First pick
Bois de Bonnet
Wood or forest
559 ha14.7 km of path
3 h 15 minto walk all 14.7 km of path
3.4 km northfrom the center
Layon le NormandRoute du BuffetChemin communal n°3+1 path
Directionsto a point inside
Photo: Michel Mansoux · CC BY-SA 4.0100%of the land protected
Outdoors in Luzarches · protected areas, woods and footpaths
Luzarches lies inside Oise-Pays de France Regional Nature Park
Protected areas cover 100% of Luzarches’ land. Mapped woodland covers 47% of Luzarches. Luzarches has 21 km of waymarked hiking routes. France has no Outdoors Grade yet: these are the figures, each beside the compared towns’ median.
Protected areas
100%
of the commune’s land
Compared town: 0.1%
Woodland
47%
of the land, mapped on OpenStreetMap
Compared town: 13%
Footpaths
54 km
2.6 km per km²
Compared town: 1.7 km per km²
Hiking routes
21 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: Bois de Bonnet
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 Luzarches?
Read from the data: what stands out first, good and less good.
Inside Oise-Pays de France Regional Nature Park100% of the commune is in the regional nature park.A wooded commune47% mapped woodland, more than in 90% of compared French towns, against 13% for the median compared town.On waymarked routes21 km of GR and other hiking routes cross the commune.
What sets Luzarches apart: the regional nature park around it, then its woods.
Against French towns
How Luzarches 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 areas100%Share of the land in a national park, regional nature park, nature reserve or Natura 2000 site
93out of 100
Woodland47%Share of the land mapped as forest or woods on OpenStreetMap
90out of 100
Footpaths2.6 km per km²Km of mapped footpath and track open on foot, per km² of the commune
68out of 100
Hiking routes1 km per km²Km of waymarked hiking routes (GR and others), per km² of the commune
84out of 100
Percentiles among compared French towns; ties count half.
Towns its size
Luzarches has the 6th most footpaths per km² of 41 towns its size
The 40 compared French towns nearest in population (4,952 to 5,064 residents), by km of footpath per km². Hover for each one’s protected land and woods; click for its page.
From Villefranche-sur-Mer (4.2 km per km²) to Laventie (0.1 km per km²).
Every town in the comparison
| Town | Paths (km/km²) | Woodland | Protected | Coast | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Villefranche-sur-Mer Alpes-Maritimes | 4.2 | 19% | 26% | On it |
| 2 | Beaucourt Territoire de Belfort | 3.7 | 33% | 0% | 414 km |
| 3 | Saint-Nom-la-Bretèche Yvelines | 3.6 | 38% | 0% | 136 km |
| 4 | Bezannes Marne | 3.4 | 1.8% | 0.1% | 198 km |
| 5 | Saint-Étienne-au-Mont Pas-de-Calais | 2.8 | 35% | 100% | On it |
| 6 | Luzarches Val-d'Oise | 2.6 | 47% | 100% | 130 km |
| 7 | Saint-Mathieu-de-Tréviers Hérault | 2.6 | 48% | 66% | 26 km |
| 8 | Gruissan Aude | 2.5 | 13% | 100% | On it |
| 9 | Haillicourt Pas-de-Calais | 2.5 | 0.2% | 0% | 63 km |
| 10 | La Mure Isère | 2.2 | 10% | 0% | 176 km |
| 11 | Decazeville Aveyron | 2.2 | 40% | 0% | 168 km |
| 12 | Montchanin Saône-et-Loire | 2.1 | 20% | 0% | 355 km |
| 13 | La Mézière Ille-et-Vilaine | 2.1 | 7.5% | 0% | 36 km |
| 14 | Bonnières-sur-Seine Yvelines | 2.1 | 45% | 20% | 99 km |
| 15 | Sainte-Marie-la-Mer Pyrénées-Orientales | 1.9 | 1.4% | 1.3% | On it |
| 16 | Hauts de Bienne Jura | 1.9 | 77% | 100% | 326 km |
| 17 | Champagne-sur-Oise Val-d'Oise | 1.8 | 33% | 54% | 119 km |
| 18 | Lorette Loire | 1.8 | 13% | 0.2% | 220 km |
| 19 | Bousbecque Nord | 1.5 | 1.4% | 0% | 49 km |
| 20 | Mamers Sarthe | 1.4 | 0.9% | 0.1% | 110 km |
| 21 | Bitche Moselle | 1.3 | 75% | 100% | 398 km |
| 22 | Petite-Forêt Nord | 1.3 | 1.8% | 1.4% | 102 km |
| 23 | Crécy-la-Chapelle Seine-et-Marne | 1.1 | 21% | 0% | 172 km |
| 24 | Plouigneau Finistère | 1.1 | 19% | 12% | 9 km |
| 25 | Cilaos Réunion | 1.1 | 43% | 100% | 18 km |
| 26 | La Souterraine Creuse | 1.1 | 18% | 0% | 193 km |
| 27 | Le Fenouiller Vendée | 1 | 4.1% | 9.9% | 3.5 km |
| 28 | Luynes Indre-et-Loire | 0.8 | 39% | 3.5% | 176 km |
| 29 | Souppes-sur-Loing Seine-et-Marne | 0.7 | 19% | 1.4% | 223 km |
| 30 | Saint-Sever Landes | 0.6 | 17% | 4.2% | 67 km |
| 31 | Heyrieux Isère | 0.6 | 6.6% | 0% | 242 km |
| 32 | Pacy-sur-Eure Eure | 0.6 | 45% | 3.1% | 88 km |
| 33 | Lestrem Pas-de-Calais | 0.5 | 1% | 0% | 52 km |
| 34 | Neuville-aux-Bois Loiret | 0.5 | 19% | 0% | 196 km |
| 35 | Morcenx-la-Nouvelle Landes | 0.4 | 64% | 12% | 34 km |
| 36 | Verdun-sur-Garonne Tarn-et-Garonne | 0.3 | 12% | 8.5% | 174 km |
| 37 | Val d'Erdre-Auxence Maine-et-Loire | 0.3 | 11% | 0% | 97 km |
| 38 | Beaurepaire Isère | 0.3 | 4.5% | 0% | 210 km |
| 39 | Rambervillers Vosges | 0.2 | 38% | 0% | 414 km |
| 40 | Saint-James Manche | 0.2 | 6.3% | 0% | 12 km |
| 41 | Laventie Pas-de-Calais | 0.1 | 0.7% | 0% | 54 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 Luzarches
Named parks, gardens and woods in the commune or within 400 m, the biggest and best-pathed first: Bois de Bonnet leads, at 559 ha. Directions go to a point inside.
Jardin botanique de Luzarches
Park or garden
0.3 ha0.4 km of path
Centralin the middle of Luzarches
Directionsto a point inside
Source: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL): named parks, gardens and woods; sizes are the whole site.
Protected areas
Protected land in and around Luzarches
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
100% of the commune
Natura 2000 site
Forêts picardes : massif des trois forêts et bois du Roi
34% of the commune1.7 km from the center
Share of the commune’s land
Any protected area100%
Regional nature park100%
Natura 2000 site34%
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.
100% of Luzarches’ land is protected, more than in 93% of compared French towns; the median compared town in Val-d'Oise has 0%. 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
54 km of footpaths and 21 km of hiking routes cross Luzarches
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
54 km
2.6 km per km²
Hiking routes
21 km
waymarked: 1 km per km²
Woodland
47%
about 9.7 km² of mapped woods
Km per km² of the commune · mapped on OpenStreetMap
LuzarchesVal-d'Oise medianFrance median
Footpaths2.6
Hiking routes1
02.55 km per km²
Share of the land · mapped woods and forest
LuzarchesVal-d'Oise medianFrance median
Woodland47%
0%50%100%
That is more than in 68% of compared French towns for footpaths per km², and for woodland more than in 90% 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 Luzarches 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
Via Sancti Martini - Chemin d'Utrecht8.7 km
PR392 km
Source: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL), extracts of October 25, 2026 (Geofabrik).
When to get out
The best walking months in Luzarches: April to September
Météo-France’s 1991–2020 normals at Roissy, 14 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 | 23 | 25 | 25 | 21 | 16 | 11 | 8 |
| Rain (mm) | 57 | 48 | 50 | 48 | 67 | 62 | 60 | 58 | 50 | 60 | 60 | 75 |
April is the driest month (48 mm) and July the warmest (highs of 25 °C). 75 mm of rain falls in December, the wettest month. Frost comes on about 33 nights a year. The climate in Luzarches →
Neighbors
Next to Luzarches
The nearest towns of 2,500 or more, colored by the share of their land in protected areas.
ChaumontelViarmesCoye-la-ForêtAsnières-sur-OiseLamorlayeSaint-Martin-du-TertreLuzarches
Under 1%1–10 %10–25 %25–50 %50 %+
| Town | Protected | Woodland | Paths (km/km²) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Luzarches | 100% | 47% | 2.6 |
| Chaumontel 3,332 · 1.4 km | 100% | 36% | 3.9 |
| Viarmes 5,558 · 3.8 km | 100% | 31% | 1.1 |
| Coye-la-Forêt 3,915 · 4.6 km | 100% | 60% | 6.4 |
| Asnières-sur-Oise 3,127 · 4.7 km | 100% | 51% | 3.1 |
| Lamorlaye 9,082 · 5.1 km | 100% | 42% | 2.5 |
| Saint-Martin-du-Tertre 2,689 · 5.6 km | 100% | 57% | 3.4 |
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 Luzarches
Is Luzarches in a national or regional nature park?
Yes: Luzarches lies in Oise-Pays de France Regional Nature Park (100% of the commune).
Are there good walks in Luzarches?
OpenStreetMap maps 54 km of footpaths and tracks open on foot in the commune, 2.6 km per km² (the median compared town: 1.7 km per km²); 21 km of waymarked hiking routes cross it.
How much of Luzarches is woodland?
47% of the commune is mapped woodland, private woods included; the median compared French town has 13%.
Is Luzarches near the sea?
No: the coast is 130 km from the town center, as the crow flies.
When is the best time for walking in Luzarches?
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.