First pick
Parc des Thermes
Park or garden
1.3 ha0.6 km of path
10 minto walk all 0.6 km of path
Centralin the middle of Allevard
Directionsto a point inside
Photo: Patafisik · CC BY-SA 4.055%woodland
Outdoors in Allevard · protected areas, woods and footpaths
55% of Allevard is woodland, more than in 9 in 10 French towns
No protected area reaches Allevard; the nearest, Chartreuse Regional Nature Park, is 7 km from the town center. Footpaths add up to 71 km across Allevard (2 km per km²). Waymarked hiking routes add up to 55 km in Allevard. 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: Chartreuse Regional Nature Park, 7 km
Woodland
55%
of the land, mapped on OpenStreetMap
Compared town: 13%
Footpaths
71 km
2 km per km²
Compared town: 1.7 km per km²
Hiking routes
55 km
waymarked, GR and others
Compared town: 0.3 km per km²
Parks & woods
3
named, in or within 400 m of the commune
First: Parc des Thermes
Throughout this page, the Isère 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 Allevard?
Read from the data: what stands out first, good and less good.
A wooded commune55% mapped woodland, more than in 94% of compared French towns, against 13% for the median compared town.On waymarked routes55 km of GR and other hiking routes cross the commune.Protected land nearbyChartreuse Regional Nature Park is 7 km from the town center.
What sets Allevard apart: its woods, then its hiking routes.
Against French towns
How Allevard 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
Woodland55%Share of the land mapped as forest or woods on OpenStreetMap
94out of 100
Footpaths2 km per km²Km of mapped footpath and track open on foot, per km² of the commune
58out of 100
Hiking routes1.6 km per km²Km of waymarked hiking routes (GR and others), per km² of the commune
93out of 100
Percentiles among compared French towns; ties count half.
Towns its size
Allevard has the 3rd most footpaths per km² of 41 towns its size
The 40 compared French towns nearest in population (3,952 to 3,996 residents), by km of footpath per km². Hover for each one’s protected land and woods; click for its page.
From Jarrie (3.2 km per km²) to Aiguillon (0.1 km per km²).
Every town in the comparison
| Town | Paths (km/km²) | Woodland | Protected | Coast | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Jarrie Isère | 3.2 | 33% | 0.8% | 196 km |
| 2 | Saint-Nabord Vosges | 2.1 | 62% | 3.6% | 429 km |
| 3 | Allevard Isère | 2 | 55% | 0% | 211 km |
| 4 | Pujaut Gard | 2 | 10% | 0% | 62 km |
| 5 | Condrieu Rhône | 2 | 20% | 100% | 219 km |
| 6 | Mozac Puy-de-Dôme | 2 | 1.7% | 0% | 270 km |
| 7 | Toufflers Nord | 1.9 | 0.4% | 0% | 65 km |
| 8 | Pléneuf-Val-André Côtes-d'Armor | 1.8 | 10% | 2.6% | On it |
| 9 | Oberhoffen-sur-Moder Bas-Rhin | 1.7 | 25% | 11% | 442 km |
| 10 | Hondschoote Nord | 1.6 | 0% | 0% | 12 km |
| 11 | Argences Calvados | 1.5 | 16% | 0% | 18 km |
| 12 | Porte-de-Savoie Savoie | 1.4 | 18% | 86% | 224 km |
| 13 | Erquy Côtes-d'Armor | 1.4 | 6.8% | 15% | On it |
| 14 | Quévert Côtes-d'Armor | 1.3 | 12% | 100% | 6.9 km |
| 15 | Allaire Morbihan | 1.2 | 17% | 6.3% | 22 km |
| 16 | Boos Seine-Maritime | 1.2 | 21% | 0% | 60 km |
| 17 | Rousies Nord | 1.2 | 20% | 100% | 132 km |
| 18 | Ingwiller Bas-Rhin | 1.2 | 61% | 100% | 414 km |
| 19 | La Gacilly Morbihan | 1.1 | 27% | 4.9% | 34 km |
| 20 | Fourchambault Nièvre | 1.1 | 16% | 11% | 332 km |
| 21 | Saint-Aignan-Grandlieu Loire-Atlantique | 1.1 | 30% | 19% | 29 km |
| 22 | Plouvien Finistère | 1 | 9.4% | 0.6% | 3.9 km |
| 23 | Propriano Corse-du-Sud | 1 | 19% | 3.7% | On it |
| 24 | Fontaine-le-Comte Vienne | 0.9 | 20% | 0% | 110 km |
| 25 | Semur-en-Auxois Côte-d'Or | 0.9 | 21% | 0% | 357 km |
| 26 | Cires-lès-Mello Oise | 0.8 | 36% | 0% | 112 km |
| 27 | Sailly-sur-la-Lys Pas-de-Calais | 0.8 | 1.3% | 0.9% | 51 km |
| 28 | Le Bignon Loire-Atlantique | 0.8 | 14% | 0% | 37 km |
| 29 | Maing Nord | 0.7 | 4.2% | 0% | 108 km |
| 30 | Villeveyrac Hérault | 0.6 | 7% | 85% | 12 km |
| 31 | Gourin Morbihan | 0.6 | 12% | 1.7% | 34 km |
| 32 | Le Lude Sarthe | 0.5 | 23% | 7.6% | 157 km |
| 33 | Saint-Fulgent Vendée | 0.5 | 5.8% | 0% | 57 km |
| 34 | Châtelaudren-Plouagat Côtes-d'Armor | 0.5 | 4.2% | 0% | 14 km |
| 35 | Verfeil Haute-Garonne | 0.4 | 7.7% | 0% | 133 km |
| 36 | Poligny Jura | 0.4 | 77% | 0.1% | 368 km |
| 37 | Salses-le-Château Pyrénées-Orientales | 0.3 | 4.1% | 34% | 10 km |
| 38 | Grand Bourgtheroulde Eure | 0.3 | 4.2% | 0% | 40 km |
| 39 | Replonges Ain | 0.3 | 9.3% | 19% | 311 km |
| 40 | Saint-Chély-d'Apcher Lozère | 0.2 | 21% | 0% | 150 km |
| 41 | Aiguillon Lot-et-Garonne | 0.1 | 1.4% | 2.5% | 108 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 Allevard
Named parks, gardens and woods in the commune or within 400 m, the biggest and best-pathed first: Parc des Thermes leads, at 1.3 ha. Directions go to a point inside.
Parc de l'Ermitage
Park or garden
1 ha0.2 km of path
Centralin the middle of Allevard
Directionsto a point inside
Parc Joseph Barral
Park or garden
0.2 ha0.2 km of path
Centralin the middle of Allevard
Directionsto a point inside
Source: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL): named parks, gardens and woods; sizes are the whole site.
Protected areas
Chartreuse Regional Nature Park is the nearest protected area, 7 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
Chartreuse Regional Nature Park
7 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
71 km of footpaths and 55 km of hiking routes cross Allevard
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
71 km
2 km per km²
Hiking routes
55 km
waymarked: 1.6 km per km²
Woodland
55%
about 19.2 km² of mapped woods
Km per km² of the commune · mapped on OpenStreetMap
AllevardIsère medianFrance median
Footpaths2
Hiking routes1.6
01.53 km per km²
Share of the land · mapped woods and forest
AllevardIsère medianFrance median
Woodland55%
0%50%100%
That is more than in 58% of compared French towns for footpaths per km², and for woodland more than in 94% 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 Allevard 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 73816 km
Le sentier du fer de Pinsot2.5 km
Randonnée des Hameaux2.3 km
GR 738 passes within 2 km of Allevard.
Source: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL), extracts of October 25, 2026 (Geofabrik).
When to get out
The best walking months in Allevard: April to September
Météo-France’s 1991–2020 normals at Ste Marie Cuines, 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) | 9.1 | 10.3 | 11.8 | 13.5 | 14.9 | 15.6 | 15.3 | 14.1 | 12.5 | 10.8 | 9.4 | 8.7 |
| High (°C) | 6 | 9 | 14 | 18 | 22 | 26 | 28 | 27 | 23 | 18 | 11 | 7 |
| Rain (mm) | 90 | 63 | 74 | 55 | 71 | 61 | 68 | 80 | 58 | 71 | 75 | 91 |
April is the driest month (55 mm) and July the warmest (highs of 28 °C). 91 mm of rain falls in December, the wettest month. Frost comes on about 81 nights a year. The climate in Allevard →
Neighbors
Next to Allevard
The nearest towns of 2,500 or more, colored by the share of their land in protected areas.
Crêts en BelledonnePontcharraValgelon-La RochetteLe TouvetChapareillanMontmélianAllevard
Under 1%1–10 %10–25 %25–50 %50 %+
| Town | Protected | Woodland | Paths (km/km²) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Allevard | 0% | 55% | 2 |
| Crêts en Belledonne 3,470 · 3.8 km | 0% | 70% | 2.2 |
| Pontcharra 7,350 · 6.1 km | 0% | 39% | 2 |
| Valgelon-La Rochette 4,207 · 7.9 km | 0.6% | 31% | 1.6 |
| Le Touvet 3,116 · 11 km | 58% | 48% | 1.9 |
| Chapareillan 3,065 · 11 km | 98% | 57% | 2.2 |
| Montmélian 4,024 · 12 km | 100% | 47% | 4.3 |
Le Touvet, Chapareillan and Montmélian have at least twice as much protected land.
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 Allevard
Is Allevard in a national or regional nature park?
No. The nearest protected area is Chartreuse Regional Nature Park, 7 km from the town center.
Are there good walks in Allevard?
OpenStreetMap maps 71 km of footpaths and tracks open on foot in the commune, 2 km per km² (the median compared town: 1.7 km per km²); 55 km of waymarked hiking routes cross it.
How much of Allevard is woodland?
55% of the commune is mapped woodland, private woods included; the median compared French town has 13%.
Is Allevard near the sea?
No: the coast is 211 km from the town center, as the crow flies.
When is the best time for walking in Allevard?
April 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.