First pick
Bois de la Tour du Lay
Wood or forest
1,880 ha27.2 km of path
6 h 5 minto walk all 27.2 km of path
5.8 km southfrom the center
Chemin du Bois du LayChemin du Clos PolletChemin du Valmillon+5 paths
Directionsto a point inside
Photo: ztris · CC BY-SA 4.033%woodland
Outdoors in Bornel · protected areas, woods and footpaths
Almost every home in Bornel is within 800 m of a park or wood
33% of Bornel is mapped woodland. 8 km of footpaths cross Bornel (0.3 km per km²). No protected area reaches Bornel; the nearest, Vexin Français Regional Nature Park, is 2.8 km from the town center. France has no Outdoors Grade yet: these are the figures, each beside the compared towns’ median.
Protected areas
0.1%
of the commune’s land
Nearest: Vexin Français Regional Nature Park, 2.8 km
Woodland
33%
of the land, mapped on OpenStreetMap
Compared town: 13%
Footpaths
7.9 km
0.3 km per km²
Compared town: 1.7 km per km²
Hiking routes
3.9 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 la Tour du Lay
Throughout this page, the Oise 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 Bornel?
Read from the data: what stands out first, good and less good.
A wooded commune33% mapped woodland, more than in 79% of compared French towns, against 13% for the median compared town.Protected land nearbyVexin Français Regional Nature Park is 2.8 km from the town center.Few mapped footpaths0.3 km per km², against 1.7 km per km² for the median compared town.
What sets Bornel apart: its woods, then protected land close by. It is shorter on footpaths.
Against French towns
How Bornel 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 areas0.1%Share of the land in a national park, regional nature park, nature reserve or Natura 2000 site
50out of 100
Woodland33%Share of the land mapped as forest or woods on OpenStreetMap
79out of 100
Footpaths0.3 km per km²Km of mapped footpath and track open on foot, per km² of the commune
7out of 100
Hiking routes0.2 km per km²Km of waymarked hiking routes (GR and others), per km² of the commune
35out of 100
Percentiles among compared French towns; ties count half.
Towns its size
Bornel has the 8th fewest footpaths per km² of 41 towns its size
The 40 compared French towns nearest in population (4,793 to 4,873 residents), by km of footpath per km². Hover for each one’s protected land and woods; click for its page.
From Rosières-près-Troyes (4 km per km²) to Bonneval (0.1 km per km²).
Every town in the comparison
| Town | Paths (km/km²) | Woodland | Protected | Coast | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Rosières-près-Troyes Aube | 4 | 9.4% | 0% | 275 km |
| 2 | Phalempin Nord | 4 | 32% | 0% | 72 km |
| 3 | Ceyreste Bouches-du-Rhône | 3.7 | 42% | 49% | 2.9 km |
| 4 | La Turballe Loire-Atlantique | 2.7 | 13% | 24% | On it |
| 5 | Die Drôme | 2.4 | 60% | 100% | 150 km |
| 6 | Sainte-Marie-aux-Mines Haut-Rhin | 2 | 76% | 100% | 450 km |
| 7 | Paron Yonne | 2 | 26% | 1.2% | 249 km |
| 8 | L'Horme Loire | 2 | 3.4% | 0% | 217 km |
| 9 | Plateau d'Hauteville Ain | 1.9 | 65% | 1.2% | 284 km |
| 10 | Robion Vaucluse | 1.8 | 24% | 100% | 48 km |
| 11 | Charly Rhône | 1.7 | 0.2% | 0% | 239 km |
| 12 | Rilhac-Rancon Haute-Vienne | 1.6 | 33% | 0% | 170 km |
| 13 | La Voulte-sur-Rhône Ardèche | 1.5 | 15% | 33% | 149 km |
| 14 | Bourgbarré Ille-et-Vilaine | 1.5 | 5.3% | 0% | 62 km |
| 15 | Saint-Martin-de-Valgalgues Gard | 1.3 | 49% | 0% | 67 km |
| 16 | Le Coudray-Montceaux Essonne | 1.2 | 19% | 0% | 182 km |
| 17 | Cléon Seine-Maritime | 1.1 | 16% | 2% | 51 km |
| 18 | Cerizay Deux-Sèvres | 1.1 | 3.5% | 0% | 67 km |
| 19 | Blendecques Pas-de-Calais | 1.1 | 18% | 84% | 32 km |
| 20 | Pignans Var | 1 | 50% | 43% | 20 km |
| 21 | Desvres Pas-de-Calais | 1 | 56% | 100% | 18 km |
| 22 | Milizac-Guipronvel Finistère | 0.9 | 6.1% | 0% | 9.1 km |
| 23 | Cysoing Nord | 0.8 | 26% | 0% | 74 km |
| 24 | Tinchebray-Bocage Orne | 0.8 | 4.9% | 0% | 48 km |
| 25 | Fagnières Marne | 0.5 | 0.4% | 0% | 235 km |
| 26 | Écommoy Sarthe | 0.5 | 28% | 0.2% | 151 km |
| 27 | La Côte-Saint-André Isère | 0.5 | 10% | 0% | 218 km |
| 28 | Cazères Haute-Garonne | 0.4 | 4.1% | 11% | 162 km |
| 29 | Ruy-Montceau Isère | 0.4 | 21% | 12% | 240 km |
| 30 | Conches-en-Ouche Eure | 0.4 | 51% | 0% | 68 km |
| 31 | Billom Puy-de-Dôme | 0.4 | 7.1% | 100% | 247 km |
| 32 | Saint-Jean-de-Bournay Isère | 0.4 | 15% | 0% | 229 km |
| 33 | Monnaie Indre-et-Loire | 0.3 | 28% | 0% | 197 km |
| 34 | Bornel Oise | 0.3 | 33% | 0.1% | 112 km |
| 35 | Vic-en-Bigorre Hautes-Pyrénées | 0.3 | 20% | 2.2% | 125 km |
| 36 | Saverdun Ariège | 0.2 | 13% | 0.7% | 123 km |
| 37 | Bazas Gironde | 0.2 | 30% | 2.9% | 69 km |
| 38 | Legé Loire-Atlantique | 0.2 | 7.2% | 0% | 33 km |
| 39 | Salbris Loir-et-Cher | 0.2 | 81% | 100% | 256 km |
| 40 | Vitry-en-Artois Pas-de-Calais | 0.2 | 5.6% | 0% | 90 km |
| 41 | Bonneval Eure-et-Loir | 0.1 | 9.3% | 30% | 159 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 Bornel
Named parks, gardens and woods in the commune or within 400 m, the biggest and best-pathed first: Bois de la Tour du Lay leads, at 1,880 ha. Directions go to a point inside.
Source: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL): named parks, gardens and woods; sizes are the whole site.
Protected areas
Vexin Français Regional Nature Park is the nearest protected area, 2.8 km away
The protected areas reaching the commune, and the nearest: national parks, regional nature parks, nature reserves and Natura 2000 sites.
Regional nature park
Vexin Français Regional Nature Park
2.8 km from the town center
Share of the commune’s land
Any protected area0.1%
Regional nature park0.1%
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.
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
8 km of footpaths cross Bornel
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
7.9 km
0.3 km per km²
Hiking routes
3.9 km
waymarked: 0.2 km per km²
Woodland
33%
about 7.9 km² of mapped woods
Km per km² of the commune · mapped on OpenStreetMap
BornelOise medianFrance median
Footpaths0.3
Hiking routes0.2
012 km per km²
Share of the land · mapped woods and forest
BornelOise medianFrance median
Woodland33%
0%50%100%
That is less than in 93% of compared French towns for footpaths per km², and for woodland more than in 79% 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 Bornel 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
Grand Tour de Paris, Montagny-Prouvaire - La Ferté-Milon8.2 km
Grand Tour de Paris, Magny-en-Vexin - Montagny-Prouvaire6.9 km
Source: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL), extracts of October 25, 2026 (Geofabrik).
When to get out
The best walking months in Bornel: April to September
Météo-France’s 1991–2020 normals at Pontoise - Aero, 18 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) | 7 | 8 | 12 | 16 | 19 | 22 | 25 | 25 | 21 | 16 | 11 | 7 |
| Rain (mm) | 54 | 46 | 47 | 44 | 60 | 50 | 52 | 55 | 47 | 58 | 55 | 68 |
April is the driest month (44 mm) and July the warmest (highs of 25 °C). 68 mm of rain falls in December, the wettest month. Frost comes on about 48 nights a year. The climate in Bornel →
Neighbors
Next to Bornel
The nearest towns of 2,500 or more, colored by the share of their land in protected areas.
ChamblyMéruNeuilly-en-ThelleAndevilleChampagne-sur-OisePersanBornel
Under 1%1–10 %10–25 %25–50 %50 %+
| Town | Protected | Woodland | Paths (km/km²) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bornel | 0.1% | 33% | 0.3 |
| Chambly 9,959 · 5.2 km | 0.1% | 5.4% | 1.2 |
| Méru 13,897 · 6.2 km | 0% | 16% | 0.8 |
| Neuilly-en-Thelle 4,127 · 6.4 km | 0% | 7.9% | 0.8 |
| Andeville 3,434 · 6.8 km | 0% | 11% | 0.7 |
| Champagne-sur-Oise 5,036 · 7.8 km | 54% | 33% | 1.8 |
| Persan 14,359 · 7.9 km | 0.1% | 0.3% | 2.5 |
Champagne-sur-Oise has at least twice as much protected land.
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 Bornel
Is Bornel in a national or regional nature park?
No. The nearest protected area is Vexin Français Regional Nature Park, 2.8 km from the town center.
Are there good walks in Bornel?
OpenStreetMap maps 8 km of footpaths and tracks open on foot in the commune, 0.3 km per km² (the median compared town: 1.7 km per km²); 4 km of waymarked hiking routes cross it.
How much of Bornel is woodland?
33% of the commune is mapped woodland, private woods included; the median compared French town has 13%.
Is Bornel near the sea?
No: the coast is 112 km from the town center, as the crow flies.
When is the best time for walking in Bornel?
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 October 30, 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.