First pick
Parc Michel Hannoun
Park or garden
2.4 ha0.6 km of path
10 minto walk all 0.6 km of path
Centralin the middle of Voreppe
Directionsto a point inside
Photo: Jean-Louis Lascoux · CC BY-SA 3.035%of the land protected
Outdoors in Voreppe · protected areas, woods and footpaths
35% of Voreppe’s land is protected for nature
Mapped woodland covers 42% of Voreppe. Waymarked hiking routes add up to 32 km in Voreppe. Footpaths add up to 96 km across Voreppe (3.3 km per km²). France has no Outdoors Grade yet: these are the figures, each beside the compared towns’ median.
Protected areas
35%
of the commune’s land
Compared town: 0.1%
Woodland
42%
of the land, mapped on OpenStreetMap
Compared town: 13%
Footpaths
96 km
3.3 km per km²
Compared town: 1.7 km per km²
Hiking routes
32 km
waymarked, GR and others
Compared town: 0.3 km per km²
Parks & woods
8
named, in or within 400 m of the commune
First: Parc Michel Hannoun
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 Voreppe?
Read from the data: what stands out first, good and less good.
Protected countryside35% of the land lies in protected areas.A wooded commune42% mapped woodland, more than in 87% of compared French towns, against 13% for the median compared town.On waymarked routes32 km of GR and other hiking routes cross the commune.A place of footpaths3.3 km per km² of mapped footpath, against 1.7 km per km² for the median compared town.
What sets Voreppe apart: its protected countryside, then its woods.
Against French towns
How Voreppe 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 areas35%Share of the land in a national park, regional nature park, nature reserve or Natura 2000 site
84out of 100
Woodland42%Share of the land mapped as forest or woods on OpenStreetMap
87out of 100
Footpaths3.3 km per km²Km of mapped footpath and track open on foot, per km² of the commune
77out of 100
Hiking routes1.1 km per km²Km of waymarked hiking routes (GR and others), per km² of the commune
86out of 100
Percentiles among compared French towns; ties count half.
Towns its size
Voreppe has the 11th most footpaths per km² of 41 towns its size
The 40 compared French towns nearest in population (9,762 to 10,090 residents), by km of footpath per km². Hover for each one’s protected land and woods; click for its page.
From Maxéville (5.5 km per km²) to Saint-Loubès (0.2 km per km²).
Every town in the comparison
| Town | Paths (km/km²) | Woodland | Protected | Coast | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Maxéville Meurthe-et-Moselle | 5.5 | 24% | 0% | 363 km |
| 2 | Saint-Max Meurthe-et-Moselle | 5.1 | 4.9% | 0.3% | 366 km |
| 3 | Beauchamp Val-d'Oise | 4.2 | 12% | 0% | 129 km |
| 4 | Saint-Grégoire Ille-et-Vilaine | 4.2 | 5% | 0% | 44 km |
| 5 | Montlhéry Essonne | 4.1 | 9.8% | 0% | 165 km |
| 6 | Méry-sur-Oise Val-d'Oise | 3.6 | 35% | 0% | 124 km |
| 7 | Grigny-sur-Rhône Rhône | 3.5 | 16% | 0% | 234 km |
| 8 | Le Rheu Ille-et-Vilaine | 3.4 | 5.5% | 0% | 46 km |
| 9 | Soyaux Charente | 3.3 | 35% | 9% | 78 km |
| 10 | Frouzins Haute-Garonne | 3.3 | 7.7% | 11% | 152 km |
| 11 | Voreppe Isère | 3.3 | 42% | 35% | 213 km |
| 12 | Auchel Pas-de-Calais | 3.1 | 8.6% | 0% | 55 km |
| 13 | Portet-sur-Garonne Haute-Garonne | 3 | 9.8% | 15% | 146 km |
| 14 | Grand-Couronne Seine-Maritime | 2.9 | 42% | 0.2% | 48 km |
| 15 | Neuville-en-Ferrain Nord | 2.4 | 5.6% | 0% | 54 km |
| 16 | Ézanville Val-d'Oise | 2.2 | 0.7% | 0% | 134 km |
| 17 | Foix Ariège | 2.2 | 28% | 21% | 117 km |
| 18 | Figeac Lot | 2.1 | 27% | 0% | 182 km |
| 19 | Fillière Haute-Savoie | 2.1 | 49% | 20% | 266 km |
| 20 | Pont-Audemer Eure | 1.8 | 20% | 65% | 15 km |
| 21 | Roche-la-Molière Loire | 1.8 | 8.5% | 0% | 209 km |
| 22 | Ingré Loiret | 1.8 | 11% | 0% | 200 km |
| 23 | Léguevin Haute-Garonne | 1.5 | 14% | 0% | 161 km |
| 24 | Saint-Lys Haute-Garonne | 1.5 | 9.5% | 0% | 162 km |
| 25 | Aniche Nord | 1.4 | 6.8% | 0.1% | 98 km |
| 26 | Lambesc Bouches-du-Rhône | 1.3 | 32% | 65% | 33 km |
| 27 | Saint-Amand-Montrond Cher | 1.3 | 10% | 6.4% | 282 km |
| 28 | Chambly Oise | 1.2 | 5.4% | 0.1% | 117 km |
| 29 | Saint-Laurent-de-la-Salanque Pyrénées-Orientales | 1.2 | 0.1% | 45% | 3.8 km |
| 30 | Mazamet Tarn | 1.2 | 77% | 0.1% | 74 km |
| 31 | La Farlède Var | 1.1 | 8.7% | 15% | 7.4 km |
| 32 | Merville Nord | 1 | 2% | 0% | 48 km |
| 33 | Bourg-de-Péage Drôme | 0.9 | 0.4% | 0% | 176 km |
| 34 | Bernay Eure | 0.9 | 15% | 4.7% | 42 km |
| 35 | Lançon-Provence Bouches-du-Rhône | 0.7 | 2.7% | 80% | 23 km |
| 36 | Loudéac Côtes-d'Armor | 0.7 | 14% | 0% | 35 km |
| 37 | Revel Haute-Garonne | 0.7 | 4.3% | 0% | 99 km |
| 38 | Lorgues Var | 0.6 | 53% | 6.3% | 30 km |
| 39 | Mézidon Vallée d'Auge Calvados | 0.5 | 8.1% | 0% | 24 km |
| 40 | Carmaux Tarn | 0.4 | 3.3% | 0% | 127 km |
| 41 | Saint-Loubès Gironde | 0.2 | 4% | 28% | 16 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 Voreppe
Named parks, gardens and woods in the commune or within 400 m, the biggest and best-pathed first: Parc Michel Hannoun leads, at 2.4 ha. Directions go to a point inside.
Parc Stravinski
Park or garden
1.6 ha0.4 km of path
0.7 km northfrom the center
Directionsto a point inside
Parcdes Cordées
Park or garden · 280 m outside the commune
0.8 ha0.2 km of path
2.7 km south-westfrom the center
Directionsto a point inside
Parc de l'Hôtel de Ville
Park or garden
0.5 ha0.3 km of path
0.7 km north-westfrom the center
Directionsto a point inside
Parc de Charminelle
Park or garden
0.4 ha0.2 km of path
0.9 km northfrom the center
Directionsto a point inside
Parc Ginette et Georges Durand
Park or garden
0.4 ha
1.3 km north-westfrom the center
Directionsto a point inside
Square André Demirleau
Park or garden
0.2 ha
0.9 km north-westfrom the center
Directionsto a point inside
Source: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL): named parks, gardens and woods; sizes are the whole site.
Protected areas
Protected land in and around Voreppe
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
35% of the commune0.7 km from the center
Regional nature park
Vercors Regional Nature Park
1.8 km from the town center
Share of the commune’s land
Any protected area35%
Regional nature park35%
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.
35% of Voreppe’s land is protected, more than in 84% of compared French towns; the median compared town in Isère has 0%. A regional nature park is a charter between communes to look after a landscape: farming, building and hunting go on inside it.
Source: INPN / PatriNat, protected areas July 2026, Natura 2000 December 2024; shares of IGN’s commune boundary.
Footpaths and woods
96 km of footpaths and 32 km of hiking routes cross Voreppe
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
96 km
3.3 km per km²
Hiking routes
32 km
waymarked: 1.1 km per km²
Woodland
42%
about 12.2 km² of mapped woods
Km per km² of the commune · mapped on OpenStreetMap
VoreppeIsère medianFrance median
Footpaths3.3
Hiking routes1.1
024 km per km²
Share of the land · mapped woods and forest
VoreppeIsère medianFrance median
Woodland42%
0%50%100%
That is more than in 77% of compared French towns for footpaths per km², and for woodland more than in 87% 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 Voreppe 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 Voreppe: April and June to August
Météo-France’s 1991–2020 normals at Pont-De-Beauvoisin, 27 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 | 8.7 |
| 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 Voreppe →
Neighbors
Next to Voreppe
The nearest towns of 2,500 or more, colored by the share of their land in protected areas.
Fontanil-CornillonLa BuisseSaint-ÉgrèveSaint-Jean-de-MoiransMoiransCoublevieVoreppe
Under 1%1–10 %10–25 %25–50 %50 %+
| Town | Protected | Woodland | Paths (km/km²) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Voreppe | 35% | 42% | 3.3 |
| Fontanil-Cornillon 3,404 · 4.3 km | 36% | 42% | 3.5 |
| La Buisse 3,500 · 6 km | 61% | 35% | 2.4 |
| Saint-Égrève 17,986 · 6.9 km | 30% | 22% | 5.8 |
| Saint-Jean-de-Moirans 3,620 · 7.4 km | 0% | 5.5% | 1.8 |
| Moirans 7,818 · 7.7 km | 0% | 9.7% | 1.4 |
| Coublevie 5,520 · 8.1 km | 73% | 18% | 2.7 |
Coublevie has at least twice as much protected land.
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 Voreppe
Is Voreppe in a national or regional nature park?
Yes: Voreppe lies in Chartreuse Regional Nature Park (35% of the commune).
Are there good walks in Voreppe?
OpenStreetMap maps 96 km of footpaths and tracks open on foot in the commune, 3.3 km per km² (the median compared town: 1.7 km per km²); 32 km of waymarked hiking routes cross it.
How much of Voreppe is woodland?
42% of the commune is mapped woodland, private woods included; the median compared French town has 13%.
Is Voreppe near the sea?
No: the coast is 213 km from the town center, as the crow flies.
When is the best time for walking in Voreppe?
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.