First pick
Parc Legrand-Grubbe
Park or garden
3.3 ha0.9 km of path
10 minto walk all 0.9 km of path
0.9 km north-westfrom the center
Directionsto a point inside
Photo: Unknown author Unknown author · Public domain0.9%woodland
Outdoors in Bailleul · protected areas, woods and footpaths
Parks, woods and footpaths in Bailleul
0.9% of Bailleul is mapped woodland. Waymarked hiking routes add up to 40 km in Bailleul. 32 km of footpaths cross Bailleul (0.7 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: Prés du Moulin Madame nature reserve, 8.1 km
Woodland
0.9%
of the land, mapped on OpenStreetMap
Compared town: 13%
Footpaths
32 km
0.7 km per km²
Compared town: 1.7 km per km²
Hiking routes
40 km
waymarked, GR and others
Compared town: 0.3 km per km²
Green space nearby
93%
of residents within 800 m of a park or wood
Compared town: 100%
The sea
42 km
from the town center to the coast
Throughout this page, the Nord 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 Bailleul?
Read from the data: what stands out first, good and less good.
On waymarked routes40 km of GR and other hiking routes cross the commune.Protected land nearbyPrés du Moulin Madame nature reserve is 8.1 km from the town center.Little mapped woodland0.9% of the land, against 13% for the median compared town.
What sets Bailleul apart: its hiking routes, then protected land close by. It is shorter on woodland.
Against French towns
How Bailleul 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
Woodland0.9%Share of the land mapped as forest or woods on OpenStreetMap
6out of 100
Footpaths0.7 km per km²Km of mapped footpath and track open on foot, per km² of the commune
23out of 100
Hiking routes0.9 km per km²Km of waymarked hiking routes (GR and others), per km² of the commune
80out of 100
Green space nearby93%Share of residents within 800 m of a mapped park or wood
11out of 100
Percentiles among compared French towns; ties count half.
Towns its size
Bailleul has the 2nd fewest footpaths per km² of 41 towns its size
The 40 compared French towns nearest in population (14,380 to 15,097 residents), by km of footpath per km². Hover for each one’s protected land and woods; click for its page.
From Lognes (9.3 km per km²) to Saint-Gilles (0.4 km per km²).
Every town in the comparison
| Town | Paths (km/km²) | Woodland | Protected | Coast | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Lognes Seine-et-Marne | 9.3 | 14% | 0% | 164 km |
| 2 | Saint-Maurice Val-de-Marne | 8.8 | 9.4% | 0% | 157 km |
| 3 | Valenton Val-de-Marne | 8.7 | 6.6% | 0% | 164 km |
| 4 | Verrières-le-Buisson Essonne | 8.5 | 52% | 3.9% | 156 km |
| 5 | Villers-lès-Nancy Meurthe-et-Moselle | 8.4 | 48% | 0% | 365 km |
| 6 | Laxou Meurthe-et-Moselle | 6.9 | 74% | 0% | 364 km |
| 7 | Billère Pyrénées-Atlantiques | 6.7 | 4.2% | 9.2% | 93 km |
| 8 | Haubourdin Nord | 6.6 | 10% | 0% | 62 km |
| 9 | Montargis Loiret | 4.8 | 5.7% | 0% | 237 km |
| 10 | Dinan Côtes-d'Armor | 4.7 | 17% | 100% | 5.6 km |
| 11 | Montesson Yvelines | 4.7 | 2.3% | 0% | 136 km |
| 12 | Saint-Genis-Pouilly Ain | 4.5 | 17% | 0.3% | 298 km |
| 13 | Saint-Avertin Indre-et-Loire | 4.3 | 14% | 0% | 184 km |
| 14 | Canteleu Seine-Maritime | 3.7 | 64% | 100% | 49 km |
| 15 | Bar-le-Duc Meuse | 3.7 | 55% | 0% | 297 km |
| 16 | Saint-Brice-sous-Forêt Val-d'Oise | 3.3 | 24% | 0% | 137 km |
| 17 | Saint-Orens-de-Gameville Haute-Garonne | 3.2 | 6.4% | 0% | 138 km |
| 18 | Vesoul Haute-Saône | 3.1 | 3.3% | 3.6% | 434 km |
| 19 | Woippy Moselle | 3.1 | 12% | 0% | 325 km |
| 20 | Bois-Guillaume Seine-Maritime | 3 | 3.8% | 0% | 50 km |
| 21 | Ollioules Var | 2.9 | 23% | 14% | On it |
| 22 | Plérin Côtes-d'Armor | 2.9 | 14% | 1.8% | On it |
| 23 | Rixheim Haut-Rhin | 2.8 | 41% | 23% | 441 km |
| 24 | Pontivy Morbihan | 2.8 | 14% | 0% | 36 km |
| 25 | L'Étang-Salé Réunion | 2.6 | 52% | 39% | On it |
| 26 | Saint-Avold Moselle | 2.5 | 53% | 2.9% | 356 km |
| 27 | Saint-Jean-de-Luz Pyrénées-Atlantiques | 2.4 | 28% | 7.6% | On it |
| 28 | Carrières-sur-Seine Yvelines | 2.2 | 5% | 0% | 138 km |
| 29 | Fameck Moselle | 2.2 | 32% | 0% | 309 km |
| 30 | Château-Thierry Aisne | 1.9 | 18% | 0% | 176 km |
| 31 | Illzach Haut-Rhin | 1.9 | 2.6% | 0% | 443 km |
| 32 | Flers Orne | 1.6 | 2.5% | 0% | 59 km |
| 33 | Saint-Brevin-les-Pins Loire-Atlantique | 1.6 | 7.3% | 25% | On it |
| 34 | Saint-Paul-lès-Dax Landes | 1.6 | 62% | 5.3% | 29 km |
| 35 | Saint-Omer Pas-de-Calais | 1.6 | 2.8% | 100% | 28 km |
| 36 | Arnouville Val-d'Oise | 1.6 | 4.6% | 0% | 141 km |
| 37 | La Flèche Sarthe | 1.3 | 34% | 11% | 140 km |
| 38 | Le Raincy Seine-Saint-Denis | 0.8 | 0% | 0.1% | 153 km |
| 39 | Romilly-sur-Seine Aube | 0.8 | 35% | 4.2% | 237 km |
| 40 | Bailleul Nord | 0.7 | 0.9% | 0% | 42 km |
| 41 | Saint-Gilles Gard | 0.4 | 2.5% | 18% | 25 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 Bailleul
Named parks, gardens and woods in the commune or within 400 m, the biggest and best-pathed first: Parc Legrand-Grubbe leads, at 3.3 ha. Directions go to a point inside.
Domein Behaegel
Wood or forest · 10 m outside the commune
4.8 ha0.3 km of path
5 km north-eastfrom the center
Directionsto a point inside
Jardin des plantes sauvages
Park or garden
1 ha0.4 km of path
2.7 km north-eastfrom the center
Directionsto a point inside
Parc Dufour
Park or garden
1.2 ha0.3 km of path
Centralin the middle of Bailleul
Directionsto a point inside
Jardin concervatoire
Park or garden
0.6 ha0.1 km of path
2.8 km north-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 Bailleul 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).
93% within 800 m6.8% further
Residents within 800 m of green space · share of residents
BailleulNord medianFrance median
Within 800 m93%
0%50%100%
About 1,000 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
Prés du Moulin Madame nature reserve is the nearest protected area, 8.1 km away
The protected areas reaching the commune, and the nearest: national parks, regional nature parks, nature reserves and Natura 2000 sites.
Nature reserve
Prés du Moulin Madame nature reserve
8.1 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
32 km of footpaths and 40 km of hiking routes cross Bailleul
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
32 km
0.7 km per km²
Hiking routes
40 km
waymarked: 0.9 km per km²
Woodland
0.9%
about 0.4 km² of mapped woods
Km per km² of the commune · mapped on OpenStreetMap
BailleulNord medianFrance median
Footpaths0.7
Hiking routes0.9
01.53 km per km²
Share of the land · mapped woods and forest
BailleulNord medianFrance median
Woodland0.9%
0%50%100%
That is less than in 77% of compared French towns for footpaths per km², and for woodland less 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.
6 named hiking routes within 2 km
GR (long-distance)Other named walk
GR 12822 km
GR 121B7.3 km
E21.7 km
GR 5A Wandelronde van Vlaanderen (Zuid)1.7 km
Streek-GR Heuvelland7.7 km
Geuzen wandelroute2.3 km
4 GR routes pass within 2 km of Bailleul: GR 128, GR 121B, E2 and 1 more.
Source: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL), extracts of October 25, 2026 (Geofabrik).
When to get out
The best walking months in Bailleul: April to September
Météo-France’s 1991–2020 normals at Lille-Lesquin, 31 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) | 8.4 | 9.9 | 11.7 | 13.7 | 15.5 | 16.5 | 16.1 | 14.5 | 12.5 | 10.6 | 8.9 | 8.0 |
| High (°C) | 7 | 8 | 11 | 15 | 18 | 21 | 24 | 24 | 20 | 15 | 10 | 7 |
| Rain (mm) | 58 | 51 | 52 | 45 | 62 | 64 | 68 | 71 | 57 | 64 | 75 | 73 |
April is the driest month (45 mm) and July the warmest (highs of 24 °C). 75 mm of rain falls in November, the wettest month. Frost comes on about 37 nights a year. The climate in Bailleul →
Gardens
A garden to visit in Bailleul
Named gardens in the commune.
Conservatoire botanique national de BailleulIn Bailleul
DirectionsSource: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL) and Wikidata.
Neighbors
Next to Bailleul
The nearest towns of 2,500 or more, colored by the share of their land in protected areas.
SteenwerckVieux-BerquinNieppeSailly-sur-la-LysEstairesErquinghem-LysBailleul
Under 1%1–10 %10–25 %25–50 %50 %+
| Town | Protected | Woodland | Paths (km/km²) | Coast |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bailleul | 0% | 0.9% | 0.7 | 42 km |
| Steenwerck 3,450 · 5.4 km | 0% | 0.8% | 0.2 | 47 km |
| Vieux-Berquin 2,628 · 8.1 km | 0% | 14% | 0.1 | 42 km |
| Nieppe 7,764 · 8.8 km | 0% | 1.1% | 0.9 | 48 km |
| Sailly-sur-la-Lys 3,981 · 9.2 km | 0.9% | 1.3% | 0.8 | 51 km |
| Estaires 6,525 · 9.6 km | 0% | 0.7% | 0.4 | 50 km |
| Erquinghem-Lys 5,341 · 10 km | 0% | 2.6% | 1.7 | 51 km |
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 Bailleul
Is Bailleul in a national or regional nature park?
No. The nearest protected area is Prés du Moulin Madame nature reserve, 8.1 km from the town center.
Are there good walks in Bailleul?
OpenStreetMap maps 32 km of footpaths and tracks open on foot in the commune, 0.7 km per km² (the median compared town: 1.7 km per km²); 40 km of waymarked hiking routes cross it.
How much of Bailleul is woodland?
0.9% of the commune is mapped woodland, private woods included; the median compared French town has 13%.
Is Bailleul near the sea?
No: the coast is 42 km from the town center, as the crow flies.
When is the best time for walking in Bailleul?
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.