First pick
Petit temple
Wood or forest
1,800 ha17.9 km of path
4 hto walk all 17.9 km of path
7.3 km south-eastfrom the center
Allée des PrincesRoute Forestière Louise
Directionsto a point inside
Photo: isamiga76 from Saint Pierre Lavis,Normandie, France · CC BY 2.024%woodland
Outdoors in Eu · protected areas, woods and footpaths
Almost every home in Eu is within 800 m of a park or wood
Eu has 20 km of waymarked hiking routes. Mapped woodland covers 24% of Eu. No protected area reaches Eu; the nearest, Vallée de la Bresle (Natura 2000), is 0.3 km from the town center. France has no Outdoors Grade yet: these are the figures, each beside the compared towns’ median.
Protected areas
0.6%
of the commune’s land
Nearest: Vallée de la Bresle, 0.3 km
Woodland
24%
of the land, mapped on OpenStreetMap
Compared town: 13%
Footpaths
18 km
1 km per km²
Compared town: 1.7 km per km²
Hiking routes
20 km
waymarked, GR and others
Compared town: 0.3 km per km²
Parks & woods
4
named, in or within 400 m of the commune
First: Petit temple
The sea
3.3 km
from the town center to the coast
Throughout this page, the Seine-Maritime 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 Eu?
Read from the data: what stands out first, good and less good.
On waymarked routes20 km of GR and other hiking routes cross the commune.Near the seaThe coast is 3.3 km from the town center.Protected land nearbyVallée de la Bresle (Natura 2000) is 0.3 km from the town center.
What sets Eu apart: its hiking routes, then the sea nearby.
Against French towns
How Eu 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 areas0.6%Share of the land in a national park, regional nature park, nature reserve or Natura 2000 site
54out of 100
Woodland24%Share of the land mapped as forest or woods on OpenStreetMap
69out of 100
Footpaths1 km per km²Km of mapped footpath and track open on foot, per km² of the commune
32out of 100
Hiking routes1.1 km per km²Km of waymarked hiking routes (GR and others), per km² of the commune
86out of 100
Percentiles among compared French towns; ties count half.
Towns its size
Eu has the 13th fewest footpaths per km² of 41 towns its size
The 40 compared French towns nearest in population (6,452 to 6,547 residents), by km of footpath per km². Hover for each one’s protected land and woods; click for its page.
From La Montagne (5.6 km per km²) to Lezoux (0.2 km per km²).
Every town in the comparison
| Town | Paths (km/km²) | Woodland | Protected | Coast | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | La Montagne Loire-Atlantique | 5.6 | 18% | 9.4% | 28 km |
| 2 | La Mulatière Rhône | 4 | 9.1% | 0% | 248 km |
| 3 | Vezin-le-Coquet Ille-et-Vilaine | 3.9 | 3.6% | 0% | 45 km |
| 4 | Saint-Laurent-Blangy Pas-de-Calais | 3.8 | 7.9% | 0% | 80 km |
| 5 | Marange-Silvange Moselle | 3.4 | 52% | 0% | 317 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 | Saint-Alban Haute-Garonne | 3.1 | 0% | 0% | 152 km |
| 11 | Cormontreuil Marne | 2.9 | 6.1% | 1.5% | 202 km |
| 12 | L'Arbresle Rhône | 2.7 | 4.5% | 0% | 256 km |
| 13 | Calvisson Gard | 2.7 | 27% | 0% | 27 km |
| 14 | Ondres Landes | 2.5 | 59% | 5.2% | On it |
| 15 | La Bouilladisse Bouches-du-Rhône | 2.4 | 40% | 0% | 21 km |
| 16 | Marignier Haute-Savoie | 2.3 | 56% | 3.3% | 268 km |
| 17 | Changé Mayenne | 2.3 | 2.7% | 0% | 73 km |
| 18 | Neuves-Maisons Meurthe-et-Moselle | 2.2 | 5.8% | 0% | 365 km |
| 19 | Eaunes Haute-Garonne | 1.9 | 15% | 0% | 146 km |
| 20 | Gouesnou Finistère | 1.7 | 7.4% | 0% | 6.2 km |
| 21 | Grézieu-la-Varenne Rhône | 1.7 | 9.3% | 0% | 248 km |
| 22 | Ploudalmézeau Finistère | 1.7 | 3.4% | 4.3% | On it |
| 23 | Bon-Encontre Lot-et-Garonne | 1.6 | 8.4% | 0% | 134 km |
| 24 | Le Perray-en-Yvelines Yvelines | 1.6 | 33% | 100% | 137 km |
| 25 | Cuincy Nord | 1.6 | 13% | 0% | 87 km |
| 26 | Saint-Pathus Seine-et-Marne | 1.4 | 1.7% | 0% | 147 km |
| 27 | Entrelacs Savoie | 1.3 | 37% | 9.9% | 254 km |
| 28 | Champagne-sur-Seine Seine-et-Marne | 1.1 | 66% | 0% | 210 km |
| 29 | Eu Seine-Maritime | 1 | 24% | 0.6% | 3.3 km |
| 30 | Saint-Florent-sur-Cher Cher | 0.9 | 22% | 3.7% | 270 km |
| 31 | La Chevrolière Loire-Atlantique | 0.7 | 16% | 11% | 29 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 | Gueugnon Saône-et-Loire | 0.5 | 17% | 0% | 338 km |
| 38 | Estaires Nord | 0.4 | 0.7% | 0% | 50 km |
| 39 | Condom Gers | 0.4 | 11% | 0% | 136 km |
| 40 | Sainte-Livrade-sur-Lot Lot-et-Garonne | 0.3 | 2.4% | 0.2% | 115 km |
| 41 | Lezoux Puy-de-Dôme | 0.2 | 19% | 5.3% | 258 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 Eu
Named parks, gardens and woods in the commune or within 400 m, the biggest and best-pathed first: Petit temple leads, at 1,800 ha. Directions go to a point inside.
Ferme de Beaumont
Park or garden
7.8 ha1 km of path
15 minto walk all 1 km of path
2.5 km south-eastfrom the center
Directionsto a point inside
Parc du Château
Park or garden
1.1 ha0.6 km of path
10 minto walk all 0.6 km of path
Centralin the middle of Eu
Directionsto a point inside
Jardin Jungle Karlostachys
Park or garden
1.1 ha
3.4 km south-eastfrom the center
Directionsto a point inside
Source: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL): named parks, gardens and woods; sizes are the whole site.
Protected areas
Baie de Somme Picardie maritime Regional Nature Park is the nearest protected area, 1.3 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
Baie de Somme Picardie maritime Regional Nature Park
1.3 km from the town center
Natura 2000 site
La forêt d’Eu et les pelouses adjacentes
5.1 km from the town center
Natura 2000 site
Vallée de la Bresle
0.3 km from the town center
Share of the commune’s land
Any protected area0.6%
Natura 2000 site0.6%
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.
Footpaths and woods
18 km of footpaths and 20 km of hiking routes cross Eu
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
18 km
1 km per km²
Hiking routes
20 km
waymarked: 1.1 km per km²
Woodland
24%
about 4.3 km² of mapped woods
Km per km² of the commune · mapped on OpenStreetMap
EuSeine-Maritime medianFrance median
Footpaths1
Hiking routes1.1
012 km per km²
Share of the land · mapped woods and forest
EuSeine-Maritime medianFrance median
Woodland24%
0%50%100%
That is less than in 68% of compared French towns for footpaths per km², and for woodland more than in 69% 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 Eu 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 1205.8 km
Chemin des Étangs11 km
Sentier du Littoral - Le Treport6.4 km
GR 120 passes within 2 km of Eu.
Source: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL), extracts of October 25, 2026 (Geofabrik).
When to get out
The best walking months in Eu: May to September
Météo-France’s 1991–2020 normals at Dieppe, 27 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) | 8.5 | 10.0 | 11.7 | 13.7 | 15.4 | 16.3 | 16.0 | 14.5 | 12.5 | 10.6 | 8.9 | 8.1 |
| High (°C) | 8 | 8 | 11 | 13 | 16 | 19 | 21 | 21 | 19 | 16 | 12 | 9 |
| Rain (mm) | 64 | 56 | 49 | 52 | 61 | 55 | 58 | 70 | 67 | 90 | 89 | 94 |
March is the driest month (49 mm) and August the warmest (highs of 21 °C). 94 mm of rain falls in December, the wettest month. Frost comes on about 24 nights a year. The climate in Eu →
Gardens
A garden to visit in Eu
Named gardens in the commune.
Jardin Jungle KarlostachysIn Eu
DirectionsSource: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL) and Wikidata.
Neighbors
Next to Eu
The nearest towns of 2,500 or more, colored by the share of their land in protected areas.
Mers-les-BainsLe TréportCriel-sur-MerFriville-EscarbotinPetit-CauxBlangy-sur-BresleEu
Under 1%1–10 %10–25 %25–50 %50 %+
| Town | Protected | Woodland | Paths (km/km²) | Coast |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Eu | 0.6% | 24% | 1 | 3.3 km |
| Mers-les-Bains 2,540 · 2.7 km | 100% | 10% | 3.5 | On it |
| Le Tréport 4,378 · 3.3 km | 3.1% | 4.9% | 2.6 | On it |
| Criel-sur-Mer 2,527 · 7.4 km | 7% | 4.9% | 0.7 | On it |
| Friville-Escarbotin 4,306 · 10 km | 100% | 2.1% | 0.5 | 7.2 km |
| Petit-Caux 9,513 · 17 km | 1.1% | 4.6% | 0.3 | On it |
| Blangy-sur-Bresle 2,819 · 20 km | 0.5% | 32% | 0.4 | 23 km |
Mers-les-Bains and Friville-Escarbotin 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 Eu
Is Eu in a national or regional nature park?
No. The nearest protected area is Vallée de la Bresle, 0.3 km from the town center.
Are there good walks in Eu?
OpenStreetMap maps 18 km of footpaths and tracks open on foot in the commune, 1 km per km² (the median compared town: 1.7 km per km²); 20 km of waymarked hiking routes cross it.
How much of Eu is woodland?
24% of the commune is mapped woodland, private woods included; the median compared French town has 13%.
Is Eu near the sea?
No: the coast is 3.3 km from the town center, as the crow flies.
When is the best time for walking in Eu?
May 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.