First pick
Parc Marie-Blanche Campillo-Mercader
Park or garden
0.8 ha0.7 km of path
10 minto walk all 0.7 km of path
1.1 km south-eastfrom the center
Directionsto a point inside
Photo: moxto (Tagzania user ID: 11450) · CC BY-SA 4.020%of the land protected
Outdoors in Biscarrosse · protected areas, woods and footpaths
Biscarrosse is on the coast
65% of Biscarrosse is mapped woodland. Protected areas cover 20% of Biscarrosse’s land. 204 km of footpaths cross Biscarrosse (1.1 km per km²). France has no Outdoors Grade yet: these are the figures, each beside the compared towns’ median.
Protected areas
20%
of the commune’s land
Compared town: 0.1%
Woodland
65%
of the land, mapped on OpenStreetMap
Compared town: 13%
Footpaths
204 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
1
named, in or within 400 m of the commune
First: Parc Marie-Blanche Campillo-Mercader
The sea
On it
the commune touches the coast, 7.4 km from its center
Throughout this page, the Landes 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 Biscarrosse?
Read from the data: what stands out first, good and less good.
On the coastThe commune touches the sea; the coast is 7.4 km from its center.A wooded commune65% mapped woodland, more than in 97% of compared French towns, against 13% for the median compared town.
What sets Biscarrosse apart: the sea, then its woods.
Against French towns
How Biscarrosse 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 areas20%Share of the land in a national park, regional nature park, nature reserve or Natura 2000 site
78out of 100
Woodland65%Share of the land mapped as forest or woods on OpenStreetMap
97out of 100
Footpaths1.1 km per km²Km of mapped footpath and track open on foot, per km² of the commune
34out 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
Biscarrosse has the 7th fewest footpaths per km² of 41 towns its size
The 40 compared French towns nearest in population (15,381 to 16,333 residents), by km of footpath per km². Hover for each one’s protected land and woods; click for its page.
From Vauréal (12.3 km per km²) to Gaillac (0.2 km per km²).
Every town in the comparison
| Town | Paths (km/km²) | Woodland | Protected | Coast | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Vauréal Val-d'Oise | 12.3 | 19% | 0% | 121 km |
| 2 | Noisiel Seine-et-Marne | 9.5 | 32% | 0.1% | 162 km |
| 3 | Saint-Leu-la-Forêt Val-d'Oise | 8.5 | 36% | 0.5% | 131 km |
| 4 | Montévrain Seine-et-Marne | 7.3 | 11% | 0% | 165 km |
| 5 | Le Pecq Yvelines | 7.1 | 2.7% | 0% | 136 km |
| 6 | Verneuil-sur-Seine Yvelines | 5.4 | 24% | 0% | 123 km |
| 7 | Fontainebleau Seine-et-Marne | 5.3 | 94% | 94% | 205 km |
| 8 | Longwy Meurthe-et-Moselle | 5.1 | 15% | 0% | 275 km |
| 9 | Le Vésinet Yvelines | 4.9 | 0.1% | 0% | 137 km |
| 10 | Francheville Rhône | 4.6 | 29% | 0% | 248 km |
| 11 | Le Bourget Seine-Saint-Denis | 4.5 | 2.2% | 0% | 145 km |
| 12 | Domont Val-d'Oise | 4.5 | 28% | 0% | 133 km |
| 13 | Hennebont Morbihan | 4 | 25% | 0% | On it |
| 14 | Trélazé Maine-et-Loire | 3.9 | 13% | 0% | 122 km |
| 15 | Saint-Pierre-des-Corps Indre-et-Loire | 3.8 | 6.9% | 9.3% | 186 km |
| 16 | Wattignies Nord | 3.5 | 1.5% | 0% | 66 km |
| 17 | Bouc-Bel-Air Bouches-du-Rhône | 3.5 | 29% | 0% | 12 km |
| 18 | Marseille 16e Bouches-du-Rhône | 3.4 | 8.2% | 0.2% | On it |
| 19 | Ambérieu-en-Bugey Ain | 3.3 | 49% | 0% | 281 km |
| 20 | Saint-Julien-en-Genevois Haute-Savoie | 3.2 | 13% | 0% | 286 km |
| 21 | Vendôme Loir-et-Cher | 3.1 | 32% | 0% | 187 km |
| 22 | Lucé Eure-et-Loir | 3 | 2.6% | 0% | 137 km |
| 23 | Sin-le-Noble Nord | 2.7 | 12% | 0.1% | 90 km |
| 24 | Saint-Fargeau-Ponthierry Seine-et-Marne | 2.4 | 13% | 100% | 187 km |
| 25 | Roquebrune-sur-Argens Var | 2.4 | 40% | 25% | On it |
| 26 | Guipavas Finistère | 2.2 | 11% | 0.4% | On it |
| 27 | Port-de-Bouc Bouches-du-Rhône | 2.1 | 14% | 28% | On it |
| 28 | Montivilliers Seine-Maritime | 2 | 6.9% | 0% | 6.8 km |
| 29 | Saint-Amand-les-Eaux Nord | 1.9 | 43% | 100% | 93 km |
| 30 | Saint-Just-Saint-Rambert Loire | 1.7 | 23% | 13% | 216 km |
| 31 | Wittenheim Haut-Rhin | 1.6 | 32% | 0% | 447 km |
| 32 | Toul Meurthe-et-Moselle | 1.4 | 20% | 0.5% | 348 km |
| 33 | Montbrison Loire | 1.3 | 5.7% | 4.8% | 227 km |
| 34 | Hayange Moselle | 1.3 | 35% | 0% | 305 km |
| 35 | Biscarrosse Landes | 1.1 | 65% | 20% | On it |
| 36 | Elbeuf Seine-Maritime | 1 | 75% | 0% | 49 km |
| 37 | Tarascon Bouches-du-Rhône | 0.9 | 16% | 13% | 41 km |
| 38 | Beaucaire Gard | 0.7 | 4.5% | 8.8% | 40 km |
| 39 | Fos-sur-Mer Bouches-du-Rhône | 0.5 | 0.6% | 15% | On it |
| 40 | Montrevault-sur-Èvre Maine-et-Loire | 0.3 | 7.3% | 0% | 75 km |
| 41 | Gaillac Tarn | 0.2 | 4.9% | 0% | 132 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 Biscarrosse
Named parks, gardens and woods in the commune or within 400 m, the biggest and best-pathed first: Parc Marie-Blanche Campillo-Mercader leads, at 0.8 ha. Directions go to a point inside.
Source: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL): named parks, gardens and woods; sizes are the whole site.
Protected areas
20% of Biscarrosse 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
Zones humides de l’arrière dune des pays de Born et de Buch
19% of the commune0 km from the center
Natura 2000 site
Dunes modernes du littoral landais d’Arcachon à Mimizan Plage
8.3 km from the town center
Share of the commune’s land
Any protected area20%
Natura 2000 site20%
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.
20% of Biscarrosse’s land is protected, more than in 78% of compared French towns; the median compared town in Landes has 8.2%.
Source: INPN / PatriNat, protected areas July 2026, Natura 2000 December 2024; shares of IGN’s commune boundary.
Footpaths and woods
204 km of footpaths cross Biscarrosse
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
204 km
1.1 km per km²
Hiking routes
0 km
waymarked: 0 km per km²
Woodland
65%
about 126.5 km² of mapped woods
Km per km² of the commune · mapped on OpenStreetMap
BiscarrosseLandes medianFrance median
Footpaths1.1
Hiking routes0
012 km per km²
Share of the land · mapped woods and forest
BiscarrosseLandes medianFrance median
Woodland65%
0%50%100%
That is less than in 66% of compared French towns for footpaths per km², and for woodland more than in 97% 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 Biscarrosse is within 800 m of a mapped park or wood, as in most French towns.
2 named hiking routes within 2 km
Other named walk
SLR Longarisse - Bayonne9.2 km
SANGUINET - CIRCUIT ENTRE ÉTANG ET FORÊT4 km
Source: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL), extracts of October 25, 2026 (Geofabrik).
When to get out
The best walking months in Biscarrosse: April to September
Météo-France’s 1991–2020 normals at Biscarrosse, 6.9 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) | 9.2 | 10.4 | 11.8 | 13.4 | 14.8 | 15.5 | 15.2 | 14.0 | 12.4 | 10.9 | 9.5 | 8.9 |
| High (°C) | 11 | 12 | 15 | 17 | 20 | 23 | 25 | 26 | 24 | 20 | 15 | 12 |
| Rain (mm) | 87 | 65 | 58 | 66 | 64 | 61 | 41 | 56 | 73 | 78 | 115 | 89 |
July is the driest month (41 mm) and August the warmest (highs of 26 °C). 115 mm of rain falls in November, the wettest month. Frost comes on about 13 nights a year. The climate in Biscarrosse →
Neighbors
Next to Biscarrosse
The nearest towns of 2,500 or more, colored by the share of their land in protected areas.
Parentis-en-BornSanguinetMimizanLa Teste-de-BuchGujan-MestrasLe TeichBiscarrosse
Under 1%1–10 %10–25 %25–50 %50 %+
| Town | Protected | Woodland | Paths (km/km²) | Coast |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Biscarrosse | 20% | 65% | 1.1 | On it |
| Parentis-en-Born 7,586 · 10 km | 13% | 69% | 0.8 | 16 km |
| Sanguinet 4,741 · 12 km | 21% | 73% | 0.6 | 14 km |
| Mimizan 7,673 · 23 km | 8.2% | 75% | 1.3 | On it |
| La Teste-de-Buch 27,566 · 24 km | 46% | 56% | 1.1 | On it |
| Gujan-Mestras 22,153 · 26 km | 0.3% | 48% | 1.4 | On it |
| Le Teich 9,180 · 27 km | 100% | 81% | 0.6 | On it |
La Teste-de-Buch and Le Teich have 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 Biscarrosse
Is Biscarrosse in a national or regional nature park?
No, but 20% of its land is in a nature reserve or a Natura 2000 site.
Are there good walks in Biscarrosse?
OpenStreetMap maps 204 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 Biscarrosse is woodland?
65% of the commune is mapped woodland, private woods included; the median compared French town has 13%.
Is Biscarrosse near the sea?
Yes: the commune touches the coast, 7.4 km from its center.
When is the best time for walking in Biscarrosse?
April to September: 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.