First pick
Bois de Ménessal
Wood or forest
58 ha1.2 km of path
15 minto walk all 1.2 km of path
1.9 km northfrom the center
Tour du bourg
Directionsto a point inside
Photo: Clemcloum8 · CC0100%of the land protected
Outdoors in Plescop · protected areas, woods and footpaths
Plescop lies inside Golfe du Morbihan Regional Nature Park
100% of Plescop’s land lies in protected areas. Waymarked hiking routes add up to 16 km in Plescop. Mapped woodland covers 6.3% of Plescop. France has no Outdoors Grade yet: these are the figures, each beside the compared towns’ median.
Protected areas
100%
of the commune’s land
Compared town: 0.1%
Woodland
6.3%
of the land, mapped on OpenStreetMap
Compared town: 13%
Footpaths
42 km
1.8 km per km²
Compared town: 1.7 km per km²
Hiking routes
16 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: Bois de Ménessal
The sea
4.6 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.
What kind of place
What kind of outdoors place is Plescop?
Read from the data: what stands out first, good and less good.
Inside Golfe du Morbihan Regional Nature Park100% of the commune is in the regional nature park.Near the seaThe coast is 4.6 km from the town center.
What sets Plescop apart: the regional nature park around it, then the sea nearby.
Against French towns
How Plescop 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 areas100%Share of the land in a national park, regional nature park, nature reserve or Natura 2000 site
93out of 100
Woodland6.3%Share of the land mapped as forest or woods on OpenStreetMap
28out of 100
Footpaths1.8 km per km²Km of mapped footpath and track open on foot, per km² of the commune
52out of 100
Hiking routes0.7 km per km²Km of waymarked hiking routes (GR and others), per km² of the commune
71out of 100
Percentiles among compared French towns; ties count half.
Towns its size
Plescop has the 18th most footpaths per km² of 41 towns its size
The 40 compared French towns nearest in population (6,285 to 6,427 residents), by km of footpath per km². Hover for each one’s protected land and woods; click for its page.
From La Tronche (9 km per km²) to Auneau-Bleury-Saint-Symphorien (0.3 km per km²).
Every town in the comparison
| Town | Paths (km/km²) | Woodland | Protected | Coast | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | La Tronche Isère | 9 | 46% | 43% | 206 km |
| 2 | Ambilly Haute-Savoie | 6.6 | 1.9% | 0% | 287 km |
| 3 | Nandy Seine-et-Marne | 5.7 | 64% | 0% | 183 km |
| 4 | Le Mesnil-le-Roi Yvelines | 3.9 | 13% | 0% | 133 km |
| 5 | Châtel-Guyon Puy-de-Dôme | 3.5 | 41% | 100% | 273 km |
| 6 | Champagne-au-Mont-d'Or Rhône | 3.3 | 15% | 0% | 255 km |
| 7 | Dompierre-sur-Mer Charente-Maritime | 2.8 | 6.2% | 0% | 7 km |
| 8 | Pont-de-Chéruy Isère | 2.8 | 12% | 0% | 257 km |
| 9 | Thyez Haute-Savoie | 2.7 | 29% | 2.7% | 267 km |
| 10 | Lallaing Nord | 2.7 | 16% | 98% | 89 km |
| 11 | Jœuf Meurthe-et-Moselle | 2.7 | 33% | 0% | 311 km |
| 12 | Louvroil Nord | 2.7 | 5.6% | 0% | 131 km |
| 13 | Saint-Cyr-au-Mont-d'Or Rhône | 2.4 | 21% | 0% | 257 km |
| 14 | Saint-Jorioz Haute-Savoie | 2 | 50% | 100% | 251 km |
| 15 | Avallon Yonne | 1.9 | 45% | 100% | 340 km |
| 16 | Magnanville Yvelines | 1.9 | 17% | 0% | 109 km |
| 17 | Embrun Hautes-Alpes | 1.8 | 37% | 100% | 114 km |
| 18 | Plescop Morbihan | 1.8 | 6.3% | 100% | 4.6 km |
| 19 | Bonchamp-lès-Laval Mayenne | 1.7 | 1.2% | 0% | 79 km |
| 20 | Vaugneray Rhône | 1.5 | 31% | 0% | 246 km |
| 21 | Saint-Rémy Saône-et-Loire | 1.5 | 9.7% | 0% | 361 km |
| 22 | Givet Ardennes | 1.5 | 23% | 100% | 179 km |
| 23 | Milhaud Gard | 1.4 | 30% | 8% | 31 km |
| 24 | Arpajon-sur-Cère Cantal | 1.2 | 24% | 0.2% | 192 km |
| 25 | Vouneuil-sous-Biard Vienne | 1.2 | 28% | 0% | 112 km |
| 26 | Migné-Auxances Vienne | 1.1 | 7.4% | 16% | 116 km |
| 27 | Bréal-sous-Montfort Ille-et-Vilaine | 1.1 | 11% | 0% | 50 km |
| 28 | Esvres Indre-et-Loire | 1 | 31% | 0% | 183 km |
| 29 | Mûrs-Erigné Maine-et-Loire | 1 | 6.9% | 21% | 117 km |
| 30 | Mazan Vaucluse | 1 | 13% | 100% | 70 km |
| 31 | Baud Morbihan | 0.8 | 37% | 0% | 17 km |
| 32 | Saint-Flour Cantal | 0.7 | 10% | 15% | 180 km |
| 33 | Saint-André-de-Sangonis Hérault | 0.7 | 3.2% | 11% | 30 km |
| 34 | Mehun-sur-Yèvre Cher | 0.7 | 7.1% | 0% | 272 km |
| 35 | Bons-en-Chablais Haute-Savoie | 0.7 | 38% | 5.3% | 290 km |
| 36 | Izon Gironde | 0.6 | 5.7% | 49% | 21 km |
| 37 | Combourg Ille-et-Vilaine | 0.5 | 9% | 0% | 19 km |
| 38 | Villemur-sur-Tarn Haute-Garonne | 0.5 | 12% | 1.2% | 156 km |
| 39 | Courthézon Vaucluse | 0.4 | 5.9% | 2.4% | 70 km |
| 40 | Sèvremont Vendée | 0.3 | 5.3% | 0% | 62 km |
| 41 | Auneau-Bleury-Saint-Symphorien Eure-et-Loir | 0.3 | 12% | 1% | 148 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 Plescop
Named parks, gardens and woods in the commune or within 400 m, the biggest and best-pathed first: Bois de Ménessal leads, at 58 ha. Directions go to a point inside.
Source: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL): named parks, gardens and woods; sizes are the whole site.
Protected areas
Protected land in and around Plescop
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
100% of the commune
Share of the commune’s land
Any protected area100%
Regional nature park100%
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.
100% of Plescop’s land is protected, more than in 93% of compared French towns; the median compared town in Morbihan has 4.4%. 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
42 km of footpaths and 16 km of hiking routes cross Plescop
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
42 km
1.8 km per km²
Hiking routes
16 km
waymarked: 0.7 km per km²
Woodland
6.3%
about 1.5 km² of mapped woods
Km per km² of the commune · mapped on OpenStreetMap
PlescopMorbihan medianFrance median
Footpaths1.8
Hiking routes0.7
01.53 km per km²
Share of the land · mapped woods and forest
PlescopMorbihan medianFrance median
Woodland6.3%
0%50%100%
That is more than in 52% of compared French towns for footpaths per km², and for woodland less than in 72% 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 Plescop is within 800 m of a mapped park or wood, as in most French towns.
2 named hiking routes within 2 km
Other named walk
Circuit des sources8.4 km
Tour du bourg de Plescop6.8 km
Source: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL), extracts of October 25, 2026 (Geofabrik).
When to get out
The best walking months in Plescop: April to September
Météo-France’s 1991–2020 normals at St-Ave, 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) | 8.8 | 10.2 | 11.8 | 13.6 | 15.1 | 16.0 | 15.6 | 14.3 | 12.5 | 10.7 | 9.2 | 8.4 |
| High (°C) | 10 | 11 | 14 | 17 | 20 | 23 | 25 | 25 | 22 | 18 | 13 | 11 |
| Rain (mm) | 127 | 91 | 73 | 75 | 66 | 57 | 54 | 58 | 70 | 109 | 120 | 135 |
July is the driest month (54 mm) and the warmest (highs of 25 °C). 135 mm of rain falls in December, the wettest month. Frost comes on about 25 nights a year. The climate in Plescop →
Neighbors
Next to Plescop
The nearest towns of 2,500 or more, colored by the share of their land in protected areas.
PloerenSaint-AvéVannesArradonGrand-ChampPlumergatPlescop
Under 1%1–10 %10–25 %25–50 %50 %+
Saint-Avé 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 Plescop
Is Plescop in a national or regional nature park?
Yes: Plescop lies in Golfe du Morbihan Regional Nature Park (100% of the commune).
Are there good walks in Plescop?
OpenStreetMap maps 42 km of footpaths and tracks open on foot in the commune, 1.8 km per km² (the median compared town: 1.7 km per km²); 16 km of waymarked hiking routes cross it.
How much of Plescop is woodland?
6.3% of the commune is mapped woodland, private woods included; the median compared French town has 13%.
Is Plescop near the sea?
No: the coast is 4.6 km from the town center, as the crow flies.
When is the best time for walking in Plescop?
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.