First pick
parc des Mées
Park or garden · 190 m outside the commune
19 ha4.1 km of path
55 minto walk all 4.1 km of path
2.5 km north-westfrom the center
Directionsto a point inside
Photo: Chbo91 · CC BY-SA 4.03.4%of the land protected
Outdoors in Vineuil · protected areas, woods and footpaths
Almost every home in Vineuil is within 800 m of a park or wood
Waymarked hiking routes add up to 35 km in Vineuil. Mapped woodland covers 27% of Vineuil. Footpaths add up to 30 km across Vineuil (1.3 km per km²). France has no Outdoors Grade yet: these are the figures, each beside the compared towns’ median.
Protected areas
3.4%
of the commune’s land
Compared town: 0.1%
Woodland
27%
of the land, mapped on OpenStreetMap
Compared town: 13%
Footpaths
30 km
1.3 km per km²
Compared town: 1.7 km per km²
Hiking routes
35 km
waymarked, GR and others
Compared town: 0.3 km per km²
Parks & woods
4
named, in or within 400 m of the commune
First: parc des Mées
Throughout this page, the Loir-et-Cher 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 Vineuil 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 areas3.4%Share of the land in a national park, regional nature park, nature reserve or Natura 2000 site
62out of 100
Woodland27%Share of the land mapped as forest or woods on OpenStreetMap
72out of 100
Footpaths1.3 km per km²Km of mapped footpath and track open on foot, per km² of the commune
42out of 100
Hiking routes1.6 km per km²Km of waymarked hiking routes (GR and others), per km² of the commune
93out of 100
Percentiles among compared French towns; ties count half.
Towns its size
Vineuil has the 15th fewest footpaths per km² of 41 towns its size
The 40 compared French towns nearest in population (7,941 to 8,177 residents), by km of footpath per km². Hover for each one’s protected land and woods; click for its page.
From Seyssins (7.1 km per km²) to Le Malesherbois (0.3 km per km²).
Every town in the comparison
| Town | Paths (km/km²) | Woodland | Protected | Coast | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Seyssins Isère | 7.1 | 44% | 45% | 201 km |
| 2 | Boussy-Saint-Antoine Essonne | 6.6 | 28% | 0% | 172 km |
| 3 | Jouy-en-Josas Yvelines | 5.9 | 42% | 0% | 151 km |
| 4 | Coulaines Sarthe | 5.4 | 5.5% | 0% | 134 km |
| 5 | Libercourt Pas-de-Calais | 4.5 | 23% | 0% | 75 km |
| 6 | La Ville-du-Bois Essonne | 4.4 | 28% | 0% | 164 km |
| 7 | Louveciennes Yvelines | 3.3 | 31% | 0% | 140 km |
| 8 | La Ricamarie Loire | 2.8 | 20% | 3.2% | 206 km |
| 9 | Wintzenheim Haut-Rhin | 2.8 | 51% | 100% | 471 km |
| 10 | Guénange Moselle | 2.7 | 24% | 0% | 315 km |
| 11 | Le Mesnil-Esnard Seine-Maritime | 2.6 | 16% | 0% | 57 km |
| 12 | Rochefort-du-Gard Gard | 2.6 | 40% | 0% | 59 km |
| 13 | Linas Essonne | 2.5 | 32% | 0% | 166 km |
| 14 | Isle Haute-Vienne | 2.2 | 16% | 0% | 159 km |
| 15 | Le Soler Pyrénées-Orientales | 2 | 4.9% | 0% | 20 km |
| 16 | Cavalaire-sur-Mer Var | 1.8 | 45% | 0.1% | On it |
| 17 | Aureilhan Hautes-Pyrénées | 1.8 | 12% | 0.7% | 133 km |
| 18 | Sorbiers Loire | 1.8 | 14% | 0% | 217 km |
| 19 | Verrières-en-Anjou Maine-et-Loire | 1.8 | 7.4% | 0% | 127 km |
| 20 | Saint-Vincent-de-Tyrosse Landes | 1.8 | 51% | 0% | 11 km |
| 21 | Val de Briey Meurthe-et-Moselle | 1.7 | 55% | 0% | 305 km |
| 22 | Champagnole Jura | 1.7 | 48% | 0% | 352 km |
| 23 | Vaujours Seine-Saint-Denis | 1.7 | 26% | 0.9% | 152 km |
| 24 | Talange Moselle | 1.6 | 2.5% | 0% | 318 km |
| 25 | Beaugency Loiret | 1.4 | 6.8% | 24% | 206 km |
| 26 | Tignieu-Jameyzieu Isère | 1.4 | 11% | 0% | 255 km |
| 27 | Vineuil Loir-et-Cher | 1.3 | 27% | 3.4% | 219 km |
| 28 | La Tour-du-Pin Isère | 1.2 | 4.7% | 0% | 240 km |
| 29 | Aussonne Haute-Garonne | 1.2 | 4.8% | 0% | 159 km |
| 30 | Saint-Affrique Aveyron | 1.2 | 37% | 100% | 85 km |
| 31 | Les Arcs Var | 1.1 | 35% | 12% | 21 km |
| 32 | Gleizé Rhône | 1.1 | 7.7% | 0% | 275 km |
| 33 | Martignas-sur-Jalle Gironde | 1.1 | 48% | 2.8% | 23 km |
| 34 | Linselles Nord | 1 | 0.7% | 0% | 53 km |
| 35 | Chinon Indre-et-Loire | 1 | 15% | 100% | 142 km |
| 36 | Bellegarde Gard | 0.7 | 5.7% | 13% | 33 km |
| 37 | Jarny Meurthe-et-Moselle | 0.7 | 12% | 48% | 311 km |
| 38 | Questembert Morbihan | 0.6 | 19% | 0% | 16 km |
| 39 | Languidic Morbihan | 0.6 | 24% | 0% | 9 km |
| 40 | Monts Indre-et-Loire | 0.5 | 28% | 0% | 173 km |
| 41 | Le Malesherbois Loiret | 0.3 | 11% | 3.6% | 196 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 Vineuil
Named parks, gardens and woods in the commune or within 400 m, the biggest and best-pathed first: parc des Mées leads, at 19 ha. Directions go to a point inside.
Port de la Creusille
Park or garden · 350 m outside the commune
3.2 ha1.6 km of path
20 minto walk all 1.6 km of path
2.8 km westfrom the center
Promenade Bernard Valette
Directionsto a point inside
Parc de Feuillarde
Park or garden
2.8 ha1.1 km of path
15 minto walk all 1.1 km of path
1.1 km south-westfrom the center
Directionsto a point inside
Aushopping Jardin
Park or garden
1.4 ha0.6 km of path
10 minto walk all 0.6 km of path
1.7 km south-westfrom the center
Directionsto a point inside
Source: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL): named parks, gardens and woods; sizes are the whole site.
Protected areas
3.4% of Vineuil 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
Vallée de la Loire du Loir-et-Cher
3.4% of the commune2 km from the center
Natura 2000 site
Vallée de la Loire de Mosnes à Tavers
3.4% of the commune2 km from the center
Share of the commune’s land
Any protected area3.4%
Natura 2000 site3.4%
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.
3.4% of Vineuil’s land is protected, more than in 62% of compared French towns; the median compared town in Loir-et-Cher has 6.4%.
Source: INPN / PatriNat, protected areas July 2026, Natura 2000 December 2024; shares of IGN’s commune boundary.
Footpaths and woods
30 km of footpaths and 35 km of hiking routes cross Vineuil
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
30 km
1.3 km per km²
Hiking routes
35 km
waymarked: 1.6 km per km²
Woodland
27%
about 5.9 km² of mapped woods
Km per km² of the commune · mapped on OpenStreetMap
VineuilLoir-et-Cher medianFrance median
Footpaths1.3
Hiking routes1.6
012 km per km²
Share of the land · mapped woods and forest
VineuilLoir-et-Cher medianFrance median
Woodland27%
0%50%100%
That is less than in 58% of compared French towns for footpaths per km², and for woodland more than in 72% 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 Vineuil is within 800 m of a mapped park or wood, as in most French towns.
26 named hiking routes within 2 km
Other named walk
Via Turonensis par Orléans, Meung-sur-Loire - Blois12 km
Circuit des bords de Loire10 km
Circuit du Cosson9.2 km
Circuit du Bois Gaillard8.6 km
La rando des trois ponts de Blois6.6 km
Circuit des Tailles6.5 km
Circuit du val6.5 km
Grand circuit des eaux6 km
Circuit Découverte5.8 km
Traversée de la Sologne, de La Ferté St-Cyr à Blois5.8 km
Circuit du viaduc5.3 km
Petit circuit des eaux5 km
+14 more
Source: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL), extracts of October 25, 2026 (Geofabrik).
When to get out
The best walking months in Vineuil: April to September
Météo-France’s 1991–2020 normals at Cheverny, 9.7 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) | 8.8 | 10.2 | 11.8 | 13.6 | 15.1 | 16.0 | 15.6 | 14.3 | 12.5 | 10.7 | 9.2 | 8.4 |
| High (°C) | 8 | 9 | 13 | 17 | 20 | 24 | 26 | 26 | 22 | 17 | 12 | 8 |
| Rain (mm) | 58 | 49 | 48 | 50 | 63 | 52 | 53 | 46 | 50 | 70 | 68 | 71 |
August is the driest month (46 mm) and July the warmest (highs of 26 °C). 71 mm of rain falls in December, the wettest month. Frost comes on about 59 nights a year. The climate in Vineuil →
Neighbors
Next to Vineuil
The nearest towns of 2,500 or more, colored by the share of their land in protected areas.
Saint-Gervais-la-ForêtLa Chaussée-Saint-VictorBloisMont-près-ChambordVillebarouCellettesVineuil
Under 1%1–10 %10–25 %25–50 %50 %+
| Town | Protected | Woodland | Paths (km/km²) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Vineuil | 3.4% | 27% | 1.3 |
| Saint-Gervais-la-Forêt 3,180 · 2.7 km | 0% | 63% | 2.2 |
| La Chaussée-Saint-Victor 4,471 · 3.6 km | 8.1% | 11% | 3 |
| Blois 47,219 · 4.9 km | 5.8% | 30% | 4.3 |
| Mont-près-Chambord 3,386 · 6 km | 23% | 58% | 0.5 |
| Villebarou 2,584 · 6.4 km | 89% | 0.5% | 0.8 |
| Cellettes 2,715 · 6.8 km | 0% | 55% | 0.8 |
Mont-près-Chambord and Villebarou have at least twice as much protected land. Saint-Gervais-la-Forêt, Mont-près-Chambord and Cellettes 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 Vineuil
Is Vineuil in a national or regional nature park?
No, but 3.4% of its land is in a nature reserve or a Natura 2000 site.
Are there good walks in Vineuil?
OpenStreetMap maps 30 km of footpaths and tracks open on foot in the commune, 1.3 km per km² (the median compared town: 1.7 km per km²); 35 km of waymarked hiking routes cross it.
How much of Vineuil is woodland?
27% of the commune is mapped woodland, private woods included; the median compared French town has 13%.
Is Vineuil near the sea?
No: the coast is 219 km from the town center, as the crow flies.
When is the best time for walking in Vineuil?
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.