First pick
Forêt de la Flachère
Wood or forest
120 ha9.5 km of path
2 h 5 minto walk all 9.5 km of path
2.3 km south-westfrom the center
Sentier BotaniqueChemin de la Flachère
Directionsto a point inside
Photo: Emeric84 · Public domain20%woodland
Outdoors in Val d'Oingt · protected areas, woods and footpaths
Almost every home in Val d'Oingt is within 800 m of a park or wood
Val d'Oingt has 17 km of waymarked hiking routes. No protected area reaches Val d'Oingt; the nearest, Prairies humides et forêts alluviales du Val de Saône aval (Natura 2000), is 16 km from the town center. 20% of Val d'Oingt is mapped woodland. 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: Prairies humides et forêts alluviales du Val de Saône aval, 16 km
Woodland
20%
of the land, mapped on OpenStreetMap
Compared town: 13%
Footpaths
24 km
1.3 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
1
named, in or within 400 m of the commune
First: Forêt de la Flachère
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 Val d'Oingt 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
Woodland20%Share of the land mapped as forest or woods on OpenStreetMap
63out of 100
Footpaths1.3 km per km²Km of mapped footpath and track open on foot, per km² of the commune
42out of 100
Hiking routes0.9 km per km²Km of waymarked hiking routes (GR and others), per km² of the commune
82out of 100
Percentiles among compared French towns; ties count half.
Towns its size
Val d'Oingt has the 18th most footpaths per km² of 41 towns its size
The 40 compared French towns nearest in population (4,081 to 4,150 residents), by km of footpath per km². Hover for each one’s protected land and woods; click for its page.
From Longeville-lès-Metz (7.3 km per km²) to Benet (0.2 km per km²).
Every town in the comparison
| Town | Paths (km/km²) | Woodland | Protected | Coast | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Longeville-lès-Metz Moselle | 7.3 | 9.3% | 0% | 327 km |
| 2 | Chanteloup-en-Brie Seine-et-Marne | 6.5 | 24% | 0% | 166 km |
| 3 | Montferrier-sur-Lez Hérault | 5.3 | 33% | 8.3% | 16 km |
| 4 | Mareil-Marly Yvelines | 3.8 | 24% | 0% | 136 km |
| 5 | Bouxières-aux-Dames Meurthe-et-Moselle | 3.5 | 30% | 0% | 359 km |
| 6 | Fouras Charente-Maritime | 2.8 | 2.8% | 43% | On it |
| 7 | Turckheim Haut-Rhin | 2.7 | 56% | 7.9% | 469 km |
| 8 | Neufchâtel-Hardelot Pas-de-Calais | 2.5 | 27% | 100% | On it |
| 9 | Aulnat Puy-de-Dôme | 2.1 | 0.1% | 0% | 258 km |
| 10 | Monéteau Yonne | 1.9 | 37% | 0% | 293 km |
| 11 | Bouchain Nord | 1.8 | 18% | 0% | 105 km |
| 12 | Le Houlme Seine-Maritime | 1.7 | 37% | 0% | 44 km |
| 13 | Abscon Nord | 1.6 | 6.4% | 0% | 100 km |
| 14 | Baccarat Meurthe-et-Moselle | 1.6 | 39% | 17% | 412 km |
| 15 | Brie Charente | 1.5 | 35% | 19% | 86 km |
| 16 | Veigy-Foncenex Haute-Savoie | 1.5 | 38% | 0.3% | 293 km |
| 17 | Saint-Romain-le-Puy Loire | 1.4 | 16% | 17% | 222 km |
| 18 | Val d'Oingt Rhône | 1.3 | 20% | 0% | 266 km |
| 19 | Ghyvelde Nord | 1.3 | 0.2% | 6.9% | 3.7 km |
| 20 | Pont-de-l'Arche Eure | 1.2 | 72% | 1.4% | 59 km |
| 21 | Gondecourt Nord | 1.2 | 4.8% | 0% | 68 km |
| 22 | Sainte-Menehould Marne | 1.2 | 70% | 35% | 263 km |
| 23 | Nissan-lez-Enserune Hérault | 1.1 | 4.6% | 38% | 12 km |
| 24 | Survilliers Val-d'Oise | 1.1 | 23% | 71% | 135 km |
| 25 | Chaingy Loiret | 1 | 21% | 2.3% | 202 km |
| 26 | La Destrousse Bouches-du-Rhône | 0.9 | 11% | 6.2% | 19 km |
| 27 | Condé-sur-Vire Manche | 0.9 | 3.4% | 0% | 33 km |
| 28 | Domfront en Poiraie Orne | 0.9 | 13% | 100% | 52 km |
| 29 | Arsac Gironde | 0.9 | 59% | 100% | 6.4 km |
| 30 | Neuilly-en-Thelle Oise | 0.8 | 7.9% | 0% | 114 km |
| 31 | Saint-Lubin-des-Joncherets Eure-et-Loir | 0.7 | 19% | 0% | 97 km |
| 32 | Eauze Gers | 0.6 | 24% | 9.8% | 117 km |
| 33 | Pusignan Rhône | 0.6 | 2.9% | 0% | 256 km |
| 34 | Pézilla-la-Rivière Pyrénées-Orientales | 0.5 | 1.8% | 0% | 22 km |
| 35 | Allassac Corrèze | 0.4 | 21% | 2.2% | 164 km |
| 36 | Les Mées Alpes-de-Haute-Provence | 0.4 | 49% | 17% | 91 km |
| 37 | Sainte-Maure-de-Touraine Indre-et-Loire | 0.3 | 9.9% | 0% | 161 km |
| 38 | Solesmes Nord | 0.3 | 0.7% | 0% | 121 km |
| 39 | Saint-Joachim Loire-Atlantique | 0.2 | 0.1% | 100% | 8.8 km |
| 40 | Vieillevigne Loire-Atlantique | 0.2 | 4% | 0% | 42 km |
| 41 | Benet Vendée | 0.2 | 0.7% | 100% | 41 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 Val d'Oingt
Named parks, gardens and woods in the commune or within 400 m, the biggest and best-pathed first: Forêt de la Flachère leads, at 120 ha. Directions go to a point inside.
Source: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL): named parks, gardens and woods; sizes are the whole site.
Protected areas
Prairies humides et forêts alluviales du Val de Saône aval is the nearest protected area, 16 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
Prairies humides et forêts alluviales du Val de Saône aval
16 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
24 km of footpaths and 17 km of hiking routes cross Val d'Oingt
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
24 km
1.3 km per km²
Hiking routes
17 km
waymarked: 0.9 km per km²
Woodland
20%
about 3.7 km² of mapped woods
Km per km² of the commune · mapped on OpenStreetMap
Val d'OingtRhône medianFrance median
Footpaths1.3
Hiking routes0.9
01.53 km per km²
Share of the land · mapped woods and forest
Val d'OingtRhône medianFrance median
Woodland20%
0%50%100%
That is less than in 58% of compared French towns for footpaths per km², and for woodland more than in 63% 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 Val d'Oingt is within 800 m of a mapped park or wood, as in most French towns.
9 named hiking routes within 2 km
GR (long-distance)Other named walk
GR 767.7 km
De Oingt à Saint-Vérand16 km
Randonnée Voie du Tacot15 km
De Saint Vérand à Bagnols13 km
Beaujolais au Bugey, de Sainte-Paule à Trévoux13 km
De Rivolet à Oingt6.3 km
Chemin d'Assise, Cluny - Montcenis5.6 km
De Bagnols à Lozanne4.4 km
De Liergues à Rivolet0.8 km
GR 76 passes within 2 km of Val d'Oingt.
Source: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL), extracts of October 25, 2026 (Geofabrik).
When to get out
The best walking months in Val d'Oingt: April to September
Météo-France’s 1991–2020 normals at Le Breuil, 3.8 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 Val d'Oingt →
Neighbors
Next to Val d'Oingt
The nearest towns of 2,500 or more, colored by the share of their land in protected areas.
Porte des Pierres DoréesVindry-sur-TurdinePommiersAnseL'ArbresleLimasVal d'Oingt
Under 1%1–10 %10–25 %25–50 %50 %+
| Town | Protected | Woodland | Paths (km/km²) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Val d'Oingt | 0% | 20% | 1.3 |
| Porte des Pierres Dorées 4,185 · 7.3 km | 0% | 9.4% | 0.6 |
| Vindry-sur-Turdine 5,305 · 8.2 km | 0% | 17% | 0.4 |
| Pommiers 2,618 · 9.3 km | 0% | 8.8% | 0.7 |
| Anse 8,206 · 10 km | 0% | 16% | 1.7 |
| L'Arbresle 6,537 · 11 km | 0% | 4.5% | 2.7 |
| Limas 4,750 · 11 km | 0% | 8.5% | 1.4 |
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 Val d'Oingt
Is Val d'Oingt in a national or regional nature park?
No. The nearest protected area is Prairies humides et forêts alluviales du Val de Saône aval, 16 km from the town center.
Are there good walks in Val d'Oingt?
OpenStreetMap maps 24 km of footpaths and tracks open on foot in the commune, 1.3 km per km² (the median compared town: 1.7 km per km²); 17 km of waymarked hiking routes cross it.
How much of Val d'Oingt is woodland?
20% of the commune is mapped woodland, private woods included; the median compared French town has 13%.
Is Val d'Oingt near the sea?
No: the coast is 266 km from the town center, as the crow flies.
When is the best time for walking in Val d'Oingt?
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 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.