First pick
Île des Aubins
Wood or forest
5.1 ha0.6 km of path
10 minto walk all 0.6 km of path
1.2 km southfrom the center
Directionsto a point inside
Photo: Chatsam · CC BY-SA 3.03.1%woodland
Outdoors in Bruyères-sur-Oise · protected areas, woods and footpaths
Almost every home in Bruyères-sur-Oise is within 800 m of a park or wood
Mapped woodland covers 3.1% of Bruyères-sur-Oise. No protected area reaches Bruyères-sur-Oise; the nearest, Oise-Pays de France Regional Nature Park, is 1.1 km from the town center. Footpaths add up to 9 km across Bruyères-sur-Oise (1 km per km²). France has no Outdoors Grade yet: these are the figures, each beside the compared towns’ median.
Protected areas
0.2%
of the commune’s land
Nearest: Oise-Pays de France Regional Nature Park, 1.1 km
Woodland
3.1%
of the land, mapped on OpenStreetMap
Compared town: 13%
Footpaths
9.3 km
1 km per km²
Compared town: 1.7 km per km²
Hiking routes
0 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: Île des Aubins
Throughout this page, the Val-d'Oise 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 Bruyères-sur-Oise?
Read from the data: what stands out first, good and less good.
Protected land nearbyOise-Pays de France Regional Nature Park is 1.1 km from the town center.Little mapped woodland3.1% of the land, against 13% for the median compared town.
What sets Bruyères-sur-Oise apart: protected land close by. It is shorter on woodland.
Against French towns
How Bruyères-sur-Oise 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 areas0.2%Share of the land in a national park, regional nature park, nature reserve or Natura 2000 site
52out of 100
Woodland3.1%Share of the land mapped as forest or woods on OpenStreetMap
15out of 100
Footpaths1 km per km²Km of mapped footpath and track open on foot, per km² of the commune
33out of 100
Hiking routes0 km per km²Km of waymarked hiking routes (GR and others), per km² of the commune
12out of 100
Percentiles among compared French towns; ties count half.
Towns its size
Bruyères-sur-Oise has the 20th fewest footpaths per km² of 41 towns its size
The 40 compared French towns nearest in population (4,876 to 4,966 residents), by km of footpath per km². Hover for each one’s protected land and woods; click for its page.
From Quiberon (6.6 km per km²) to Charny Orée de Puisaye (0.1 km per km²).
Every town in the comparison
| Town | Paths (km/km²) | Woodland | Protected | Coast | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Quiberon Morbihan | 6.6 | 2.8% | 18% | On it |
| 2 | Grand-Fort-Philippe Nord | 4.5 | 0.1% | 0% | On it |
| 3 | Bogny-sur-Meuse Ardennes | 4.3 | 79% | 100% | 200 km |
| 4 | Beaucourt Territoire de Belfort | 3.7 | 33% | 0% | 414 km |
| 5 | Saint-Nom-la-Bretèche Yvelines | 3.6 | 38% | 0% | 136 km |
| 6 | Le Versoud Isère | 3.2 | 18% | 0% | 202 km |
| 7 | Pechbonnieu Haute-Garonne | 2.8 | 15% | 0% | 150 km |
| 8 | Gratentour Haute-Garonne | 2.8 | 1.8% | 0% | 153 km |
| 9 | L'Île-d'Yeu Vendée | 2.8 | 21% | 44% | On it |
| 10 | La Grand-Croix Loire | 2.5 | 15% | 0% | 219 km |
| 11 | Ballainvilliers Essonne | 2.4 | 2.3% | 0% | 164 km |
| 12 | La Mure Isère | 2.2 | 10% | 0% | 176 km |
| 13 | Uchaud Gard | 2.1 | 32% | 2.7% | 26 km |
| 14 | Sainte-Marie-la-Mer Pyrénées-Orientales | 1.9 | 1.4% | 1.3% | On it |
| 15 | Volvic Puy-de-Dôme | 1.9 | 57% | 100% | 269 km |
| 16 | Lambres-lez-Douai Nord | 1.8 | 4.4% | 0% | 90 km |
| 17 | Laigneville Oise | 1.5 | 29% | 0% | 112 km |
| 18 | Le Quesnoy Nord | 1.4 | 2.1% | 100% | 120 km |
| 19 | Bitche Moselle | 1.3 | 75% | 100% | 398 km |
| 20 | Cluny Saône-et-Loire | 1.1 | 42% | 100% | 322 km |
| 21 | Claira Pyrénées-Orientales | 1.1 | 0% | 0% | 7 km |
| 22 | Bruyères-sur-Oise Val-d'Oise | 1 | 3.1% | 0.2% | 122 km |
| 23 | Verneuil-sur-Vienne Haute-Vienne | 1 | 23% | 0% | 154 km |
| 24 | Mourmelon-le-Grand Marne | 1 | 29% | 0.1% | 226 km |
| 25 | Créon Gironde | 0.9 | 24% | 0% | 32 km |
| 26 | Briare Loiret | 0.8 | 27% | 7.9% | 266 km |
| 27 | Souppes-sur-Loing Seine-et-Marne | 0.7 | 19% | 1.4% | 223 km |
| 28 | Sainte-Eulalie Gironde | 0.6 | 7.3% | 0% | 14 km |
| 29 | Heyrieux Isère | 0.6 | 6.6% | 0% | 242 km |
| 30 | Decize Nièvre | 0.6 | 15% | 32% | 355 km |
| 31 | Bégard Côtes-d'Armor | 0.5 | 11% | 0% | 13 km |
| 32 | Nivillac Morbihan | 0.5 | 9.4% | 3.7% | 9.4 km |
| 33 | Witry-lès-Reims Marne | 0.4 | 3.6% | 0% | 201 km |
| 34 | Saint-Pourçain-sur-Sioule Allier | 0.4 | 6.2% | 9.3% | 311 km |
| 35 | Lisle-sur-Tarn Tarn | 0.4 | 30% | 0% | 136 km |
| 36 | Verdun-sur-Garonne Tarn-et-Garonne | 0.3 | 12% | 8.5% | 174 km |
| 37 | Saint-Père-en-Retz Loire-Atlantique | 0.3 | 5.6% | 5.7% | 8.1 km |
| 38 | Saint-Sulpice-et-Cameyrac Gironde | 0.3 | 6.2% | 7.7% | 20 km |
| 39 | Castelnau-de-Médoc Gironde | 0.2 | 82% | 100% | 10 km |
| 40 | Saint-Laurent-Médoc Gironde | 0.1 | 61% | 100% | 7.6 km |
| 41 | Charny Orée de Puisaye Yonne | 0.1 | 22% | 0% | 266 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 Bruyères-sur-Oise
Named parks, gardens and woods in the commune or within 400 m, the biggest and best-pathed first: Île des Aubins leads, at 5.1 ha. Directions go to a point inside.
Source: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL): named parks, gardens and woods; sizes are the whole site.
Protected areas
Oise-Pays de France Regional Nature Park is the nearest protected area, 1.1 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
Oise-Pays de France Regional Nature Park
1.1 km from the town center
Share of the commune’s land
Any protected area0.2%
Regional nature park0.2%
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
9 km of footpaths cross Bruyères-sur-Oise
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
9.3 km
1 km per km²
Hiking routes
0 km
waymarked: 0 km per km²
Woodland
3.1%
about 0.3 km² of mapped woods
Km per km² of the commune · mapped on OpenStreetMap
Bruyères-sur-OiseVal-d'Oise medianFrance median
Footpaths1
Hiking routes0
02.55 km per km²
Share of the land · mapped woods and forest
Bruyères-sur-OiseVal-d'Oise medianFrance median
Woodland3.1%
0%50%100%
That is less than in 67% of compared French towns for footpaths per km², and for woodland less than in 85% 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 Bruyères-sur-Oise is within 800 m of a mapped park or wood, as in most French towns.
A named hiking route within 2 km
GR (long-distance)
GR 1A8.2 km
GR 1A passes within 2 km of Bruyères-sur-Oise.
Source: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL), extracts of October 25, 2026 (Geofabrik).
When to get out
The best walking months in Bruyères-sur-Oise: April to September
Météo-France’s 1991–2020 normals at Creil, 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) | 8.6 | 10.1 | 11.7 | 13.6 | 15.3 | 16.2 | 15.8 | 14.4 | 12.5 | 10.7 | 9.0 | 8.2 |
| High (°C) | 7 | 8 | 12 | 16 | 19 | 22 | 25 | 25 | 21 | 16 | 11 | 7 |
| Rain (mm) | 56 | 47 | 48 | 45 | 60 | 56 | 56 | 58 | 45 | 61 | 59 | 71 |
September is the driest month (45 mm) and July the warmest (highs of 25 °C). 71 mm of rain falls in December, the wettest month. Frost comes on about 51 nights a year. The climate in Bruyères-sur-Oise →
Neighbors
Next to Bruyères-sur-Oise
The nearest towns of 2,500 or more, colored by the share of their land in protected areas.
Bernes-sur-OiseAsnières-sur-OiseBeaumont-sur-OisePersanViarmesSaint-Martin-du-TertreBruyères-sur-Oise
Under 1%1–10 %10–25 %25–50 %50 %+
| Town | Protected | Woodland | Paths (km/km²) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bruyères-sur-Oise | 0.2% | 3.1% | 1 |
| Bernes-sur-Oise 2,684 · 2.7 km | 0% | 3.8% | 1.4 |
| Asnières-sur-Oise 3,127 · 3.4 km | 100% | 51% | 3.1 |
| Beaumont-sur-Oise 10,232 · 3.5 km | 35% | 26% | 2.4 |
| Persan 14,359 · 4.2 km | 0.1% | 0.3% | 2.5 |
| Viarmes 5,558 · 4.4 km | 100% | 31% | 1.1 |
| Saint-Martin-du-Tertre 2,689 · 5.8 km | 100% | 57% | 3.4 |
Asnières-sur-Oise, Beaumont-sur-Oise and Viarmes have at least twice as much protected land. Asnières-sur-Oise, Beaumont-sur-Oise and Viarmes 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 Bruyères-sur-Oise
Is Bruyères-sur-Oise in a national or regional nature park?
No. The nearest protected area is Oise-Pays de France Regional Nature Park, 1.1 km from the town center.
Are there good walks in Bruyères-sur-Oise?
OpenStreetMap maps 9 km of footpaths and tracks open on foot in the commune, 1 km per km² (the median compared town: 1.7 km per km²).
How much of Bruyères-sur-Oise is woodland?
3.1% of the commune is mapped woodland, private woods included; the median compared French town has 13%.
Is Bruyères-sur-Oise near the sea?
No: the coast is 122 km from the town center, as the crow flies.
When is the best time for walking in Bruyères-sur-Oise?
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.