First pick
Jardin à la Française
Park or garden
0.4 ha0.2 km of path
Centralin the middle of Craon
Directionsto a point inside
Photo: Andegave 999 · CC01.4%woodland
Outdoors in Craon · protected areas, woods and footpaths
Parks, woods and footpaths in Craon
Mapped woodland covers 1.4% of Craon. No protected area reaches Craon; the nearest, Basses vallées angevines, aval de la rivière Mayenne et prairies de la Baumette (Natura 2000), is 24 km from the town center. Footpaths add up to 28 km across Craon (1.1 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: Basses vallées angevines, aval de la rivière Mayenne et prairies de la Baumette, 24 km
Woodland
1.4%
of the land, mapped on OpenStreetMap
Compared town: 13%
Footpaths
28 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
Green space nearby
87%
of residents within 800 m of a park or wood
Compared town: 100%
Throughout this page, the Mayenne 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 Craon 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
Woodland1.4%Share of the land mapped as forest or woods on OpenStreetMap
8out of 100
Footpaths1.1 km per km²Km of mapped footpath and track open on foot, per km² of the commune
36out of 100
Hiking routes0 km per km²Km of waymarked hiking routes (GR and others), per km² of the commune
12out of 100
Green space nearby87%Share of residents within 800 m of a mapped park or wood
6out of 100
Percentiles among compared French towns; ties count half.
Towns its size
Craon has the 20th fewest footpaths per km² of 41 towns its size
The 40 compared French towns nearest in population (4,388 to 4,476 residents), by km of footpath per km². Hover for each one’s protected land and woods; click for its page.
From Labège (3.9 km per km²) to Bastelicaccia (0 km per km²).
Every town in the comparison
| Town | Paths (km/km²) | Woodland | Protected | Coast | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Labège Haute-Garonne | 3.9 | 6.5% | 0% | 137 km |
| 2 | Valras-Plage Hérault | 3.8 | 0% | 26% | On it |
| 3 | Nozay Essonne | 3.2 | 5.7% | 0% | 162 km |
| 4 | Maurecourt Yvelines | 3.2 | 15% | 0% | 125 km |
| 5 | La Chaussée-Saint-Victor Loir-et-Cher | 3 | 11% | 8.1% | 215 km |
| 6 | Montrabé Haute-Garonne | 3 | 6.6% | 0% | 142 km |
| 7 | Château-Renault Indre-et-Loire | 2.9 | 7.9% | 0% | 203 km |
| 8 | Thourotte Oise | 2.8 | 8% | 0.8% | 116 km |
| 9 | Haisnes Pas-de-Calais | 2.7 | 3.2% | 0% | 67 km |
| 10 | Écrouves Meurthe-et-Moselle | 2.6 | 23% | 100% | 346 km |
| 11 | Provin Nord | 2.4 | 4.7% | 0% | 69 km |
| 12 | Carignan-de-Bordeaux Gironde | 2.3 | 14% | 3.4% | 23 km |
| 13 | Villeneuve-de-la-Raho Pyrénées-Orientales | 2.2 | 0.2% | 0% | 9.8 km |
| 14 | Vinon-sur-Verdon Var | 2.1 | 34% | 100% | 57 km |
| 15 | Serres-Castet Pyrénées-Atlantiques | 1.9 | 8.9% | 0% | 92 km |
| 16 | Ornans Doubs | 1.8 | 66% | 92% | 384 km |
| 17 | Rousson Gard | 1.8 | 28% | 0% | 70 km |
| 18 | Capdenac-Gare Aveyron | 1.7 | 28% | 0% | 177 km |
| 19 | Saclay Essonne | 1.6 | 7.5% | 0% | 153 km |
| 20 | La Tour-d'Aigues Vaucluse | 1.5 | 24% | 100% | 45 km |
| 21 | Chazay-d'Azergues Rhône | 1.3 | 11% | 0% | 262 km |
| 22 | Craon Mayenne | 1.1 | 1.4% | 0% | 92 km |
| 23 | Vinay Isère | 1.1 | 26% | 0% | 200 km |
| 24 | Ardres Pas-de-Calais | 1 | 1.9% | 5.1% | 13 km |
| 25 | Morigny-Champigny Essonne | 0.9 | 22% | 0.4% | 173 km |
| 26 | Sierentz Haut-Rhin | 0.9 | 39% | 36% | 430 km |
| 27 | Guignes Seine-et-Marne | 0.9 | 36% | 0% | 189 km |
| 28 | Villemoustaussou Aude | 0.8 | 4.8% | 0% | 63 km |
| 29 | Truchtersheim Bas-Rhin | 0.8 | 1.2% | 0% | 438 km |
| 30 | Marckolsheim Bas-Rhin | 0.8 | 37% | 47% | 475 km |
| 31 | Chancelade Dordogne | 0.7 | 48% | 0% | 100 km |
| 32 | Ghisonaccia Haute-Corse | 0.6 | 11% | 15% | On it |
| 33 | Carnoules Var | 0.6 | 43% | 21% | 21 km |
| 34 | Millas Pyrénées-Orientales | 0.5 | 3.2% | 0.1% | 28 km |
| 35 | Montbeton Tarn-et-Garonne | 0.4 | 8% | 0% | 180 km |
| 36 | Torigny-les-Villes Manche | 0.3 | 5.4% | 0% | 38 km |
| 37 | Angerville Essonne | 0.3 | 3.4% | 0% | 174 km |
| 38 | Miniac-Morvan Ille-et-Vilaine | 0.2 | 16% | 100% | 3.2 km |
| 39 | Mesnil-en-Ouche Eure | 0.2 | 13% | 0.4% | 55 km |
| 40 | Marans Charente-Maritime | 0.2 | 0.3% | 100% | 11 km |
| 41 | Bastelicaccia Corse-du-Sud | 0 | 15% | 0.2% | 4.2 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 Craon
Named parks, gardens and woods in the commune or within 400 m, the biggest and best-pathed first: Jardin à la Française leads, at 0.4 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 Craon 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).
87% within 800 m13% further
Residents within 800 m of green space · share of residents
CraonMayenne medianFrance median
Within 800 m87%
0%50%100%
About 600 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
Basses vallées angevines, aval de la rivière Mayenne et prairies de la Baumette is the nearest protected area, 24 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
Basses vallées angevines, aval de la rivière Mayenne et prairies de la Baumette
24 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
28 km of footpaths cross Craon
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
28 km
1.1 km per km²
Hiking routes
0 km
waymarked: 0 km per km²
Woodland
1.4%
about 0.3 km² of mapped woods
Km per km² of the commune · mapped on OpenStreetMap
CraonMayenne medianFrance median
Footpaths1.1
Hiking routes0
012 km per km²
Share of the land · mapped woods and forest
CraonMayenne medianFrance median
Woodland1.4%
0%50%100%
That is less than in 64% of compared French towns for footpaths per km², and for woodland less than in 92% 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 Craon: April to September
Météo-France’s 1991–2020 normals at Cosse-Le-Vivien, 13 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 | 11.7 | 13.6 | 15.1 | 16.0 | 15.6 | 14.3 | 12.5 | 10.7 | 9.2 | 8.4 |
| High (°C) | 9 | 10 | 13 | 16 | 20 | 23 | 25 | 26 | 22 | 17 | 12 | 9 |
| Rain (mm) | 78 | 65 | 57 | 59 | 59 | 56 | 48 | 51 | 65 | 84 | 83 | 92 |
July is the driest month (48 mm) and August the warmest (highs of 26 °C). 92 mm of rain falls in December, the wettest month. Frost comes on about 43 nights a year. The climate in Craon →
Neighbors
Next to Craon
The nearest towns of 2,500 or more, colored by the share of their land in protected areas.
RenazéCossé-le-VivienOmbrée d'AnjouSegré-en-Anjou BleuChâteau-Gontier-sur-MayenneLa Guerche-de-BretagneCraon
Under 1%1–10 %10–25 %25–50 %50 %+
| Town | Protected | Woodland | Paths (km/km²) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Craon | 0% | 1.4% | 1.1 |
| Renazé 2,504 · 9.8 km | 0% | 11% | 0.3 |
| Cossé-le-Vivien 3,174 · 11 km | 0% | 0.6% | 0.5 |
| Ombrée d'Anjou 8,813 · 18 km | 0% | 11% | 0.7 |
| Segré-en-Anjou Bleu 17,667 · 18 km | 0% | 4.6% | 0.5 |
| Château-Gontier-sur-Mayenne 16,584 · 18 km | 0% | 3.1% | 0.9 |
| La Guerche-de-Bretagne 4,554 · 23 km | 0% | 0.2% | 1.2 |
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 Craon
Is Craon in a national or regional nature park?
No. The nearest protected area is Basses vallées angevines, aval de la rivière Mayenne et prairies de la Baumette, 24 km from the town center.
Are there good walks in Craon?
OpenStreetMap maps 28 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 Craon is woodland?
1.4% of the commune is mapped woodland, private woods included; the median compared French town has 13%.
Is Craon near the sea?
No: the coast is 92 km from the town center, as the crow flies.
When is the best time for walking in Craon?
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.