First pick
enclo des chevres
Park or garden · 0 m outside the commune
0.7 ha
5.2 km north-eastfrom the center
Directionsto a point inside
Photo: Sixt 35 Ludovic NICOLAS · CC BY-SA 3.04.9%of the land protected
Outdoors in La Gacilly · protected areas, woods and footpaths
Almost every home in La Gacilly is within 800 m of a park or wood
27% of La Gacilly is mapped woodland. La Gacilly has 24 km of waymarked hiking routes. Footpaths add up to 43 km across La Gacilly (1.1 km per km²). France has no Outdoors Grade yet: these are the figures, each beside the compared towns’ median.
Protected areas
4.9%
of the commune’s land
Compared town: 0.1%
Woodland
27%
of the land, mapped on OpenStreetMap
Compared town: 13%
Footpaths
43 km
1.1 km per km²
Compared town: 1.7 km per km²
Hiking routes
24 km
waymarked, GR and others
Compared town: 0.3 km per km²
Parks & woods
2
named, in or within 400 m of the commune
First: enclo des chevres
The sea
34 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 La Gacilly 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 areas4.9%Share of the land in a national park, regional nature park, nature reserve or Natura 2000 site
65out of 100
Woodland27%Share of the land mapped as forest or woods on OpenStreetMap
73out of 100
Footpaths1.1 km per km²Km of mapped footpath and track open on foot, per km² of the commune
36out of 100
Hiking routes0.6 km per km²Km of waymarked hiking routes (GR and others), per km² of the commune
68out of 100
Percentiles among compared French towns; ties count half.
Towns its size
La Gacilly has the 21st fewest footpaths per km² of 41 towns its size
The 40 compared French towns nearest in population (3,972 to 4,018 residents), by km of footpath per km². Hover for each one’s protected land and woods; click for its page.
From Vaux-sur-Mer (5.3 km per km²) to Grand Bourgtheroulde (0.3 km per km²).
Every town in the comparison
| Town | Paths (km/km²) | Woodland | Protected | Coast | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Vaux-sur-Mer Charente-Maritime | 5.3 | 10% | 0.2% | On it |
| 2 | Port-Vendres Pyrénées-Orientales | 3.2 | 0.8% | 18% | On it |
| 3 | Presles Val-d'Oise | 3.1 | 47% | 100% | 124 km |
| 4 | Neuville-Saint-Rémy Nord | 3 | 4% | 0% | 109 km |
| 5 | Limonest Rhône | 3 | 30% | 0% | 258 km |
| 6 | Vaulnaveys-le-Haut Isère | 2.2 | 67% | 0% | 195 km |
| 7 | Erdeven Morbihan | 2.1 | 14% | 22% | On it |
| 8 | Pujaut Gard | 2 | 10% | 0% | 62 km |
| 9 | Pléneuf-Val-André Côtes-d'Armor | 1.8 | 10% | 2.6% | On it |
| 10 | Oberhoffen-sur-Moder Bas-Rhin | 1.7 | 25% | 11% | 442 km |
| 11 | Rives-en-Seine Seine-Maritime | 1.4 | 42% | 100% | 28 km |
| 12 | Avesnes-sur-Helpe Nord | 1.4 | 1.7% | 100% | 142 km |
| 13 | Le Plessis-Belleville Oise | 1.4 | 1.5% | 0.1% | 143 km |
| 14 | Porte-de-Savoie Savoie | 1.4 | 18% | 86% | 224 km |
| 15 | Erquy Côtes-d'Armor | 1.4 | 6.8% | 15% | On it |
| 16 | Duclair Seine-Maritime | 1.3 | 8.1% | 100% | 37 km |
| 17 | Boos Seine-Maritime | 1.2 | 21% | 0% | 60 km |
| 18 | Cinq-Mars-la-Pile Indre-et-Loire | 1.2 | 28% | 14% | 167 km |
| 19 | Rousies Nord | 1.2 | 20% | 100% | 132 km |
| 20 | Ingwiller Bas-Rhin | 1.2 | 61% | 100% | 414 km |
| 21 | La Gacilly Morbihan | 1.1 | 27% | 4.9% | 34 km |
| 22 | Fourchambault Nièvre | 1.1 | 16% | 11% | 332 km |
| 23 | Saint-Aignan-Grandlieu Loire-Atlantique | 1.1 | 30% | 19% | 29 km |
| 24 | Cordemais Loire-Atlantique | 1 | 7.6% | 24% | 24 km |
| 25 | Propriano Corse-du-Sud | 1 | 19% | 3.7% | On it |
| 26 | Semur-en-Auxois Côte-d'Or | 0.9 | 21% | 0% | 357 km |
| 27 | Masny Nord | 0.9 | 4% | 0% | 95 km |
| 28 | Cires-lès-Mello Oise | 0.8 | 36% | 0% | 112 km |
| 29 | Sailly-sur-la-Lys Pas-de-Calais | 0.8 | 1.3% | 0.9% | 51 km |
| 30 | Le Bignon Loire-Atlantique | 0.8 | 14% | 0% | 37 km |
| 31 | Gravigny Eure | 0.7 | 47% | 0% | 73 km |
| 32 | Raimbeaucourt Nord | 0.7 | 16% | 99% | 83 km |
| 33 | Villeveyrac Hérault | 0.6 | 7% | 85% | 12 km |
| 34 | La Chapelle-de-Guinchay Saône-et-Loire | 0.5 | 5.5% | 5.6% | 300 km |
| 35 | Le Lude Sarthe | 0.5 | 23% | 7.6% | 157 km |
| 36 | Saint-Fulgent Vendée | 0.5 | 5.8% | 0% | 57 km |
| 37 | Châtelaudren-Plouagat Côtes-d'Armor | 0.5 | 4.2% | 0% | 14 km |
| 38 | Les Villages Vovéens Eure-et-Loir | 0.4 | 7.4% | 5% | 159 km |
| 39 | Poligny Jura | 0.4 | 77% | 0.1% | 368 km |
| 40 | Layrac Lot-et-Garonne | 0.3 | 21% | 0.9% | 139 km |
| 41 | Grand Bourgtheroulde Eure | 0.3 | 4.2% | 0% | 40 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 La Gacilly
Named parks, gardens and woods in the commune or within 400 m, the biggest and best-pathed first: enclo des chevres leads, at 0.7 ha. Directions go to a point inside.
Source: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL): named parks, gardens and woods; sizes are the whole site.
Protected areas
4.9% of La Gacilly 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
Marais de Vilaine
4.9% of the commune0.7 km from the center
Share of the commune’s land
Any protected area4.9%
Natura 2000 site4.9%
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.
4.9% of La Gacilly’s land is protected, more than in 65% of compared French towns; the median compared town in Morbihan has 4.4%.
Source: INPN / PatriNat, protected areas July 2026, Natura 2000 December 2024; shares of IGN’s commune boundary.
Footpaths and woods
43 km of footpaths and 24 km of hiking routes cross La Gacilly
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
43 km
1.1 km per km²
Hiking routes
24 km
waymarked: 0.6 km per km²
Woodland
27%
about 10.4 km² of mapped woods
Km per km² of the commune · mapped on OpenStreetMap
La GacillyMorbihan medianFrance median
Footpaths1.1
Hiking routes0.6
012 km per km²
Share of the land · mapped woods and forest
La GacillyMorbihan medianFrance median
Woodland27%
0%50%100%
That is less than in 64% of compared French towns for footpaths per km², and for woodland more than in 73% of compared French towns. Hiking routes often follow paths and lanes already counted, so the two lengths overlap: don’t add them. 98% of La Gacilly’s residents live within 800 m of a mapped park or wood, close to the typical town.
7 named hiking routes within 2 km
GR (long-distance)Other named walk
GR 34715 km
GR 388.3 km
Les Landes-de-Couesme20 km
Circuit des Landes10 km
Circuit des Collines10 km
Circuit de l'écluse de la Maclais6.4 km
Circuit «Du granit aux ajoncs»2.6 km
2 GR routes pass within 2 km of La Gacilly: GR 347 and GR 38.
Source: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL), extracts of October 25, 2026 (Geofabrik).
When to get out
The best walking months in La Gacilly: April to September
Météo-France’s 1991–2020 normals at St-Jacut-Les-Pins, 11 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 | 13 | 16 | 19 | 23 | 25 | 25 | 22 | 17 | 13 | 10 |
| Rain (mm) | 114 | 83 | 67 | 71 | 63 | 52 | 48 | 53 | 69 | 98 | 106 | 123 |
July is the driest month (48 mm) and August the warmest (highs of 25 °C). 123 mm of rain falls in December, the wettest month. Frost comes on about 32 nights a year. The climate in La Gacilly →
Neighbors
Next to La Gacilly
The nearest towns of 2,500 or more, colored by the share of their land in protected areas.
CarentoirBains-sur-OustRedonAllaireSaint-Nicolas-de-RedonPipriacLa Gacilly
Under 1%1–10 %10–25 %25–50 %50 %+
| Town | Protected | Woodland | Paths (km/km²) | Coast |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| La Gacilly | 4.9% | 27% | 1.1 | 34 km |
| Carentoir 3,232 · 6.3 km | 0% | 20% | 0.5 | 40 km |
| Bains-sur-Oust 3,535 · 7.8 km | 6.9% | 17% | 1.2 | 32 km |
| Redon 9,542 · 12 km | 32% | 10% | 3.8 | 28 km |
| Allaire 3,955 · 14 km | 6.3% | 17% | 1.2 | 22 km |
| Saint-Nicolas-de-Redon 3,311 · 15 km | 31% | 18% | 2.2 | 29 km |
| Pipriac 3,859 · 15 km | 0% | 3.5% | 0 | 48 km |
Redon and Saint-Nicolas-de-Redon 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 La Gacilly
Is La Gacilly in a national or regional nature park?
No, but 4.9% of its land is in a nature reserve or a Natura 2000 site.
Are there good walks in La Gacilly?
OpenStreetMap maps 43 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); 24 km of waymarked hiking routes cross it.
How much of La Gacilly is woodland?
27% of the commune is mapped woodland, private woods included; the median compared French town has 13%.
Is La Gacilly near the sea?
No: the coast is 34 km from the town center, as the crow flies.
When is the best time for walking in La Gacilly?
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 8, 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.