First pick
Forêt de Chantilly
Wood or forest · 340 m outside the commune
2,654 ha109 km of path
24 h 15 minto walk all 109 km of path
4.6 km north-westfrom the center
Route MillardChaussée BrunehautVieille Route+5 paths
Directionsto a point inside
Photo: P.poschadel · CC BY-SA 2.0 fr100%of the land protected
Outdoors in La Chapelle-en-Serval · protected areas, woods and footpaths
La Chapelle-en-Serval lies inside Oise-Pays de France Regional Nature Park
100% of La Chapelle-en-Serval’s land lies in protected areas. 45% of La Chapelle-en-Serval is mapped woodland. 31 km of footpaths cross La Chapelle-en-Serval (2.9 km per km²). France has no Outdoors Grade yet: these are the figures, each beside the compared towns’ median.
Protected areas
100%
of the commune’s land
Compared town: 0.1%
Woodland
45%
of the land, mapped on OpenStreetMap
Compared town: 13%
Footpaths
31 km
2.9 km per km²
Compared town: 1.7 km per km²
Hiking routes
0 km
waymarked, GR and others
Compared town: 0.3 km per km²
Parks & woods
7
named, in or within 400 m of the commune
First: Forêt de Chantilly
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 La Chapelle-en-Serval?
Read from the data: what stands out first, good and less good.
Inside Oise-Pays de France Regional Nature Park100% of the commune is in the regional nature park.A wooded commune45% mapped woodland, more than in 89% of compared French towns, against 13% for the median compared town.
What sets La Chapelle-en-Serval apart: the regional nature park around it, then its woods.
Against French towns
How La Chapelle-en-Serval 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 areas100%Share of the land in a national park, regional nature park, nature reserve or Natura 2000 site
93out of 100
Woodland45%Share of the land mapped as forest or woods on OpenStreetMap
89out of 100
Footpaths2.9 km per km²Km of mapped footpath and track open on foot, per km² of the commune
72out of 100
Hiking routes0 km per km²Km of waymarked hiking routes (GR and others), per km² of the commune
12out of 100
Percentiles among compared French towns; ties count half.
Towns its size
La Chapelle-en-Serval has the 7th most footpaths per km² of 41 towns its size
The 40 compared French towns nearest in population (3,057 to 3,114 residents), by km of footpath per km². Hover for each one’s protected land and woods; click for its page.
From Albigny-sur-Saône (4.8 km per km²) to Bérat (0 km per km²).
Every town in the comparison
| Town | Paths (km/km²) | Woodland | Protected | Coast | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Albigny-sur-Saône Rhône | 4.8 | 25% | 0% | 263 km |
| 2 | Coupvray Seine-et-Marne | 4.3 | 19% | 0% | 164 km |
| 3 | Étiolles Essonne | 3.7 | 72% | 0% | 175 km |
| 4 | Buhl Haut-Rhin | 3.7 | 74% | 100% | 461 km |
| 5 | Villers-Bocage Calvados | 3.1 | 7.7% | 0% | 29 km |
| 6 | Tarascon-sur-Ariège Ariège | 3 | 48% | 1.5% | 118 km |
| 7 | La Chapelle-en-Serval Oise | 2.9 | 45% | 100% | 132 km |
| 8 | Pont-à-Vendin Pas-de-Calais | 2.9 | 13% | 0% | 72 km |
| 9 | Chéreng Nord | 2.5 | 11% | 0% | 69 km |
| 10 | Beaumont Haute-Savoie | 2.2 | 40% | 48% | 280 km |
| 11 | Chapareillan Isère | 2.2 | 57% | 98% | 221 km |
| 12 | Béthisy-Saint-Pierre Oise | 2.1 | 37% | 21% | 127 km |
| 13 | Custines Meurthe-et-Moselle | 2 | 38% | 0% | 355 km |
| 14 | Fumay Ardennes | 2 | 92% | 100% | 185 km |
| 15 | Chens-sur-Léman Haute-Savoie | 1.9 | 41% | 5% | 299 km |
| 16 | La Sentinelle Nord | 1.9 | 3.3% | 0.5% | 104 km |
| 17 | Damelevières Meurthe-et-Moselle | 1.6 | 46% | 0% | 386 km |
| 18 | Arbois Jura | 1.4 | 51% | 12% | 373 km |
| 19 | Plancoët Côtes-d'Armor | 1.4 | 13% | 100% | 3.9 km |
| 20 | La Motte Var | 1.3 | 34% | 25% | 18 km |
| 21 | Gréoux-les-Bains Alpes-de-Haute-Provence | 1.2 | 62% | 20% | 63 km |
| 22 | Saint-Genix-les-Villages Savoie | 1.2 | 33% | 4.4% | 247 km |
| 23 | Guichainville Eure | 1.1 | 15% | 0% | 78 km |
| 24 | Gasny Eure | 0.8 | 35% | 9.7% | 98 km |
| 25 | Anor Nord | 0.8 | 37% | 100% | 162 km |
| 26 | Nontron Dordogne | 0.7 | 37% | 100% | 110 km |
| 27 | Colayrac-Saint-Cirq Lot-et-Garonne | 0.7 | 14% | 3.8% | 126 km |
| 28 | Port-Saint-Père Loire-Atlantique | 0.7 | 9.5% | 16% | 20 km |
| 29 | Soulac-sur-Mer Gironde | 0.7 | 23% | 100% | On it |
| 30 | Breuillet Charente-Maritime | 0.7 | 20% | 13% | On it |
| 31 | Noé Haute-Garonne | 0.7 | 7.6% | 5.6% | 150 km |
| 32 | Saint-Denis-de-l'Hôtel Loiret | 0.4 | 38% | 4% | 217 km |
| 33 | Le Grand-Lemps Isère | 0.4 | 24% | 10% | 220 km |
| 34 | Châtillon-sur-Loire Loiret | 0.4 | 15% | 9.3% | 271 km |
| 35 | Blancs-Coteaux Marne | 0.2 | 35% | 2.1% | 220 km |
| 36 | Dissay Vienne | 0.2 | 34% | 24% | 127 km |
| 37 | Miramont-de-Guyenne Lot-et-Garonne | 0.2 | 11% | 0% | 88 km |
| 38 | Lailly-en-Val Loiret | 0.1 | 52% | 60% | 210 km |
| 39 | Chasseneuil-sur-Bonnieure Charente | 0.1 | 23% | 0% | 103 km |
| 40 | La Roche-Chalais Dordogne | 0.1 | 56% | 6.7% | 50 km |
| 41 | Bérat Haute-Garonne | 0 | 11% | 0% | 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 La Chapelle-en-Serval
Named parks, gardens and woods in the commune or within 400 m, the biggest and best-pathed first: Forêt de Chantilly leads, at 2,654 ha. Directions go to a point inside.
Les Pâturages d'Orry
Park or garden
9.1 ha1 km of path
15 minto walk all 1 km of path
0.6 km north-westfrom the center
Directionsto a point inside
Parc du Château de la Borne blanche
Park or garden · 330 m outside the commune
4.7 ha0.3 km of path
1.8 km westfrom the center
Directionsto a point inside
Bois Saint-Jean
Wood or forest
3.5 ha1.4 km of path
20 minto walk all 1.4 km of path
Centralin the middle of La Chapelle-en-Serval
Parcours de Santé
Directionsto a point inside
Parc des Trois Collines
Park or garden · 240 m outside the commune
1.8 ha1 km of path
15 minto walk all 1 km of path
3 km south-westfrom the center
Directionsto a point inside
Place de la Glorie
Park or garden
0.5 ha
Centralin the middle of La Chapelle-en-Serval
Directionsto a point inside
Source: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL): named parks, gardens and woods; sizes are the whole site.
Protected areas
Protected land in and around La Chapelle-en-Serval
The protected areas reaching the commune, and the nearest: national parks, regional nature parks, nature reserves and Natura 2000 sites.
Regional nature park
Oise-Pays de France Regional Nature Park
100% of the commune
Natura 2000 site
Forêts picardes : massif des trois forêts et bois du Roi
21% of the commune0.5 km from the center
Natura 2000 site
Massifs forestiers d’Halatte, de Chantilly et d’Ermenonville
2.1 km from the town center
Share of the commune’s land
Any protected area100%
Regional nature park100%
Natura 2000 site21%
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.
100% of La Chapelle-en-Serval’s land is protected, more than in 93% of compared French towns; the median compared town in Oise has 0.1%. 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
31 km of footpaths cross La Chapelle-en-Serval
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
31 km
2.9 km per km²
Hiking routes
0 km
waymarked: 0 km per km²
Woodland
45%
about 4.9 km² of mapped woods
Km per km² of the commune · mapped on OpenStreetMap
La Chapelle-en-ServalOise medianFrance median
Footpaths2.9
Hiking routes0
024 km per km²
Share of the land · mapped woods and forest
La Chapelle-en-ServalOise medianFrance median
Woodland45%
0%50%100%
That is more than in 72% of compared French towns for footpaths per km², and for woodland more than in 89% 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 La Chapelle-en-Serval is within 800 m of a mapped park or wood, as in most French towns.
A named hiking route within 2 km
Other named walk
Via Sancti Martini - Chemin d'Utrecht6 km
Source: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL), extracts of October 25, 2026 (Geofabrik).
When to get out
The best walking months in La Chapelle-en-Serval: April to September
Météo-France’s 1991–2020 normals at Roissy, 12 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) | 7 | 8 | 12 | 16 | 19 | 23 | 25 | 25 | 21 | 16 | 11 | 8 |
| Rain (mm) | 57 | 48 | 50 | 48 | 67 | 62 | 60 | 58 | 50 | 60 | 60 | 75 |
April is the driest month (48 mm) and July the warmest (highs of 25 °C). 75 mm of rain falls in December, the wettest month. Frost comes on about 33 nights a year. The climate in La Chapelle-en-Serval →
Neighbors
Next to La Chapelle-en-Serval
The nearest towns of 2,500 or more, colored by the share of their land in protected areas.
Orry-la-VilleSurvilliersFossesMarly-la-VilleSaint-WitzCoye-la-ForêtLa Chapelle-en-Serval
Under 1%1–10 %10–25 %25–50 %50 %+
| Town | Protected | Woodland | Paths (km/km²) |
|---|---|---|---|
| La Chapelle-en-Serval | 100% | 45% | 2.9 |
| Orry-la-Ville 3,583 · 1.4 km | 100% | 58% | 3.3 |
| Survilliers 4,091 · 2.9 km | 71% | 23% | 1.1 |
| Fosses 10,570 · 3.2 km | 57% | 5.1% | 3.1 |
| Marly-la-Ville 6,022 · 4.4 km | 0% | 5.5% | 0.9 |
| Saint-Witz 2,724 · 4.7 km | 0.1% | 8.3% | 1.2 |
| Coye-la-Forêt 3,915 · 4.8 km | 100% | 60% | 6.4 |
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 La Chapelle-en-Serval
Is La Chapelle-en-Serval in a national or regional nature park?
Yes: La Chapelle-en-Serval lies in Oise-Pays de France Regional Nature Park (100% of the commune).
Are there good walks in La Chapelle-en-Serval?
OpenStreetMap maps 31 km of footpaths and tracks open on foot in the commune, 2.9 km per km² (the median compared town: 1.7 km per km²).
How much of La Chapelle-en-Serval is woodland?
45% of the commune is mapped woodland, private woods included; the median compared French town has 13%.
Is La Chapelle-en-Serval near the sea?
No: the coast is 132 km from the town center, as the crow flies.
When is the best time for walking in La Chapelle-en-Serval?
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.