First pick
Arboretum des Grands Murcins
Park or garden
4.3 ha0.4 km of path
4 km south-westfrom the center
Directionsto a point inside
Photo: Gilles Bardet · CC BY-SA 3.045%woodland
Outdoors in Renaison · protected areas, woods and footpaths
45% of Renaison is woodland, more than in 8 in 10 French towns
No protected area reaches Renaison; the nearest, Gorges de la Loire aval (Natura 2000), is 8.4 km from the town center. Waymarked hiking routes add up to 3 km in Renaison. 47 km of footpaths cross Renaison (2 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: Gorges de la Loire aval, 8.4 km
Woodland
45%
of the land, mapped on OpenStreetMap
Compared town: 13%
Footpaths
47 km
2 km per km²
Compared town: 1.7 km per km²
Hiking routes
3.1 km
waymarked, GR and others
Compared town: 0.3 km per km²
Green space nearby
93%
of residents within 800 m of a park or wood
Compared town: 100%
Throughout this page, the Loire 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 Renaison?
Read from the data: what stands out first, good and less good.
A wooded commune45% mapped woodland, more than in 89% of compared French towns, against 13% for the median compared town.Protected land nearbyGorges de la Loire aval (Natura 2000) is 8.4 km from the town center.
What sets Renaison apart: its woods, then protected land close by.
Against French towns
How Renaison 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
Woodland45%Share of the land mapped as forest or woods on OpenStreetMap
89out of 100
Footpaths2 km per km²Km of mapped footpath and track open on foot, per km² of the commune
58out of 100
Hiking routes0.1 km per km²Km of waymarked hiking routes (GR and others), per km² of the commune
32out of 100
Green space nearby93%Share of residents within 800 m of a mapped park or wood
11out of 100
Percentiles among compared French towns; ties count half.
Towns its size
Renaison has the 8th most footpaths per km² of 41 towns its size
The 40 compared French towns nearest in population (3,208 to 3,255 residents), by km of footpath per km². Hover for each one’s protected land and woods; click for its page.
From Saint-Quay-Portrieux (4.1 km per km²) to Albias (0 km per km²).
Every town in the comparison
| Town | Paths (km/km²) | Woodland | Protected | Coast | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Saint-Quay-Portrieux Côtes-d'Armor | 4.1 | 0% | 0% | On it |
| 2 | L'Île-Rousse Haute-Corse | 3.6 | 0% | 0% | On it |
| 3 | Volx Alpes-de-Haute-Provence | 3.1 | 37% | 100% | 71 km |
| 4 | Lespinasse Haute-Garonne | 2.8 | 1.6% | 0% | 156 km |
| 5 | Ville-di-Pietrabugno Haute-Corse | 2.7 | 25% | 0% | On it |
| 6 | Bousse Moselle | 2.6 | 33% | 0% | 316 km |
| 7 | Jard-sur-Mer Vendée | 2.1 | 21% | 43% | On it |
| 8 | Renaison Loire | 2 | 45% | 0% | 277 km |
| 9 | Ormoy Essonne | 2 | 25% | 0% | 180 km |
| 10 | Magland Haute-Savoie | 1.9 | 44% | 19% | 257 km |
| 11 | Fretin Nord | 1.8 | 3.1% | 0% | 72 km |
| 12 | Montagny Rhône | 1.7 | 25% | 0% | 235 km |
| 13 | Bréviandes Aube | 1.4 | 26% | 0% | 277 km |
| 14 | Rochecorbon Indre-et-Loire | 1.3 | 21% | 7.3% | 190 km |
| 15 | Saint-Geniès-de-Malgoirès Gard | 1.3 | 32% | 0% | 44 km |
| 16 | Saint-Parres-aux-Tertres Aube | 1.2 | 8.7% | 0.6% | 274 km |
| 17 | Veynes Hautes-Alpes | 1.1 | 51% | 63% | 137 km |
| 18 | Romilly-sur-Andelle Eure | 1.1 | 39% | 5.8% | 66 km |
| 19 | Magnac-sur-Touvre Charente | 1 | 22% | 3.1% | 82 km |
| 20 | Haveluy Nord | 0.8 | 4.2% | 99% | 101 km |
| 21 | Boves Somme | 0.8 | 24% | 8.8% | 63 km |
| 22 | Saint-Sauveur-Villages Manche | 0.8 | 2% | 35% | 13 km |
| 23 | Offranville Seine-Maritime | 0.8 | 4.5% | 0% | 5.3 km |
| 24 | Moussy-le-Neuf Seine-et-Marne | 0.8 | 26% | 0.2% | 141 km |
| 25 | Anould Vosges | 0.6 | 49% | 0.1% | 443 km |
| 26 | Flixecourt Somme | 0.6 | 26% | 0% | 34 km |
| 27 | Bram Aude | 0.6 | 3.5% | 0% | 81 km |
| 28 | Lansargues Hérault | 0.5 | 0.6% | 27% | 10 km |
| 29 | Carentoir Morbihan | 0.5 | 20% | 0% | 40 km |
| 30 | Bavay Nord | 0.4 | 4% | 100% | 121 km |
| 31 | La Tour-du-Crieu Ariège | 0.4 | 0% | 0% | 114 km |
| 32 | Montendre Charente-Maritime | 0.4 | 17% | 15% | 23 km |
| 33 | Azay-sur-Cher Indre-et-Loire | 0.3 | 15% | 0% | 189 km |
| 34 | Brou Eure-et-Loir | 0.3 | 2.2% | 0% | 149 km |
| 35 | Vonnas Ain | 0.3 | 9.9% | 0% | 304 km |
| 36 | Aix-Villemaur-Pâlis Aube | 0.3 | 26% | 0.9% | 263 km |
| 37 | Illiers-Combray Eure-et-Loir | 0.3 | 8.1% | 0% | 142 km |
| 38 | Picauville Manche | 0.2 | 2.9% | 100% | 15 km |
| 39 | Verneuil-l'Étang Seine-et-Marne | 0.2 | 9.8% | 0% | 189 km |
| 40 | Argentonnay Deux-Sèvres | 0.1 | 5.2% | 4.8% | 91 km |
| 41 | Albias Tarn-et-Garonne | 0 | 4.8% | 1.4% | 173 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 Renaison
Named parks, gardens and woods in the commune or within 400 m, the biggest and best-pathed first: Arboretum des Grands Murcins leads, at 4.3 ha. Directions go to a point inside.
Source: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL): named parks, gardens and woods; sizes are the whole site.
Close to home
9 in 10 residents of Renaison live within 800 m of a park or wood
Each square is 1 resident in 100: in green, those within 800 m, as the crow flies, of a mapped park, garden or woodland edge (INSEE’s 200 m population grid against OpenStreetMap).
93% within 800 m6.6% further
Residents within 800 m of green space · share of residents
RenaisonLoire medianFrance median
Within 800 m93%
0%50%100%
About 200 residents live further away. The distance is a straight line to the edge of a mapped park or wood, not a walk to a gate, and a wood can be private.
Protected areas
Gorges de la Loire aval is the nearest protected area, 8.4 km away
The protected areas reaching the commune, and the nearest: national parks, regional nature parks, nature reserves and Natura 2000 sites.
Natura 2000 site
Gorges de la Loire aval
8.4 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
47 km of footpaths cross Renaison
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
47 km
2 km per km²
Hiking routes
3.1 km
waymarked: 0.1 km per km²
Woodland
45%
about 10.5 km² of mapped woods
Km per km² of the commune · mapped on OpenStreetMap
RenaisonLoire medianFrance median
Footpaths2
Hiking routes0.1
01.53 km per km²
Share of the land · mapped woods and forest
RenaisonLoire medianFrance median
Woodland45%
0%50%100%
That is more than in 58% of compared French towns for footpaths per km², and for woodland more than in 89% of compared French towns. Hiking routes often follow paths and lanes already counted, so the two lengths overlap: don’t add them.
Source: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL), extracts of October 25, 2026 (Geofabrik).
When to get out
The best walking months in Renaison: April to September
Météo-France’s 1991–2020 normals at Riorges - Man, 10 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) | 9.0 | 10.3 | 11.8 | 13.5 | 14.9 | 15.7 | 15.4 | 14.1 | 12.5 | 10.8 | 9.4 | 8.7 |
| High (°C) | 8 | 9 | 14 | 17 | 21 | 25 | 28 | 28 | 23 | 18 | 12 | 8 |
| Rain (mm) | 42 | 33 | 38 | 53 | 78 | 74 | 73 | 70 | 68 | 69 | 68 | 45 |
February is the driest month (33 mm) and July the warmest (highs of 28 °C). 78 mm of rain falls in May, the wettest month. Frost comes on about 61 nights a year. The climate in Renaison →
Neighbors
Next to Renaison
The nearest towns of 2,500 or more, colored by the share of their land in protected areas.
RiorgesVillerestMablyRoanneCommelle-VernayLe CoteauRenaison
Under 1%1–10 %10–25 %25–50 %50 %+
Villerest, Roanne and Commelle-Vernay 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 Renaison
Is Renaison in a national or regional nature park?
No. The nearest protected area is Gorges de la Loire aval, 8.4 km from the town center.
Are there good walks in Renaison?
OpenStreetMap maps 47 km of footpaths and tracks open on foot in the commune, 2 km per km² (the median compared town: 1.7 km per km²); 3 km of waymarked hiking routes cross it.
How much of Renaison is woodland?
45% of the commune is mapped woodland, private woods included; the median compared French town has 13%.
Is Renaison near the sea?
No: the coast is 277 km from the town center, as the crow flies.
When is the best time for walking in Renaison?
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 4, 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.