First pick
Parc de la Bisten
Park or garden
21 ha3 km of path
40 minto walk all 3 km of path
0.9 km south-westfrom the center
Tour du lac
Directionsto a point inside
Photo: Benoît Stella · CC BY-SA 3.057%woodland
Outdoors in Creutzwald · protected areas, woods and footpaths
57% of Creutzwald is woodland, more than in 9 in 10 French towns
Creutzwald has 23 km of waymarked hiking routes. 65 km of footpaths cross Creutzwald (2.4 km per km²). No protected area reaches Creutzwald; the nearest, Mines du Warndt (Natura 2000), is 4.7 km from the town center. 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: Mines du Warndt, 4.7 km
Woodland
57%
of the land, mapped on OpenStreetMap
Compared town: 13%
Footpaths
65 km
2.4 km per km²
Compared town: 1.7 km per km²
Hiking routes
23 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: Parc de la Bisten
Throughout this page, the Moselle 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 Creutzwald?
Read from the data: what stands out first, good and less good.
A wooded commune57% mapped woodland, more than in 94% of compared French towns, against 13% for the median compared town.On waymarked routes23 km of GR and other hiking routes cross the commune.Protected land nearbyMines du Warndt (Natura 2000) is 4.7 km from the town center.
What sets Creutzwald apart: its woods, then its hiking routes.
Against French towns
How Creutzwald 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
Woodland57%Share of the land mapped as forest or woods on OpenStreetMap
94out of 100
Footpaths2.4 km per km²Km of mapped footpath and track open on foot, per km² of the commune
65out of 100
Hiking routes0.9 km per km²Km of waymarked hiking routes (GR and others), per km² of the commune
79out of 100
Percentiles among compared French towns; ties count half.
Towns its size
Creutzwald has the 19th most footpaths per km² of 41 towns its size
The 40 compared French towns nearest in population (11,993 to 12,510 residents), by km of footpath per km². Hover for each one’s protected land and woods; click for its page.
From La Queue-en-Brie (6.3 km per km²) to Saint-Gaudens (0.4 km per km²).
Every town in the comparison
| Town | Paths (km/km²) | Woodland | Protected | Coast | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | La Queue-en-Brie Val-de-Marne | 6.3 | 47% | 0% | 165 km |
| 2 | Saint-Cyprien Pyrénées-Orientales | 6.1 | 0.4% | 3% | On it |
| 3 | Ferney-Voltaire Ain | 5.2 | 20% | 0% | 296 km |
| 4 | L'Isle-Adam Val-d'Oise | 5.2 | 60% | 0.2% | 121 km |
| 5 | Riedisheim Haut-Rhin | 4.4 | 29% | 0% | 440 km |
| 6 | Roquebrune-Cap-Martin Alpes-Maritimes | 4.3 | 23% | 36% | On it |
| 7 | Harnes Pas-de-Calais | 4.2 | 7.3% | 0% | 75 km |
| 8 | Saint-Pierre-du-Perray Essonne | 4.2 | 25% | 0% | 178 km |
| 9 | Saint-Avé Morbihan | 3.7 | 24% | 97% | 4.5 km |
| 10 | Granville Manche | 3.6 | 1.3% | 7.2% | On it |
| 11 | Oissel-sur-Seine Seine-Maritime | 3.5 | 48% | 3.9% | 54 km |
| 12 | Bully-les-Mines Pas-de-Calais | 3.4 | 3.1% | 0% | 71 km |
| 13 | Raismes Nord | 3.2 | 71% | 100% | 100 km |
| 14 | Triel-sur-Seine Yvelines | 2.8 | 34% | 0% | 124 km |
| 15 | Le Chambon-Feugerolles Loire | 2.8 | 43% | 0.1% | 205 km |
| 16 | Cogolin Var | 2.7 | 46% | 0% | On it |
| 17 | Craponne Rhône | 2.7 | 12% | 0% | 248 km |
| 18 | Septèmes-les-Vallons Bouches-du-Rhône | 2.5 | 49% | 20% | 5.5 km |
| 19 | Creutzwald Moselle | 2.4 | 57% | 0% | 348 km |
| 20 | Quimperlé Finistère | 2.4 | 24% | 3.9% | 9.2 km |
| 21 | Mende Lozère | 2.4 | 54% | 0% | 115 km |
| 22 | Marly Nord | 2.3 | 1.5% | 0% | 107 km |
| 23 | Sarrebourg Moselle | 2.3 | 17% | 0% | 403 km |
| 24 | Guidel Morbihan | 2.3 | 23% | 7.8% | On it |
| 25 | Barentin Seine-Maritime | 2.2 | 11% | 0% | 38 km |
| 26 | La Motte-Servolex Savoie | 2.1 | 41% | 0% | 238 km |
| 27 | Brignais Rhône | 2 | 14% | 0% | 241 km |
| 28 | Pont-Sainte-Maxence Oise | 1.8 | 47% | 99% | 118 km |
| 29 | Onet-le-Château Aveyron | 1.7 | 2.3% | 1.4% | 137 km |
| 30 | Aubenas Ardèche | 1.6 | 6.8% | 18% | 120 km |
| 31 | Vernouillet Eure-et-Loir | 1.5 | 9.6% | 0% | 107 km |
| 32 | Châteaubriant Loire-Atlantique | 1.5 | 9.1% | 0% | 76 km |
| 33 | Cernay Haut-Rhin | 1.4 | 26% | 0.1% | 448 km |
| 34 | Pont-du-Château Puy-de-Dôme | 1.2 | 8.9% | 9.7% | 257 km |
| 35 | Bischwiller Bas-Rhin | 1.2 | 7.2% | 0% | 443 km |
| 36 | Sablé-sur-Sarthe Sarthe | 1 | 12% | 0% | 116 km |
| 37 | Gisors Eure | 0.9 | 34% | 0% | 87 km |
| 38 | Florange Moselle | 0.9 | 24% | 0% | 309 km |
| 39 | Mios Gironde | 0.8 | 81% | 100% | 9.9 km |
| 40 | Castelnaudary Aude | 0.4 | 2% | 0% | 96 km |
| 41 | Saint-Gaudens Haute-Garonne | 0.4 | 9.3% | 3.9% | 186 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 Creutzwald
Named parks, gardens and woods in the commune or within 400 m, the biggest and best-pathed first: Parc de la Bisten leads, at 21 ha. Directions go to a point inside.
Source: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL): named parks, gardens and woods; sizes are the whole site.
Protected areas
Mines du Warndt 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.
Natura 2000 site
Mines du Warndt
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.
Source: INPN / PatriNat, protected areas July 2026, Natura 2000 December 2024; shares of IGN’s commune boundary.
Footpaths and woods
65 km of footpaths and 23 km of hiking routes cross Creutzwald
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
65 km
2.4 km per km²
Hiking routes
23 km
waymarked: 0.9 km per km²
Woodland
57%
about 15.3 km² of mapped woods
Km per km² of the commune · mapped on OpenStreetMap
CreutzwaldMoselle medianFrance median
Footpaths2.4
Hiking routes0.9
01.53 km per km²
Share of the land · mapped woods and forest
CreutzwaldMoselle medianFrance median
Woodland57%
0%50%100%
That is more than in 65% of compared French towns for footpaths per km², and for woodland more than in 94% 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 Creutzwald is within 800 m of a mapped park or wood, as in most French towns.
8 named hiking routes within 2 km
Other named walk
Circuit la foret de la Houve10 km
Circuit Etangs et Lacs8.7 km
Circuit le chemin du Mineur7.1 km
Circuit l'ancien Tramway6.4 km
Circuit les marais du Warndt4.6 km
Sentier des Huguenots - Huguenottenweg3.8 km
Saarwanderweg / Sentier de la Sarre2.5 km
Circuit Historique2.4 km
Source: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL), extracts of October 25, 2026 (Geofabrik).
When to get out
The best walking months in Creutzwald: April to September
Météo-France’s 1991–2020 normals at Aeroport Metz-Nancy-Lorraine, 41 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) | 8.6 | 10.1 | 11.7 | 13.7 | 15.3 | 16.2 | 15.8 | 14.4 | 12.5 | 10.7 | 9.0 | 8.2 |
| High (°C) | 5 | 7 | 11 | 15 | 19 | 23 | 25 | 25 | 20 | 15 | 9 | 5 |
| Rain (mm) | 53 | 48 | 47 | 40 | 64 | 57 | 64 | 60 | 59 | 61 | 60 | 67 |
April is the driest month (40 mm) and July the warmest (highs of 25 °C). 67 mm of rain falls in December, the wettest month. Frost comes on about 62 nights a year. The climate in Creutzwald →
Neighbors
Next to Creutzwald
The nearest towns of 2,500 or more, colored by the share of their land in protected areas.
Ham-sous-VarsbergCarlingL'HôpitalHombourg-HautFreyming-MerlebachSaint-AvoldCreutzwald
Under 1%1–10 %10–25 %25–50 %50 %+
| Town | Protected | Woodland | Paths (km/km²) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Creutzwald | 0% | 57% | 2.4 |
| Ham-sous-Varsberg 2,888 · 3.6 km | 0% | 30% | 3.6 |
| Carling 3,291 · 4.2 km | 0% | 11% | 0.9 |
| L'Hôpital 5,183 · 5.5 km | 0.3% | 18% | 1.6 |
| Hombourg-Haut 5,976 · 9.8 km | 0% | 48% | 1.9 |
| Freyming-Merlebach 13,266 · 10 km | 0% | 19% | 4.1 |
| Saint-Avold 14,755 · 10 km | 2.9% | 53% | 2.5 |
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 Creutzwald
Is Creutzwald in a national or regional nature park?
No. The nearest protected area is Mines du Warndt, 4.7 km from the town center.
Are there good walks in Creutzwald?
OpenStreetMap maps 65 km of footpaths and tracks open on foot in the commune, 2.4 km per km² (the median compared town: 1.7 km per km²); 23 km of waymarked hiking routes cross it.
How much of Creutzwald is woodland?
57% of the commune is mapped woodland, private woods included; the median compared French town has 13%.
Is Creutzwald near the sea?
No: the coast is 348 km from the town center, as the crow flies.
When is the best time for walking in Creutzwald?
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.