First pick
Forêt Domaniale de la Deysse
Wood or forest
201 ha4.1 km of path
55 minto walk all 4.1 km of path
1.6 km south-eastfrom the center
Directionsto a point inside
Photo: Florian Pépellin · CC BY-SA 3.09.9%of the land protected
Outdoors in Entrelacs · protected areas, woods and footpaths
37% of Entrelacs is woodland, more than in 8 in 10 French towns
Entrelacs has 68 km of waymarked hiking routes. Footpaths add up to 72 km across Entrelacs (1.3 km per km²). Protected areas cover 9.9% of Entrelacs’ land. France has no Outdoors Grade yet: these are the figures, each beside the compared towns’ median.
Protected areas
9.9%
of the commune’s land
Compared town: 0.1%
Woodland
37%
of the land, mapped on OpenStreetMap
Compared town: 13%
Footpaths
72 km
1.3 km per km²
Compared town: 1.7 km per km²
Hiking routes
68 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: Forêt Domaniale de la Deysse
Throughout this page, the Savoie 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 Entrelacs?
Read from the data: what stands out first, good and less good.
A wooded commune37% mapped woodland, more than in 83% of compared French towns, against 13% for the median compared town.On waymarked routes68 km of GR and other hiking routes cross the commune.
What sets Entrelacs apart: its woods, then its hiking routes.
Against French towns
How Entrelacs 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 areas9.9%Share of the land in a national park, regional nature park, nature reserve or Natura 2000 site
72out of 100
Woodland37%Share of the land mapped as forest or woods on OpenStreetMap
83out of 100
Footpaths1.3 km per km²Km of mapped footpath and track open on foot, per km² of the commune
41out of 100
Hiking routes1.3 km per km²Km of waymarked hiking routes (GR and others), per km² of the commune
89out of 100
Percentiles among compared French towns; ties count half.
Towns its size
Entrelacs has the 17th fewest footpaths per km² of 41 towns its size
The 40 compared French towns nearest in population (6,408 to 6,527 residents), by km of footpath per km². Hover for each one’s protected land and woods; click for its page.
From La Tronche (9 km per km²) to Auneau-Bleury-Saint-Symphorien (0.3 km per km²).
Every town in the comparison
| Town | Paths (km/km²) | Woodland | Protected | Coast | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | La Tronche Isère | 9 | 46% | 43% | 206 km |
| 2 | Bonsecours Seine-Maritime | 7.5 | 34% | 0% | 55 km |
| 3 | La Montagne Loire-Atlantique | 5.6 | 18% | 9.4% | 28 km |
| 4 | Vezin-le-Coquet Ille-et-Vilaine | 3.9 | 3.6% | 0% | 45 km |
| 5 | Saint-Laurent-Blangy Pas-de-Calais | 3.8 | 7.9% | 0% | 80 km |
| 6 | Saint-Priest-en-Jarez Loire | 3.3 | 0.6% | 0% | 214 km |
| 7 | Longpont-sur-Orge Essonne | 3.2 | 15% | 0% | 166 km |
| 8 | Villers-Saint-Paul Oise | 3.2 | 16% | 0% | 115 km |
| 9 | Limours Essonne | 3.1 | 22% | 0.1% | 153 km |
| 10 | Frouard Meurthe-et-Moselle | 3.1 | 59% | 0% | 358 km |
| 11 | Calvisson Gard | 2.7 | 27% | 0% | 27 km |
| 12 | Péronnas Ain | 2.7 | 38% | 8.7% | 304 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 | Sciez Haute-Savoie | 2.1 | 38% | 4.6% | 297 km |
| 17 | Embrun Hautes-Alpes | 1.8 | 37% | 100% | 114 km |
| 18 | Gouesnou Finistère | 1.7 | 7.4% | 0% | 6.2 km |
| 19 | Grézieu-la-Varenne Rhône | 1.7 | 9.3% | 0% | 248 km |
| 20 | Ploudalmézeau Finistère | 1.7 | 3.4% | 4.3% | On it |
| 21 | Le Perray-en-Yvelines Yvelines | 1.6 | 33% | 100% | 137 km |
| 22 | Cuincy Nord | 1.6 | 13% | 0% | 87 km |
| 23 | Saint-Rémy Saône-et-Loire | 1.5 | 9.7% | 0% | 361 km |
| 24 | Saint-Pathus Seine-et-Marne | 1.4 | 1.7% | 0% | 147 km |
| 25 | Entrelacs Savoie | 1.3 | 37% | 9.9% | 254 km |
| 26 | Champagne-sur-Seine Seine-et-Marne | 1.1 | 66% | 0% | 210 km |
| 27 | Mûrs-Erigné Maine-et-Loire | 1 | 6.9% | 21% | 117 km |
| 28 | Eu Seine-Maritime | 1 | 24% | 0.6% | 3.3 km |
| 29 | Louhans-Châteaurenaud Saône-et-Loire | 0.9 | 19% | 1.1% | 353 km |
| 30 | Saint-Florent-sur-Cher Cher | 0.9 | 22% | 3.7% | 270 km |
| 31 | Saint-André-de-Sangonis Hérault | 0.7 | 3.2% | 11% | 30 km |
| 32 | Ambert Puy-de-Dôme | 0.7 | 44% | 100% | 223 km |
| 33 | Brioude Haute-Loire | 0.7 | 7.1% | 1.6% | 200 km |
| 34 | Chatuzange-le-Goubet Drôme | 0.6 | 11% | 0% | 175 km |
| 35 | Plonéour-Lanvern Finistère | 0.6 | 10% | 0.8% | 5 km |
| 36 | Arès Gironde | 0.6 | 87% | 1.3% | On it |
| 37 | Combourg Ille-et-Vilaine | 0.5 | 9% | 0% | 19 km |
| 38 | Estaires Nord | 0.4 | 0.7% | 0% | 50 km |
| 39 | Courthézon Vaucluse | 0.4 | 5.9% | 2.4% | 70 km |
| 40 | Condom Gers | 0.4 | 11% | 0% | 136 km |
| 41 | Auneau-Bleury-Saint-Symphorien Eure-et-Loir | 0.3 | 12% | 1% | 148 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 Entrelacs
Named parks, gardens and woods in the commune or within 400 m, the biggest and best-pathed first: Forêt Domaniale de la Deysse leads, at 201 ha. Directions go to a point inside.
Source: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL): named parks, gardens and woods; sizes are the whole site.
Protected areas
9.9% of Entrelacs lies in protected areas
The protected areas reaching the commune, and the nearest: national parks, regional nature parks, nature reserves and Natura 2000 sites.
Regional nature park
Massif des Bauges Regional Nature Park
2.9 km from the town center
Natura 2000 site
Réseau de zones humides de l’Albanais
5.1% of the commune0.9 km from the center
Natura 2000 site
Lac du Bourget et marais de Chautagne
4.8% of the commune5.2 km from the center
Natura 2000 site
Lac du Bourget et marais de Chautagne
4.8% of the commune5.2 km from the center
Share of the commune’s land
Any protected area9.9%
Natura 2000 site9.9%
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.
9.9% of Entrelacs’ land is protected, more than in 72% of compared French towns; the median compared town in Savoie has 4.7%. 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.
Footpaths and woods
72 km of footpaths and 68 km of hiking routes cross Entrelacs
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
72 km
1.3 km per km²
Hiking routes
68 km
waymarked: 1.3 km per km²
Woodland
37%
about 19.9 km² of mapped woods
Km per km² of the commune · mapped on OpenStreetMap
EntrelacsSavoie medianFrance median
Footpaths1.3
Hiking routes1.3
01.53 km per km²
Share of the land · mapped woods and forest
EntrelacsSavoie medianFrance median
Woodland37%
0%50%100%
That is less than in 59% of compared French towns for footpaths per km², and for woodland more than in 83% 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 Entrelacs is within 800 m of a mapped park or wood, as in most French towns.
3 named hiking routes within 2 km
GR (long-distance)Other named walk
GR 96515 km
Les Marais d’Albens5.8 km
La Chapelle de Ligny4.6 km
GR 965 passes within 2 km of Entrelacs.
Source: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL), extracts of October 25, 2026 (Geofabrik).
When to get out
The best walking months in Entrelacs: April to September
Météo-France’s 1991–2020 normals at Bloye, 4.4 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) | 6 | 8 | 13 | 18 | 22 | 26 | 28 | 27 | 23 | 17 | 10 | 6 |
| Rain (mm) | 99 | 83 | 90 | 91 | 99 | 99 | 86 | 100 | 104 | 118 | 117 | 121 |
February is the driest month (83 mm) and July the warmest (highs of 28 °C). 121 mm of rain falls in December, the wettest month. Frost comes on about 83 nights a year. The climate in Entrelacs →
Neighbors
Next to Entrelacs
The nearest towns of 2,500 or more, colored by the share of their land in protected areas.
La BiolleGrésy-sur-AixAlby-sur-ChéranRumillyAix-les-BainsTresserveEntrelacs
Under 1%1–10 %10–25 %25–50 %50 %+
| Town | Protected | Woodland | Paths (km/km²) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Entrelacs | 9.9% | 37% | 1.3 |
| La Biolle 2,948 · 2.9 km | 5% | 42% | 1.2 |
| Grésy-sur-Aix 4,740 · 6.9 km | 1.2% | 26% | 1.3 |
| Alby-sur-Chéran 2,664 · 7.1 km | 75% | 23% | 1.9 |
| Rumilly 16,442 · 8.9 km | 0.7% | 18% | 2.3 |
| Aix-les-Bains 32,406 · 10 km | 20% | 14% | 3.9 |
| Tresserve 2,909 · 12 km | 66% | 6.1% | 1.3 |
Alby-sur-Chéran, Aix-les-Bains and Tresserve have at least twice as much protected land.
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 Entrelacs
Is Entrelacs in a national or regional nature park?
No, but 9.9% of its land is in a nature reserve or a Natura 2000 site.
Are there good walks in Entrelacs?
OpenStreetMap maps 72 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); 68 km of waymarked hiking routes cross it.
How much of Entrelacs is woodland?
37% of the commune is mapped woodland, private woods included; the median compared French town has 13%.
Is Entrelacs near the sea?
No: the coast is 254 km from the town center, as the crow flies.
When is the best time for walking in Entrelacs?
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.