First pick
Bois de Boissy
Park or garden
50 ha10.7 km of path
2 h 20 minto walk all 10.7 km of path
1.8 km north-westfrom the center
Chemin des Longs BoisChemin du Trou aux LoupsAllée du Plessis Bouchard+5 paths
Directionsto a point inside
Photo: Pymouss · CC BY-SA 4.01.2%woodland
Outdoors in Le Plessis-Bouchard · protected areas, woods and footpaths
Le Plessis-Bouchard has more footpaths per km² than 9 in 10 French towns
15 km of footpaths cross Le Plessis-Bouchard (5.8 km per km²). Mapped woodland covers 1.2% of Le Plessis-Bouchard. Waymarked hiking routes add up to 2 km in Le Plessis-Bouchard. 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: Tourbière de la Cailleuse nature reserve, 4.4 km
Woodland
1.2%
of the land, mapped on OpenStreetMap
Compared town: 13%
Footpaths
15 km
5.8 km per km²
Compared town: 1.7 km per km²
Hiking routes
2.1 km
waymarked, GR and others
Compared town: 0.3 km per km²
Parks & woods
6
named, in or within 400 m of the commune
First: Bois de Boissy
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 Le Plessis-Bouchard?
Read from the data: what stands out first, good and less good.
A place of footpaths5.8 km per km² of mapped footpath, against 1.7 km per km² for the median compared town.Protected land nearbyTourbière de la Cailleuse nature reserve is 4.4 km from the town center.Little mapped woodland1.2% of the land, against 13% for the median compared town.
What sets Le Plessis-Bouchard apart: its footpaths, then protected land close by. It is shorter on woodland.
Against French towns
How Le Plessis-Bouchard 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
Woodland1.2%Share of the land mapped as forest or woods on OpenStreetMap
7out of 100
Footpaths5.8 km per km²Km of mapped footpath and track open on foot, per km² of the commune
93out of 100
Hiking routes0.8 km per km²Km of waymarked hiking routes (GR and others), per km² of the commune
76out of 100
Percentiles among compared French towns; ties count half.
Towns its size
Le Plessis-Bouchard has the 2nd most footpaths per km² of 41 towns its size
The 40 compared French towns nearest in population (8,431 to 8,606 residents), by km of footpath per km². Hover for each one’s protected land and woods; click for its page.
From La Grande-Motte (6 km per km²) to Mauléon (0.4 km per km²).
Every town in the comparison
| Town | Paths (km/km²) | Woodland | Protected | Coast | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | La Grande-Motte Hérault | 6 | 4% | 53% | On it |
| 2 | Le Plessis-Bouchard Val-d'Oise | 5.8 | 1.2% | 0% | 132 km |
| 3 | Groslay Val-d'Oise | 4.3 | 15% | 0% | 138 km |
| 4 | La Salvetat-Saint-Gilles Haute-Garonne | 4.3 | 12% | 0% | 158 km |
| 5 | Rouvroy Pas-de-Calais | 3.3 | 5% | 0% | 81 km |
| 6 | Pignan Hérault | 3.2 | 1.7% | 34% | 13 km |
| 7 | Saint-Renan Finistère | 2.9 | 5% | 0% | 8 km |
| 8 | Vendin-le-Vieil Pas-de-Calais | 2.7 | 11% | 0% | 72 km |
| 9 | Pérenchies Nord | 2.5 | 0.9% | 0% | 56 km |
| 10 | Trégueux Côtes-d'Armor | 2.4 | 5.5% | 0% | 4.1 km |
| 11 | Varces-Allières-et-Risset Isère | 2.4 | 33% | 32% | 194 km |
| 12 | Sautron Loire-Atlantique | 2.3 | 16% | 0% | 34 km |
| 13 | Ballan-Miré Indre-et-Loire | 2.2 | 30% | 0% | 176 km |
| 14 | Privas Ardèche | 2.1 | 32% | 1.6% | 136 km |
| 15 | Bormes-les-Mimosas Var | 2.1 | 38% | 8.3% | On it |
| 16 | Bassens Gironde | 1.9 | 0.3% | 10% | 13 km |
| 17 | Pont-l'Abbé Finistère | 1.9 | 13% | 2% | On it |
| 18 | Puget-sur-Argens Var | 1.9 | 9.8% | 54% | 6.5 km |
| 19 | Vif Isère | 1.8 | 48% | 7% | 189 km |
| 20 | Ergué-Gabéric Finistère | 1.8 | 21% | 0% | 6.3 km |
| 21 | Hirson Aisne | 1.8 | 66% | 66% | 167 km |
| 22 | Lillebonne Seine-Maritime | 1.6 | 18% | 0% | 16 km |
| 23 | Le Grau-du-Roi Gard | 1.6 | 3.9% | 89% | On it |
| 24 | Uzès Gard | 1.6 | 6.9% | 0% | 57 km |
| 25 | Unieux Loire | 1.5 | 23% | 16% | 205 km |
| 26 | Saint-Aubin-lès-Elbeuf Seine-Maritime | 1.4 | 4.8% | 0.5% | 50 km |
| 27 | Peymeinade Alpes-Maritimes | 1.4 | 31% | 20% | 13 km |
| 28 | Sérignan Hérault | 1.1 | 0.2% | 34% | On it |
| 29 | Reignier-Ésery Haute-Savoie | 1.1 | 26% | 3.1% | 279 km |
| 30 | Éguilles Bouches-du-Rhône | 1 | 12% | 54% | 23 km |
| 31 | Theix-Noyalo Morbihan | 0.9 | 11% | 98% | On it |
| 32 | Talmont-Saint-Hilaire Vendée | 0.6 | 6.9% | 8.5% | On it |
| 33 | Roussillon Isère | 0.6 | 12% | 0% | 209 km |
| 34 | Port-Saint-Louis-du-Rhône Bouches-du-Rhône | 0.6 | 1.2% | 81% | On it |
| 35 | Châteauneuf-sur-Loire Loiret | 0.6 | 49% | 22% | 222 km |
| 36 | Le Loroux-Bottereau Loire-Atlantique | 0.6 | 6.4% | 8.8% | 53 km |
| 37 | Saint-Vallier Saône-et-Loire | 0.6 | 19% | 0% | 344 km |
| 38 | Thaon-les-Vosges Vosges | 0.6 | 41% | 0% | 406 km |
| 39 | Chantonnay Vendée | 0.5 | 12% | 0% | 42 km |
| 40 | Onnaing Nord | 0.5 | 16% | 1.1% | 105 km |
| 41 | Mauléon Deux-Sèvres | 0.4 | 6.8% | 0% | 76 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 Le Plessis-Bouchard
Named parks, gardens and woods in the commune or within 400 m, the biggest and best-pathed first: Bois de Boissy leads, at 50 ha. Directions go to a point inside.
Bois des Éboulures
Wood or forest · 320 m outside the commune
47 ha9.4 km of path
2 h 5 minto walk all 9.4 km of path
2.1 km westfrom the center
Directionsto a point inside
Bois des Aulnaies (Bois d'Aguère)
Wood or forest · 210 m outside the commune
8.1 ha1.2 km of path
15 minto walk all 1.2 km of path
1.7 km northfrom the center
Chemin de la Ferme
Directionsto a point inside
Parc Yves Carric
Park or garden
2.3 ha1 km of path
15 minto walk all 1 km of path
Centralin the middle of Le Plessis-Bouchard
Directionsto a point inside
Square Josquin des Près (Domaine de Saint-Leu la Forêt)
Park or garden · 180 m outside the commune
1.6 ha0.9 km of path
10 minto walk all 0.9 km of path
1.1 km northfrom the center
Directionsto a point inside
Coulée verte de la 5ème avenue
Park or garden · 140 m outside the commune
1.4 ha
1.5 km northfrom the center
Directionsto a point inside
Source: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL): named parks, gardens and woods; sizes are the whole site.
Protected areas
Tourbière de la Cailleuse nature reserve is the nearest protected area, 4.4 km away
The protected areas reaching the commune, and the nearest: national parks, regional nature parks, nature reserves and Natura 2000 sites.
Nature reserve
Tourbière de la Cailleuse nature reserve
4.4 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
Footpaths and woods in Le Plessis-Bouchard
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
15 km
5.8 km per km²
Hiking routes
2.1 km
waymarked: 0.8 km per km²
Woodland
1.2%
about 0 km² of mapped woods
Km per km² of the commune · mapped on OpenStreetMap
Le Plessis-BouchardVal-d'Oise medianFrance median
Footpaths5.8
Hiking routes0.8
03.57 km per km²
Share of the land · mapped woods and forest
Le Plessis-BouchardVal-d'Oise medianFrance median
Woodland1.2%
0%50%100%
That is more than in 93% of compared French towns for footpaths per km², and for woodland less than in 93% 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 Le Plessis-Bouchard is within 800 m of a mapped park or wood, as in most French towns.
2 named hiking routes within 2 km
Other named walk
Un petit coin de campagne au milieu des villes4 km
Sentier des Lisières3 km
Source: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL), extracts of October 25, 2026 (Geofabrik).
When to get out
The best walking months in Le Plessis-Bouchard: April to September
Météo-France’s 1991–2020 normals at Pontoise -Ville, 12 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) | 8.7 | 10.1 | 11.7 | 13.6 | 15.3 | 16.2 | 15.8 | 14.4 | 12.5 | 10.7 | 9.1 | 8.2 |
| High (°C) | 8 | 9 | 13 | 17 | 21 | 24 | 26 | 26 | 22 | 17 | 12 | 8 |
| Rain (mm) | 58 | 52 | 49 | 45 | 62 | 54 | 49 | 53 | 46 | 64 | 59 | 75 |
April is the driest month (45 mm) and August the warmest (highs of 26 °C). 75 mm of rain falls in December, the wettest month. Frost comes on about 35 nights a year. The climate in Le Plessis-Bouchard →
Neighbors
Next to Le Plessis-Bouchard
The nearest towns of 2,500 or more, colored by the share of their land in protected areas.
FranconvilleSaint-Leu-la-ForêtErmontSaint-PrixTavernyMontigny-lès-CormeillesLe Plessis-Bouchard
Under 1%1–10 %10–25 %25–50 %50 %+
| Town | Protected | Woodland | Paths (km/km²) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Le Plessis-Bouchard | 0% | 1.2% | 5.8 |
| Franconville 37,754 · 1.4 km | 0% | 27% | 8.2 |
| Saint-Leu-la-Forêt 16,138 · 1.5 km | 0.5% | 36% | 8.5 |
| Ermont 29,489 · 1.8 km | 0% | 0% | 6.9 |
| Saint-Prix 7,612 · 1.9 km | 0.5% | 64% | 8.4 |
| Taverny 27,593 · 2.7 km | 0.4% | 33% | 10.5 |
| Montigny-lès-Cormeilles 22,457 · 3 km | 0% | 17% | 7 |
Franconville, Saint-Leu-la-Forêt and Saint-Prix 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 Le Plessis-Bouchard
Is Le Plessis-Bouchard in a national or regional nature park?
No. The nearest protected area is Tourbière de la Cailleuse nature reserve, 4.4 km from the town center.
Are there good walks in Le Plessis-Bouchard?
OpenStreetMap maps 15 km of footpaths and tracks open on foot in the commune, 5.8 km per km² (the median compared town: 1.7 km per km²); 2 km of waymarked hiking routes cross it.
How much of Le Plessis-Bouchard is woodland?
1.2% of the commune is mapped woodland, private woods included; the median compared French town has 13%.
Is Le Plessis-Bouchard near the sea?
No: the coast is 132 km from the town center, as the crow flies.
When is the best time for walking in Le Plessis-Bouchard?
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.