First pick
Parc Saint-Pierre
Park or garden · 130 m outside the commune
19 ha6.7 km of path
1 h 30 minto walk all 6.7 km of path
1.4 km westfrom the center
Chemin de Halage
Directionsto a point inside
Photo: APictche · CC BY-SA 4.09.4%of the land protected
Outdoors in Rivery · protected areas, woods and footpaths
Almost every home in Rivery is within 800 m of a park or wood
Footpaths add up to 2 km across Rivery (0.4 km per km²). Mapped woodland covers 6.1% of Rivery. 9.4% of Rivery’s land lies in protected areas. France has no Outdoors Grade yet: these are the figures, each beside the compared towns’ median.
Protected areas
9.4%
of the commune’s land
Compared town: 0.1%
Woodland
6.1%
of the land, mapped on OpenStreetMap
Compared town: 13%
Footpaths
2.4 km
0.4 km per km²
Compared town: 1.7 km per km²
Hiking routes
0.6 km
waymarked, GR and others
Compared town: 0.3 km per km²
Parks & woods
3
named, in or within 400 m of the commune
First: Parc Saint-Pierre
Throughout this page, the Somme 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 Rivery 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 areas9.4%Share of the land in a national park, regional nature park, nature reserve or Natura 2000 site
71out of 100
Woodland6.1%Share of the land mapped as forest or woods on OpenStreetMap
27out of 100
Footpaths0.4 km per km²Km of mapped footpath and track open on foot, per km² of the commune
9out of 100
Hiking routes0.1 km per km²Km of waymarked hiking routes (GR and others), per km² of the commune
30out of 100
Percentiles among compared French towns; ties count half.
Towns its size
Rivery has the 5th fewest footpaths per km² of 41 towns its size
The 40 compared French towns nearest in population (3,609 to 3,663 residents), by km of footpath per km². Hover for each one’s protected land and woods; click for its page.
From Le Vaudreuil (3.9 km per km²) to Vald'Yerre (0.1 km per km²).
Every town in the comparison
| Town | Paths (km/km²) | Woodland | Protected | Coast | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Le Vaudreuil Eure | 3.9 | 43% | 6.2% | 64 km |
| 2 | Champhol Eure-et-Loir | 3.7 | 9.3% | 0% | 137 km |
| 3 | Apprieu Isère | 3 | 45% | 0% | 222 km |
| 4 | Cournonsec Hérault | 2.5 | 0.2% | 49% | 13 km |
| 5 | Saint-Erblon Ille-et-Vilaine | 2.3 | 8.1% | 0% | 58 km |
| 6 | Ézy-sur-Eure Eure | 2.3 | 42% | 8.3% | 100 km |
| 7 | Plestin-les-Grèves Côtes-d'Armor | 2.3 | 16% | 6% | On it |
| 8 | Saint-Léger-du-Bourg-Denis Seine-Maritime | 2.2 | 39% | 4.6% | 55 km |
| 9 | Saint-Vallier-de-Thiey Alpes-Maritimes | 2.1 | 64% | 100% | 19 km |
| 10 | Saint-Germain-du-Corbéis Orne | 1.8 | 11% | 4.1% | 98 km |
| 11 | Saint-Jean-de-Moirans Isère | 1.8 | 5.5% | 0% | 217 km |
| 12 | Saint-Brès Hérault | 1.8 | 0.7% | 0% | 12 km |
| 13 | Montrichard Val de Cher Loir-et-Cher | 1.7 | 60% | 0% | 211 km |
| 14 | Forges-les-Eaux Seine-Maritime | 1.7 | 24% | 4.9% | 47 km |
| 15 | Pradines Lot | 1.6 | 32% | 0% | 169 km |
| 16 | Boujan-sur-Libron Hérault | 1.6 | 9.8% | 0% | 14 km |
| 17 | Montussan Gironde | 1.6 | 11% | 0% | 19 km |
| 18 | Villers-Semeuse Ardennes | 1.5 | 7.8% | 0% | 210 km |
| 19 | Gallargues-le-Montueux Gard | 1.3 | 2% | 2% | 19 km |
| 20 | Viviers Ardèche | 1.3 | 49% | 2.6% | 113 km |
| 21 | Gelos Pyrénées-Atlantiques | 1.3 | 37% | 7.4% | 96 km |
| 22 | Bourgueil Indre-et-Loire | 1.1 | 49% | 100% | 148 km |
| 23 | Champagney Haute-Saône | 1.1 | 76% | 100% | 440 km |
| 24 | Châteauneuf-du-Faou Finistère | 1 | 9.4% | 8% | 20 km |
| 25 | Martillac Gironde | 1 | 18% | 0% | 32 km |
| 26 | Arcangues Pyrénées-Atlantiques | 1 | 32% | 7.3% | 5.2 km |
| 27 | Pont-de-Buis-lès-Quimerch Finistère | 1 | 27% | 100% | On it |
| 28 | Belleu Aisne | 0.9 | 17% | 0% | 150 km |
| 29 | Canet Hérault | 0.8 | 2.7% | 2.8% | 27 km |
| 30 | Salindres Gard | 0.8 | 4.3% | 0% | 68 km |
| 31 | Saint-Clair-de-la-Tour Isère | 0.7 | 19% | 0% | 240 km |
| 32 | Saint-Philbert-de-Bouaine Vendée | 0.7 | 2.5% | 0% | 35 km |
| 33 | Gouffern en Auge Orne | 0.6 | 25% | 33% | 59 km |
| 34 | Marzy Nièvre | 0.6 | 8.6% | 20% | 332 km |
| 35 | Lizy-sur-Ourcq Seine-et-Marne | 0.4 | 17% | 0% | 161 km |
| 36 | Saint-Jean-d'Hermine Vendée | 0.4 | 9.2% | 2.4% | 27 km |
| 37 | Rivery Somme | 0.4 | 6.1% | 9.4% | 56 km |
| 38 | Chauffailles Saône-et-Loire | 0.4 | 32% | 0% | 295 km |
| 39 | Garchizy Nièvre | 0.3 | 9% | 12% | 333 km |
| 40 | Montoire-sur-le-Loir Loir-et-Cher | 0.3 | 14% | 0.4% | 185 km |
| 41 | Vald'Yerre Eure-et-Loir | 0.1 | 6.5% | 0.1% | 159 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 Rivery
Named parks, gardens and woods in the commune or within 400 m, the biggest and best-pathed first: Parc Saint-Pierre leads, at 19 ha. Directions go to a point inside.
Parc Laënnec
Park or garden
1.2 ha0.2 km of path
Centralin the middle of Rivery
Directionsto a point inside
Source: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL): named parks, gardens and woods; sizes are the whole site.
Protected areas
9.4% of Rivery lies in protected areas
The protected areas reaching the commune, and the nearest: national parks, regional nature parks, nature reserves and Natura 2000 sites.
Natura 2000 site
Étangs et marais du bassin de la Somme
9.3% of the commune0.5 km from the center
Natura 2000 site
Marais de la moyenne Somme entre Amiens et Corbie
9.3% of the commune0.5 km from the center
Share of the commune’s land
Any protected area9.4%
Natura 2000 site9.4%
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.
9.4% of Rivery’s land is protected, more than in 71% of compared French towns; the median compared town in Somme has 0.4%.
Source: INPN / PatriNat, protected areas July 2026, Natura 2000 December 2024; shares of IGN’s commune boundary.
Footpaths and woods
2 km of footpaths cross Rivery
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
2.4 km
0.4 km per km²
Hiking routes
0.6 km
waymarked: 0.1 km per km²
Woodland
6.1%
about 0.4 km² of mapped woods
Km per km² of the commune · mapped on OpenStreetMap
RiverySomme medianFrance median
Footpaths0.4
Hiking routes0.1
012 km per km²
Share of the land · mapped woods and forest
RiverySomme medianFrance median
Woodland6.1%
0%50%100%
That is less than in 91% of compared French towns for footpaths per km², and for woodland less than in 73% 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 Rivery 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
Molliens-au-Bois - Amiens14 km
Péronne - Amiens5.6 km
Amiens - Saint-Valéry-sur-Somme2.9 km
Chemin d'Amiens à Compiègne2.7 km
Amiens - La Houssoye1.4 km
Source: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL), extracts of October 25, 2026 (Geofabrik).
When to get out
The best walking months in Rivery: April to September
Météo-France’s 1991–2020 normals at Amiens-Glisy, 5.2 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) | 8.5 | 10.0 | 11.7 | 13.7 | 15.4 | 16.3 | 15.9 | 14.4 | 12.5 | 10.6 | 9.0 | 8.1 |
| High (°C) | 7 | 8 | 12 | 15 | 19 | 22 | 24 | 24 | 21 | 16 | 11 | 7 |
| Rain (mm) | 49 | 45 | 45 | 39 | 56 | 55 | 59 | 60 | 48 | 58 | 60 | 72 |
April is the driest month (39 mm) and August the warmest (highs of 24 °C). 72 mm of rain falls in December, the wettest month. Frost comes on about 45 nights a year. The climate in Rivery →
Neighbors
Next to Rivery
The nearest towns of 2,500 or more, colored by the share of their land in protected areas.
CamonAmiensLongueauSalouëlBovesSaleuxRivery
Under 1%1–10 %10–25 %25–50 %50 %+
Boves and Saleux are more wooded.
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 Rivery
Is Rivery in a national or regional nature park?
No, but 9.4% of its land is in a nature reserve or a Natura 2000 site.
Are there good walks in Rivery?
OpenStreetMap maps 2 km of footpaths and tracks open on foot in the commune, 0.4 km per km² (the median compared town: 1.7 km per km²).
How much of Rivery is woodland?
6.1% of the commune is mapped woodland, private woods included; the median compared French town has 13%.
Is Rivery near the sea?
No: the coast is 56 km from the town center, as the crow flies.
When is the best time for walking in Rivery?
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.