First pick
Bois de Botségalo
Wood or forest
1,902 ha66.4 km of path
14 h 45 minto walk all 66.4 km of path
5.9 km northfrom the center
Ligne de la Barrière de VannesLigne de la Belle FontaineLigne de Kervéno+1 path
Directionsto a point inside
Photo: Fab5669 · CC BY-SA 4.017%woodland
Outdoors in Grand-Champ · protected areas, woods and footpaths
Parks, woods and footpaths in Grand-Champ
No protected area reaches Grand-Champ; the nearest, Golfe du Morbihan Regional Nature Park, is 4.7 km from the town center. Footpaths add up to 61 km across Grand-Champ (0.9 km per km²). Mapped woodland covers 17% of Grand-Champ. 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: Golfe du Morbihan Regional Nature Park, 4.7 km
Woodland
17%
of the land, mapped on OpenStreetMap
Compared town: 13%
Footpaths
61 km
0.9 km per km²
Compared town: 1.7 km per km²
Hiking routes
18 km
waymarked, GR and others
Compared town: 0.3 km per km²
Green space nearby
92%
of residents within 800 m of a park or wood
Compared town: 100%
The sea
11 km
from the town center to the coast
Throughout this page, the Morbihan 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 Grand-Champ 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
47out of 100
Woodland17%Share of the land mapped as forest or woods on OpenStreetMap
58out of 100
Footpaths0.9 km per km²Km of mapped footpath and track open on foot, per km² of the commune
29out of 100
Hiking routes0.3 km per km²Km of waymarked hiking routes (GR and others), per km² of the commune
43out of 100
Green space nearby92%Share of residents within 800 m of a mapped park or wood
10out of 100
Percentiles among compared French towns; ties count half.
Towns its size
Grand-Champ has the 13th fewest footpaths per km² of 41 towns its size
The 40 compared French towns nearest in population (5,865 to 5,988 residents), by km of footpath per km². Hover for each one’s protected land and woods; click for its page.
From Ablon-sur-Seine (5.8 km per km²) to Lesparre-Médoc (0.1 km per km²).
Every town in the comparison
| Town | Paths (km/km²) | Woodland | Protected | Coast | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Ablon-sur-Seine Val-de-Marne | 5.8 | 6.2% | 0% | 165 km |
| 2 | Grand-Charmont Doubs | 5.8 | 39% | 0% | 420 km |
| 3 | Saint-Arnoult-en-Yvelines Yvelines | 3.7 | 50% | 0.1% | 150 km |
| 4 | Villennes-sur-Seine Yvelines | 3.7 | 17% | 0% | 128 km |
| 5 | Fleury-sur-Orne Calvados | 3.6 | 3.3% | 0% | 17 km |
| 6 | Saintry-sur-Seine Essonne | 3.1 | 21% | 0% | 180 km |
| 7 | Douvrin Pas-de-Calais | 3.1 | 8.1% | 0% | 67 km |
| 8 | Tain-l'Hermitage Drôme | 3.1 | 0.9% | 0% | 179 km |
| 9 | Roost-Warendin Nord | 2.9 | 22% | 7.5% | 85 km |
| 10 | Saint-Zacharie Var | 2.7 | 42% | 100% | 22 km |
| 11 | Riantec Morbihan | 2.6 | 27% | 7% | On it |
| 12 | Quiévrechain Nord | 2.5 | 13% | 97% | 107 km |
| 13 | Raon-l'Étape Vosges | 2.4 | 69% | 2% | 421 km |
| 14 | Lavelanet Ariège | 2 | 40% | 0% | 97 km |
| 15 | Marnaz Haute-Savoie | 2 | 51% | 9.8% | 265 km |
| 16 | Saint-Pierre-d'Irube Pyrénées-Atlantiques | 2 | 27% | 13% | 8.6 km |
| 17 | Benfeld Bas-Rhin | 2 | 24% | 20% | 460 km |
| 18 | Eschau Bas-Rhin | 2 | 11% | 19% | 457 km |
| 19 | Hombourg-Haut Moselle | 1.9 | 48% | 0% | 357 km |
| 20 | Ciboure Pyrénées-Atlantiques | 1.8 | 30% | 16% | On it |
| 21 | Sains-en-Gohelle Pas-de-Calais | 1.7 | 1.5% | 0% | 70 km |
| 22 | Le Puy-Sainte-Réparade Bouches-du-Rhône | 1.7 | 26% | 5.4% | 34 km |
| 23 | Saint-André-de-la-Roche Alpes-Maritimes | 1.6 | 28% | 0% | 4.4 km |
| 24 | Fontenilles Haute-Garonne | 1.4 | 13% | 0% | 163 km |
| 25 | Loon-Plage Nord | 1.3 | 2.6% | 0.2% | On it |
| 26 | Vias Hérault | 1.3 | 5.5% | 44% | On it |
| 27 | Naintré Vienne | 1.1 | 33% | 0% | 134 km |
| 28 | Aixe-sur-Vienne Haute-Vienne | 1 | 12% | 0% | 153 km |
| 29 | Grand-Champ Morbihan | 0.9 | 17% | 0% | 11 km |
| 30 | Montdidier Somme | 0.8 | 5.3% | 0% | 87 km |
| 31 | Blanzy Saône-et-Loire | 0.8 | 17% | 0% | 349 km |
| 32 | Condé-en-Normandie Calvados | 0.7 | 8.1% | 18% | 52 km |
| 33 | Corbie Somme | 0.6 | 16% | 4.5% | 66 km |
| 34 | Aubignan Vaucluse | 0.5 | 3.8% | 42% | 73 km |
| 35 | Bellevigne-en-Layon Maine-et-Loire | 0.4 | 14% | 0.1% | 113 km |
| 36 | Bricquebec-en-Cotentin Manche | 0.4 | 13% | 0% | 13 km |
| 37 | Nègrepelisse Tarn-et-Garonne | 0.2 | 13% | 1% | 167 km |
| 38 | Montpon-Ménestérol Dordogne | 0.2 | 37% | 12% | 59 km |
| 39 | Saint-Denis-de-Pile Gironde | 0.2 | 11% | 14% | 31 km |
| 40 | Rabastens Tarn | 0.2 | 4.3% | 0.1% | 139 km |
| 41 | Lesparre-Médoc Gironde | 0.1 | 58% | 100% | 11 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 Grand-Champ
Named parks, gardens and woods in the commune or within 400 m, the biggest and best-pathed first: Bois de Botségalo leads, at 1,902 ha. Directions go to a point inside.
Bois de Ménessal
Wood or forest
58 ha1.2 km of path
15 minto walk all 1.2 km of path
5.9 km south-eastfrom the center
Tour du bourg
Directionsto a point inside
Parc du Ti Kreiz Ker
Park or garden
0.5 ha0.1 km of path
Centralin the middle of Grand-Champ
Directionsto 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 Grand-Champ 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).
92% within 800 m7.6% further
Residents within 800 m of green space · share of residents
Grand-ChampMorbihan medianFrance median
Within 800 m92%
0%50%100%
About 400 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
Golfe du Morbihan Regional Nature Park is the nearest protected area, 4.7 km away
The protected areas reaching the commune, and the nearest: national parks, regional nature parks, nature reserves and Natura 2000 sites.
Regional nature park
Golfe du Morbihan Regional Nature Park
4.7 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.
A regional nature park is a charter between communes to look after a landscape: farming, building and hunting go on inside it.
Source: INPN / PatriNat, protected areas July 2026, Natura 2000 December 2024; shares of IGN’s commune boundary.
Footpaths and woods
61 km of footpaths and 18 km of hiking routes cross Grand-Champ
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
61 km
0.9 km per km²
Hiking routes
18 km
waymarked: 0.3 km per km²
Woodland
17%
about 11.5 km² of mapped woods
Km per km² of the commune · mapped on OpenStreetMap
Grand-ChampMorbihan medianFrance median
Footpaths0.9
Hiking routes0.3
012 km per km²
Share of the land · mapped woods and forest
Grand-ChampMorbihan medianFrance median
Woodland17%
0%50%100%
That is less than in 71% of compared French towns for footpaths per km², and for woodland more than in 58% of compared French towns. Hiking routes often follow paths and lanes already counted, so the two lengths overlap: don’t add them.
7 named hiking routes within 2 km
GR (long-distance)Other named walk
GR 3814 km
Circuit Tro Gregam13 km
Circuit des sources8.6 km
Circuit Etang de la Forêt6.7 km
Circuit de Locmaria-Grand-Champ6.6 km
Tour du bourg de Plescop5.8 km
Les Trois clochers2.7 km
GR 38 passes within 2 km of Grand-Champ.
Source: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL), extracts of October 25, 2026 (Geofabrik).
When to get out
The best walking months in Grand-Champ: April to September
Météo-France’s 1991–2020 normals at Bignan, 17 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 | 11.8 | 13.6 | 15.1 | 16.0 | 15.6 | 14.3 | 12.5 | 10.7 | 9.2 | 8.4 |
| High (°C) | 9 | 10 | 12 | 15 | 19 | 22 | 24 | 23 | 21 | 17 | 12 | 10 |
| Rain (mm) | 115 | 83 | 75 | 78 | 66 | 58 | 52 | 61 | 56 | 114 | 111 | 127 |
July is the driest month (52 mm) and the warmest (highs of 24 °C). 127 mm of rain falls in December, the wettest month. Frost comes on about 32 nights a year. The climate in Grand-Champ →
Neighbors
Next to Grand-Champ
The nearest towns of 2,500 or more, colored by the share of their land in protected areas.
PlumergatPlescopSainte-Anne-d'AuraySaint-AvéPloerenPluneretGrand-Champ
Under 1%1–10 %10–25 %25–50 %50 %+
Plescop, Sainte-Anne-d'Auray and Saint-Avé 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 Grand-Champ
Is Grand-Champ in a national or regional nature park?
No. The nearest protected area is Golfe du Morbihan Regional Nature Park, 4.7 km from the town center.
Are there good walks in Grand-Champ?
OpenStreetMap maps 61 km of footpaths and tracks open on foot in the commune, 0.9 km per km² (the median compared town: 1.7 km per km²); 18 km of waymarked hiking routes cross it.
How much of Grand-Champ is woodland?
17% of the commune is mapped woodland, private woods included; the median compared French town has 13%.
Is Grand-Champ near the sea?
No: the coast is 11 km from the town center, as the crow flies.
When is the best time for walking in Grand-Champ?
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.