First pick
Clos Michel
Park or garden
1.2 ha0.3 km of path
0.6 km southfrom the center
Directionsto a point inside
Photo: Anthony Levrot · CC BY-SA 4.014%of the land protected
Outdoors in Bernin · protected areas, woods and footpaths
Bernin has more footpaths per km² than 8 in 10 French towns
29 km of footpaths cross Bernin (3.7 km per km²). Mapped woodland covers 28% of Bernin. Protected areas cover 14% of Bernin’s land. France has no Outdoors Grade yet: these are the figures, each beside the compared towns’ median.
Protected areas
14%
of the commune’s land
Compared town: 0.1%
Woodland
28%
of the land, mapped on OpenStreetMap
Compared town: 13%
Footpaths
29 km
3.7 km per km²
Compared town: 1.7 km per km²
Hiking routes
1.3 km
waymarked, GR and others
Compared town: 0.3 km per km²
Parks & woods
1
named, in or within 400 m of the commune
First: Clos Michel
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.
Against French towns
How Bernin 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 areas14%Share of the land in a national park, regional nature park, nature reserve or Natura 2000 site
75out of 100
Woodland28%Share of the land mapped as forest or woods on OpenStreetMap
73out of 100
Footpaths3.7 km per km²Km of mapped footpath and track open on foot, per km² of the commune
82out of 100
Hiking routes0.2 km per km²Km of waymarked hiking routes (GR and others), per km² of the commune
35out of 100
Percentiles among compared French towns; ties count half.
Towns its size
Bernin has the 4th most footpaths per km² of 41 towns its size
The 40 compared French towns nearest in population (3,302 to 3,360 residents), by km of footpath per km². Hover for each one’s protected land and woods; click for its page.
From Collégien (5.9 km per km²) to La Ville-Dieu-du-Temple (0.1 km per km²).
Every town in the comparison
| Town | Paths (km/km²) | Woodland | Protected | Coast | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Collégien Seine-et-Marne | 5.9 | 29% | 0% | 165 km |
| 2 | Frépillon Val-d'Oise | 4.3 | 19% | 0.2% | 126 km |
| 3 | Champ-sur-Drac Isère | 3.9 | 51% | 24% | 193 km |
| 4 | Bernin Isère | 3.7 | 28% | 14% | 207 km |
| 5 | Briis-sous-Forges Essonne | 3.5 | 22% | 0.1% | 157 km |
| 6 | Lavérune Hérault | 3.1 | 6.9% | 0% | 11 km |
| 7 | Renage Isère | 3.1 | 31% | 0% | 215 km |
| 8 | Saint-Maximin Oise | 3 | 54% | 88% | 120 km |
| 9 | Roscoff Finistère | 3 | 0% | 0.4% | On it |
| 10 | Seilh Haute-Garonne | 3 | 15% | 12% | 156 km |
| 11 | Houplin-Ancoisne Nord | 3 | 4.4% | 0% | 66 km |
| 12 | Buchelay Yvelines | 2.8 | 7.5% | 0% | 108 km |
| 13 | Cocheren Moselle | 2.6 | 36% | 0% | 360 km |
| 14 | Saint-Nicolas-de-Redon Loire-Atlantique | 2.2 | 18% | 31% | 29 km |
| 15 | Ceyzériat Ain | 2 | 41% | 0.6% | 305 km |
| 16 | Doubs Doubs | 2 | 37% | 0% | 361 km |
| 17 | Le Folgoët Finistère | 1.9 | 3.7% | 0% | 8.1 km |
| 18 | Vourles Rhône | 1.8 | 6.6% | 0% | 240 km |
| 19 | Merlimont Pas-de-Calais | 1.6 | 28% | 63% | On it |
| 20 | La Roche-Blanche Puy-de-Dôme | 1.5 | 12% | 7.8% | 249 km |
| 21 | Aigues-Vives Gard | 1.3 | 4.2% | 13% | 21 km |
| 22 | Mareuil-lès-Meaux Seine-et-Marne | 1.1 | 18% | 0.6% | 163 km |
| 23 | Boissy-le-Châtel Seine-et-Marne | 1.1 | 20% | 0% | 184 km |
| 24 | Bonifacio Corse-du-Sud | 1.1 | 11% | 18% | On it |
| 25 | Précy-sur-Oise Oise | 1 | 14% | 100% | 119 km |
| 26 | Villelongue-de-la-Salanque Pyrénées-Orientales | 0.8 | 0.1% | 0% | 4.5 km |
| 27 | Montanay Rhône | 0.8 | 7.1% | 0% | 265 km |
| 28 | Wizernes Pas-de-Calais | 0.7 | 6.8% | 100% | 32 km |
| 29 | Louvigné-du-Désert Ille-et-Vilaine | 0.6 | 4.2% | 0% | 24 km |
| 30 | Morhange Moselle | 0.5 | 7% | 0% | 367 km |
| 31 | Veuzain-sur-Loire Loir-et-Cher | 0.5 | 24% | 6.2% | 220 km |
| 32 | Saint-Andiol Bouches-du-Rhône | 0.5 | 0% | 0% | 43 km |
| 33 | Chaumont-en-Vexin Oise | 0.5 | 18% | 0% | 93 km |
| 34 | Évry-Grégy-sur-Yerre Seine-et-Marne | 0.3 | 13% | 0% | 180 km |
| 35 | Palau-del-Vidre Pyrénées-Orientales | 0.2 | 1% | 2.8% | 7.1 km |
| 36 | Val-au-Perche Orne | 0.2 | 21% | 100% | 128 km |
| 37 | Airvault Deux-Sèvres | 0.2 | 13% | 18% | 95 km |
| 38 | Cérans-Foulletourte Sarthe | 0.2 | 34% | 0% | 139 km |
| 39 | Castillon-la-Bataille Gironde | 0.1 | 12% | 1.5% | 47 km |
| 40 | Ambès Gironde | 0.1 | 5.4% | 58% | 4.6 km |
| 41 | La Ville-Dieu-du-Temple Tarn-et-Garonne | 0.1 | 9% | 0% | 180 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 Bernin
Named parks, gardens and woods in the commune or within 400 m, the biggest and best-pathed first: Clos Michel leads, at 1.2 ha. Directions go to a point inside.
Source: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL): named parks, gardens and woods; sizes are the whole site.
Protected areas
14% of Bernin lies in protected areas
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
14% of the commune1.1 km from the center
Share of the commune’s land
Any protected area14%
Regional nature park14%
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.
14% of Bernin’s land is protected, more than in 75% of compared French towns; the median compared town in Isère has 0%. 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
Footpaths and woods in Bernin
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
29 km
3.7 km per km²
Hiking routes
1.3 km
waymarked: 0.2 km per km²
Woodland
28%
about 2.1 km² of mapped woods
Km per km² of the commune · mapped on OpenStreetMap
BerninIsère medianFrance median
Footpaths3.7
Hiking routes0.2
02.55 km per km²
Share of the land · mapped woods and forest
BerninIsère medianFrance median
Woodland28%
0%50%100%
That is more than in 82% of compared French towns for footpaths per km², and for woodland more than in 73% 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 Bernin is within 800 m of a mapped park or wood, as in most French towns.
8 named hiking routes within 2 km
GR (long-distance)GR de PaysOther named walk
GR 96514 km
GRP TC2.1 km
Chemin d'Assise, Cluny - Montcenis14 km
Chemin de Découverte (boucle Basse)2.8 km
Tour des Petites Roches1.1 km
Liaison Boucle Haute0.7 km
Liaison Boucle Basse0.6 km
Le Pleynon0.4 km
GR 965 passes within 2 km of Bernin.
Source: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL), extracts of October 25, 2026 (Geofabrik).
When to get out
The best walking months in Bernin: April and June to August
Météo-France’s 1991–2020 normals at Pont-De-Beauvoisin, 33 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 | 13.4 | 14.9 | 15.6 | 15.3 | 14.1 | 12.5 | 10.9 | 9.4 | 8.7 |
| High (°C) | 7 | 9 | 14 | 18 | 22 | 26 | 29 | 28 | 23 | 18 | 11 | 7 |
| Rain (mm) | 84 | 69 | 84 | 93 | 115 | 103 | 94 | 89 | 111 | 117 | 113 | 94 |
February is the driest month (69 mm) and July the warmest (highs of 29 °C). 117 mm of rain falls in October, the wettest month. Frost comes on about 83 nights a year. The climate in Bernin →
Neighbors
Next to Bernin
The nearest towns of 2,500 or more, colored by the share of their land in protected areas.
CrollesSaint-Nazaire-les-EymesSaint-IsmierVillard-BonnotFrogesLe VersoudBernin
Under 1%1–10 %10–25 %25–50 %50 %+
| Town | Protected | Woodland | Paths (km/km²) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bernin | 14% | 28% | 3.7 |
| Crolles 8,609 · 2 km | 19% | 26% | 4.6 |
| Saint-Nazaire-les-Eymes 3,016 · 2 km | 30% | 37% | 3 |
| Saint-Ismier 7,165 · 3.4 km | 31% | 40% | 4.5 |
| Villard-Bonnot 7,509 · 3.6 km | 0% | 28% | 1.7 |
| Froges 3,285 · 4.4 km | 0% | 49% | 2.2 |
| Le Versoud 4,900 · 5.6 km | 0% | 18% | 3.2 |
Saint-Nazaire-les-Eymes and Saint-Ismier have at least twice as much protected land. Froges 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 Bernin
Is Bernin in a national or regional nature park?
Yes: Bernin lies in Chartreuse Regional Nature Park (14% of the commune).
Are there good walks in Bernin?
OpenStreetMap maps 29 km of footpaths and tracks open on foot in the commune, 3.7 km per km² (the median compared town: 1.7 km per km²); 1 km of waymarked hiking routes cross it.
How much of Bernin is woodland?
28% of the commune is mapped woodland, private woods included; the median compared French town has 13%.
Is Bernin near the sea?
No: the coast is 207 km from the town center, as the crow flies.
When is the best time for walking in Bernin?
April and June to August: 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.