First pick
Parc Municipal de Forbach
Wood or forest
280 ha5.1 km of path
1 h 10 minto walk all 5.1 km of path
0.9 km south-eastfrom the center
Directionsto a point inside
Photo: Joël Marssy · CC BY-SA 4.043%woodland
Outdoors in Morsbach · protected areas, woods and footpaths
43% of Morsbach is woodland, more than in 8 in 10 French towns
Morsbach has 9 km of waymarked hiking routes. No protected area reaches Morsbach; the nearest, Mines du Warndt (Natura 2000), is 3.9 km from the town center. Footpaths add up to 9 km across Morsbach (1.8 km per km²). 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, 3.9 km
Woodland
43%
of the land, mapped on OpenStreetMap
Compared town: 13%
Footpaths
8.9 km
1.8 km per km²
Compared town: 1.7 km per km²
Hiking routes
8.7 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: Parc Municipal de Forbach
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 Morsbach?
Read from the data: what stands out first, good and less good.
A wooded commune43% mapped woodland, more than in 88% of compared French towns, against 13% for the median compared town.On waymarked routes9 km of GR and other hiking routes cross the commune.Protected land nearbyMines du Warndt (Natura 2000) is 3.9 km from the town center.
What sets Morsbach apart: its woods, then its hiking routes.
Against French towns
How Morsbach 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
Woodland43%Share of the land mapped as forest or woods on OpenStreetMap
88out of 100
Footpaths1.8 km per km²Km of mapped footpath and track open on foot, per km² of the commune
53out of 100
Hiking routes1.7 km per km²Km of waymarked hiking routes (GR and others), per km² of the commune
95out of 100
Percentiles among compared French towns; ties count half.
Towns its size
Morsbach has the 9th most footpaths per km² of 41 towns its size
The 40 compared French towns nearest in population (2,605 to 2,664 residents), by km of footpath per km². Hover for each one’s protected land and woods; click for its page.
From Couzon-au-Mont-d'Or (7.2 km per km²) to Haspres (0.2 km per km²).
Every town in the comparison
| Town | Paths (km/km²) | Woodland | Protected | Coast | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Couzon-au-Mont-d'Or Rhône | 7.2 | 42% | 0% | 261 km |
| 2 | La Richardais Ille-et-Vilaine | 3.4 | 9.9% | 100% | On it |
| 3 | Gometz-le-Châtel Essonne | 2.5 | 24% | 0.2% | 155 km |
| 4 | Morzine Haute-Savoie | 2.4 | 33% | 36% | 274 km |
| 5 | Champlan Essonne | 2.2 | 14% | 0% | 161 km |
| 6 | Dorlisheim Bas-Rhin | 2.1 | 12% | 0% | 442 km |
| 7 | Wahagnies Nord | 1.9 | 30% | 0% | 76 km |
| 8 | Les Vans Ardèche | 1.8 | 46% | 78% | 94 km |
| 9 | Morsbach Moselle | 1.8 | 43% | 0% | 359 km |
| 10 | Coquelles Pas-de-Calais | 1.8 | 1.7% | 0.7% | 2.8 km |
| 11 | Le Bourg-d'Oisans Isère | 1.7 | 33% | 100% | 180 km |
| 12 | Vinassan Aude | 1.7 | 20% | 65% | 9.2 km |
| 13 | Souchez Pas-de-Calais | 1.7 | 9% | 0% | 75 km |
| 14 | Bourguébus Calvados | 1.5 | 1.1% | 0% | 18 km |
| 15 | Saint-Yorre Allier | 1.4 | 23% | 15% | 283 km |
| 16 | Longeville-sur-Mer Vendée | 1.3 | 18% | 100% | On it |
| 17 | Bessèges Gard | 1.3 | 66% | 100% | 81 km |
| 18 | Villenauxe-la-Grande Aube | 1.3 | 13% | 0% | 223 km |
| 19 | Foug Meurthe-et-Moselle | 1.3 | 73% | 1.2% | 342 km |
| 20 | Auboué Meurthe-et-Moselle | 1.2 | 21% | 0% | 311 km |
| 21 | Cauffry Oise | 1.2 | 17% | 0% | 110 km |
| 22 | Châteauneuf-en-Thymerais Eure-et-Loir | 1.2 | 57% | 62% | 115 km |
| 23 | Taden Côtes-d'Armor | 1.1 | 19% | 100% | 3.6 km |
| 24 | La Broque Bas-Rhin | 1.1 | 79% | 8% | 432 km |
| 25 | Vendres Hérault | 1 | 1.9% | 60% | On it |
| 26 | Montréjeau Haute-Garonne | 0.9 | 5.7% | 2.6% | 175 km |
| 27 | Ivry-la-Bataille Eure | 0.8 | 2.6% | 3.2% | 101 km |
| 28 | Villeneuve-Saint-Germain Aisne | 0.8 | 11% | 0% | 150 km |
| 29 | Marpent Nord | 0.7 | 15% | 0% | 133 km |
| 30 | Frelinghien Nord | 0.7 | 1% | 0% | 51 km |
| 31 | Le Bugue Dordogne | 0.7 | 53% | 5.1% | 120 km |
| 32 | Soual Tarn | 0.6 | 1.4% | 0% | 95 km |
| 33 | Le Thoronet Var | 0.6 | 49% | 31% | 29 km |
| 34 | Rieux-Volvestre Haute-Garonne | 0.6 | 6.6% | 7% | 154 km |
| 35 | Toury Eure-et-Loir | 0.5 | 0.8% | 0% | 180 km |
| 36 | Beychac-et-Caillau Gironde | 0.4 | 16% | 4.7% | 22 km |
| 37 | Montayral Lot-et-Garonne | 0.4 | 10% | 8.3% | 137 km |
| 38 | Noyers-sur-Cher Loir-et-Cher | 0.3 | 34% | 0.6% | 221 km |
| 39 | Clairac Lot-et-Garonne | 0.3 | 7.7% | 0% | 105 km |
| 40 | Ailly-sur-Noye Somme | 0.2 | 22% | 0% | 68 km |
| 41 | Haspres Nord | 0.2 | 1.8% | 0% | 111 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 Morsbach
Named parks, gardens and woods in the commune or within 400 m, the biggest and best-pathed first: Parc Municipal de Forbach leads, at 280 ha. Directions go to a point inside.
Aire de Guensbach
Park or garden
0.5 ha0.2 km of path
1.2 km north-westfrom the center
Directionsto 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, 3.9 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
3.9 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
9 km of footpaths and 9 km of hiking routes cross Morsbach
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
8.9 km
1.8 km per km²
Hiking routes
8.7 km
waymarked: 1.7 km per km²
Woodland
43%
about 2.2 km² of mapped woods
Km per km² of the commune · mapped on OpenStreetMap
MorsbachMoselle medianFrance median
Footpaths1.8
Hiking routes1.7
01.53 km per km²
Share of the land · mapped woods and forest
MorsbachMoselle medianFrance median
Woodland43%
0%50%100%
That is more than in 53% of compared French towns for footpaths per km², and for woodland more than in 88% 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 Morsbach is within 800 m of a mapped park or wood, as in most French towns.
6 named hiking routes within 2 km
GR (long-distance)Other named walk
GR 5G Nord8.8 km
GR 5G Sud3.1 km
GR 5G2.6 km
Circuit de la Rosselle9.7 km
Circuit de Remsing4.3 km
Circuit de deux villages sur un plateau3.7 km
3 GR routes pass within 2 km of Morsbach: GR 5G Nord, GR 5G Sud and GR 5G.
Source: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL), extracts of October 25, 2026 (Geofabrik).
When to get out
The best walking months in Morsbach: April to September
Météo-France’s 1991–2020 normals at Mouterhouse, 47 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 | 13.6 | 15.3 | 16.2 | 15.8 | 14.4 | 12.5 | 10.7 | 9.0 | 8.2 |
| High (°C) | 5 | 7 | 12 | 17 | 21 | 24 | 26 | 26 | 21 | 15 | 9 | 5 |
| Rain (mm) | 92 | 80 | 79 | 55 | 78 | 69 | 76 | 69 | 72 | 83 | 89 | 112 |
April is the driest month (55 mm) and July the warmest (highs of 26 °C). 112 mm of rain falls in December, the wettest month. Frost comes on about 99 nights a year. The climate in Morsbach →
Neighbors
Next to Morsbach
The nearest towns of 2,500 or more, colored by the share of their land in protected areas.
ForbachCocherenŒtingBehren-lès-ForbachPetite-RosselleFreyming-MerlebachMorsbach
Under 1%1–10 %10–25 %25–50 %50 %+
| Town | Protected | Woodland | Paths (km/km²) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Morsbach | 0% | 43% | 1.8 |
| Forbach 20,493 · 2.7 km | 0% | 32% | 3.5 |
| Cocheren 3,358 · 3 km | 0% | 36% | 2.6 |
| Œting 2,599 · 3 km | 0% | 31% | 1.8 |
| Behren-lès-Forbach 6,166 · 4.8 km | 0% | 14% | 2.4 |
| Petite-Rosselle 6,171 · 4.8 km | 0% | 33% | 3.3 |
| Freyming-Merlebach 13,266 · 5.2 km | 0% | 19% | 4.1 |
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 Morsbach
Is Morsbach in a national or regional nature park?
No. The nearest protected area is Mines du Warndt, 3.9 km from the town center.
Are there good walks in Morsbach?
OpenStreetMap maps 9 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); 9 km of waymarked hiking routes cross it.
How much of Morsbach is woodland?
43% of the commune is mapped woodland, private woods included; the median compared French town has 13%.
Is Morsbach near the sea?
No: the coast is 359 km from the town center, as the crow flies.
When is the best time for walking in Morsbach?
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.