Photo: Lionel Allorge · CC BY-SA 3.0Parks, woods and footpaths in Cherré-Au
Footpaths add up to 8 km across Cherré-Au (0.3 km per km²). No protected area reaches Cherré-Au; the nearest, Perche Regional Nature Park, is 4.7 km from the town center. Cherré-Au has 4 km of waymarked hiking routes. France has no Outdoors Grade yet: these are the figures, each beside the compared towns’ median.
Throughout this page, the Sarthe median and the France median are the median of compared communes (those with an overall grade), each figure its own median.
What kind of outdoors place is Cherré-Au?
Read from the data: what stands out first, good and less good.
What sets Cherré-Au apart: protected land close by. It is shorter on footpaths.
How Cherré-Au 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.
Percentiles among compared French towns; ties count half.
Cherré-Au has the 5th fewest footpaths per km² of 41 towns its size
The 40 compared French towns nearest in population (2,733 to 2,784 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 | Quintin Côtes-d'Armor | 3.6 | 4.7% | 0% | 19 km |
| 4 | Pabu Côtes-d'Armor | 3.6 | 22% | 0% | 15 km |
| 5 | Collioure Pyrénées-Orientales | 3.4 | 6.3% | 4% | On it |
| 6 | Saint-Lunaire Ille-et-Vilaine | 2.6 | 21% | 100% | On it |
| 7 | Balaruc-le-Vieux Hérault | 2.5 | 5.5% | 19% | 5.4 km |
| 8 | Montfort-l'Amaury Yvelines | 2.1 | 16% | 100% | 129 km |
| 9 | Malaucène Vaucluse | 2.1 | 57% | 100% | 83 km |
| 10 | Loire-sur-Rhône Rhône | 1.9 | 44% | 84% | 229 km |
| 11 | Saint-Saturnin Sarthe | 1.9 | 8.9% | 0% | 129 km |
| 12 | Ampuis Rhône | 1.7 | 36% | 95% | 222 km |
| 13 | Les Adrets-de-l'Estérel Var | 1.6 | 80% | 0% | 9.2 km |
| 14 | Venarey-les-Laumes Côte-d'Or | 1.5 | 18% | 2.2% | 357 km |
| 15 | Venette Oise | 1.4 | 7.3% | 0% | 117 km |
| 16 | L'Isle-sur-le-Doubs Doubs | 1.4 | 50% | 0% | 413 km |
| 17 | Trieux Meurthe-et-Moselle | 1.3 | 31% | 0% | 299 km |
| 18 | Beaumont-le-Roger Eure | 1.2 | 79% | 2% | 50 km |
| 19 | Charolles Saône-et-Loire | 1.2 | 20% | 0% | 320 km |
| 20 | Aouste-sur-Sye Drôme | 1.2 | 40% | 2.3% | 141 km |
| 21 | Mussidan Dordogne | 1.1 | 13% | 1.7% | 75 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 | Ronchamp Haute-Saône | 0.8 | 73% | 100% | 440 km |
| 25 | Saleux Somme | 0.7 | 22% | 0% | 53 km |
| 26 | Connerré Sarthe | 0.7 | 23% | 0% | 144 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 | Montrevel-en-Bresse Ain | 0.4 | 7.8% | 0% | 319 km |
| 36 | Huttenheim Bas-Rhin | 0.3 | 32% | 35% | 460 km |
| 37 | Cherré-Au Sarthe | 0.3 | 12% | 0% | 136 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 |
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.
Parks and woods to walk in, in and around Cherré-Au
Named parks, gardens and woods in the commune or within 400 m, the biggest and best-pathed first: Haut Buisson leads, at 60 ha. Directions go to a point inside.
Bois des Vaugaudrons
Source: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL): named parks, gardens and woods; sizes are the whole site.
9 in 10 residents of Cherré-Au live within 800 m of a park or wood
Each square is 1 resident in 100: in green, those within 800 m, as the crow flies, of a mapped park, garden or woodland edge (INSEE’s 200 m population grid against OpenStreetMap).
Residents within 800 m of green space · share of residents
About 300 residents live further away. The distance is a straight line to the edge of a mapped park or wood, not a walk to a gate, and a wood can be private.
Perche Regional Nature Park is the nearest protected area, 4.7 km away
The protected areas reaching the commune, and the nearest: national parks, regional nature parks, nature reserves and Natura 2000 sites.
Perche Regional Nature Park
Share of the commune’s land
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.
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.
8 km of footpaths cross Cherré-Au
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.
Km per km² of the commune · mapped on OpenStreetMap
Share of the land · mapped woods and forest
That is less than in 95% of compared French towns for footpaths per km², and for woodland less than in 55% of compared French towns. Hiking routes often follow paths and lanes already counted, so the two lengths overlap: don’t add them.
2 named hiking routes within 2 km
Source: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL), extracts of October 25, 2026 (Geofabrik).
The best walking months in Cherré-Au: April to September
Météo-France’s 1991–2020 normals at Cormes, 3.2 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) | 8.8 | 10.1 | 11.7 | 13.6 | 15.2 | 16.0 | 15.7 | 14.3 | 12.5 | 10.7 | 9.1 | 8.4 |
| High (°C) | 7 | 9 | 13 | 16 | 20 | 23 | 26 | 26 | 22 | 17 | 11 | 8 |
| Rain (mm) | 72 | 58 | 59 | 52 | 66 | 60 | 55 | 51 | 53 | 71 | 74 | 89 |
August is the driest month (51 mm) and July the warmest (highs of 26 °C). 89 mm of rain falls in December, the wettest month. Frost comes on about 62 nights a year. The climate in Cherré-Au →
Next to Cherré-Au
The nearest towns of 2,500 or more, colored by the share of their land in protected areas.
| Town | Protected | Woodland | Paths (km/km²) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cherré-Au | 0% | 12% | 0.3 |
| La Ferté-Bernard 8,740 · 1.6 km | 0% | 1.2% | 0.9 |
| Val-au-Perche 3,336 · 11 km | 100% | 21% | 0.2 |
| Vibraye 2,523 · 14 km | 5% | 43% | 1.1 |
| Bonnétable 3,703 · 17 km | 0% | 34% | 0.6 |
| Connerré 2,780 · 19 km | 0% | 23% | 0.7 |
| Nogent-le-Rotrou 9,292 · 19 km | 100% | 7.9% | 0.8 |
Val-au-Perche and Nogent-le-Rotrou have at least twice as much protected land. Val-au-Perche, Vibraye and Bonnétable are more wooded.
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 Cherré-Au
Is Cherré-Au in a national or regional nature park?
No. The nearest protected area is Perche Regional Nature Park, 4.7 km from the town center.
Are there good walks in Cherré-Au?
OpenStreetMap maps 8 km of footpaths and tracks open on foot in the commune, 0.3 km per km² (the median compared town: 1.7 km per km²); 4 km of waymarked hiking routes cross it.
How much of Cherré-Au is woodland?
12% of the commune is mapped woodland, private woods included; the median compared French town has 13%.
Is Cherré-Au near the sea?
No: the coast is 136 km from the town center, as the crow flies.
When is the best time for walking in Cherré-Au?
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.