First pick
Forêt de la Bazoge
Wood or forest
163 ha7.8 km of path
1 h 45 minto walk all 7.8 km of path
2.5 km westfrom the center
Directionsto a point inside
Photo: Stephvvv · CC BY-SA 3.025%woodland
Outdoors in La Bazoge · protected areas, woods and footpaths
Almost every home in La Bazoge is within 800 m of a park or wood
La Bazoge has 19 km of waymarked hiking routes. Mapped woodland covers 25% of La Bazoge. No protected area reaches La Bazoge; the nearest, Normandie-Maine Regional Nature Park, is 15 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: Normandie-Maine Regional Nature Park, 15 km
Woodland
25%
of the land, mapped on OpenStreetMap
Compared town: 13%
Footpaths
36 km
1.6 km per km²
Compared town: 1.7 km per km²
Hiking routes
19 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 Bazoge
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.
Against French towns
How La Bazoge 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
Woodland25%Share of the land mapped as forest or woods on OpenStreetMap
70out of 100
Footpaths1.6 km per km²Km of mapped footpath and track open on foot, per km² of the commune
48out of 100
Hiking routes0.8 km per km²Km of waymarked hiking routes (GR and others), per km² of the commune
77out of 100
Percentiles among compared French towns; ties count half.
Towns its size
La Bazoge has the 19th most footpaths per km² of 41 towns its size
The 40 compared French towns nearest in population (3,764 to 3,829 residents), by km of footpath per km². Hover for each one’s protected land and woods; click for its page.
From Barby (6.7 km per km²) to Courtenay (0 km per km²).
Every town in the comparison
| Town | Paths (km/km²) | Woodland | Protected | Coast | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Barby Savoie | 6.7 | 35% | 39% | 232 km |
| 2 | Argonay Haute-Savoie | 5.1 | 35% | 0% | 263 km |
| 3 | Soorts-Hossegor Landes | 4.9 | 30% | 0% | On it |
| 4 | Montgermont Ille-et-Vilaine | 4.8 | 3.2% | 0% | 43 km |
| 5 | Bruyères-le-Châtel Essonne | 4.2 | 64% | 0.1% | 163 km |
| 6 | Clouange Moselle | 3.9 | 50% | 0% | 312 km |
| 7 | Bouliac Gironde | 2.6 | 13% | 4.7% | 22 km |
| 8 | Les Martres-de-Veyre Puy-de-Dôme | 2.6 | 13% | 15% | 245 km |
| 9 | Châteauneuf-Grasse Alpes-Maritimes | 2.6 | 12% | 0% | 13 km |
| 10 | Trébeurden Côtes-d'Armor | 2.5 | 25% | 24% | On it |
| 11 | Montmerle-sur-Saône Ain | 2.4 | 13% | 20% | 286 km |
| 12 | Grand-Aigueblanche Savoie | 2.4 | 63% | 0.1% | 208 km |
| 13 | Sospel Alpes-Maritimes | 2 | 57% | 100% | 12 km |
| 14 | Saint-Symphorien-sur-Coise Rhône | 1.9 | 1.9% | 0% | 232 km |
| 15 | Saint-Mihiel Meuse | 1.8 | 66% | 7.4% | 314 km |
| 16 | Callian Var | 1.7 | 59% | 10% | 19 km |
| 17 | Charlieu Loire | 1.7 | 5.4% | 0% | 289 km |
| 18 | Saint-Étienne-lès-Remiremont Vosges | 1.6 | 73% | 22% | 432 km |
| 19 | La Bazoge Sarthe | 1.6 | 25% | 0% | 126 km |
| 20 | Alénya Pyrénées-Orientales | 1.5 | 0.1% | 5.7% | 4.4 km |
| 21 | Le Thuit de l'Oison Eure | 1.5 | 11% | 0% | 46 km |
| 22 | Ploubezre Côtes-d'Armor | 1.3 | 17% | 6.5% | 3.3 km |
| 23 | Saint-Ay Loiret | 1.3 | 6.3% | 10% | 203 km |
| 24 | Échillais Charente-Maritime | 1.2 | 9% | 8.5% | On it |
| 25 | Saint-Clair-du-Rhône Isère | 1.2 | 19% | 0.2% | 216 km |
| 26 | Saint-Martin-la-Plaine Loire | 0.9 | 11% | 0% | 224 km |
| 27 | Bapaume Pas-de-Calais | 0.8 | 0.9% | 0% | 84 km |
| 28 | Pujols Lot-et-Garonne | 0.8 | 12% | 0% | 123 km |
| 29 | Bénesse-Maremne Landes | 0.7 | 42% | 0.1% | 6.6 km |
| 30 | Lavernose-Lacasse Haute-Garonne | 0.7 | 2.6% | 0% | 153 km |
| 31 | Fougerolles-Saint-Valbert Haute-Saône | 0.7 | 36% | 100% | 429 km |
| 32 | Beaumont-de-Lomagne Tarn-et-Garonne | 0.6 | 6.5% | 0% | 177 km |
| 33 | Vouziers Ardennes | 0.5 | 14% | 18% | 234 km |
| 34 | Puiseux-en-France Val-d'Oise | 0.4 | 2.2% | 0% | 138 km |
| 35 | Chauconin-Neufmontiers Seine-et-Marne | 0.3 | 4.2% | 0% | 158 km |
| 36 | Plémet Côtes-d'Armor | 0.3 | 10% | 0% | 35 km |
| 37 | Nazelles-Négron Indre-et-Loire | 0.3 | 17% | 4.5% | 202 km |
| 38 | Saint-André-de-l'Eure Eure | 0.3 | 11% | 0% | 89 km |
| 39 | Terres-de-Haute-Charente Charente | 0.3 | 23% | 0% | 116 km |
| 40 | Val de Virvée Gironde | 0.1 | 12% | 0% | 16 km |
| 41 | Courtenay Loiret | 0 | 20% | 0% | 253 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 La Bazoge
Named parks, gardens and woods in the commune or within 400 m, the biggest and best-pathed first: Forêt de la Bazoge leads, at 163 ha. Directions go to a point inside.
Source: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL): named parks, gardens and woods; sizes are the whole site.
Protected areas
Normandie-Maine Regional Nature Park is the nearest protected area, 15 km away
The protected areas reaching the commune, and the nearest: national parks, regional nature parks, nature reserves and Natura 2000 sites.
Regional nature park
Normandie-Maine Regional Nature Park
15 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
36 km of footpaths and 19 km of hiking routes cross La Bazoge
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
36 km
1.6 km per km²
Hiking routes
19 km
waymarked: 0.8 km per km²
Woodland
25%
about 5.7 km² of mapped woods
Km per km² of the commune · mapped on OpenStreetMap
La BazogeSarthe medianFrance median
Footpaths1.6
Hiking routes0.8
012 km per km²
Share of the land · mapped woods and forest
La BazogeSarthe medianFrance median
Woodland25%
0%50%100%
That is less than in 52% of compared French towns for footpaths per km², and for woodland more than in 70% 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 La Bazoge is within 800 m of a mapped park or wood, as in most French towns.
7 named hiking routes within 2 km
Other named walk
De la Manche aux Pyrénées 06, Sillé-le-Guillaume - Yvré-l'Évêque13 km
Circuit des fours à chanvre8.7 km
Circuit du bois des îles8.2 km
Circuit des Passerelles7.4 km
Le Chemin du Pavillon à l'hôtel5.8 km
Circuit du Pont de Pierre5 km
Circuit des ruines et du moulin2.8 km
Source: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL), extracts of October 25, 2026 (Geofabrik).
When to get out
The best walking months in La Bazoge: April to September
Météo-France’s 1991–2020 normals at Le Mans, 17 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 | 9.2 | 8.4 |
| High (°C) | 8 | 10 | 13 | 17 | 20 | 24 | 26 | 26 | 22 | 17 | 12 | 9 |
| Rain (mm) | 66 | 49 | 52 | 51 | 63 | 55 | 49 | 49 | 51 | 66 | 67 | 75 |
August is the driest month (49 mm) and July the warmest (highs of 26 °C). 75 mm of rain falls in December, the wettest month. Frost comes on about 40 nights a year. The climate in La Bazoge →
Neighbors
Next to La Bazoge
The nearest towns of 2,500 or more, colored by the share of their land in protected areas.
La MilesseSaint-SaturninCoulainesSargé-lès-le-MansSavigné-l'ÉvêqueLe MansLa Bazoge
Under 1%1–10 %10–25 %25–50 %50 %+
| Town | Protected | Woodland | Paths (km/km²) |
|---|---|---|---|
| La Bazoge | 0% | 25% | 1.6 |
| La Milesse 2,617 · 4 km | 0% | 11% | 0.9 |
| Saint-Saturnin 2,774 · 4.2 km | 0% | 8.9% | 1.9 |
| Coulaines 8,121 · 9.1 km | 0% | 5.5% | 5.4 |
| Sargé-lès-le-Mans 3,851 · 9.7 km | 0% | 11% | 1.6 |
| Savigné-l'Évêque 4,031 · 11 km | 0% | 10% | 0.7 |
| Le Mans 146,249 · 12 km | 0% | 6.6% | 5.5 |
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 La Bazoge
Is La Bazoge in a national or regional nature park?
No. The nearest protected area is Normandie-Maine Regional Nature Park, 15 km from the town center.
Are there good walks in La Bazoge?
OpenStreetMap maps 36 km of footpaths and tracks open on foot in the commune, 1.6 km per km² (the median compared town: 1.7 km per km²); 19 km of waymarked hiking routes cross it.
How much of La Bazoge is woodland?
25% of the commune is mapped woodland, private woods included; the median compared French town has 13%.
Is La Bazoge near the sea?
No: the coast is 126 km from the town center, as the crow flies.
When is the best time for walking in La Bazoge?
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.