First pick
Site du Bac à Traille
Park or garden
1.4 ha0.4 km of path
Centralin the middle of Ampuis
Directionsto a point inside
Photo: http://www.kvins.com · CC BY 2.095%of the land protected
Outdoors in Ampuis · protected areas, woods and footpaths
Ampuis lies inside Pilat Regional Nature Park
95% of Ampuis’ land lies in protected areas. Mapped woodland covers 36% of Ampuis. Waymarked hiking routes add up to 7 km in Ampuis. France has no Outdoors Grade yet: these are the figures, each beside the compared towns’ median.
Protected areas
95%
of the commune’s land
Compared town: 0.1%
Woodland
36%
of the land, mapped on OpenStreetMap
Compared town: 13%
Footpaths
26 km
1.7 km per km²
Compared town: 1.7 km per km²
Hiking routes
7 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: Site du Bac à Traille
Throughout this page, the Rhône 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 Ampuis?
Read from the data: what stands out first, good and less good.
Inside Pilat Regional Nature Park95% of the commune is in the regional nature park.A wooded commune36% mapped woodland, more than in 82% of compared French towns, against 13% for the median compared town.
What sets Ampuis apart: the regional nature park around it, then its woods.
Against French towns
How Ampuis 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 areas95%Share of the land in a national park, regional nature park, nature reserve or Natura 2000 site
91out of 100
Woodland36%Share of the land mapped as forest or woods on OpenStreetMap
82out of 100
Footpaths1.7 km per km²Km of mapped footpath and track open on foot, per km² of the commune
50out of 100
Hiking routes0.5 km per km²Km of waymarked hiking routes (GR and others), per km² of the commune
58out of 100
Percentiles among compared French towns; ties count half.
Towns its size
Ampuis has the 11th most footpaths per km² of 41 towns its size
The 40 compared French towns nearest in population (2,742 to 2,796 residents), by km of footpath per km². Hover for each one’s protected land and woods; click for its page.
From Andilly (7.1 km per km²) to Sains-du-Nord (0.1 km per km²).
Every town in the comparison
| Town | Paths (km/km²) | Woodland | Protected | Coast | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Andilly Val-d'Oise | 7.1 | 53% | 0% | 134 km |
| 2 | Argelès-Gazost Hautes-Pyrénées | 4.3 | 17% | 100% | 130 km |
| 3 | Pabu Côtes-d'Armor | 3.6 | 22% | 0% | 15 km |
| 4 | Collioure Pyrénées-Orientales | 3.4 | 6.3% | 4% | On it |
| 5 | Pinsaguel Haute-Garonne | 2.8 | 14% | 29% | 146 km |
| 6 | Saint-Lunaire Ille-et-Vilaine | 2.6 | 21% | 100% | On it |
| 7 | Montfort-l'Amaury Yvelines | 2.1 | 16% | 100% | 129 km |
| 8 | Malaucène Vaucluse | 2.1 | 57% | 100% | 83 km |
| 9 | Loire-sur-Rhône Rhône | 1.9 | 44% | 84% | 229 km |
| 10 | Saint-Saturnin Sarthe | 1.9 | 8.9% | 0% | 129 km |
| 11 | Ampuis Rhône | 1.7 | 36% | 95% | 222 km |
| 12 | Les Adrets-de-l'Estérel Var | 1.6 | 80% | 0% | 9.2 km |
| 13 | Venarey-les-Laumes Côte-d'Or | 1.5 | 18% | 2.2% | 357 km |
| 14 | Venette Oise | 1.4 | 7.3% | 0% | 117 km |
| 15 | L'Isle-sur-le-Doubs Doubs | 1.4 | 50% | 0% | 413 km |
| 16 | Trieux Meurthe-et-Moselle | 1.3 | 31% | 0% | 299 km |
| 17 | Beaumont-le-Roger Eure | 1.2 | 79% | 2% | 50 km |
| 18 | Charolles Saône-et-Loire | 1.2 | 20% | 0% | 320 km |
| 19 | Mussidan Dordogne | 1.1 | 13% | 1.7% | 75 km |
| 20 | Saint-Aignan Loir-et-Cher | 1 | 31% | 0% | 218 km |
| 21 | La Fère Aisne | 0.9 | 12% | 11% | 134 km |
| 22 | Ducey-Les Chéris Manche | 0.9 | 13% | 7.8% | 5.3 km |
| 23 | Orgon Bouches-du-Rhône | 0.8 | 17% | 100% | 40 km |
| 24 | Amancy Haute-Savoie | 0.8 | 14% | 0% | 271 km |
| 25 | Connerré Sarthe | 0.7 | 23% | 0% | 144 km |
| 26 | Arcis-sur-Aube Aube | 0.7 | 10% | 0% | 256 km |
| 27 | Meslay-du-Maine Mayenne | 0.7 | 1% | 0% | 96 km |
| 28 | Marigny-Le-Lozon Manche | 0.7 | 0.2% | 46% | 21 km |
| 29 | Bourron-Marlotte Seine-et-Marne | 0.7 | 42% | 22% | 211 km |
| 30 | Dieuze Moselle | 0.6 | 21% | 24% | 380 km |
| 31 | Warmeriville Marne | 0.5 | 11% | 0% | 205 km |
| 32 | Montignac-Lascaux Dordogne | 0.5 | 52% | 1.6% | 138 km |
| 33 | Baixas Pyrénées-Orientales | 0.5 | 0% | 3.9% | 19 km |
| 34 | Wassy Haute-Marne | 0.5 | 61% | 0% | 302 km |
| 35 | Courville-sur-Eure Eure-et-Loir | 0.4 | 0.2% | 0% | 127 km |
| 36 | Montrevel-en-Bresse Ain | 0.4 | 7.8% | 0% | 319 km |
| 37 | Grandvilliers Oise | 0.3 | 0.4% | 0% | 60 km |
| 38 | Thuré Vienne | 0.2 | 29% | 0% | 136 km |
| 39 | Ennezat Puy-de-Dôme | 0.1 | 0.1% | 0% | 268 km |
| 40 | Sérifontaine Oise | 0.1 | 21% | 0% | 80 km |
| 41 | Sains-du-Nord Nord | 0.1 | 34% | 100% | 149 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 Ampuis
Named parks, gardens and woods in the commune or within 400 m, the biggest and best-pathed first: Site du Bac à Traille leads, at 1.4 ha. Directions go to a point inside.
Source: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL): named parks, gardens and woods; sizes are the whole site.
Protected areas
Protected land in and around Ampuis
The protected areas reaching the commune, and the nearest: national parks, regional nature parks, nature reserves and Natura 2000 sites.
Regional nature park
Pilat Regional Nature Park
95% of the commune
Share of the commune’s land
Any protected area95%
Regional nature park95%
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.
95% of Ampuis’ land is protected, more than in 91% of compared French towns; the median compared town in Rhône has 0%. 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
26 km of footpaths and 7 km of hiking routes cross Ampuis
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
26 km
1.7 km per km²
Hiking routes
7 km
waymarked: 0.5 km per km²
Woodland
36%
about 5.6 km² of mapped woods
Km per km² of the commune · mapped on OpenStreetMap
AmpuisRhône medianFrance median
Footpaths1.7
Hiking routes0.5
01.53 km per km²
Share of the land · mapped woods and forest
AmpuisRhône medianFrance median
Woodland36%
0%50%100%
That is more than in 50% of compared French towns for footpaths per km², and for woodland more than in 82% 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 Ampuis 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
Sentier des Vignes7 km
Vossères - Croix des Chasseurs - fixme0.9 km
Source: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL), extracts of October 25, 2026 (Geofabrik).
When to get out
The best walking months in Ampuis: April, June and August
Météo-France’s 1991–2020 normals at Sablons, 19 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) | 9.1 | 10.3 | 11.8 | 13.5 | 14.9 | 15.7 | 15.3 | 14.1 | 12.5 | 10.8 | 9.4 | 8.7 |
| High (°C) | 8 | 11 | 16 | 19 | 24 | 28 | 30 | 30 | 25 | 19 | 13 | 9 |
| Rain (mm) | 51 | 38 | 45 | 62 | 74 | 65 | 68 | 63 | 84 | 107 | 99 | 50 |
February is the driest month (38 mm) and July the warmest (highs of 30 °C). 107 mm of rain falls in October, the wettest month. Frost comes on about 57 nights a year. Summer highs reach 30 °C, too hot for the outline. The climate in Ampuis →
Neighbors
Next to Ampuis
The nearest towns of 2,500 or more, colored by the share of their land in protected areas.
CondrieuVienneSaint-Clair-du-RhôneLoire-sur-RhônePont-ÉvêqueChasse-sur-RhôneAmpuis
Under 1%1–10 %10–25 %25–50 %50 %+
| Town | Protected | Woodland | Paths (km/km²) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ampuis | 95% | 36% | 1.7 |
| Condrieu 3,957 · 4.7 km | 100% | 20% | 2 |
| Vienne 31,778 · 6.3 km | 0.1% | 30% | 2.6 |
| Saint-Clair-du-Rhône 3,778 · 6.7 km | 0.2% | 19% | 1.2 |
| Loire-sur-Rhône 2,746 · 7.2 km | 84% | 44% | 1.9 |
| Pont-Évêque 6,213 · 9.1 km | 0% | 17% | 1.4 |
| Chasse-sur-Rhône 6,588 · 9.8 km | 0% | 12% | 2.2 |
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 Ampuis
Is Ampuis in a national or regional nature park?
Yes: Ampuis lies in Pilat Regional Nature Park (95% of the commune).
Are there good walks in Ampuis?
OpenStreetMap maps 26 km of footpaths and tracks open on foot in the commune, 1.7 km per km² (the median compared town: 1.7 km per km²); 7 km of waymarked hiking routes cross it.
How much of Ampuis is woodland?
36% of the commune is mapped woodland, private woods included; the median compared French town has 13%.
Is Ampuis near the sea?
No: the coast is 222 km from the town center, as the crow flies.
When is the best time for walking in Ampuis?
April, June and August: 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 4, 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.