First pick
Bois du Ferron
Wood or forest
70 ha
3.9 km north-eastfrom the center
Directionsto a point inside
Photo: Judemonde · CC BY-SA 4.011%woodland
Outdoors in Mauron · protected areas, woods and footpaths
Parks, woods and footpaths in Mauron
13 km of footpaths cross Mauron (0.2 km per km²). No protected area reaches Mauron; the nearest, Forêt de Paimpont (Natura 2000), is 5.2 km from the town center. Waymarked hiking routes add up to 8 km in Mauron. 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 Paimpont, 5.2 km
Woodland
11%
of the land, mapped on OpenStreetMap
Compared town: 13%
Footpaths
13 km
0.2 km per km²
Compared town: 1.7 km per km²
Hiking routes
7.6 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%
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.
What kind of place
What kind of outdoors place is Mauron?
Read from the data: what stands out first, good and less good.
Protected land nearbyForêt de Paimpont (Natura 2000) is 5.2 km from the town center.Few mapped footpaths0.2 km per km², against 1.7 km per km² for the median compared town.
What sets Mauron apart: protected land close by. It is shorter on footpaths.
Against French towns
How Mauron 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
Woodland11%Share of the land mapped as forest or woods on OpenStreetMap
43out of 100
Footpaths0.2 km per km²Km of mapped footpath and track open on foot, per km² of the commune
3out of 100
Hiking routes0.1 km per km²Km of waymarked hiking routes (GR and others), per km² of the commune
31out 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
Mauron has the 4th fewest footpaths per km² of 41 towns its size
The 40 compared French towns nearest in population (3,143 to 3,183 residents), by km of footpath per km². Hover for each one’s protected land and woods; click for its page.
From Saint-Mammès (3.1 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 | Saint-Mammès Seine-et-Marne | 3.1 | 28% | 1.8% | 212 km |
| 2 | Spicheren Moselle | 3.1 | 39% | 0% | 362 km |
| 3 | Donville-les-Bains Manche | 3.1 | 2.8% | 0% | On it |
| 4 | Voujeaucourt Doubs | 2.5 | 44% | 0% | 414 km |
| 5 | Solaize Rhône | 2.3 | 17% | 0% | 239 km |
| 6 | La Flotte Charente-Maritime | 2.2 | 37% | 1.2% | On it |
| 7 | Saint-Gervais-la-Forêt Loir-et-Cher | 2.2 | 63% | 0% | 220 km |
| 8 | Lissieu Rhône | 2 | 19% | 0% | 260 km |
| 9 | Le Thillot Vosges | 1.6 | 49% | 100% | 451 km |
| 10 | Salomé Nord | 1.6 | 3% | 0% | 65 km |
| 11 | Lozanne Rhône | 1.6 | 17% | 0% | 259 km |
| 12 | Gilly-sur-Isère Savoie | 1.6 | 13% | 0.1% | 228 km |
| 13 | Toussieu Rhône | 1.5 | 6.8% | 0% | 243 km |
| 14 | Chorges Hautes-Alpes | 1.5 | 34% | 16% | 122 km |
| 15 | Saint-Georges-des-Groseillers Orne | 1.4 | 1.8% | 0% | 59 km |
| 16 | Escaudœuvres Nord | 1.1 | 6.3% | 0% | 112 km |
| 17 | Saint-Quentin-la-Poterie Gard | 1.1 | 44% | 0% | 61 km |
| 18 | Breuil-le-Vert Oise | 1 | 31% | 0% | 105 km |
| 19 | Sallèles-d'Aude Aude | 1 | 7.8% | 1.7% | 21 km |
| 20 | Saint-Georges-sur-Baulche Yonne | 1 | 31% | 0% | 296 km |
| 21 | Ploemel Morbihan | 0.9 | 18% | 0% | 3.3 km |
| 22 | Quarouble Nord | 0.9 | 19% | 100% | 106 km |
| 23 | Camblanes-et-Meynac Gironde | 0.9 | 12% | 2.8% | 28 km |
| 24 | Baraqueville Aveyron | 0.8 | 13% | 0% | 134 km |
| 25 | Échenoz-la-Méline Haute-Saône | 0.7 | 50% | 10% | 435 km |
| 26 | Meschers-sur-Gironde Charente-Maritime | 0.6 | 7.4% | 60% | On it |
| 27 | Imphy Nièvre | 0.6 | 32% | 46% | 343 km |
| 28 | Cossé-le-Vivien Mayenne | 0.5 | 0.6% | 0% | 83 km |
| 29 | Gimont Gers | 0.4 | 6.2% | 0% | 184 km |
| 30 | Château-Landon Seine-et-Marne | 0.4 | 13% | 0.2% | 224 km |
| 31 | Berlaimont Nord | 0.3 | 7.2% | 100% | 130 km |
| 32 | Longperrier Seine-et-Marne | 0.3 | 16% | 0% | 144 km |
| 33 | Sainte-Bazeille Lot-et-Garonne | 0.3 | 12% | 5.5% | 76 km |
| 34 | Saint-Seurin-sur-l'Isle Gironde | 0.2 | 14% | 16% | 46 km |
| 35 | Médis Charente-Maritime | 0.2 | 9.4% | 0.6% | 5.1 km |
| 36 | Thierville-sur-Meuse Meuse | 0.2 | 6% | 2.4% | 288 km |
| 37 | Mirepoix Ariège | 0.2 | 34% | 5.4% | 97 km |
| 38 | Mauron Morbihan | 0.2 | 11% | 0% | 51 km |
| 39 | Tartas Landes | 0.2 | 11% | 3.1% | 47 km |
| 40 | La Guerche-sur-l'Aubois Cher | 0.1 | 22% | 0% | 321 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 Mauron
Named parks, gardens and woods in the commune or within 400 m, the biggest and best-pathed first: Bois du Ferron leads, at 70 ha. Directions go to a point inside.
Parc de la Folie
Park or garden
9.8 ha1.9 km of path
25 minto walk all 1.9 km of path
1.2 km eastfrom the center
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 Mauron 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
MauronMorbihan medianFrance median
Within 800 m92%
0%50%100%
About 200 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
Forêt de Paimpont is the nearest protected area, 5.2 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 Paimpont
5.2 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
13 km of footpaths and 8 km of hiking routes cross Mauron
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
13 km
0.2 km per km²
Hiking routes
7.6 km
waymarked: 0.1 km per km²
Woodland
11%
about 7.2 km² of mapped woods
Km per km² of the commune · mapped on OpenStreetMap
MauronMorbihan medianFrance median
Footpaths0.2
Hiking routes0.1
012 km per km²
Share of the land · mapped woods and forest
MauronMorbihan medianFrance median
Woodland11%
0%50%100%
That is less than in 97% of compared French towns for footpaths per km², and for woodland less than in 57% of compared French towns. Hiking routes often follow paths and lanes already counted, so the two lengths overlap: don’t add them.
3 named hiking routes within 2 km
Other named walk
La Porte du Ciel11 km
Autour du Jardin aux Moines7.4 km
Tour de Brocéliande, partie nord6.4 km
Source: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL), extracts of October 25, 2026 (Geofabrik).
When to get out
The best walking months in Mauron: April to September
Météo-France’s 1991–2020 normals at Ploermel, 16 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) | 9 | 10 | 13 | 16 | 19 | 22 | 24 | 24 | 22 | 17 | 12 | 10 |
| Rain (mm) | 84 | 63 | 53 | 58 | 58 | 53 | 40 | 47 | 57 | 81 | 85 | 89 |
July is the driest month (40 mm) and August the warmest (highs of 24 °C). 89 mm of rain falls in December, the wettest month. Frost comes on about 33 nights a year. The climate in Mauron →
Neighbors
Next to Mauron
The nearest towns of 2,500 or more, colored by the share of their land in protected areas.
Saint-Méen-le-GrandMerdrignacPlélan-le-GrandPloërmelIffendicGuerMauron
Under 1%1–10 %10–25 %25–50 %50 %+
| Town | Protected | Woodland | Paths (km/km²) | Coast |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mauron | 0% | 11% | 0.2 | 51 km |
| Saint-Méen-le-Grand 4,653 · 14 km | 0% | 13% | 0.4 | 36 km |
| Merdrignac 3,139 · 15 km | 0% | 32% | 0.2 | 39 km |
| Plélan-le-Grand 4,076 · 17 km | 0.2% | 12% | 0.7 | 55 km |
| Ploërmel 10,163 · 19 km | 0% | 15% | 1.1 | 39 km |
| Iffendic 4,609 · 20 km | 0% | 14% | 1.3 | 41 km |
| Guer 6,208 · 22 km | 0% | 20% | 0.7 | 50 km |
Merdrignac and Guer are 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 Mauron
Is Mauron in a national or regional nature park?
No. The nearest protected area is Forêt de Paimpont, 5.2 km from the town center.
Are there good walks in Mauron?
OpenStreetMap maps 13 km of footpaths and tracks open on foot in the commune, 0.2 km per km² (the median compared town: 1.7 km per km²); 8 km of waymarked hiking routes cross it.
How much of Mauron is woodland?
11% of the commune is mapped woodland, private woods included; the median compared French town has 13%.
Is Mauron near the sea?
No: the coast is 51 km from the town center, as the crow flies.
When is the best time for walking in Mauron?
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 October 30, 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.