
20 km
0.8 km per km²
Hiking routes
14 km
waymarked: 0.6 km per km²
Woodland
73%
about 17 km² of mapped woods
Km per km² of the commune · mapped on OpenStreetMap
RonchampHaute-Saône medianFrance median
Footpaths0.8
Hiking routes0.6
012 km per km²
Share of the land · mapped woods and forest
RonchampHaute-Saône medianFrance median
Woodland73%
0%50%100%
That is less than in 74% of compared French towns for footpaths per km², and for woodland more than in 99% 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 Ronchamp 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 5922 km
Sentier des Ducs13 km
La Bormillière1.5 km
GR 59 passes within 2 km of Ronchamp.
Source: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL), extracts of October 25, 2026 (Geofabrik).
When to get out
The best walking months in Ronchamp: May to September
Météo-France’s 1991–2020 normals at Giromagny_Sapc, 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 | 6 | 11 | 15 | 19 | 22 | 24 | 24 | 20 | 15 | 9 | 6 |
| Rain (mm) | 185 | 144 | 147 | 90 | 128 | 104 | 105 | 106 | 109 | 143 | 161 | 215 |
April is the driest month (90 mm) and July the warmest (highs of 24 °C). 215 mm of rain falls in December, the wettest month. Frost comes on about 73 nights a year. The climate in Ronchamp →
Neighbors
Next to Ronchamp
The nearest towns of 2,500 or more, colored by the share of their land in protected areas.
ChampagneyLureGiromagnyEssertValdoieHéricourtRonchamp
Under 1%1–10 %10–25 %25–50 %50 %+
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 Ronchamp
Is Ronchamp in a national or regional nature park?
Yes: Ronchamp lies in Ballons des Vosges Regional Nature Park (100% of the commune).
Are there good walks in Ronchamp?
OpenStreetMap maps 20 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); 14 km of waymarked hiking routes cross it.
How much of Ronchamp is woodland?
73% of the commune is mapped woodland, private woods included; the median compared French town has 13%.
Is Ronchamp 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 Ronchamp?
May 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 8, 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.