First pick
Lac du Crès
Park or garden
33 ha6.4 km of path
1 h 25 minto walk all 6.4 km of path
Centralin the middle of Le Crès
Rue Louise Michel
Directionsto a point inside
Photo: Rémi Cazalet (aka kmz ); Original uploader was Kmz at fr.wikipedia · CC BY-SA 2.59.9%woodland
Outdoors in Le Crès · protected areas, woods and footpaths
Le Crès has more footpaths per km² than 9 in 10 French towns
30 km of footpaths cross Le Crès (5.2 km per km²). No protected area reaches Le Crès; the nearest, Le Lez (Natura 2000), is 3.8 km from the town center. Waymarked hiking routes add up to 2 km in Le Crès. 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: Le Lez, 3.8 km
Woodland
9.9%
of the land, mapped on OpenStreetMap
Compared town: 13%
Footpaths
30 km
5.2 km per km²
Compared town: 1.7 km per km²
Hiking routes
2.2 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: Lac du Crès
The sea
12 km
from the town center to the coast
Throughout this page, the Hérault 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 Le Crès?
Read from the data: what stands out first, good and less good.
A place of footpaths5.2 km per km² of mapped footpath, against 1.7 km per km² for the median compared town.Protected land nearbyLe Lez (Natura 2000) is 3.8 km from the town center.
What sets Le Crès apart: its footpaths, then protected land close by.
Against French towns
How Le Crès 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
Woodland9.9%Share of the land mapped as forest or woods on OpenStreetMap
40out of 100
Footpaths5.2 km per km²Km of mapped footpath and track open on foot, per km² of the commune
91out of 100
Hiking routes0.4 km per km²Km of waymarked hiking routes (GR and others), per km² of the commune
53out of 100
Percentiles among compared French towns; ties count half.
Towns its size
Le Crès has the 4th most footpaths per km² of 41 towns its size
The 40 compared French towns nearest in population (9,062 to 9,388 residents), by km of footpath per km². Hover for each one’s protected land and woods; click for its page.
From Grabels (6.1 km per km²) to Valréas (0.1 km per km²).
Every town in the comparison
| Town | Paths (km/km²) | Woodland | Protected | Coast | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Grabels Hérault | 6.1 | 9.7% | 0% | 17 km |
| 2 | Capbreton Landes | 5.9 | 58% | 11% | On it |
| 3 | La Ravoire Savoie | 5.3 | 14% | 0% | 231 km |
| 4 | Le Crès Hérault | 5.2 | 9.9% | 0% | 12 km |
| 5 | Poisy Haute-Savoie | 5 | 33% | 0% | 263 km |
| 6 | Bougival Yvelines | 4.8 | 20% | 0% | 140 km |
| 7 | Évian-les-Bains Haute-Savoie | 4.8 | 11% | 0% | 299 km |
| 8 | Ouistreham Calvados | 4.6 | 3.8% | 8.5% | On it |
| 9 | Jarville-la-Malgrange Meurthe-et-Moselle | 4.6 | 2.7% | 0% | 369 km |
| 10 | Tomblaine Meurthe-et-Moselle | 4.3 | 2.9% | 0% | 368 km |
| 11 | Magny-les-Hameaux Yvelines | 4.1 | 29% | 100% | 149 km |
| 12 | Vert-Saint-Denis Seine-et-Marne | 3.9 | 23% | 0% | 187 km |
| 13 | Condé-sur-l'Escaut Nord | 3.5 | 44% | 99% | 98 km |
| 14 | Fontaine-lès-Dijon Côte-d'Or | 3.4 | 2.6% | 0% | 400 km |
| 15 | Liffré Ille-et-Vilaine | 3.4 | 61% | 20% | 45 km |
| 16 | Rombas Moselle | 3.3 | 53% | 0% | 314 km |
| 17 | Le Passage Lot-et-Garonne | 3.2 | 7.8% | 9% | 131 km |
| 18 | Hagondange Moselle | 3.1 | 11% | 0% | 317 km |
| 19 | Prévessin-Moëns Ain | 2.9 | 17% | 0% | 297 km |
| 20 | Mont-Saint-Martin Meurthe-et-Moselle | 2.9 | 18% | 0% | 274 km |
| 21 | Chécy Loiret | 2.9 | 18% | 9.7% | 210 km |
| 22 | Breuillet Essonne | 2.8 | 33% | 0% | 164 km |
| 23 | Dardilly Rhône | 2.8 | 20% | 0% | 256 km |
| 24 | Launaguet Haute-Garonne | 2.7 | 7.2% | 0% | 149 km |
| 25 | Lamorlaye Oise | 2.5 | 42% | 100% | 125 km |
| 26 | Molsheim Bas-Rhin | 2.5 | 8.8% | 0% | 441 km |
| 27 | Beuvry Pas-de-Calais | 2 | 14% | 0% | 61 km |
| 28 | Sarzeau Morbihan | 2 | 13% | 100% | On it |
| 29 | Les Sorinières Loire-Atlantique | 2 | 9.8% | 0% | 37 km |
| 30 | Scionzier Haute-Savoie | 1.9 | 56% | 9.8% | 264 km |
| 31 | Chaponost Rhône | 1.5 | 12% | 0% | 245 km |
| 32 | Belley Ain | 1.4 | 19% | 0% | 261 km |
| 33 | Paray-le-Monial Saône-et-Loire | 1.3 | 20% | 0% | 321 km |
| 34 | Varennes-Vauzelles Nièvre | 0.9 | 20% | 0% | 336 km |
| 35 | Nogent-le-Rotrou Eure-et-Loir | 0.8 | 7.9% | 100% | 127 km |
| 36 | Livron-sur-Drôme Drôme | 0.8 | 11% | 4.3% | 147 km |
| 37 | Ussel Corrèze | 0.7 | 38% | 0.1% | 235 km |
| 38 | Le Teich Gironde | 0.6 | 81% | 100% | On it |
| 39 | Rivesaltes Pyrénées-Orientales | 0.5 | 0.2% | 0% | 13 km |
| 40 | Grenade Haute-Garonne | 0.5 | 9.5% | 14% | 165 km |
| 41 | Valréas Vaucluse | 0.1 | 21% | 0% | 104 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 Le Crès
Named parks, gardens and woods in the commune or within 400 m, the biggest and best-pathed first: Lac du Crès leads, at 33 ha. Directions go to a point inside.
Parc Las Bouzigues
Wood or forest · 130 m outside the commune
4.4 ha1.5 km of path
20 minto walk all 1.5 km of path
1.6 km westfrom the center
Chemin Bernard Monnier
Directionsto a point inside
Parc de la Liberté
Park or garden
1.2 ha0.2 km of path
1.1 km south-eastfrom the center
Directionsto a point inside
Parc Georges Brassens
Park or garden
0.4 ha0.3 km of path
0.9 km north-eastfrom the center
Directionsto a point inside
Parc Municipal Jacques Robert
Park or garden
0.4 ha
1.3 km southfrom the center
Directionsto a point inside
Source: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL): named parks, gardens and woods; sizes are the whole site.
Protected areas
Le Lez is the nearest protected area, 3.8 km away
The protected areas reaching the commune, and the nearest: national parks, regional nature parks, nature reserves and Natura 2000 sites.
Natura 2000 site
Le Lez
3.8 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
Footpaths and woods in Le Crès
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
30 km
5.2 km per km²
Hiking routes
2.2 km
waymarked: 0.4 km per km²
Woodland
9.9%
about 0.6 km² of mapped woods
Km per km² of the commune · mapped on OpenStreetMap
Le CrèsHérault medianFrance median
Footpaths5.2
Hiking routes0.4
03.57 km per km²
Share of the land · mapped woods and forest
Le CrèsHérault medianFrance median
Woodland9.9%
0%50%100%
That is more than in 91% of compared French towns for footpaths per km², and for woodland less than in 60% 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 Le Crès is within 800 m of a mapped park or wood, as in most French towns.
A named hiking route within 2 km
Other named walk
Sentier Botanique de la Fontanaride1 km
Source: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL), extracts of October 25, 2026 (Geofabrik).
When to get out
The best walking months in Le Crès: April to June
Météo-France’s 1991–2020 normals at Prades le Lez, 9.2 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) | 9.3 | 10.4 | 11.8 | 13.4 | 14.7 | 15.4 | 15.1 | 14.0 | 12.4 | 10.9 | 9.6 | 8.9 |
| High (°C) | 12 | 14 | 17 | 20 | 24 | 29 | 32 | 31 | 26 | 21 | 16 | 13 |
| Rain (mm) | 79 | 52 | 57 | 75 | 64 | 45 | 23 | 45 | 112 | 128 | 106 | 84 |
July is the driest month (23 mm) and the warmest (highs of 32 °C). 128 mm of rain falls in October, the wettest month. Frost comes on about 53 nights a year. Summer highs reach 32 °C, too hot for the outline. The climate in Le Crès →
Neighbors
Next to Le Crès
The nearest towns of 2,500 or more, colored by the share of their land in protected areas.
JacouSaint-AunèsVendarguesCastelnau-le-LezTeyranClapiersLe Crès
Under 1%1–10 %10–25 %25–50 %50 %+
| Town | Protected | Woodland | Paths (km/km²) | Coast |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Le Crès | 0% | 9.9% | 5.2 | 12 km |
| Jacou 6,924 · 2 km | 0% | 16% | 10.3 | 13 km |
| Saint-Aunès 4,530 · 2.5 km | 0% | 4.7% | 1 | 10 km |
| Vendargues 7,262 · 2.8 km | 0% | 11% | 3.3 | 12 km |
| Castelnau-le-Lez 26,058 · 2.9 km | 1.2% | 4.5% | 4.6 | 11 km |
| Teyran 4,787 · 3.3 km | 10% | 11% | 3.2 | 15 km |
| Clapiers 6,006 · 4 km | 3.1% | 42% | 9.8 | 14 km |
Teyran has at least twice as much protected land. Clapiers is 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 Le Crès
Is Le Crès in a national or regional nature park?
No. The nearest protected area is Le Lez, 3.8 km from the town center.
Are there good walks in Le Crès?
OpenStreetMap maps 30 km of footpaths and tracks open on foot in the commune, 5.2 km per km² (the median compared town: 1.7 km per km²); 2 km of waymarked hiking routes cross it.
How much of Le Crès is woodland?
9.9% of the commune is mapped woodland, private woods included; the median compared French town has 13%.
Is Le Crès near the sea?
No: the coast is 12 km from the town center, as the crow flies.
When is the best time for walking in Le Crès?
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.