First pick
Parc de L'Orgère
Park or garden
1.9 ha
Centralin the middle of Rives
Directionsto a point inside
Photo: Poudou99 · CC BY-SA 4.013%woodland
Outdoors in Rives · protected areas, woods and footpaths
Almost every home in Rives is within 800 m of a park or wood
No protected area reaches Rives; the nearest, Marais du Val d’Ainan (Natura 2000), is 6.3 km from the town center. Footpaths add up to 13 km across Rives (1.1 km per km²). Mapped woodland covers 13% of Rives. 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: Marais du Val d’Ainan, 6.3 km
Woodland
13%
of the land, mapped on OpenStreetMap
Compared town: 13%
Footpaths
13 km
1.1 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
3
named, in or within 400 m of the commune
First: Parc de L'Orgère
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 Rives 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
Woodland13%Share of the land mapped as forest or woods on OpenStreetMap
48out of 100
Footpaths1.1 km per km²Km of mapped footpath and track open on foot, per km² of the commune
35out 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
Rives has the 14th fewest footpaths per km² of 41 towns its size
The 40 compared French towns nearest in population (6,502 to 6,593 residents), by km of footpath per km². Hover for each one’s protected land and woods; click for its page.
From Bouffémont (9.6 km per km²) to Longué-Jumelles (0.2 km per km²).
Every town in the comparison
| Town | Paths (km/km²) | Woodland | Protected | Coast | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Bouffémont Val-d'Oise | 9.6 | 54% | 0.9% | 131 km |
| 2 | La Montagne Loire-Atlantique | 5.6 | 18% | 9.4% | 28 km |
| 3 | Champigneulles Meurthe-et-Moselle | 4.7 | 77% | 0% | 361 km |
| 4 | Ceyrat Puy-de-Dôme | 4.6 | 48% | 100% | 254 km |
| 5 | Gémenos Bouches-du-Rhône | 4.1 | 22% | 92% | 11 km |
| 6 | La Mulatière Rhône | 4 | 9.1% | 0% | 248 km |
| 7 | Marange-Silvange Moselle | 3.4 | 52% | 0% | 317 km |
| 8 | Limours Essonne | 3.1 | 22% | 0.1% | 153 km |
| 9 | Saint-Alban Haute-Garonne | 3.1 | 0% | 0% | 152 km |
| 10 | Cormontreuil Marne | 2.9 | 6.1% | 1.5% | 202 km |
| 11 | L'Arbresle Rhône | 2.7 | 4.5% | 0% | 256 km |
| 12 | Ondres Landes | 2.5 | 59% | 5.2% | On it |
| 13 | Thoiry Ain | 2.4 | 44% | 63% | 298 km |
| 14 | La Bouilladisse Bouches-du-Rhône | 2.4 | 40% | 0% | 21 km |
| 15 | Marignier Haute-Savoie | 2.3 | 56% | 3.3% | 268 km |
| 16 | Changé Mayenne | 2.3 | 2.7% | 0% | 73 km |
| 17 | Neuves-Maisons Meurthe-et-Moselle | 2.2 | 5.8% | 0% | 365 km |
| 18 | Bouchemaine Maine-et-Loire | 2.2 | 14% | 11% | 113 km |
| 19 | Chasse-sur-Rhône Isère | 2.2 | 12% | 0% | 232 km |
| 20 | Eaunes Haute-Garonne | 1.9 | 15% | 0% | 146 km |
| 21 | Furiani Haute-Corse | 1.9 | 0.6% | 6.3% | On it |
| 22 | Saint-Juéry Tarn | 1.8 | 11% | 0% | 116 km |
| 23 | Ploudalmézeau Finistère | 1.7 | 3.4% | 4.3% | On it |
| 24 | Labarthe-sur-Lèze Haute-Garonne | 1.6 | 5.1% | 2% | 144 km |
| 25 | Bon-Encontre Lot-et-Garonne | 1.6 | 8.4% | 0% | 134 km |
| 26 | Saint-Jean-Bonnefonds Loire | 1.4 | 12% | 0% | 212 km |
| 27 | Labruguière Tarn | 1.4 | 44% | 100% | 84 km |
| 28 | Rives Isère | 1.1 | 13% | 0% | 217 km |
| 29 | Longuenée-en-Anjou Maine-et-Loire | 1 | 6.8% | 2.3% | 114 km |
| 30 | La Chevrolière Loire-Atlantique | 0.7 | 16% | 11% | 29 km |
| 31 | Ambert Puy-de-Dôme | 0.7 | 44% | 100% | 223 km |
| 32 | Brioude Haute-Loire | 0.7 | 7.1% | 1.6% | 200 km |
| 33 | Chatuzange-le-Goubet Drôme | 0.6 | 11% | 0% | 175 km |
| 34 | Gueugnon Saône-et-Loire | 0.5 | 17% | 0% | 338 km |
| 35 | Sainte-Rose Réunion | 0.5 | 48% | 100% | On it |
| 36 | Estaires Nord | 0.4 | 0.7% | 0% | 50 km |
| 37 | Héric Loire-Atlantique | 0.4 | 13% | 0% | 42 km |
| 38 | Sainte-Livrade-sur-Lot Lot-et-Garonne | 0.3 | 2.4% | 0.2% | 115 km |
| 39 | Lezoux Puy-de-Dôme | 0.2 | 19% | 5.3% | 258 km |
| 40 | Le Mené Côtes-d'Armor | 0.2 | 12% | 0% | 25 km |
| 41 | Longué-Jumelles Maine-et-Loire | 0.2 | 21% | 100% | 143 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 Rives
Named parks, gardens and woods in the commune or within 400 m, the biggest and best-pathed first: Parc de L'Orgère leads, at 1.9 ha. Directions go to a point inside.
Le Temps des Cerises
Park or garden
1 ha0.4 km of path
Centralin the middle of Rives
Directionsto a point inside
Source: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL): named parks, gardens and woods; sizes are the whole site.
Protected areas
Marais du Val d’Ainan is the nearest protected area, 6.3 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
Marais du Val d’Ainan
6.3 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
13 km of footpaths cross Rives
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
13 km
1.1 km per km²
Hiking routes
0 km
waymarked: 0 km per km²
Woodland
13%
about 1.4 km² of mapped woods
Km per km² of the commune · mapped on OpenStreetMap
RivesIsère medianFrance median
Footpaths1.1
Hiking routes0
01.53 km per km²
Share of the land · mapped woods and forest
RivesIsère medianFrance median
Woodland13%
0%50%100%
That is less than in 65% of compared French towns for footpaths per km², and for woodland less than in 52% 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 Rives 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 Rives: April and June to August
Météo-France’s 1991–2020 normals at Grenoble-St Geoirs, 15 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 | 8 | 13 | 16 | 20 | 24 | 27 | 27 | 22 | 17 | 11 | 7 |
| Rain (mm) | 63 | 49 | 63 | 76 | 91 | 73 | 67 | 66 | 99 | 107 | 99 | 64 |
February is the driest month (49 mm) and July the warmest (highs of 27 °C). 107 mm of rain falls in October, the wettest month. Frost comes on about 66 nights a year. The climate in Rives →
Neighbors
Next to Rives
The nearest towns of 2,500 or more, colored by the share of their land in protected areas.
RenageApprieuMoiransTullinsSaint-Jean-de-MoiransVoironRives
Under 1%1–10 %10–25 %25–50 %50 %+
Renage, Apprieu and Tullins 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 Rives
Is Rives in a national or regional nature park?
No. The nearest protected area is Marais du Val d’Ainan, 6.3 km from the town center.
Are there good walks in Rives?
OpenStreetMap maps 13 km of footpaths and tracks open on foot in the commune, 1.1 km per km² (the median compared town: 1.7 km per km²).
How much of Rives is woodland?
13% of the commune is mapped woodland, private woods included; the median compared French town has 13%.
Is Rives near the sea?
No: the coast is 217 km from the town center, as the crow flies.
When is the best time for walking in Rives?
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.