First pick
Parc de Géresme
Park or garden
29 ha5.6 km of path
1 h 15 minto walk all 5.6 km of path
1.2 km north-eastfrom the center
Sente de la PrairieSente de Bouillant à Mermont
Directionsto a point inside
Photo: Patrick from Compiègne, France · CC BY-SA 2.016%woodland
Outdoors in Crépy-en-Valois · protected areas, woods and footpaths
Almost every home in Crépy-en-Valois is within 800 m of a park or wood
Crépy-en-Valois has 17 km of waymarked hiking routes. No protected area reaches Crépy-en-Valois; the nearest, Forêts picardes : massif des trois forêts et bois du Roi (Natura 2000), is 2.5 km from the town center. Footpaths add up to 32 km across Crépy-en-Valois (2 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: Forêts picardes : massif des trois forêts et bois du Roi, 2.5 km
Woodland
16%
of the land, mapped on OpenStreetMap
Compared town: 13%
Footpaths
32 km
2 km per km²
Compared town: 1.7 km per km²
Hiking routes
17 km
waymarked, GR and others
Compared town: 0.3 km per km²
Parks & woods
3
named, in or within 400 m of the commune
First: Parc de Géresme
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 Crépy-en-Valois?
Read from the data: what stands out first, good and less good.
On waymarked routes17 km of GR and other hiking routes cross the commune.Protected land nearbyForêts picardes : massif des trois forêts et bois du Roi (Natura 2000) is 2.5 km from the town center.
What sets Crépy-en-Valois apart: its hiking routes, then protected land close by.
Against French towns
How Crépy-en-Valois 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
Woodland16%Share of the land mapped as forest or woods on OpenStreetMap
56out of 100
Footpaths2 km per km²Km of mapped footpath and track open on foot, per km² of the commune
56out of 100
Hiking routes1.1 km per km²Km of waymarked hiking routes (GR and others), per km² of the commune
85out of 100
Percentiles among compared French towns; ties count half.
Towns its size
Crépy-en-Valois has the 13th fewest footpaths per km² of 41 towns its size
The 40 compared French towns nearest in population (14,016 to 14,734 residents), by km of footpath per km². Hover for each one’s protected land and woods; click for its page.
From Lieusaint (8.8 km per km²) to Castelsarrasin (0.3 km per km²).
Every town in the comparison
| Town | Paths (km/km²) | Woodland | Protected | Coast | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Lieusaint Seine-et-Marne | 8.8 | 6.3% | 0% | 178 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 | Villers-lès-Nancy Meurthe-et-Moselle | 8.4 | 48% | 0% | 365 km |
| 5 | Billère Pyrénées-Atlantiques | 6.7 | 4.2% | 9.2% | 93 km |
| 6 | Chenôve Côte-d'Or | 6.5 | 10% | 17% | 403 km |
| 7 | Audincourt Doubs | 5.3 | 36% | 0% | 414 km |
| 8 | Auray Morbihan | 5 | 8.3% | 100% | On it |
| 9 | Montesson Yvelines | 4.7 | 2.3% | 0% | 136 km |
| 10 | Saint-Genis-Pouilly Ain | 4.5 | 17% | 0.3% | 298 km |
| 11 | Lys-lez-Lannoy Nord | 4.2 | 3.9% | 0% | 64 km |
| 12 | Juvignac Hérault | 4.2 | 4.2% | 0% | 14 km |
| 13 | Canteleu Seine-Maritime | 3.7 | 64% | 100% | 49 km |
| 14 | Bar-le-Duc Meuse | 3.7 | 55% | 0% | 297 km |
| 15 | Douarnenez Finistère | 3.3 | 16% | 3.8% | On it |
| 16 | Saint-Orens-de-Gameville Haute-Garonne | 3.2 | 6.4% | 0% | 138 km |
| 17 | Bois-Guillaume Seine-Maritime | 3 | 3.8% | 0% | 50 km |
| 18 | Montataire Oise | 2.9 | 11% | 0.1% | 116 km |
| 19 | Ollioules Var | 2.9 | 23% | 14% | On it |
| 20 | Plérin Côtes-d'Armor | 2.9 | 14% | 1.8% | On it |
| 21 | Rixheim Haut-Rhin | 2.8 | 41% | 23% | 441 km |
| 22 | Pontivy Morbihan | 2.8 | 14% | 0% | 36 km |
| 23 | L'Étang-Salé Réunion | 2.6 | 52% | 39% | On it |
| 24 | Persan Val-d'Oise | 2.5 | 0.3% | 0.1% | 120 km |
| 25 | Roncq Nord | 2.3 | 2.5% | 0% | 53 km |
| 26 | Bollène Vaucluse | 2.2 | 28% | 9.5% | 93 km |
| 27 | Sainte-Maxime Var | 2.1 | 65% | 19% | On it |
| 28 | Morangis Essonne | 2.1 | 0.8% | 0% | 163 km |
| 29 | Crépy-en-Valois Oise | 2 | 16% | 0% | 137 km |
| 30 | Pont-à-Mousson Meurthe-et-Moselle | 1.8 | 31% | 0.4% | 341 km |
| 31 | Flers Orne | 1.6 | 2.5% | 0% | 59 km |
| 32 | Hautmont Nord | 1.6 | 11% | 0% | 130 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 | Belleville-en-Beaujolais Rhône | 1.1 | 5.4% | 7.1% | 288 km |
| 37 | Fontenay-le-Comte Vendée | 1.1 | 2% | 100% | 31 km |
| 38 | Bailleul Nord | 0.7 | 0.9% | 0% | 42 km |
| 39 | Saint-Martin-de-Crau Bouches-du-Rhône | 0.4 | 3.6% | 91% | 21 km |
| 40 | Saint-Gilles Gard | 0.4 | 2.5% | 18% | 25 km |
| 41 | Castelsarrasin Tarn-et-Garonne | 0.3 | 5.6% | 6.8% | 173 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 Crépy-en-Valois
Named parks, gardens and woods in the commune or within 400 m, the biggest and best-pathed first: Parc de Géresme leads, at 29 ha. Directions go to a point inside.
Parc Sainte-Agathe
Park or garden
2 ha0.5 km of path
Centralin the middle of Crépy-en-Valois
Directionsto a point inside
Place Saint-Thomas
Park or garden
0.2 ha
Centralin the middle of Crépy-en-Valois
Directionsto a point inside
Source: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL): named parks, gardens and woods; sizes are the whole site.
Protected areas
Forêts picardes : massif des trois forêts et bois du Roi is the nearest protected area, 2.5 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
Forêts picardes : massif des trois forêts et bois du Roi
2.5 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 17 km of hiking routes cross Crépy-en-Valois
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
2 km per km²
Hiking routes
17 km
waymarked: 1.1 km per km²
Woodland
16%
about 2.7 km² of mapped woods
Km per km² of the commune · mapped on OpenStreetMap
Crépy-en-ValoisOise medianFrance median
Footpaths2
Hiking routes1.1
01.53 km per km²
Share of the land · mapped woods and forest
Crépy-en-ValoisOise medianFrance median
Woodland16%
0%50%100%
That is more than in 56% of compared French towns for footpaths per km², and for woodland more than in 56% 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 Crépy-en-Valois is within 800 m of a mapped park or wood, as in most French towns.
7 named hiking routes within 2 km
GR (long-distance)Other named walk
GR 11B10 km
De l'Automne à la Vallée Sainte-Marie18 km
Grand Tour de Paris, Montagny-Prouvaire - La Ferté-Milon11 km
Parcours Nature à Lévignen3.9 km
Bois de Tillet3.6 km
Les marais de Feigneux et de Pondron1.9 km
Flânerie au Coeur de la Cité des Valois1.9 km
GR 11B passes within 2 km of Crépy-en-Valois.
Source: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL), extracts of October 25, 2026 (Geofabrik).
When to get out
The best walking months in Crépy-en-Valois: April to September
Météo-France’s 1991–2020 normals at Margny-Les-Compiegne, 23 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) | 6 | 8 | 12 | 16 | 19 | 22 | 25 | 25 | 21 | 16 | 10 | 7 |
| Rain (mm) | 51 | 45 | 43 | 42 | 58 | 54 | 57 | 63 | 44 | 60 | 53 | 65 |
April is the driest month (42 mm) and July the warmest (highs of 25 °C). 65 mm of rain falls in December, the wettest month. Frost comes on about 44 nights a year. The climate in Crépy-en-Valois →
Neighbors
Next to Crépy-en-Valois
The nearest towns of 2,500 or more, colored by the share of their land in protected areas.
Béthisy-Saint-PierreNanteuil-le-HaudouinVerberieVillers-CotterêtsLacroix-Saint-OuenLe Plessis-BellevilleCrépy-en-Valois
Under 1%1–10 %10–25 %25–50 %50 %+
| Town | Protected | Woodland | Paths (km/km²) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Crépy-en-Valois | 0% | 16% | 2 |
| Béthisy-Saint-Pierre 3,111 · 10 km | 21% | 37% | 2.1 |
| Nanteuil-le-Haudouin 4,258 · 12 km | 32% | 9.7% | 0.5 |
| Verberie 3,898 · 14 km | 8.1% | 20% | 1 |
| Villers-Cotterêts 10,489 · 15 km | 0% | 73% | 1.8 |
| Lacroix-Saint-Ouen 5,415 · 16 km | 76% | 73% | 1.2 |
| Le Plessis-Belleville 4,009 · 17 km | 0.1% | 1.5% | 1.4 |
Béthisy-Saint-Pierre, Nanteuil-le-Haudouin and Lacroix-Saint-Ouen have at least twice as much protected land. Béthisy-Saint-Pierre, Villers-Cotterêts and Lacroix-Saint-Ouen are 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 Crépy-en-Valois
Is Crépy-en-Valois in a national or regional nature park?
No. The nearest protected area is Forêts picardes : massif des trois forêts et bois du Roi, 2.5 km from the town center.
Are there good walks in Crépy-en-Valois?
OpenStreetMap maps 32 km of footpaths and tracks open on foot in the commune, 2 km per km² (the median compared town: 1.7 km per km²); 17 km of waymarked hiking routes cross it.
How much of Crépy-en-Valois is woodland?
16% of the commune is mapped woodland, private woods included; the median compared French town has 13%.
Is Crépy-en-Valois near the sea?
No: the coast is 137 km from the town center, as the crow flies.
When is the best time for walking in Crépy-en-Valois?
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.