First pick
Arche de loisirs
Park or garden
9 ha3 km of path
40 minto walk all 3 km of path
0.8 km northfrom the center
Directionsto a point inside
Photo: Alkhimov Maxim · CC BY 3.047%woodland
Outdoors in Mulsanne · protected areas, woods and footpaths
47% of Mulsanne is woodland, more than in 8 in 10 French towns
Mulsanne has 16 km of waymarked hiking routes. Footpaths add up to 43 km across Mulsanne (2.8 km per km²). No protected area reaches Mulsanne; the nearest, Bas-Marais Tourbeux de la Basse-Goulandière nature reserve, is 6.5 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: Bas-Marais Tourbeux de la Basse-Goulandière nature reserve, 6.5 km
Woodland
47%
of the land, mapped on OpenStreetMap
Compared town: 13%
Footpaths
43 km
2.8 km per km²
Compared town: 1.7 km per km²
Hiking routes
16 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: Arche de loisirs
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 place
What kind of outdoors place is Mulsanne?
Read from the data: what stands out first, good and less good.
A wooded commune47% mapped woodland, more than in 90% of compared French towns, against 13% for the median compared town.On waymarked routes16 km of GR and other hiking routes cross the commune.Protected land nearbyBas-Marais Tourbeux de la Basse-Goulandière nature reserve is 6.5 km from the town center.
What sets Mulsanne apart: its woods, then its hiking routes.
Against French towns
How Mulsanne 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
Woodland47%Share of the land mapped as forest or woods on OpenStreetMap
90out of 100
Footpaths2.8 km per km²Km of mapped footpath and track open on foot, per km² of the commune
71out of 100
Hiking routes1.1 km per km²Km of waymarked hiking routes (GR and others), per km² of the commune
85out of 100
Percentiles among compared French towns; ties count half.
Towns its size
Mulsanne has the 9th most footpaths per km² of 41 towns its size
The 40 compared French towns nearest in population (5,190 to 5,304 residents), by km of footpath per km². Hover for each one’s protected land and woods; click for its page.
From Saint-Clément-de-Rivière (6.3 km per km²) to Pauillac (0.2 km per km²).
Every town in the comparison
| Town | Paths (km/km²) | Woodland | Protected | Coast | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Saint-Clément-de-Rivière Hérault | 6.3 | 43% | 2.7% | 18 km |
| 2 | Brou-sur-Chantereine Seine-et-Marne | 5.9 | 62% | 0% | 159 km |
| 3 | Vaux-sur-Seine Yvelines | 5.2 | 57% | 63% | 120 km |
| 4 | Le Rove Bouches-du-Rhône | 4.3 | 0% | 86% | On it |
| 5 | Vernaison Rhône | 4 | 15% | 0% | 239 km |
| 6 | Bauvin Nord | 3.9 | 12% | 0% | 69 km |
| 7 | Moulins-lès-Metz Moselle | 3.5 | 17% | 0% | 328 km |
| 8 | Séméac Hautes-Pyrénées | 3.2 | 21% | 0.4% | 134 km |
| 9 | Mulsanne Sarthe | 2.8 | 47% | 0% | 143 km |
| 10 | Le Bourget-du-Lac Savoie | 2.8 | 57% | 13% | 244 km |
| 11 | Pont-Sainte-Marie Aube | 2.7 | 7.9% | 0.9% | 272 km |
| 12 | Beynost Ain | 2.2 | 10% | 4.9% | 263 km |
| 13 | Nuits-Saint-Georges Côte-d'Or | 2.1 | 25% | 69% | 403 km |
| 14 | Nans-les-Pins Var | 2 | 39% | 100% | 23 km |
| 15 | Villers-le-Lac Doubs | 2 | 45% | 100% | 370 km |
| 16 | Valleiry Haute-Savoie | 1.9 | 30% | 0% | 286 km |
| 17 | Mouilleron-le-Captif Vendée | 1.8 | 6.8% | 0% | 33 km |
| 18 | Forcalquier Alpes-de-Haute-Provence | 1.8 | 17% | 100% | 76 km |
| 19 | Laillé Ille-et-Vilaine | 1.5 | 21% | 0% | 61 km |
| 20 | Tresses Gironde | 1.5 | 9.1% | 0% | 20 km |
| 21 | Farébersviller Moselle | 1.2 | 1.7% | 0% | 363 km |
| 22 | Gorges Loire-Atlantique | 1.1 | 10% | 0% | 52 km |
| 23 | Saint-Saturnin-lès-Avignon Vaucluse | 1.1 | 1.3% | 9.7% | 56 km |
| 24 | Brebières Pas-de-Calais | 1 | 8% | 0% | 90 km |
| 25 | Condat-sur-Vienne Haute-Vienne | 0.9 | 17% | 0% | 160 km |
| 26 | Cazouls-lès-Béziers Hérault | 0.9 | 5.7% | 0% | 22 km |
| 27 | Valence Tarn-et-Garonne | 0.9 | 8.2% | 0.6% | 154 km |
| 28 | Mignaloux-Beauvoir Vienne | 0.9 | 17% | 0% | 121 km |
| 29 | Tourves Var | 0.9 | 44% | 83% | 32 km |
| 30 | Blotzheim Haut-Rhin | 0.8 | 16% | 0% | 424 km |
| 31 | Villette-d'Anthon Isère | 0.8 | 14% | 1.8% | 260 km |
| 32 | Marquise Pas-de-Calais | 0.7 | 1.2% | 100% | 6.8 km |
| 33 | Châtillon-sur-Chalaronne Ain | 0.7 | 4.1% | 5.8% | 293 km |
| 34 | Surzur Morbihan | 0.7 | 8.8% | 100% | On it |
| 35 | Jonquières Vaucluse | 0.7 | 1.9% | 2.4% | 74 km |
| 36 | Guémené-Penfao Loire-Atlantique | 0.6 | 9.4% | 2.7% | 44 km |
| 37 | Florensac Hérault | 0.6 | 3.6% | 0.8% | 10 km |
| 38 | Saint-Lyphard Loire-Atlantique | 0.4 | 6.2% | 100% | 8.4 km |
| 39 | Champniers Charente | 0.3 | 9.7% | 0% | 81 km |
| 40 | Mormant Seine-et-Marne | 0.3 | 7.5% | 0% | 195 km |
| 41 | Pauillac Gironde | 0.2 | 7.2% | 99% | On it |
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 Mulsanne
Named parks, gardens and woods in the commune or within 400 m, the biggest and best-pathed first: Arche de loisirs leads, at 9 ha. Directions go to a point inside.
Les terrasses du Pontvillain
Park or garden
0.3 ha
Centralin the middle of Mulsanne
Directionsto a point inside
Source: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL): named parks, gardens and woods; sizes are the whole site.
Protected areas
Bas-Marais Tourbeux de la Basse-Goulandière nature reserve is the nearest protected area, 6.5 km away
The protected areas reaching the commune, and the nearest: national parks, regional nature parks, nature reserves and Natura 2000 sites.
Nature reserve
Bas-Marais Tourbeux de la Basse-Goulandière nature reserve
6.5 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
43 km of footpaths and 16 km of hiking routes cross Mulsanne
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
43 km
2.8 km per km²
Hiking routes
16 km
waymarked: 1.1 km per km²
Woodland
47%
about 7.2 km² of mapped woods
Km per km² of the commune · mapped on OpenStreetMap
MulsanneSarthe medianFrance median
Footpaths2.8
Hiking routes1.1
024 km per km²
Share of the land · mapped woods and forest
MulsanneSarthe medianFrance median
Woodland47%
0%50%100%
That is more than in 71% of compared French towns for footpaths per km², and for woodland more than in 90% 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 Mulsanne 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
Le circuit du petit chien17 km
Circuit jaune9.1 km
Circuit de Moncé7.7 km
Circuit rouge6.4 km
Circuit bleu6.1 km
Source: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL), extracts of October 25, 2026 (Geofabrik).
When to get out
The best walking months in Mulsanne: April to September
Météo-France’s 1991–2020 normals at Le Mans, 5.6 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 | 10.2 | 11.7 | 13.6 | 15.1 | 16.0 | 15.6 | 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 Mulsanne →
Neighbors
Next to Mulsanne
The nearest towns of 2,500 or more, colored by the share of their land in protected areas.
TelochéRuaudinMoncé-en-BelinLaigné-Saint-GervaisArnageSpayMulsanne
Under 1%1–10 %10–25 %25–50 %50 %+
| Town | Protected | Woodland | Paths (km/km²) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mulsanne | 0% | 47% | 2.8 |
| Teloché 3,067 · 3.2 km | 0% | 9.3% | 0.3 |
| Ruaudin 3,481 · 3.8 km | 0% | 34% | 0.9 |
| Moncé-en-Belin 3,697 · 3.9 km | 0% | 34% | 1.1 |
| Laigné-Saint-Gervais 4,252 · 4.6 km | 0% | 19% | 0.3 |
| Arnage 5,445 · 5.1 km | 0% | 11% | 1.6 |
| Spay 2,808 · 7.6 km | 0% | 10% | 0.7 |
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 Mulsanne
Is Mulsanne in a national or regional nature park?
No. The nearest protected area is Bas-Marais Tourbeux de la Basse-Goulandière nature reserve, 6.5 km from the town center.
Are there good walks in Mulsanne?
OpenStreetMap maps 43 km of footpaths and tracks open on foot in the commune, 2.8 km per km² (the median compared town: 1.7 km per km²); 16 km of waymarked hiking routes cross it.
How much of Mulsanne is woodland?
47% of the commune is mapped woodland, private woods included; the median compared French town has 13%.
Is Mulsanne near the sea?
No: the coast is 143 km from the town center, as the crow flies.
When is the best time for walking in Mulsanne?
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.