First pick
Bois de Gondin
Wood or forest
139 ha0.6 km of path
5 minto walk all 0.6 km of path
4.3 km northfrom the center
Directionsto a point inside
Photo: Jejecam · CC BY-SA 3.03.9%woodland
Outdoors in Louverné · protected areas, woods and footpaths
Almost every home in Louverné is within 800 m of a park or wood
Mapped woodland covers 3.9% of Louverné. No protected area reaches Louverné; the nearest, Bocage de Montsûrs à la forêt de Sillé-le-Guillaume (Natura 2000), is 7.6 km from the town center. 31 km of footpaths cross Louverné (1.5 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: Bocage de Montsûrs à la forêt de Sillé-le-Guillaume, 7.6 km
Woodland
3.9%
of the land, mapped on OpenStreetMap
Compared town: 13%
Footpaths
31 km
1.5 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: Bois de Gondin
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.
What kind of place
What kind of outdoors place is Louverné?
Read from the data: what stands out first, good and less good.
Protected land nearbyBocage de Montsûrs à la forêt de Sillé-le-Guillaume (Natura 2000) is 7.6 km from the town center.Little mapped woodland3.9% of the land, against 13% for the median compared town.
What sets Louverné apart: protected land close by. It is shorter on woodland.
Against French towns
How Louverné 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
Woodland3.9%Share of the land mapped as forest or woods on OpenStreetMap
18out of 100
Footpaths1.5 km per km²Km of mapped footpath and track open on foot, per km² of the commune
45out 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
Louverné has the 19th most footpaths per km² of 41 towns its size
The 40 compared French towns nearest in population (4,321 to 4,378 residents), by km of footpath per km². Hover for each one’s protected land and woods; click for its page.
From Sevrier (4.3 km per km²) to Buzançais (0.1 km per km²).
Every town in the comparison
| Town | Paths (km/km²) | Woodland | Protected | Coast | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Sevrier Haute-Savoie | 4.3 | 49% | 100% | 255 km |
| 2 | Saint-Maurice-de-Beynost Ain | 4 | 21% | 17% | 262 km |
| 3 | Tigery Essonne | 3.6 | 41% | 0% | 176 km |
| 4 | Villard-de-Lans Isère | 3.4 | 57% | 100% | 188 km |
| 5 | Nilvange Moselle | 3.3 | 27% | 0% | 304 km |
| 6 | Gattières Alpes-Maritimes | 2.7 | 27% | 80% | 9.5 km |
| 7 | Niederbronn-les-Bains Bas-Rhin | 2.6 | 74% | 100% | 417 km |
| 8 | Le Tréport Seine-Maritime | 2.6 | 4.9% | 3.1% | On it |
| 9 | Poulx Gard | 2.5 | 0.1% | 56% | 47 km |
| 10 | Saulxures-lès-Nancy Meurthe-et-Moselle | 2.3 | 31% | 0% | 369 km |
| 11 | Coignières Yvelines | 2.3 | 29% | 0.1% | 137 km |
| 12 | Steenvoorde Nord | 1.8 | 1.9% | 0% | 29 km |
| 13 | Pins-Justaret Haute-Garonne | 1.8 | 3% | 2.1% | 145 km |
| 14 | Villeneuve Alpes-de-Haute-Provence | 1.8 | 34% | 100% | 74 km |
| 15 | Cheval-Blanc Vaucluse | 1.7 | 19% | 100% | 42 km |
| 16 | Hillion Côtes-d'Armor | 1.6 | 6.9% | 9% | On it |
| 17 | Le Château-d'Oléron Charente-Maritime | 1.5 | 7.5% | 50% | On it |
| 18 | Le Val Var | 1.5 | 63% | 7.3% | 37 km |
| 19 | Louverné Mayenne | 1.5 | 3.9% | 0% | 74 km |
| 20 | Ormes Loiret | 1.4 | 12% | 0% | 198 km |
| 21 | Cadenet Vaucluse | 1.1 | 28% | 100% | 42 km |
| 22 | Camon Somme | 1.1 | 5.6% | 14% | 57 km |
| 23 | Morlaàs Pyrénées-Atlantiques | 1 | 20% | 0% | 101 km |
| 24 | Beaumont-lès-Valence Drôme | 0.8 | 9.8% | 0% | 157 km |
| 25 | Égletons Corrèze | 0.8 | 51% | 0.1% | 212 km |
| 26 | Chabanière Rhône | 0.8 | 17% | 0% | 230 km |
| 27 | Morestel Isère | 0.8 | 16% | 12% | 252 km |
| 28 | Pons Charente-Maritime | 0.8 | 10% | 13% | 22 km |
| 29 | Riec-sur-Bélon Finistère | 0.7 | 13% | 0% | On it |
| 30 | Langeais Indre-et-Loire | 0.7 | 71% | 100% | 163 km |
| 31 | Saint-Léonard-de-Noblat Haute-Vienne | 0.5 | 24% | 1.4% | 181 km |
| 32 | Saint-Savin Isère | 0.5 | 17% | 15% | 244 km |
| 33 | Sarralbe Moselle | 0.5 | 29% | 10% | 381 km |
| 34 | Valence-en-Poitou Vienne | 0.4 | 20% | 0% | 100 km |
| 35 | Ussac Corrèze | 0.4 | 24% | 0% | 167 km |
| 36 | Montélier Drôme | 0.3 | 2.2% | 0% | 165 km |
| 37 | Rives de l'Yon Vendée | 0.3 | 7.1% | 0% | 25 km |
| 38 | Prigonrieux Dordogne | 0.3 | 21% | 1.2% | 80 km |
| 39 | Roullet-Saint-Estèphe Charente | 0.2 | 16% | 3.1% | 65 km |
| 40 | Bassillac et Auberoche Dordogne | 0.1 | 49% | 0% | 116 km |
| 41 | Buzançais Indre | 0.1 | 28% | 5.7% | 206 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 Louverné
Named parks, gardens and woods in the commune or within 400 m, the biggest and best-pathed first: Bois de Gondin leads, at 139 ha. Directions go to a point inside.
Source: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL): named parks, gardens and woods; sizes are the whole site.
Protected areas
Bocage de Montsûrs à la forêt de Sillé-le-Guillaume is the nearest protected area, 7.6 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
Bocage de Montsûrs à la forêt de Sillé-le-Guillaume
7.6 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
31 km of footpaths cross Louverné
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
31 km
1.5 km per km²
Hiking routes
0 km
waymarked: 0 km per km²
Woodland
3.9%
about 0.8 km² of mapped woods
Km per km² of the commune · mapped on OpenStreetMap
LouvernéMayenne medianFrance median
Footpaths1.5
Hiking routes0
012 km per km²
Share of the land · mapped woods and forest
LouvernéMayenne medianFrance median
Woodland3.9%
0%50%100%
That is less than in 55% of compared French towns for footpaths per km², and for woodland less than in 82% of compared French towns. Hiking routes often follow paths and lanes already counted, so the two lengths overlap: don’t add them. 98% of Louverné’s residents live within 800 m of a mapped park or wood, close to the typical town.
Source: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL), extracts of October 25, 2026 (Geofabrik).
When to get out
The best walking months in Louverné: April to September
Météo-France’s 1991–2020 normals at Argentre, 5.4 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 | 10.1 | 11.7 | 13.6 | 15.2 | 16.0 | 15.7 | 14.3 | 12.5 | 10.7 | 9.2 | 8.4 |
| High (°C) | 8 | 10 | 13 | 16 | 20 | 23 | 25 | 25 | 22 | 17 | 12 | 9 |
| Rain (mm) | 79 | 60 | 56 | 56 | 58 | 53 | 51 | 52 | 65 | 80 | 79 | 91 |
July is the driest month (51 mm) and August the warmest (highs of 25 °C). 91 mm of rain falls in December, the wettest month. Frost comes on about 45 nights a year. The climate in Louverné →
Neighbors
Next to Louverné
The nearest towns of 2,500 or more, colored by the share of their land in protected areas.
Bonchamp-lès-LavalChangéArgentréLavalSaint-BerthevinL'HuisserieLouverné
Under 1%1–10 %10–25 %25–50 %50 %+
| Town | Protected | Woodland | Paths (km/km²) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Louverné | 0% | 3.9% | 1.5 |
| Bonchamp-lès-Laval 6,302 · 5.2 km | 0% | 1.2% | 1.7 |
| Changé 6,502 · 5.8 km | 0% | 2.7% | 2.3 |
| Argentré 2,906 · 6.6 km | 0% | 3.1% | 0.5 |
| Laval 49,400 · 7.1 km | 0% | 8.6% | 4.5 |
| Saint-Berthevin 7,479 · 10 km | 0% | 17% | 1.5 |
| L'Huisserie 4,672 · 11 km | 0% | 16% | 3.8 |
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 Louverné
Is Louverné in a national or regional nature park?
No. The nearest protected area is Bocage de Montsûrs à la forêt de Sillé-le-Guillaume, 7.6 km from the town center.
Are there good walks in Louverné?
OpenStreetMap maps 31 km of footpaths and tracks open on foot in the commune, 1.5 km per km² (the median compared town: 1.7 km per km²).
How much of Louverné is woodland?
3.9% of the commune is mapped woodland, private woods included; the median compared French town has 13%.
Is Louverné near the sea?
No: the coast is 74 km from the town center, as the crow flies.
When is the best time for walking in Louverné?
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.