First pick
Bois de la Bâtie
Wood or forest · 260 m outside the commune
11 ha0.7 km of path
10 minto walk all 0.7 km of path
3.9 km westfrom the center
Directionsto a point inside
Photo: Patafisik · CC BY-SA 4.028%woodland
Outdoors in Villard-Bonnot · protected areas, woods and footpaths
Almost every home in Villard-Bonnot is within 800 m of a park or wood
28% of Villard-Bonnot is mapped woodland. No protected area reaches Villard-Bonnot; the nearest, Chartreuse Regional Nature Park, is 4.5 km from the town center. Waymarked hiking routes add up to 1 km in Villard-Bonnot. 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, 4.5 km
Woodland
28%
of the land, mapped on OpenStreetMap
Compared town: 13%
Footpaths
10 km
1.7 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: 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.
Against French towns
How Villard-Bonnot 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
Woodland28%Share of the land mapped as forest or woods on OpenStreetMap
74out of 100
Footpaths1.7 km per km²Km of mapped footpath and track open on foot, per km² of the commune
51out of 100
Hiking routes0.2 km per km²Km of waymarked hiking routes (GR and others), per km² of the commune
40out of 100
Percentiles among compared French towns; ties count half.
Towns its size
Villard-Bonnot has the 21st fewest footpaths per km² of 41 towns its size
The 40 compared French towns nearest in population (7,408 to 7,624 residents), by km of footpath per km². Hover for each one’s protected land and woods; click for its page.
From Saint-Prix (8.4 km per km²) to Loireauxence (0.3 km per km²).
Every town in the comparison
| Town | Paths (km/km²) | Woodland | Protected | Coast | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Saint-Prix Val-d'Oise | 8.4 | 64% | 0.5% | 132 km |
| 2 | Gérardmer Vosges | 6.3 | 70% | 100% | 445 km |
| 3 | Huningue Haut-Rhin | 4.9 | 0.9% | 0% | 423 km |
| 4 | Saint-Germain-lès-Corbeil Essonne | 4.8 | 28% | 0% | 177 km |
| 5 | Sausset-les-Pins Bouches-du-Rhône | 4.2 | 5.8% | 51% | On it |
| 6 | Soisy-sur-Seine Essonne | 3.6 | 64% | 0% | 173 km |
| 7 | Lesneven Finistère | 3.4 | 4% | 0% | 6.8 km |
| 8 | Saint-Apollinaire Côte-d'Or | 3.3 | 0.4% | 0% | 403 km |
| 9 | Clisson Loire-Atlantique | 3.1 | 9% | 0% | 54 km |
| 10 | Saint-Péray Ardèche | 3 | 27% | 11% | 165 km |
| 11 | Fabrègues Hérault | 2.9 | 7.6% | 8.4% | 9.4 km |
| 12 | Saint-Didier-au-Mont-d'Or Rhône | 2.7 | 20% | 0% | 256 km |
| 13 | Saint-Yrieix-sur-Charente Charente | 2.5 | 20% | 8.7% | 74 km |
| 14 | Faverges-Seythenex Haute-Savoie | 2.4 | 65% | 100% | 239 km |
| 15 | Crozon Finistère | 2.4 | 15% | 100% | On it |
| 16 | Saint-Jean-de-Maurienne Savoie | 2.2 | 37% | 0% | 190 km |
| 17 | Châteaubourg Ille-et-Vilaine | 2.1 | 16% | 0% | 57 km |
| 18 | Carhaix-Plouguer Finistère | 1.9 | 12% | 0% | 40 km |
| 19 | Saujon Charente-Maritime | 1.8 | 4% | 14% | 4.1 km |
| 20 | Saint-Maixent-l'École Deux-Sèvres | 1.7 | 2.5% | 0% | 72 km |
| 21 | Villard-Bonnot Isère | 1.7 | 28% | 0% | 203 km |
| 22 | Céret Pyrénées-Orientales | 1.7 | 61% | 2.7% | 26 km |
| 23 | Tullins Isère | 1.6 | 27% | 0% | 211 km |
| 24 | Toulouges Pyrénées-Orientales | 1.6 | 0.2% | 0% | 17 km |
| 25 | Wissembourg Bas-Rhin | 1.6 | 54% | 67% | 429 km |
| 26 | Saint-Berthevin Mayenne | 1.5 | 17% | 0% | 74 km |
| 27 | Langres Haute-Marne | 1.2 | 9.7% | 0.1% | 371 km |
| 28 | Pordic Côtes-d'Armor | 1.2 | 8.1% | 0% | On it |
| 29 | Yssingeaux Haute-Loire | 1.2 | 39% | 15% | 176 km |
| 30 | Lagnieu Ain | 1.1 | 35% | 0% | 274 km |
| 31 | Melesse Ille-et-Vilaine | 1.1 | 3.7% | 0% | 38 km |
| 32 | Jaunay-Marigny Vienne | 0.9 | 9.6% | 27% | 123 km |
| 33 | Parentis-en-Born Landes | 0.8 | 69% | 13% | 16 km |
| 34 | Ruelle-sur-Touvre Charente | 0.8 | 6.5% | 8% | 81 km |
| 35 | Sucé-sur-Erdre Loire-Atlantique | 0.8 | 13% | 25% | 48 km |
| 36 | Rosporden Finistère | 0.8 | 4.7% | 0% | 11 km |
| 37 | Auxonne Côte-d'Or | 0.7 | 42% | 8.8% | 413 km |
| 38 | Rethel Ardennes | 0.6 | 2.9% | 0% | 207 km |
| 39 | Déols Indre | 0.6 | 4.6% | 6.9% | 225 km |
| 40 | Chaumes-en-Retz Loire-Atlantique | 0.5 | 14% | 0% | 9.6 km |
| 41 | Loireauxence Loire-Atlantique | 0.3 | 8.3% | 10% | 84 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 Villard-Bonnot
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, 4.5 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
4.5 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
10 km of footpaths cross Villard-Bonnot
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
10 km
1.7 km per km²
Hiking routes
1.3 km
waymarked: 0.2 km per km²
Woodland
28%
about 1.7 km² of mapped woods
Km per km² of the commune · mapped on OpenStreetMap
Villard-BonnotIsère medianFrance median
Footpaths1.7
Hiking routes0.2
01.53 km per km²
Share of the land · mapped woods and forest
Villard-BonnotIsère medianFrance median
Woodland28%
0%50%100%
That is more than in 51% of compared French towns for footpaths per km², and for woodland more than in 74% 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 Villard-Bonnot is within 800 m of a mapped park or wood, as in most French towns.
6 named hiking routes within 2 km
Other named walk
Chemin d'Assise, Cluny - Montcenis11 km
Circuit de la Monta3.9 km
Chemin de Découverte (boucle Haute)3.5 km
Chemin de Découverte (boucle Basse)2.8 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 Villard-Bonnot: April and June to August
Météo-France’s 1991–2020 normals at Pont-De-Beauvoisin, 36 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 | 8.8 |
| 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 Villard-Bonnot →
Neighbors
Next to Villard-Bonnot
The nearest towns of 2,500 or more, colored by the share of their land in protected areas.
FrogesBerninSaint-Nazaire-les-EymesLe VersoudCrollesSaint-IsmierVillard-Bonnot
Under 1%1–10 %10–25 %25–50 %50 %+
| Town | Protected | Woodland | Paths (km/km²) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Villard-Bonnot | 0% | 28% | 1.7 |
| Froges 3,285 · 3.3 km | 0% | 49% | 2.2 |
| Bernin 3,334 · 3.6 km | 14% | 28% | 3.7 |
| Saint-Nazaire-les-Eymes 3,016 · 3.6 km | 30% | 37% | 3 |
| Le Versoud 4,900 · 3.7 km | 0% | 18% | 3.2 |
| Crolles 8,609 · 4.3 km | 19% | 26% | 4.6 |
| Saint-Ismier 7,165 · 4.8 km | 31% | 40% | 4.5 |
Bernin, Saint-Nazaire-les-Eymes and Crolles 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 Villard-Bonnot
Is Villard-Bonnot in a national or regional nature park?
No. The nearest protected area is Chartreuse Regional Nature Park, 4.5 km from the town center.
Are there good walks in Villard-Bonnot?
OpenStreetMap maps 10 km of footpaths and tracks open on foot in the commune, 1.7 km per km² (the median compared town: 1.7 km per km²); 1 km of waymarked hiking routes cross it.
How much of Villard-Bonnot is woodland?
28% of the commune is mapped woodland, private woods included; the median compared French town has 13%.
Is Villard-Bonnot near the sea?
No: the coast is 203 km from the town center, as the crow flies.
When is the best time for walking in Villard-Bonnot?
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.