First pick
Parc du Clos Claret
Park or garden
4.2 ha0.7 km of path
10 minto walk all 0.7 km of path
Centralin the middle of Morestel
Directionsto a point inside
Photo: Florian Pépellin · CC BY-SA 4.012%of the land protected
Outdoors in Morestel · protected areas, woods and footpaths
Almost every home in Morestel is within 800 m of a park or wood
Footpaths add up to 6 km across Morestel (0.8 km per km²). 12% of Morestel’s land lies in protected areas. Mapped woodland covers 16% of Morestel. France has no Outdoors Grade yet: these are the figures, each beside the compared towns’ median.
Protected areas
12%
of the commune’s land
Compared town: 0.1%
Woodland
16%
of the land, mapped on OpenStreetMap
Compared town: 13%
Footpaths
6.5 km
0.8 km per km²
Compared town: 1.7 km per km²
Hiking routes
0 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: Parc du Clos Claret
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 Morestel 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 areas12%Share of the land in a national park, regional nature park, nature reserve or Natura 2000 site
73out of 100
Woodland16%Share of the land mapped as forest or woods on OpenStreetMap
55out of 100
Footpaths0.8 km per km²Km of mapped footpath and track open on foot, per km² of the commune
25out of 100
Hiking routes0 km per km²Km of waymarked hiking routes (GR and others), per km² of the commune
12out of 100
Percentiles among compared French towns; ties count half.
Towns its size
Morestel has the 18th fewest footpaths per km² of 41 towns its size
The 40 compared French towns nearest in population (4,306 to 4,376 residents), by km of footpath per km². Hover for each one’s protected land and woods; click for its page.
From Sevrier (4.3 km per km²) to Buzançais (0.1 km per km²).
Every town in the comparison
| Town | Paths (km/km²) | Woodland | Protected | Coast | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Sevrier Haute-Savoie | 4.3 | 49% | 100% | 255 km |
| 2 | Saint-Maurice-de-Beynost Ain | 4 | 21% | 17% | 262 km |
| 3 | Tigery Essonne | 3.6 | 41% | 0% | 176 km |
| 4 | Villard-de-Lans Isère | 3.4 | 57% | 100% | 188 km |
| 5 | Nilvange Moselle | 3.3 | 27% | 0% | 304 km |
| 6 | Gattières Alpes-Maritimes | 2.7 | 27% | 80% | 9.5 km |
| 7 | Niederbronn-les-Bains Bas-Rhin | 2.6 | 74% | 100% | 417 km |
| 8 | Poulx Gard | 2.5 | 0.1% | 56% | 47 km |
| 9 | Saulxures-lès-Nancy Meurthe-et-Moselle | 2.3 | 31% | 0% | 369 km |
| 10 | Coignières Yvelines | 2.3 | 29% | 0.1% | 137 km |
| 11 | Steenvoorde Nord | 1.8 | 1.9% | 0% | 29 km |
| 12 | Villeneuve Alpes-de-Haute-Provence | 1.8 | 34% | 100% | 74 km |
| 13 | Cheval-Blanc Vaucluse | 1.7 | 19% | 100% | 42 km |
| 14 | Hillion Côtes-d'Armor | 1.6 | 6.9% | 9% | On it |
| 15 | Le Château-d'Oléron Charente-Maritime | 1.5 | 7.5% | 50% | On it |
| 16 | Le Val Var | 1.5 | 63% | 7.3% | 37 km |
| 17 | Louverné Mayenne | 1.5 | 3.9% | 0% | 74 km |
| 18 | Cadenet Vaucluse | 1.1 | 28% | 100% | 42 km |
| 19 | Camon Somme | 1.1 | 5.6% | 14% | 57 km |
| 20 | Morlaàs Pyrénées-Atlantiques | 1 | 20% | 0% | 101 km |
| 21 | Beaumont-lès-Valence Drôme | 0.8 | 9.8% | 0% | 157 km |
| 22 | Égletons Corrèze | 0.8 | 51% | 0.1% | 212 km |
| 23 | Chabanière Rhône | 0.8 | 17% | 0% | 230 km |
| 24 | Morestel Isère | 0.8 | 16% | 12% | 252 km |
| 25 | Pons Charente-Maritime | 0.8 | 10% | 13% | 22 km |
| 26 | Riec-sur-Bélon Finistère | 0.7 | 13% | 0% | On it |
| 27 | Langeais Indre-et-Loire | 0.7 | 71% | 100% | 163 km |
| 28 | Cours Rhône | 0.6 | 46% | 0% | 283 km |
| 29 | Bessières Haute-Garonne | 0.6 | 9.9% | 2.4% | 145 km |
| 30 | Friville-Escarbotin Somme | 0.5 | 2.1% | 100% | 7.2 km |
| 31 | Saint-Léonard-de-Noblat Haute-Vienne | 0.5 | 24% | 1.4% | 181 km |
| 32 | Saint-Savin Isère | 0.5 | 17% | 15% | 244 km |
| 33 | Sarralbe Moselle | 0.5 | 29% | 10% | 381 km |
| 34 | Valence-en-Poitou Vienne | 0.4 | 20% | 0% | 100 km |
| 35 | Ussac Corrèze | 0.4 | 24% | 0% | 167 km |
| 36 | Montélier Drôme | 0.3 | 2.2% | 0% | 165 km |
| 37 | Rives de l'Yon Vendée | 0.3 | 7.1% | 0% | 25 km |
| 38 | Prigonrieux Dordogne | 0.3 | 21% | 1.2% | 80 km |
| 39 | Roullet-Saint-Estèphe Charente | 0.2 | 16% | 3.1% | 65 km |
| 40 | Bassillac et Auberoche Dordogne | 0.1 | 49% | 0% | 116 km |
| 41 | Buzançais Indre | 0.1 | 28% | 5.7% | 206 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 Morestel
Named parks, gardens and woods in the commune or within 400 m, the biggest and best-pathed first: Parc du Clos Claret leads, at 4.2 ha. Directions go to a point inside.
Source: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL): named parks, gardens and woods; sizes are the whole site.
Protected areas
12% of Morestel lies in protected areas
The protected areas reaching the commune, and the nearest: national parks, regional nature parks, nature reserves and Natura 2000 sites.
Natura 2000 site
L’Isle Crémieu
12% of the commune0.8 km from the center
Share of the commune’s land
Any protected area12%
Natura 2000 site12%
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.
12% of Morestel’s land is protected, more than in 73% of compared French towns; the median compared town in Isère has 0%.
Source: INPN / PatriNat, protected areas July 2026, Natura 2000 December 2024; shares of IGN’s commune boundary.
Footpaths and woods
6 km of footpaths cross Morestel
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
6.5 km
0.8 km per km²
Hiking routes
0 km
waymarked: 0 km per km²
Woodland
16%
about 1.3 km² of mapped woods
Km per km² of the commune · mapped on OpenStreetMap
MorestelIsère medianFrance median
Footpaths0.8
Hiking routes0
01.53 km per km²
Share of the land · mapped woods and forest
MorestelIsère medianFrance median
Woodland16%
0%50%100%
That is less than in 75% of compared French towns for footpaths per km², and for woodland more than in 55% 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 Morestel is within 800 m of a mapped park or wood, as in most French towns.
Source: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL), extracts of October 25, 2026 (Geofabrik).
When to get out
The best walking months in Morestel: April and June to August
Météo-France’s 1991–2020 normals at Pont-De-Beauvoisin, 23 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 | 15.7 | 15.4 | 14.1 | 12.5 | 10.8 | 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 Morestel →
Neighbors
Next to Morestel
The nearest towns of 2,500 or more, colored by the share of their land in protected areas.
DolomieuLes Avenières Veyrins-ThuellinSaint-ChefSaint-Clair-de-la-TourLa Tour-du-PinSaint-SavinMorestel
Under 1%1–10 %10–25 %25–50 %50 %+
| Town | Protected | Woodland | Paths (km/km²) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Morestel | 12% | 16% | 0.8 |
| Dolomieu 3,173 · 7.1 km | 0% | 13% | 0.4 |
| Les Avenières Veyrins-Thuellin 7,698 · 8.5 km | 11% | 22% | 0.4 |
| Saint-Chef 3,921 · 9 km | 12% | 24% | 1 |
| Saint-Clair-de-la-Tour 3,628 · 12 km | 0% | 19% | 0.7 |
| La Tour-du-Pin 8,111 · 12 km | 0% | 4.7% | 1.2 |
| Saint-Savin 4,323 · 13 km | 15% | 17% | 0.5 |
Saint-Chef 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 Morestel
Is Morestel in a national or regional nature park?
No, but 12% of its land is in a nature reserve or a Natura 2000 site.
Are there good walks in Morestel?
OpenStreetMap maps 6 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).
How much of Morestel is woodland?
16% of the commune is mapped woodland, private woods included; the median compared French town has 13%.
Is Morestel near the sea?
No: the coast is 252 km from the town center, as the crow flies.
When is the best time for walking in Morestel?
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 9, 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.