First pick
Bois d'Hermet
Wood or forest
1,400 ha5.5 km of path
1 h 15 minto walk all 5.5 km of path
9.7 km north-eastfrom the center
Directionsto a point inside
Photo: Fab5669 · CC019%of the land protected
Outdoors in Montsûrs · protected areas, woods and footpaths
Parks, woods and footpaths in Montsûrs
18 km of footpaths cross Montsûrs (0.3 km per km²). Protected areas cover 19% of Montsûrs’ land. Mapped woodland covers 15% of Montsûrs. France has no Outdoors Grade yet: these are the figures, each beside the compared towns’ median.
Protected areas
19%
of the commune’s land
Compared town: 0.1%
Woodland
15%
of the land, mapped on OpenStreetMap
Compared town: 13%
Footpaths
18 km
0.3 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
84%
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 Montsûrs 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 areas19%Share of the land in a national park, regional nature park, nature reserve or Natura 2000 site
77out of 100
Woodland15%Share of the land mapped as forest or woods on OpenStreetMap
54out of 100
Footpaths0.3 km per km²Km of mapped footpath and track open on foot, per km² of the commune
5out of 100
Hiking routes0 km per km²Km of waymarked hiking routes (GR and others), per km² of the commune
12out of 100
Green space nearby84%Share of residents within 800 m of a mapped park or wood
5out of 100
Percentiles among compared French towns; ties count half.
Towns its size
Montsûrs has the 3rd fewest footpaths per km² of 41 towns its size
The 40 compared French towns nearest in population (3,173 to 3,210 residents), by km of footpath per km². Hover for each one’s protected land and woods; click for its page.
From Fonbeauzard (4.4 km per km²) to Saint-Ciers-sur-Gironde (0.1 km per km²).
Every town in the comparison
| Town | Paths (km/km²) | Woodland | Protected | Coast | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Fonbeauzard Haute-Garonne | 4.4 | 10% | 0% | 151 km |
| 2 | Saint-Michel Aisne | 3.4 | 55% | 62% | 170 km |
| 3 | Gagnac-sur-Garonne Haute-Garonne | 3 | 15% | 38% | 156 km |
| 4 | Voujeaucourt Doubs | 2.5 | 44% | 0% | 414 km |
| 5 | Saint-Michel Charente | 2.3 | 12% | 3.2% | 71 km |
| 6 | Saint-Gervais-la-Forêt Loir-et-Cher | 2.2 | 63% | 0% | 220 km |
| 7 | Lissieu Rhône | 2 | 19% | 0% | 260 km |
| 8 | Dolus-d'Oléron Charente-Maritime | 1.9 | 31% | 40% | On it |
| 9 | Knutange Moselle | 1.9 | 64% | 0% | 303 km |
| 10 | Proville Nord | 1.6 | 15% | 9.5% | 109 km |
| 11 | Salomé Nord | 1.6 | 3% | 0% | 65 km |
| 12 | Lozanne Rhône | 1.6 | 17% | 0% | 259 km |
| 13 | Châteaugay Puy-de-Dôme | 1.6 | 4.7% | 5.2% | 265 km |
| 14 | Nay Pyrénées-Atlantiques | 1.6 | 14% | 8.5% | 109 km |
| 15 | Fontoy Moselle | 1.5 | 48% | 0% | 300 km |
| 16 | Toussieu Rhône | 1.5 | 6.8% | 0% | 243 km |
| 17 | La Machine Nièvre | 1.5 | 65% | 58% | 357 km |
| 18 | Marsac-sur-l'Isle Dordogne | 1.2 | 33% | 0% | 99 km |
| 19 | Davézieux Ardèche | 1.2 | 4.3% | 0% | 195 km |
| 20 | Saint-Paul-de-Vence Alpes-Maritimes | 1.1 | 32% | 0% | 5 km |
| 21 | Saône Doubs | 1.1 | 43% | 28% | 397 km |
| 22 | Druelle Balsac Aveyron | 1.1 | 22% | 0% | 140 km |
| 23 | Breuil-le-Vert Oise | 1 | 31% | 0% | 105 km |
| 24 | Sallèles-d'Aude Aude | 1 | 7.8% | 1.7% | 21 km |
| 25 | La Loupe Eure-et-Loir | 1 | 9.5% | 100% | 118 km |
| 26 | Souillac Lot | 1 | 67% | 6.9% | 163 km |
| 27 | Ploemel Morbihan | 0.9 | 18% | 0% | 3.3 km |
| 28 | Camblanes-et-Meynac Gironde | 0.9 | 12% | 2.8% | 28 km |
| 29 | Baraqueville Aveyron | 0.8 | 13% | 0% | 134 km |
| 30 | Creuzier-le-Vieux Allier | 0.8 | 10% | 3% | 293 km |
| 31 | Saint-Sauveur-Villages Manche | 0.8 | 2% | 35% | 13 km |
| 32 | Meschers-sur-Gironde Charente-Maritime | 0.6 | 7.4% | 60% | On it |
| 33 | Seltz Bas-Rhin | 0.6 | 36% | 57% | 447 km |
| 34 | Imphy Nièvre | 0.6 | 32% | 46% | 343 km |
| 35 | Crêches-sur-Saône Saône-et-Loire | 0.6 | 5.5% | 16% | 303 km |
| 36 | Mayet Sarthe | 0.5 | 38% | 40% | 155 km |
| 37 | Cossé-le-Vivien Mayenne | 0.5 | 0.6% | 0% | 83 km |
| 38 | Saint-Siméon-de-Bressieux Isère | 0.3 | 15% | 0% | 211 km |
| 39 | Montsûrs Mayenne | 0.3 | 15% | 19% | 80 km |
| 40 | Illiers-Combray Eure-et-Loir | 0.3 | 8.1% | 0% | 142 km |
| 41 | Saint-Ciers-sur-Gironde Gironde | 0.1 | 0.8% | 55% | On it |
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 Montsûrs
Named parks, gardens and woods in the commune or within 400 m, the biggest and best-pathed first: Bois d'Hermet leads, at 1,400 ha. Directions go to a point inside.
Bois des Vallons
Wood or forest
1,340 ha1.6 km of path
20 minto walk all 1.6 km of path
5.4 km south-eastfrom the center
Directionsto a point inside
Source: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL): named parks, gardens and woods; sizes are the whole site.
Close to home
8 in 10 residents of Montsûrs 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).
84% within 800 m16% further
Residents within 800 m of green space · share of residents
MontsûrsMayenne medianFrance median
Within 800 m84%
0%50%100%
About 500 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
19% of Montsûrs 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
Bocage de Montsûrs à la forêt de Sillé-le-Guillaume
19% of the commune
Share of the commune’s land
Any protected area19%
Natura 2000 site19%
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.
19% of Montsûrs’ land is protected, more than in 77% of compared French towns; the median compared town in Mayenne has 0%.
Source: INPN / PatriNat, protected areas July 2026, Natura 2000 December 2024; shares of IGN’s commune boundary.
Footpaths and woods
18 km of footpaths cross Montsûrs
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
18 km
0.3 km per km²
Hiking routes
0 km
waymarked: 0 km per km²
Woodland
15%
about 10.5 km² of mapped woods
Km per km² of the commune · mapped on OpenStreetMap
MontsûrsMayenne medianFrance median
Footpaths0.3
Hiking routes0
012 km per km²
Share of the land · mapped woods and forest
MontsûrsMayenne medianFrance median
Woodland15%
0%50%100%
That is less than in 95% of compared French towns for footpaths per km², and for woodland more than in 54% 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 Montsûrs: April to September
Météo-France’s 1991–2020 normals at Argentre, 9.1 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 Montsûrs →
Neighbors
Next to Montsûrs
The nearest towns of 2,500 or more, colored by the share of their land in protected areas.
ArgentréÉvronLouvernéBonchamp-lès-LavalChangéMayenneMontsûrs
Under 1%1–10 %10–25 %25–50 %50 %+
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 Montsûrs
Is Montsûrs in a national or regional nature park?
No, but 19% of its land is in a nature reserve or a Natura 2000 site.
Are there good walks in Montsûrs?
OpenStreetMap maps 18 km of footpaths and tracks open on foot in the commune, 0.3 km per km² (the median compared town: 1.7 km per km²).
How much of Montsûrs is woodland?
15% of the commune is mapped woodland, private woods included; the median compared French town has 13%.
Is Montsûrs near the sea?
No: the coast is 80 km from the town center, as the crow flies.
When is the best time for walking in Montsûrs?
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.