First pick
Bois de la Bâtie
Wood or forest
11 ha0.7 km of path
10 minto walk all 0.7 km of path
2.1 km north-westfrom the center
Directionsto a point inside
Photo: Patafisik · CC BY-SA 4.018%woodland
Outdoors in Le Versoud · protected areas, woods and footpaths
Almost every home in Le Versoud is within 800 m of a park or wood
20 km of footpaths cross Le Versoud (3.2 km per km²). No protected area reaches Le Versoud; the nearest, Chartreuse Regional Nature Park, is 5.4 km from the town center. 18% of Le Versoud is mapped woodland. 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, 5.4 km
Woodland
18%
of the land, mapped on OpenStreetMap
Compared town: 13%
Footpaths
20 km
3.2 km per km²
Compared town: 1.7 km per km²
Hiking routes
2.4 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: Bois de la Bâtie
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 Le Versoud?
Read from the data: what stands out first, good and less good.
A place of footpaths3.2 km per km² of mapped footpath, against 1.7 km per km² for the median compared town.Protected land nearbyChartreuse Regional Nature Park is 5.4 km from the town center.
What sets Le Versoud apart: its footpaths, then protected land close by.
Against French towns
How Le Versoud 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
Woodland18%Share of the land mapped as forest or woods on OpenStreetMap
59out of 100
Footpaths3.2 km per km²Km of mapped footpath and track open on foot, per km² of the commune
76out of 100
Hiking routes0.4 km per km²Km of waymarked hiking routes (GR and others), per km² of the commune
54out of 100
Percentiles among compared French towns; ties count half.
Towns its size
Le Versoud has the 5th most footpaths per km² of 41 towns its size
The 40 compared French towns nearest in population (4,854 to 4,942 residents), by km of footpath per km². Hover for each one’s protected land and woods; click for its page.
From Quiberon (6.6 km per km²) to Charny Orée de Puisaye (0.1 km per km²).
Every town in the comparison
| Town | Paths (km/km²) | Woodland | Protected | Coast | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Quiberon Morbihan | 6.6 | 2.8% | 18% | On it |
| 2 | Grand-Fort-Philippe Nord | 4.5 | 0.1% | 0% | On it |
| 3 | Bogny-sur-Meuse Ardennes | 4.3 | 79% | 100% | 200 km |
| 4 | Ceyreste Bouches-du-Rhône | 3.7 | 42% | 49% | 2.9 km |
| 5 | Le Versoud Isère | 3.2 | 18% | 0% | 202 km |
| 6 | Pechbonnieu Haute-Garonne | 2.8 | 15% | 0% | 150 km |
| 7 | Gratentour Haute-Garonne | 2.8 | 1.8% | 0% | 153 km |
| 8 | L'Île-d'Yeu Vendée | 2.8 | 21% | 44% | On it |
| 9 | Ballainvilliers Essonne | 2.4 | 2.3% | 0% | 164 km |
| 10 | Uchaud Gard | 2.1 | 32% | 2.7% | 26 km |
| 11 | Volvic Puy-de-Dôme | 1.9 | 57% | 100% | 269 km |
| 12 | Plateau d'Hauteville Ain | 1.9 | 65% | 1.2% | 284 km |
| 13 | Lambres-lez-Douai Nord | 1.8 | 4.4% | 0% | 90 km |
| 14 | Laigneville Oise | 1.5 | 29% | 0% | 112 km |
| 15 | La Voulte-sur-Rhône Ardèche | 1.5 | 15% | 33% | 149 km |
| 16 | Le Quesnoy Nord | 1.4 | 2.1% | 100% | 120 km |
| 17 | Montbazon Indre-et-Loire | 1.2 | 29% | 0% | 178 km |
| 18 | Cluny Saône-et-Loire | 1.1 | 42% | 100% | 322 km |
| 19 | Blendecques Pas-de-Calais | 1.1 | 18% | 84% | 32 km |
| 20 | Claira Pyrénées-Orientales | 1.1 | 0% | 0% | 7 km |
| 21 | Bruyères-sur-Oise Val-d'Oise | 1 | 3.1% | 0.2% | 122 km |
| 22 | Verneuil-sur-Vienne Haute-Vienne | 1 | 23% | 0% | 154 km |
| 23 | Mourmelon-le-Grand Marne | 1 | 29% | 0.1% | 226 km |
| 24 | Briare Loiret | 0.8 | 27% | 7.9% | 266 km |
| 25 | Sainte-Eulalie Gironde | 0.6 | 7.3% | 0% | 14 km |
| 26 | Decize Nièvre | 0.6 | 15% | 32% | 355 km |
| 27 | Bégard Côtes-d'Armor | 0.5 | 11% | 0% | 13 km |
| 28 | Fagnières Marne | 0.5 | 0.4% | 0% | 235 km |
| 29 | Écommoy Sarthe | 0.5 | 28% | 0.2% | 151 km |
| 30 | La Côte-Saint-André Isère | 0.5 | 10% | 0% | 218 km |
| 31 | Amplepuis Rhône | 0.4 | 29% | 0% | 269 km |
| 32 | Saint-Pourçain-sur-Sioule Allier | 0.4 | 6.2% | 9.3% | 311 km |
| 33 | Cazères Haute-Garonne | 0.4 | 4.1% | 11% | 162 km |
| 34 | Lisle-sur-Tarn Tarn | 0.4 | 30% | 0% | 136 km |
| 35 | Saint-Père-en-Retz Loire-Atlantique | 0.3 | 5.6% | 5.7% | 8.1 km |
| 36 | Saint-Sulpice-et-Cameyrac Gironde | 0.3 | 6.2% | 7.7% | 20 km |
| 37 | Bazas Gironde | 0.2 | 30% | 2.9% | 69 km |
| 38 | Castelnau-de-Médoc Gironde | 0.2 | 82% | 100% | 10 km |
| 39 | Bonneval Eure-et-Loir | 0.1 | 9.3% | 30% | 159 km |
| 40 | Saint-Laurent-Médoc Gironde | 0.1 | 61% | 100% | 7.6 km |
| 41 | Charny Orée de Puisaye Yonne | 0.1 | 22% | 0% | 266 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 Versoud
Named parks, gardens and woods in the commune or within 400 m, the biggest and best-pathed first: Bois de la Bâtie leads, at 11 ha. Directions go to 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, 5.4 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
5.4 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
20 km of footpaths cross Le Versoud
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
3.2 km per km²
Hiking routes
2.4 km
waymarked: 0.4 km per km²
Woodland
18%
about 1.1 km² of mapped woods
Km per km² of the commune · mapped on OpenStreetMap
Le VersoudIsère medianFrance median
Footpaths3.2
Hiking routes0.4
024 km per km²
Share of the land · mapped woods and forest
Le VersoudIsère medianFrance median
Woodland18%
0%50%100%
That is more than in 76% of compared French towns for footpaths per km², and for woodland more than in 59% 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 Versoud is within 800 m of a mapped park or wood, as in most French towns.
8 named hiking routes within 2 km
Other named walk
Circuit de la Monta9.9 km
La Tour de Revel (par le Mollard)7.6 km
Chemin de Découverte (boucle Haute)3.5 km
Circuit de Beauregard3.1 km
Chemin de Découverte (boucle Basse)2.8 km
Domène à Murianette, par les rives de l'Isère1.9 km
Liaison Boucle Haute1.4 km
Liaison Boucle Basse1.2 km
Source: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL), extracts of October 25, 2026 (Geofabrik).
When to get out
The best walking months in Le Versoud: April and June to August
Météo-France’s 1991–2020 normals at Pont-De-Beauvoisin, 38 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 | 14.8 | 15.6 | 15.3 | 14.1 | 12.5 | 10.9 | 9.4 | 8.8 |
| 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 Le Versoud →
Neighbors
Next to Le Versoud
The nearest towns of 2,500 or more, colored by the share of their land in protected areas.
DomèneVillard-BonnotSaint-Nazaire-les-EymesSaint-IsmierMontbonnot-Saint-MartinBerninLe Versoud
Under 1%1–10 %10–25 %25–50 %50 %+
| Town | Protected | Woodland | Paths (km/km²) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Le Versoud | 0% | 18% | 3.2 |
| Domène 6,835 · 2.9 km | 0% | 24% | 3.8 |
| Villard-Bonnot 7,509 · 3.7 km | 0% | 28% | 1.7 |
| Saint-Nazaire-les-Eymes 3,016 · 4.1 km | 30% | 37% | 3 |
| Saint-Ismier 7,165 · 4.2 km | 31% | 40% | 4.5 |
| Montbonnot-Saint-Martin 5,698 · 4.5 km | 0% | 9.5% | 4.6 |
| Bernin 3,334 · 5.6 km | 14% | 28% | 3.7 |
Saint-Nazaire-les-Eymes, Saint-Ismier and Bernin have at least twice as much protected land. Villard-Bonnot, Saint-Nazaire-les-Eymes and Saint-Ismier 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 Le Versoud
Is Le Versoud in a national or regional nature park?
No. The nearest protected area is Chartreuse Regional Nature Park, 5.4 km from the town center.
Are there good walks in Le Versoud?
OpenStreetMap maps 20 km of footpaths and tracks open on foot in the commune, 3.2 km per km² (the median compared town: 1.7 km per km²); 2 km of waymarked hiking routes cross it.
How much of Le Versoud is woodland?
18% of the commune is mapped woodland, private woods included; the median compared French town has 13%.
Is Le Versoud near the sea?
No: the coast is 202 km from the town center, as the crow flies.
When is the best time for walking in Le Versoud?
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.