First pick
Parc du Mollard
Park or garden
2 ha1 km of path
15 minto walk all 1 km of path
0.7 km north-westfrom the center
Directionsto a point inside
Photo: Paul Argoud from Vercors, France · CC BY 2.04.3%woodland
Outdoors in Saint-Marcellin · protected areas, woods and footpaths
Almost every home in Saint-Marcellin is within 800 m of a park or wood
4.3% of Saint-Marcellin is mapped woodland. No protected area reaches Saint-Marcellin; the nearest, Vercors Regional Nature Park, is 2.9 km from the town center. Footpaths add up to 15 km across Saint-Marcellin (1.9 km per km²). 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: Vercors Regional Nature Park, 2.9 km
Woodland
4.3%
of the land, mapped on OpenStreetMap
Compared town: 13%
Footpaths
15 km
1.9 km per km²
Compared town: 1.7 km per km²
Hiking routes
0.6 km
waymarked, GR and others
Compared town: 0.3 km per km²
Parks & woods
2
named, in or within 400 m of the commune
First: Parc du Mollard
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 Saint-Marcellin?
Read from the data: what stands out first, good and less good.
Protected land nearbyVercors Regional Nature Park is 2.9 km from the town center.Little mapped woodland4.3% of the land, against 13% for the median compared town.
What sets Saint-Marcellin apart: protected land close by. It is shorter on woodland.
Against French towns
How Saint-Marcellin 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
Woodland4.3%Share of the land mapped as forest or woods on OpenStreetMap
20out of 100
Footpaths1.9 km per km²Km of mapped footpath and track open on foot, per km² of the commune
56out of 100
Hiking routes0.1 km per km²Km of waymarked hiking routes (GR and others), per km² of the commune
29out of 100
Percentiles among compared French towns; ties count half.
Towns its size
Saint-Marcellin has the 17th most footpaths per km² of 41 towns its size
The 40 compared French towns nearest in population (7,587 to 7,812 residents), by km of footpath per km². Hover for each one’s protected land and woods; click for its page.
From Chessy (11.5 km per km²) to Lys-Haut-Layon (0.2 km per km²).
Every town in the comparison
| Town | Paths (km/km²) | Woodland | Protected | Coast | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Chessy Seine-et-Marne | 11.5 | 14% | 0% | 165 km |
| 2 | Émerainville Seine-et-Marne | 9 | 43% | 0% | 165 km |
| 3 | Saint-Prix Val-d'Oise | 8.4 | 64% | 0.5% | 132 km |
| 4 | Noisy-le-Roi Yvelines | 4.9 | 20% | 0% | 139 km |
| 5 | Terville Moselle | 4.6 | 24% | 0% | 307 km |
| 6 | Lagord Charente-Maritime | 4.3 | 3% | 0% | 2.8 km |
| 7 | Saint-Rémy-lès-Chevreuse Yvelines | 4.2 | 48% | 100% | 149 km |
| 8 | Thann Haut-Rhin | 3.8 | 75% | 100% | 448 km |
| 9 | Neuville-sur-Saône Rhône | 3.3 | 18% | 0% | 264 km |
| 10 | Montreuil-Juigné Maine-et-Loire | 2.9 | 8.8% | 15% | 117 km |
| 11 | Falaise Calvados | 2.8 | 4% | 0% | 43 km |
| 12 | Bidart Pyrénées-Atlantiques | 2.4 | 19% | 7.8% | On it |
| 13 | La Verpillière Isère | 2.3 | 30% | 0% | 243 km |
| 14 | Villars Loire | 2.3 | 0.1% | 0% | 213 km |
| 15 | Wavrin Nord | 2 | 6.6% | 0% | 64 km |
| 16 | Bourg-Saint-Andéol Ardèche | 2 | 56% | 6.1% | 101 km |
| 17 | Saint-Marcellin Isère | 1.9 | 4.3% | 0% | 192 km |
| 18 | Cranves-Sales Haute-Savoie | 1.8 | 28% | 5% | 284 km |
| 19 | Saint-Maixent-l'École Deux-Sèvres | 1.7 | 2.5% | 0% | 72 km |
| 20 | La Couronne Charente | 1.7 | 29% | 21% | 70 km |
| 21 | Tullins Isère | 1.6 | 27% | 0% | 211 km |
| 22 | Saint-Aubin-de-Médoc Gironde | 1.3 | 70% | 0% | 15 km |
| 23 | Saint-Denis-en-Val Loiret | 1.3 | 8.5% | 14% | 209 km |
| 24 | Mimizan Landes | 1.3 | 75% | 8.2% | On it |
| 25 | L'Aigle Orne | 1.1 | 8.4% | 0% | 78 km |
| 26 | Les Andelys Eure | 1.1 | 22% | 6.1% | 79 km |
| 27 | Langon Gironde | 1 | 12% | 3.9% | 58 km |
| 28 | Beynes Yvelines | 0.9 | 31% | 0% | 128 km |
| 29 | Nieppe Nord | 0.9 | 1.1% | 0% | 48 km |
| 30 | Biguglia Haute-Corse | 0.8 | 2.9% | 21% | On it |
| 31 | Hettange-Grande Moselle | 0.8 | 28% | 0.4% | 304 km |
| 32 | Pluvigner Morbihan | 0.7 | 19% | 0% | 9.6 km |
| 33 | Bain-de-Bretagne Ille-et-Vilaine | 0.7 | 5% | 0% | 65 km |
| 34 | Pézenas Hérault | 0.7 | 10% | 6.9% | 19 km |
| 35 | Déols Indre | 0.6 | 4.6% | 6.9% | 225 km |
| 36 | Machecoul-Saint-Même Loire-Atlantique | 0.5 | 12% | 27% | 13 km |
| 37 | Les Avenières Veyrins-Thuellin Isère | 0.4 | 22% | 11% | 249 km |
| 38 | Saint-Étienne-de-Montluc Loire-Atlantique | 0.4 | 4.4% | 36% | 29 km |
| 39 | Loireauxence Loire-Atlantique | 0.3 | 8.3% | 10% | 84 km |
| 40 | Hasparren Pyrénées-Atlantiques | 0.3 | 22% | 7.5% | 22 km |
| 41 | Lys-Haut-Layon Maine-et-Loire | 0.2 | 6.8% | 0% | 105 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 Saint-Marcellin
Named parks, gardens and woods in the commune or within 400 m, the biggest and best-pathed first: Parc du Mollard leads, at 2 ha. Directions go to a point inside.
Source: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL): named parks, gardens and woods; sizes are the whole site.
Protected areas
Vercors Regional Nature Park is the nearest protected area, 2.9 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
Vercors Regional Nature Park
2.9 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
15 km of footpaths cross Saint-Marcellin
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
15 km
1.9 km per km²
Hiking routes
0.6 km
waymarked: 0.1 km per km²
Woodland
4.3%
about 0.3 km² of mapped woods
Km per km² of the commune · mapped on OpenStreetMap
Saint-MarcellinIsère medianFrance median
Footpaths1.9
Hiking routes0.1
01.53 km per km²
Share of the land · mapped woods and forest
Saint-MarcellinIsère medianFrance median
Woodland4.3%
0%50%100%
That is more than in 56% of compared French towns for footpaths per km², and for woodland less than in 80% of compared French towns. Hiking routes often follow paths and lanes already counted, so the two lengths overlap: don’t add them. 99% of Saint-Marcellin’s residents live within 800 m of a mapped park or wood, close to the typical town.
A named hiking route within 2 km
Other named walk
Le sentier du martin pêcheur6.1 km
Source: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL), extracts of October 25, 2026 (Geofabrik).
When to get out
The best walking months in Saint-Marcellin: April and June to August
Météo-France’s 1991–2020 normals at Chatte_Sapc, 1.5 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 | 9.5 | 8.8 |
| High (°C) | 7 | 9 | 14 | 17 | 21 | 26 | 28 | 28 | 23 | 18 | 12 | 8 |
| Rain (mm) | 66 | 54 | 64 | 84 | 96 | 81 | 68 | 82 | 101 | 108 | 99 | 66 |
February is the driest month (54 mm) and July the warmest (highs of 28 °C). 108 mm of rain falls in October, the wettest month. Frost comes on about 67 nights a year. The climate in Saint-Marcellin →
Neighbors
Next to Saint-Marcellin
The nearest towns of 2,500 or more, colored by the share of their land in protected areas.
ChatteVinaySaint-Jean-en-RoyansAutrans-Méaudre en VercorsSaint-Siméon-de-BressieuxVillard-de-LansSaint-Marcellin
Under 1%1–10 %10–25 %25–50 %50 %+
| Town | Protected | Woodland | Paths (km/km²) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Saint-Marcellin | 0% | 4.3% | 1.9 |
| Chatte 2,518 · 3.1 km | 0% | 24% | 0.7 |
| Vinay 4,438 · 9.7 km | 0% | 26% | 1.1 |
| Saint-Jean-en-Royans 2,874 · 15 km | 100% | 60% | 1.7 |
| Autrans-Méaudre en Vercors 2,936 · 17 km | 100% | 72% | 3.4 |
| Saint-Siméon-de-Bressieux 3,186 · 21 km | 0% | 15% | 0.3 |
| Villard-de-Lans 4,328 · 21 km | 100% | 57% | 3.4 |
Saint-Jean-en-Royans, Autrans-Méaudre en Vercors and Villard-de-Lans have at least twice as much protected land. Chatte, Vinay and Saint-Jean-en-Royans 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 Saint-Marcellin
Is Saint-Marcellin in a national or regional nature park?
No. The nearest protected area is Vercors Regional Nature Park, 2.9 km from the town center.
Are there good walks in Saint-Marcellin?
OpenStreetMap maps 15 km of footpaths and tracks open on foot in the commune, 1.9 km per km² (the median compared town: 1.7 km per km²).
How much of Saint-Marcellin is woodland?
4.3% of the commune is mapped woodland, private woods included; the median compared French town has 13%.
Is Saint-Marcellin near the sea?
No: the coast is 192 km from the town center, as the crow flies.
When is the best time for walking in Saint-Marcellin?
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.