First pick
Val des Chenevières
Park or garden
7.9 ha1.8 km of path
25 minto walk all 1.8 km of path
0.7 km southfrom the center
Promenade rive gauchePromenade rive droite
Directionsto a point inside
Photo: CHABERT Louis · CC BY-SA 4.04.5%woodland
Outdoors in L'Arbresle · protected areas, woods and footpaths
Almost every home in L'Arbresle is within 800 m of a park or wood
9 km of footpaths cross L'Arbresle (2.7 km per km²). Mapped woodland covers 4.5% of L'Arbresle. No protected area reaches L'Arbresle; the nearest, Mine du Verdy nature reserve, is 7.9 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: Mine du Verdy nature reserve, 7.9 km
Woodland
4.5%
of the land, mapped on OpenStreetMap
Compared town: 13%
Footpaths
9.2 km
2.7 km per km²
Compared town: 1.7 km per km²
Hiking routes
0.1 km
waymarked, GR and others
Compared town: 0.3 km per km²
Parks & woods
2
named, in or within 400 m of the commune
First: Val des Chenevières
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.
Against French towns
How L'Arbresle 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
Woodland4.5%Share of the land mapped as forest or woods on OpenStreetMap
21out of 100
Footpaths2.7 km per km²Km of mapped footpath and track open on foot, per km² of the commune
70out of 100
Hiking routes0 km per km²Km of waymarked hiking routes (GR and others), per km² of the commune
27out of 100
Percentiles among compared French towns; ties count half.
Towns its size
L'Arbresle has the 9th most footpaths per km² of 41 towns its size
The 40 compared French towns nearest in population (6,497 to 6,585 residents), by km of footpath per km². Hover for each one’s protected land and woods; click for its page.
From La Montagne (5.6 km per km²) to Longué-Jumelles (0.2 km per km²).
Every town in the comparison
| Town | Paths (km/km²) | Woodland | Protected | Coast | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | La Montagne Loire-Atlantique | 5.6 | 18% | 9.4% | 28 km |
| 2 | Champigneulles Meurthe-et-Moselle | 4.7 | 77% | 0% | 361 km |
| 3 | Gémenos Bouches-du-Rhône | 4.1 | 22% | 92% | 11 km |
| 4 | La Mulatière Rhône | 4 | 9.1% | 0% | 248 km |
| 5 | Marange-Silvange Moselle | 3.4 | 52% | 0% | 317 km |
| 6 | Limours Essonne | 3.1 | 22% | 0.1% | 153 km |
| 7 | Saint-Alban Haute-Garonne | 3.1 | 0% | 0% | 152 km |
| 8 | Cormontreuil Marne | 2.9 | 6.1% | 1.5% | 202 km |
| 9 | L'Arbresle Rhône | 2.7 | 4.5% | 0% | 256 km |
| 10 | Ondres Landes | 2.5 | 59% | 5.2% | On it |
| 11 | Thoiry Ain | 2.4 | 44% | 63% | 298 km |
| 12 | La Bouilladisse Bouches-du-Rhône | 2.4 | 40% | 0% | 21 km |
| 13 | Marignier Haute-Savoie | 2.3 | 56% | 3.3% | 268 km |
| 14 | Changé Mayenne | 2.3 | 2.7% | 0% | 73 km |
| 15 | Neuves-Maisons Meurthe-et-Moselle | 2.2 | 5.8% | 0% | 365 km |
| 16 | Bouchemaine Maine-et-Loire | 2.2 | 14% | 11% | 113 km |
| 17 | Eaunes Haute-Garonne | 1.9 | 15% | 0% | 146 km |
| 18 | Furiani Haute-Corse | 1.9 | 0.6% | 6.3% | On it |
| 19 | Saint-Juéry Tarn | 1.8 | 11% | 0% | 116 km |
| 20 | Gouesnou Finistère | 1.7 | 7.4% | 0% | 6.2 km |
| 21 | Ploudalmézeau Finistère | 1.7 | 3.4% | 4.3% | On it |
| 22 | Labarthe-sur-Lèze Haute-Garonne | 1.6 | 5.1% | 2% | 144 km |
| 23 | Bon-Encontre Lot-et-Garonne | 1.6 | 8.4% | 0% | 134 km |
| 24 | Saint-Jean-Bonnefonds Loire | 1.4 | 12% | 0% | 212 km |
| 25 | Labruguière Tarn | 1.4 | 44% | 100% | 84 km |
| 26 | Champagne-sur-Seine Seine-et-Marne | 1.1 | 66% | 0% | 210 km |
| 27 | Rives Isère | 1.1 | 13% | 0% | 217 km |
| 28 | Eu Seine-Maritime | 1 | 24% | 0.6% | 3.3 km |
| 29 | Longuenée-en-Anjou Maine-et-Loire | 1 | 6.8% | 2.3% | 114 km |
| 30 | La Chevrolière Loire-Atlantique | 0.7 | 16% | 11% | 29 km |
| 31 | Ambert Puy-de-Dôme | 0.7 | 44% | 100% | 223 km |
| 32 | Brioude Haute-Loire | 0.7 | 7.1% | 1.6% | 200 km |
| 33 | Chatuzange-le-Goubet Drôme | 0.6 | 11% | 0% | 175 km |
| 34 | Gueugnon Saône-et-Loire | 0.5 | 17% | 0% | 338 km |
| 35 | Sainte-Rose Réunion | 0.5 | 48% | 100% | On it |
| 36 | Estaires Nord | 0.4 | 0.7% | 0% | 50 km |
| 37 | Héric Loire-Atlantique | 0.4 | 13% | 0% | 42 km |
| 38 | Sainte-Livrade-sur-Lot Lot-et-Garonne | 0.3 | 2.4% | 0.2% | 115 km |
| 39 | Lezoux Puy-de-Dôme | 0.2 | 19% | 5.3% | 258 km |
| 40 | Le Mené Côtes-d'Armor | 0.2 | 12% | 0% | 25 km |
| 41 | Longué-Jumelles Maine-et-Loire | 0.2 | 21% | 100% | 143 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 L'Arbresle
Named parks, gardens and woods in the commune or within 400 m, the biggest and best-pathed first: Val des Chenevières leads, at 7.9 ha. Directions go to a point inside.
Parc du Souvenir français
Park or garden
0.3 ha0.3 km of path
Centralin the middle of L'Arbresle
Directionsto a point inside
Source: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL): named parks, gardens and woods; sizes are the whole site.
Protected areas
Mine du Verdy nature reserve is the nearest protected area, 7.9 km away
The protected areas reaching the commune, and the nearest: national parks, regional nature parks, nature reserves and Natura 2000 sites.
Nature reserve
Mine du Verdy nature reserve
7.9 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
9 km of footpaths cross L'Arbresle
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
9.2 km
2.7 km per km²
Hiking routes
0.1 km
waymarked: 0 km per km²
Woodland
4.5%
about 0.1 km² of mapped woods
Km per km² of the commune · mapped on OpenStreetMap
L'ArbresleRhône medianFrance median
Footpaths2.7
Hiking routes0
024 km per km²
Share of the land · mapped woods and forest
L'ArbresleRhône medianFrance median
Woodland4.5%
0%50%100%
That is more than in 70% 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 L'Arbresle is within 800 m of a mapped park or wood, as in most French towns.
4 named hiking routes within 2 km
Other named walk
De L'Arbresle à Sain-Bel3.7 km
De Montrottier à Sain-Bel2.8 km
De Sain-Bel à Chaponost0.8 km
De Sain-Bel à Yzeron0.8 km
Source: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL), extracts of October 25, 2026 (Geofabrik).
When to get out
The best walking months in L'Arbresle: April to September
Météo-France’s 1991–2020 normals at Le Breuil, 7.1 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 | 21 | 25 | 28 | 28 | 23 | 18 | 11 | 7 |
| Rain (mm) | 46 | 37 | 42 | 58 | 72 | 73 | 71 | 70 | 68 | 80 | 83 | 50 |
February is the driest month (37 mm) and July the warmest (highs of 28 °C). 83 mm of rain falls in November, the wettest month. Frost comes on about 72 nights a year. The climate in L'Arbresle →
Neighbors
Next to L'Arbresle
The nearest towns of 2,500 or more, colored by the share of their land in protected areas.
Sain-BelLentillySaint-Pierre-la-PaludLozanneDommartinLa Tour-de-SalvagnyL'Arbresle
Under 1%1–10 %10–25 %25–50 %50 %+
| Town | Protected | Woodland | Paths (km/km²) |
|---|---|---|---|
| L'Arbresle | 0% | 4.5% | 2.7 |
| Sain-Bel 2,566 · 2.9 km | 0% | 12% | 1.9 |
| Lentilly 6,623 · 4.8 km | 0% | 15% | 1.3 |
| Saint-Pierre-la-Palud 2,616 · 5.2 km | 0% | 47% | 2.4 |
| Lozanne 3,182 · 6.1 km | 0% | 17% | 1.6 |
| Dommartin 2,687 · 7.8 km | 0% | 12% | 1.5 |
| La Tour-de-Salvagny 4,649 · 8.3 km | 0% | 28% | 3.3 |
Saint-Pierre-la-Palud and La Tour-de-Salvagny 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 L'Arbresle
Is L'Arbresle in a national or regional nature park?
No. The nearest protected area is Mine du Verdy nature reserve, 7.9 km from the town center.
Are there good walks in L'Arbresle?
OpenStreetMap maps 9 km of footpaths and tracks open on foot in the commune, 2.7 km per km² (the median compared town: 1.7 km per km²).
How much of L'Arbresle is woodland?
4.5% of the commune is mapped woodland, private woods included; the median compared French town has 13%.
Is L'Arbresle near the sea?
No: the coast is 256 km from the town center, as the crow flies.
When is the best time for walking in L'Arbresle?
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.