First pick
Bois Riollet
Wood or forest
19 ha
4.4 km north-eastfrom the center
Directionsto a point inside
Photo: Benoît Prieur · CC04.4%woodland
Outdoors in Cailloux-sur-Fontaines · protected areas, woods and footpaths
Almost every home in Cailloux-sur-Fontaines is within 800 m of a park or wood
Footpaths add up to 3 km across Cailloux-sur-Fontaines (0.4 km per km²). 4.4% of Cailloux-sur-Fontaines is mapped woodland. No protected area reaches Cailloux-sur-Fontaines; the nearest, La Dombes (Natura 2000), is 4.6 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: La Dombes, 4.6 km
Woodland
4.4%
of the land, mapped on OpenStreetMap
Compared town: 13%
Footpaths
3 km
0.4 km per km²
Compared town: 1.7 km per km²
Hiking routes
1.9 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: Bois Riollet
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 Cailloux-sur-Fontaines?
Read from the data: what stands out first, good and less good.
Protected land nearbyLa Dombes (Natura 2000) is 4.6 km from the town center.Few mapped footpaths0.4 km per km², against 1.7 km per km² for the median compared town.
What sets Cailloux-sur-Fontaines apart: protected land close by. It is shorter on footpaths.
Against French towns
How Cailloux-sur-Fontaines 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
Woodland4.4%Share of the land mapped as forest or woods on OpenStreetMap
21out of 100
Footpaths0.4 km per km²Km of mapped footpath and track open on foot, per km² of the commune
8out of 100
Hiking routes0.2 km per km²Km of waymarked hiking routes (GR and others), per km² of the commune
40out of 100
Percentiles among compared French towns; ties count half.
Towns its size
Cailloux-sur-Fontaines has the 8th fewest footpaths per km² of 41 towns its size
The 40 compared French towns nearest in population (2,956 to 3,020 residents), by km of footpath per km². Hover for each one’s protected land and woods; click for its page.
From Lezennes (8.6 km per km²) to Dangé-Saint-Romain (0.1 km per km²).
Every town in the comparison
| Town | Paths (km/km²) | Woodland | Protected | Coast | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Lezennes Nord | 8.6 | 3.6% | 0% | 66 km |
| 2 | Margency Val-d'Oise | 7.4 | 0.9% | 0% | 134 km |
| 3 | Gorcy Meurthe-et-Moselle | 3.6 | 37% | 0% | 269 km |
| 4 | Saint-Nazaire-les-Eymes Isère | 3 | 37% | 30% | 206 km |
| 5 | Pont-à-Marcq Nord | 2.6 | 1% | 0% | 75 km |
| 6 | Soues Hautes-Pyrénées | 2.4 | 7.2% | 5.9% | 134 km |
| 7 | Drumettaz-Clarafond Savoie | 2.1 | 42% | 5% | 243 km |
| 8 | Courcelles-Chaussy Moselle | 1.9 | 37% | 0% | 340 km |
| 9 | Aniane Hérault | 1.7 | 43% | 14% | 31 km |
| 10 | Agon-Coutainville Manche | 1.7 | 1.1% | 15% | On it |
| 11 | Belleville-sur-Meuse Meuse | 1.6 | 42% | 39% | 288 km |
| 12 | Tourrettes Var | 1.5 | 64% | 1.8% | 21 km |
| 13 | Quillan Aude | 1.4 | 49% | 100% | 70 km |
| 14 | Gruchet-le-Valasse Seine-Maritime | 1.4 | 53% | 0% | 16 km |
| 15 | Retournac Haute-Loire | 1.3 | 55% | 85% | 184 km |
| 16 | Boën-sur-Lignon Loire | 1.2 | 12% | 4.3% | 243 km |
| 17 | Hésingue Haut-Rhin | 1.2 | 17% | 0% | 421 km |
| 18 | Mauléon-Licharre Pyrénées-Atlantiques | 1.1 | 35% | 2.8% | 62 km |
| 19 | Ottange Moselle | 1 | 53% | 0% | 294 km |
| 20 | Zonza Corse-du-Sud | 1 | 40% | 75% | On it |
| 21 | Aubusson Creuse | 1 | 42% | 0% | 235 km |
| 22 | Vimoutiers Orne | 0.9 | 2.2% | 0% | 46 km |
| 23 | Bias Lot-et-Garonne | 0.9 | 2.5% | 0% | 121 km |
| 24 | Saint-Venant Pas-de-Calais | 0.8 | 2.5% | 0% | 48 km |
| 25 | Venerque Haute-Garonne | 0.7 | 13% | 1.4% | 139 km |
| 26 | Montmeyran Drôme | 0.7 | 5.3% | 0% | 154 km |
| 27 | Saint-Laurent-des-Arbres Gard | 0.6 | 28% | 0% | 68 km |
| 28 | Ailly-sur-Somme Somme | 0.6 | 26% | 0% | 46 km |
| 29 | Iteuil Vienne | 0.5 | 23% | 0% | 112 km |
| 30 | Murviel-lès-Béziers Hérault | 0.5 | 5.9% | 0% | 25 km |
| 31 | Boisseuil Haute-Vienne | 0.5 | 21% | 0% | 166 km |
| 32 | Mortain-Bocage Manche | 0.5 | 15% | 54% | 31 km |
| 33 | Lorris Loiret | 0.4 | 54% | 31% | 234 km |
| 34 | Cailloux-sur-Fontaines Rhône | 0.4 | 4.4% | 0% | 262 km |
| 35 | Saint-Lyé Aube | 0.3 | 13% | 0% | 264 km |
| 36 | Dompierre-sur-Besbre Allier | 0.3 | 13% | 46% | 330 km |
| 37 | Cintegabelle Haute-Garonne | 0.2 | 8.9% | 1.4% | 128 km |
| 38 | Barjols Var | 0.2 | 69% | 18% | 49 km |
| 39 | Frontenay-Rohan-Rohan Deux-Sèvres | 0.2 | 2.1% | 100% | 45 km |
| 40 | Rue Somme | 0.2 | 7.7% | 100% | 5.7 km |
| 41 | Dangé-Saint-Romain Vienne | 0.1 | 20% | 0% | 150 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 Cailloux-sur-Fontaines
Named parks, gardens and woods in the commune or within 400 m, the biggest and best-pathed first: Bois Riollet leads, at 19 ha. Directions go to a point inside.
Bois Rozet
Wood or forest
7 ha0.2 km of path
3.1 km north-eastfrom the center
Directionsto a point inside
Bois Grobenet
Wood or forest · 160 m outside the commune
6.4 ha
3.7 km north-eastfrom the center
Directionsto a point inside
Source: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL): named parks, gardens and woods; sizes are the whole site.
Protected areas
La Dombes is the nearest protected area, 4.6 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
La Dombes
4.6 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
3 km of footpaths cross Cailloux-sur-Fontaines
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
3 km
0.4 km per km²
Hiking routes
1.9 km
waymarked: 0.2 km per km²
Woodland
4.4%
about 0.4 km² of mapped woods
Km per km² of the commune · mapped on OpenStreetMap
Cailloux-sur-FontainesRhône medianFrance median
Footpaths0.4
Hiking routes0.2
01.53 km per km²
Share of the land · mapped woods and forest
Cailloux-sur-FontainesRhône medianFrance median
Woodland4.4%
0%50%100%
That is less than in 92% of compared French towns for footpaths per km², and for woodland less 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 Cailloux-sur-Fontaines is within 800 m of a mapped park or wood, as in most French towns.
5 named hiking routes within 2 km
Other named walk
Tour de Lyon, de la Saône au Fort de Vancia17 km
De Fontaines-sur-Saône à Sathonay-Camp7.7 km
Place de la République4.2 km
Le Crêt sur la Saône0.7 km
Tour de Lyon, du Fort de Vancia au Fort de Bron0.6 km
Source: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL), extracts of October 25, 2026 (Geofabrik).
When to get out
The best walking months in Cailloux-sur-Fontaines: April and June to August
Météo-France’s 1991–2020 normals at Lyon-Bron, 16 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) | 9.0 | 10.3 | 11.8 | 13.5 | 14.9 | 15.7 | 15.4 | 14.1 | 12.5 | 10.8 | 9.4 | 8.7 |
| High (°C) | 7 | 9 | 14 | 17 | 22 | 26 | 28 | 28 | 23 | 18 | 11 | 8 |
| Rain (mm) | 50 | 42 | 49 | 69 | 81 | 74 | 67 | 66 | 83 | 100 | 87 | 54 |
February is the driest month (42 mm) and July the warmest (highs of 28 °C). 100 mm of rain falls in October, the wettest month. Frost comes on about 42 nights a year. The climate in Cailloux-sur-Fontaines →
Neighbors
Next to Cailloux-sur-Fontaines
The nearest towns of 2,500 or more, colored by the share of their land in protected areas.
Fontaines-Saint-MartinFontaines-sur-SaôneSathonay-CampCouzon-au-Mont-d'OrMontanayAlbigny-sur-SaôneCailloux-sur-Fontaines
Under 1%1–10 %10–25 %25–50 %50 %+
| Town | Protected | Woodland | Paths (km/km²) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cailloux-sur-Fontaines | 0% | 4.4% | 0.4 |
| Fontaines-Saint-Martin 3,098 · 1.6 km | 0% | 10% | 2.8 |
| Fontaines-sur-Saône 6,957 · 2.5 km | 0% | 14% | 3 |
| Sathonay-Camp 7,019 · 3 km | 0% | 17% | 8.3 |
| Couzon-au-Mont-d'Or 2,619 · 3.2 km | 0% | 42% | 7.2 |
| Montanay 3,308 · 3.2 km | 0% | 7.1% | 0.8 |
| Albigny-sur-Saône 3,057 · 3.4 km | 0% | 25% | 4.8 |
Couzon-au-Mont-d'Or and Albigny-sur-Saône 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 Cailloux-sur-Fontaines
Is Cailloux-sur-Fontaines in a national or regional nature park?
No. The nearest protected area is La Dombes, 4.6 km from the town center.
Are there good walks in Cailloux-sur-Fontaines?
OpenStreetMap maps 3 km of footpaths and tracks open on foot in the commune, 0.4 km per km² (the median compared town: 1.7 km per km²); 2 km of waymarked hiking routes cross it.
How much of Cailloux-sur-Fontaines is woodland?
4.4% of the commune is mapped woodland, private woods included; the median compared French town has 13%.
Is Cailloux-sur-Fontaines near the sea?
No: the coast is 262 km from the town center, as the crow flies.
When is the best time for walking in Cailloux-sur-Fontaines?
April and June to 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 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.