First pick
Bois de Beauvoorde
Wood or forest
47 ha
2.2 km eastfrom the center
Directionsto a point inside
Photo: Pierre André Leclercq · CC BY-SA 4.01.9%woodland
Outdoors in Steenvoorde · protected areas, woods and footpaths
Almost every home in Steenvoorde is within 800 m of a park or wood
Steenvoorde has 45 km of waymarked hiking routes. 1.9% of Steenvoorde is mapped woodland. No protected area reaches Steenvoorde; the nearest, Vallon de la Petite Becque nature reserve, is 9.3 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: Vallon de la Petite Becque nature reserve, 9.3 km
Woodland
1.9%
of the land, mapped on OpenStreetMap
Compared town: 13%
Footpaths
56 km
1.8 km per km²
Compared town: 1.7 km per km²
Hiking routes
45 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: Bois de Beauvoorde
The sea
29 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 Steenvoorde?
Read from the data: what stands out first, good and less good.
On waymarked routes45 km of GR and other hiking routes cross the commune.Protected land nearbyVallon de la Petite Becque nature reserve is 9.3 km from the town center.Little mapped woodland1.9% of the land, against 13% for the median compared town.
What sets Steenvoorde apart: its hiking routes, then protected land close by. It is shorter on woodland.
Against French towns
How Steenvoorde 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
Woodland1.9%Share of the land mapped as forest or woods on OpenStreetMap
10out of 100
Footpaths1.8 km per km²Km of mapped footpath and track open on foot, per km² of the commune
54out of 100
Hiking routes1.5 km per km²Km of waymarked hiking routes (GR and others), per km² of the commune
92out of 100
Percentiles among compared French towns; ties count half.
Towns its size
Steenvoorde has the 11th most footpaths per km² of 41 towns its size
The 40 compared French towns nearest in population (4,298 to 4,366 residents), by km of footpath per km². Hover for each one’s protected land and woods; click for its page.
From Sevrier (4.3 km per km²) to Buzançais (0.1 km per km²).
Every town in the comparison
| Town | Paths (km/km²) | Woodland | Protected | Coast | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Sevrier Haute-Savoie | 4.3 | 49% | 100% | 255 km |
| 2 | Saint-Maurice-de-Beynost Ain | 4 | 21% | 17% | 262 km |
| 3 | Tigery Essonne | 3.6 | 41% | 0% | 176 km |
| 4 | Villard-de-Lans Isère | 3.4 | 57% | 100% | 188 km |
| 5 | Nilvange Moselle | 3.3 | 27% | 0% | 304 km |
| 6 | Gattières Alpes-Maritimes | 2.7 | 27% | 80% | 9.5 km |
| 7 | Niederbronn-les-Bains Bas-Rhin | 2.6 | 74% | 100% | 417 km |
| 8 | Poulx Gard | 2.5 | 0.1% | 56% | 47 km |
| 9 | Saulxures-lès-Nancy Meurthe-et-Moselle | 2.3 | 31% | 0% | 369 km |
| 10 | Coignières Yvelines | 2.3 | 29% | 0.1% | 137 km |
| 11 | Steenvoorde Nord | 1.8 | 1.9% | 0% | 29 km |
| 12 | Villeneuve Alpes-de-Haute-Provence | 1.8 | 34% | 100% | 74 km |
| 13 | Cheval-Blanc Vaucluse | 1.7 | 19% | 100% | 42 km |
| 14 | Is-sur-Tille Côte-d'Or | 1.6 | 41% | 0% | 388 km |
| 15 | Millery Rhône | 1.6 | 14% | 0% | 237 km |
| 16 | Hillion Côtes-d'Armor | 1.6 | 6.9% | 9% | On it |
| 17 | Le Château-d'Oléron Charente-Maritime | 1.5 | 7.5% | 50% | On it |
| 18 | Le Val Var | 1.5 | 63% | 7.3% | 37 km |
| 19 | Louverné Mayenne | 1.5 | 3.9% | 0% | 74 km |
| 20 | Cadenet Vaucluse | 1.1 | 28% | 100% | 42 km |
| 21 | Camon Somme | 1.1 | 5.6% | 14% | 57 km |
| 22 | Saint-Aubin-d'Aubigné Ille-et-Vilaine | 0.8 | 12% | 0% | 38 km |
| 23 | Beaumont-lès-Valence Drôme | 0.8 | 9.8% | 0% | 157 km |
| 24 | Égletons Corrèze | 0.8 | 51% | 0.1% | 212 km |
| 25 | Chabanière Rhône | 0.8 | 17% | 0% | 230 km |
| 26 | Morestel Isère | 0.8 | 16% | 12% | 252 km |
| 27 | Pons Charente-Maritime | 0.8 | 10% | 13% | 22 km |
| 28 | Cours Rhône | 0.6 | 46% | 0% | 283 km |
| 29 | Bessières Haute-Garonne | 0.6 | 9.9% | 2.4% | 145 km |
| 30 | Friville-Escarbotin Somme | 0.5 | 2.1% | 100% | 7.2 km |
| 31 | Saint-Léonard-de-Noblat Haute-Vienne | 0.5 | 24% | 1.4% | 181 km |
| 32 | Saint-Savin Isère | 0.5 | 17% | 15% | 244 km |
| 33 | Eyragues Bouches-du-Rhône | 0.5 | 0.4% | 0% | 43 km |
| 34 | Sarralbe Moselle | 0.5 | 29% | 10% | 381 km |
| 35 | Valence-en-Poitou Vienne | 0.4 | 20% | 0% | 100 km |
| 36 | Ussac Corrèze | 0.4 | 24% | 0% | 167 km |
| 37 | Montélier Drôme | 0.3 | 2.2% | 0% | 165 km |
| 38 | Rives de l'Yon Vendée | 0.3 | 7.1% | 0% | 25 km |
| 39 | Roullet-Saint-Estèphe Charente | 0.2 | 16% | 3.1% | 65 km |
| 40 | Bassillac et Auberoche Dordogne | 0.1 | 49% | 0% | 116 km |
| 41 | Buzançais Indre | 0.1 | 28% | 5.7% | 206 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 Steenvoorde
Named parks, gardens and woods in the commune or within 400 m, the biggest and best-pathed first: Bois de Beauvoorde leads, at 47 ha. Directions go to a point inside.
Source: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL): named parks, gardens and woods; sizes are the whole site.
Protected areas
Vallon de la Petite Becque nature reserve is the nearest protected area, 9.3 km away
The protected areas reaching the commune, and the nearest: national parks, regional nature parks, nature reserves and Natura 2000 sites.
Nature reserve
Vallon de la Petite Becque nature reserve
9.3 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
56 km of footpaths and 45 km of hiking routes cross Steenvoorde
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
56 km
1.8 km per km²
Hiking routes
45 km
waymarked: 1.5 km per km²
Woodland
1.9%
about 0.6 km² of mapped woods
Km per km² of the commune · mapped on OpenStreetMap
SteenvoordeNord medianFrance median
Footpaths1.8
Hiking routes1.5
01.53 km per km²
Share of the land · mapped woods and forest
SteenvoordeNord medianFrance median
Woodland1.9%
0%50%100%
That is more than in 54% of compared French towns for footpaths per km², and for woodland less than in 90% of compared French towns. Hiking routes often follow paths and lanes already counted, so the two lengths overlap: don’t add them. 96% of Steenvoorde’s residents live within 800 m of a mapped park or wood, close to the typical town.
3 named hiking routes within 2 km
GR (long-distance)Other named walk
GR 12816 km
Warandepad Watou9.4 km
Au Cœur de la Flandre8.2 km
GR 128 passes within 2 km of Steenvoorde.
Source: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL), extracts of October 25, 2026 (Geofabrik).
When to get out
The best walking months in Steenvoorde: April to September
Météo-France’s 1991–2020 normals at Watten, 26 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 | 8.8 | 8.0 |
| High (°C) | 8 | 9 | 12 | 16 | 19 | 21 | 24 | 24 | 21 | 16 | 11 | 8 |
| Rain (mm) | 70 | 58 | 50 | 44 | 56 | 59 | 67 | 73 | 72 | 84 | 97 | 93 |
April is the driest month (44 mm) and August the warmest (highs of 24 °C). 97 mm of rain falls in November, the wettest month. Frost comes on about 41 nights a year. The climate in Steenvoorde →
Neighbors
Next to Steenvoorde
The nearest towns of 2,500 or more, colored by the share of their land in protected areas.
HazebrouckWormhoutVieux-BerquinBailleulMorbecqueHondschooteSteenvoorde
Under 1%1–10 %10–25 %25–50 %50 %+
| Town | Protected | Woodland | Paths (km/km²) | Coast |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Steenvoorde | 0% | 1.9% | 1.8 | 29 km |
| Hazebrouck 21,912 · 10 km | 0% | 0.7% | 1.7 | 37 km |
| Wormhout 5,584 · 11 km | 0% | 0.3% | 1.5 | 19 km |
| Vieux-Berquin 2,628 · 13 km | 0% | 14% | 0.1 | 42 km |
| Bailleul 14,732 · 14 km | 0% | 0.9% | 0.7 | 42 km |
| Morbecque 2,573 · 14 km | 0% | 52% | 1.5 | 41 km |
| Hondschoote 3,957 · 19 km | 0% | 0% | 1.6 | 12 km |
Morbecque 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 Steenvoorde
Is Steenvoorde in a national or regional nature park?
No. The nearest protected area is Vallon de la Petite Becque nature reserve, 9.3 km from the town center.
Are there good walks in Steenvoorde?
OpenStreetMap maps 56 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); 45 km of waymarked hiking routes cross it.
How much of Steenvoorde is woodland?
1.9% of the commune is mapped woodland, private woods included; the median compared French town has 13%.
Is Steenvoorde near the sea?
No: the coast is 29 km from the town center, as the crow flies.
When is the best time for walking in Steenvoorde?
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.