First pick
Forêt du Val
Wood or forest · 210 m outside the commune
6,061 ha40 km of path
8 h 55 minto walk all 40 km of path
8 km southfrom the center
Chemin BlancChemin de l'Argente Ligne
Directionsto a point inside
Photo: Havang(nl) · CC051%woodland
Outdoors in Ancerville · protected areas, woods and footpaths
51% of Ancerville is woodland, more than in 9 in 10 French towns
No protected area reaches Ancerville; the nearest, Forêt de Trois-Fontaines (Natura 2000), is 6.9 km from the town center. 48 km of footpaths cross Ancerville (2.2 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: Forêt de Trois-Fontaines, 6.9 km
Woodland
51%
of the land, mapped on OpenStreetMap
Compared town: 13%
Footpaths
48 km
2.2 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: Forêt du Val
Throughout this page, the Meuse 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 Ancerville?
Read from the data: what stands out first, good and less good.
A wooded commune51% mapped woodland, more than in 92% of compared French towns, against 13% for the median compared town.Protected land nearbyForêt de Trois-Fontaines (Natura 2000) is 6.9 km from the town center.
What sets Ancerville apart: its woods, then protected land close by.
Against French towns
How Ancerville 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
Woodland51%Share of the land mapped as forest or woods on OpenStreetMap
92out of 100
Footpaths2.2 km per km²Km of mapped footpath and track open on foot, per km² of the commune
62out 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
Ancerville has the 5th most footpaths per km² of 41 towns its size
The 40 compared French towns nearest in population (2,540 to 2,599 residents), by km of footpath per km². Hover for each one’s protected land and woods; click for its page.
From École-Valentin (3.9 km per km²) to Cauchy-à-la-Tour (0.1 km per km²).
Every town in the comparison
| Town | Paths (km/km²) | Woodland | Protected | Coast | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | École-Valentin Doubs | 3.9 | 16% | 0% | 405 km |
| 2 | Josselin Morbihan | 3.7 | 15% | 0% | 36 km |
| 3 | Mers-les-Bains Somme | 3.5 | 10% | 100% | On it |
| 4 | Villejust Essonne | 2.4 | 4.4% | 0% | 160 km |
| 5 | Ancerville Meuse | 2.2 | 51% | 0% | 297 km |
| 6 | Sainte-Feyre Creuse | 2.1 | 30% | 0% | 222 km |
| 7 | Tourville-la-Rivière Seine-Maritime | 2 | 15% | 15% | 55 km |
| 8 | Camiers Pas-de-Calais | 2 | 30% | 32% | On it |
| 9 | Sain-Bel Rhône | 1.9 | 12% | 0% | 253 km |
| 10 | Entzheim Bas-Rhin | 1.7 | 1.5% | 0% | 449 km |
| 11 | Damparis Jura | 1.6 | 35% | 0% | 401 km |
| 12 | Hardricourt Yvelines | 1.6 | 15% | 0.4% | 118 km |
| 13 | Longueil-Annel Oise | 1.5 | 21% | 0% | 116 km |
| 14 | Mornas Vaucluse | 1.5 | 35% | 5% | 84 km |
| 15 | Le Palais Morbihan | 1.5 | 5% | 26% | On it |
| 16 | Saint-Jean-du-Gard Gard | 1.4 | 84% | 100% | 62 km |
| 17 | Watten Nord | 1.4 | 24% | 100% | 18 km |
| 18 | Beautor Aisne | 1.3 | 3.6% | 40% | 133 km |
| 19 | Cattenom Moselle | 1.1 | 37% | 0% | 308 km |
| 20 | Pîtres Eure | 0.9 | 47% | 0.2% | 64 km |
| 21 | Villages du Lac de Paladru Isère | 0.8 | 21% | 0% | 230 km |
| 22 | Arelaune-en-Seine Seine-Maritime | 0.7 | 69% | 100% | 29 km |
| 23 | La Croix-en-Touraine Indre-et-Loire | 0.7 | 24% | 0% | 199 km |
| 24 | Lusignan Vienne | 0.7 | 17% | 0% | 97 km |
| 25 | Avelin Nord | 0.6 | 6.1% | 0% | 72 km |
| 26 | Le Cailar Gard | 0.4 | 2% | 68% | 17 km |
| 27 | Xertigny Vosges | 0.4 | 42% | 0% | 417 km |
| 28 | Vervins Aisne | 0.4 | 1.1% | 0% | 164 km |
| 29 | Frans Ain | 0.4 | 4% | 0% | 275 km |
| 30 | Baldersheim Haut-Rhin | 0.4 | 63% | 60% | 446 km |
| 31 | Toucy Yonne | 0.4 | 24% | 0% | 288 km |
| 32 | Saint-Yzan-de-Soudiac Gironde | 0.3 | 13% | 3% | 19 km |
| 33 | Charly-sur-Marne Aisne | 0.3 | 21% | 0% | 177 km |
| 34 | Semussac Charente-Maritime | 0.3 | 3.8% | 6.9% | 5.1 km |
| 35 | Auxi-le-Château Pas-de-Calais | 0.3 | 25% | 1% | 31 km |
| 36 | Vivy Maine-et-Loire | 0.3 | 15% | 100% | 140 km |
| 37 | Nogent-sur-Vernisson Loiret | 0.2 | 46% | 0.3% | 249 km |
| 38 | Eymet Dordogne | 0.2 | 8.6% | 0.4% | 86 km |
| 39 | Athies-sous-Laon Aisne | 0.2 | 8.9% | 0% | 159 km |
| 40 | Noyen-sur-Sarthe Sarthe | 0.1 | 28% | 0% | 126 km |
| 41 | Cauchy-à-la-Tour Pas-de-Calais | 0.1 | 0.4% | 0% | 54 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 Ancerville
Named parks, gardens and woods in the commune or within 400 m, the biggest and best-pathed first: Forêt du Val leads, at 6,061 ha. Directions go to a point inside.
Source: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL): named parks, gardens and woods; sizes are the whole site.
Protected areas
Forêt de Trois-Fontaines is the nearest protected area, 6.9 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
Forêt de Trois-Fontaines
6.9 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
48 km of footpaths cross Ancerville
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
48 km
2.2 km per km²
Hiking routes
0 km
waymarked: 0 km per km²
Woodland
51%
about 10.8 km² of mapped woods
Km per km² of the commune · mapped on OpenStreetMap
AncervilleMeuse medianFrance median
Footpaths2.2
Hiking routes0
01.53 km per km²
Share of the land · mapped woods and forest
AncervilleMeuse medianFrance median
Woodland51%
0%50%100%
That is more than in 62% of compared French towns for footpaths per km², and for woodland more 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. Every home in Ancerville is within 800 m of a mapped park or wood, as in most French towns.
A named hiking route within 2 km
Other named walk
PR984.9 km
Source: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL), extracts of October 25, 2026 (Geofabrik).
When to get out
The best walking months in Ancerville: April to September
Météo-France’s 1991–2020 normals at St-Dizier, 8.6 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) | 8.7 | 10.1 | 11.7 | 13.6 | 15.2 | 16.1 | 15.7 | 14.3 | 12.5 | 10.7 | 9.1 | 8.3 |
| High (°C) | 7 | 8 | 12 | 16 | 20 | 24 | 26 | 26 | 21 | 16 | 10 | 7 |
| Rain (mm) | 63 | 61 | 60 | 55 | 68 | 58 | 70 | 65 | 71 | 75 | 71 | 79 |
April is the driest month (55 mm) and July the warmest (highs of 26 °C). 79 mm of rain falls in December, the wettest month. Frost comes on about 54 nights a year. The climate in Ancerville →
Neighbors
Next to Ancerville
The nearest towns of 2,500 or more, colored by the share of their land in protected areas.
Saint-DizierWassyBar-le-DucJoinvilleLigny-en-BarroisAncerville
Under 1%1–10 %10–25 %25–50 %50 %+
| Town | Protected | Woodland | Paths (km/km²) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ancerville | 0% | 51% | 2.2 |
| Saint-Dizier 22,858 · 4.5 km | 0% | 47% | 2.1 |
| Wassy 2,771 · 16 km | 0% | 61% | 0.5 |
| Bar-le-Duc 14,607 · 19 km | 0% | 55% | 3.7 |
| Joinville 2,915 · 23 km | 0% | 61% | 0.7 |
| Ligny-en-Barrois 3,677 · 23 km | 0% | 80% | 2.7 |
Ligny-en-Barrois is 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 Ancerville
Is Ancerville in a national or regional nature park?
No. The nearest protected area is Forêt de Trois-Fontaines, 6.9 km from the town center.
Are there good walks in Ancerville?
OpenStreetMap maps 48 km of footpaths and tracks open on foot in the commune, 2.2 km per km² (the median compared town: 1.7 km per km²).
How much of Ancerville is woodland?
51% of the commune is mapped woodland, private woods included; the median compared French town has 13%.
Is Ancerville near the sea?
No: the coast is 297 km from the town center, as the crow flies.
When is the best time for walking in Ancerville?
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.