First pick
Forêt domaniale de Montmorency
Wood or forest
1,619 ha186.8 km of path
41 h 30 minto walk all 186.8 km of path
3.1 km northfrom the center
Route Forestière du FaîteRoute Forestière des FondsFoutue Route+5 paths
Directionsto a point inside
Photo: Pierre Poschadel · CC BY-SA 4.064%woodland
Outdoors in Saint-Prix · protected areas, woods and footpaths
Saint-Prix has more footpaths per km² than 9 in 10 French towns
Footpaths add up to 67 km across Saint-Prix (8.4 km per km²). 64% of Saint-Prix is mapped woodland. Waymarked hiking routes add up to 7 km in Saint-Prix. France has no Outdoors Grade yet: these are the figures, each beside the compared towns’ median.
Protected areas
0.5%
of the commune’s land
Nearest: Tourbière du Nid d’Aigle nature reserve, 3.1 km
Woodland
64%
of the land, mapped on OpenStreetMap
Compared town: 13%
Footpaths
67 km
8.4 km per km²
Compared town: 1.7 km per km²
Hiking routes
6.7 km
waymarked, GR and others
Compared town: 0.3 km per km²
Parks & woods
15
named, in or within 400 m of the commune
First: Forêt domaniale de Montmorency
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 Saint-Prix?
Read from the data: what stands out first, good and less good.
A place of footpaths8.4 km per km² of mapped footpath, against 1.7 km per km² for the median compared town.A wooded commune64% mapped woodland, more than in 97% of compared French towns, against 13% for the median compared town.On waymarked routes7 km of GR and other hiking routes cross the commune.Protected land nearbyTourbière du Nid d’Aigle nature reserve is 3.1 km from the town center.
What sets Saint-Prix apart: its footpaths, then its woods.
Against French towns
How Saint-Prix 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 areas0.5%Share of the land in a national park, regional nature park, nature reserve or Natura 2000 site
54out of 100
Woodland64%Share of the land mapped as forest or woods on OpenStreetMap
97out of 100
Footpaths8.4 km per km²Km of mapped footpath and track open on foot, per km² of the commune
98out of 100
Hiking routes0.8 km per km²Km of waymarked hiking routes (GR and others), per km² of the commune
78out of 100
Percentiles among compared French towns; ties count half.
Towns its size
Saint-Prix has the 2nd most footpaths per km² of 41 towns its size
The 40 compared French towns nearest in population (7,509 to 7,713 residents), by km of footpath per km². Hover for each one’s protected land and woods; click for its page.
From Émerainville (9 km per km²) to Hasparren (0.3 km per km²).
Every town in the comparison
| Town | Paths (km/km²) | Woodland | Protected | Coast | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Émerainville Seine-et-Marne | 9 | 43% | 0% | 165 km |
| 2 | Saint-Prix Val-d'Oise | 8.4 | 64% | 0.5% | 132 km |
| 3 | Gérardmer Vosges | 6.3 | 70% | 100% | 445 km |
| 4 | Noisy-le-Roi Yvelines | 4.9 | 20% | 0% | 139 km |
| 5 | Sausset-les-Pins Bouches-du-Rhône | 4.2 | 5.8% | 51% | On it |
| 6 | Lesneven Finistère | 3.4 | 4% | 0% | 6.8 km |
| 7 | Saint-Apollinaire Côte-d'Or | 3.3 | 0.4% | 0% | 403 km |
| 8 | Saint-Péray Ardèche | 3 | 27% | 11% | 165 km |
| 9 | Falaise Calvados | 2.8 | 4% | 0% | 43 km |
| 10 | Saint-Yrieix-sur-Charente Charente | 2.5 | 20% | 8.7% | 74 km |
| 11 | Bidart Pyrénées-Atlantiques | 2.4 | 19% | 7.8% | On it |
| 12 | Faverges-Seythenex Haute-Savoie | 2.4 | 65% | 100% | 239 km |
| 13 | Villars Loire | 2.3 | 0.1% | 0% | 213 km |
| 14 | Saint-Jean-de-Maurienne Savoie | 2.2 | 37% | 0% | 190 km |
| 15 | Châteaubourg Ille-et-Vilaine | 2.1 | 16% | 0% | 57 km |
| 16 | Bourg-Saint-Andéol Ardèche | 2 | 56% | 6.1% | 101 km |
| 17 | Saint-Marcellin Isère | 1.9 | 4.3% | 0% | 192 km |
| 18 | Saint-Maixent-l'École Deux-Sèvres | 1.7 | 2.5% | 0% | 72 km |
| 19 | Villard-Bonnot Isère | 1.7 | 28% | 0% | 203 km |
| 20 | Céret Pyrénées-Orientales | 1.7 | 61% | 2.7% | 26 km |
| 21 | Tullins Isère | 1.6 | 27% | 0% | 211 km |
| 22 | Wissembourg Bas-Rhin | 1.6 | 54% | 67% | 429 km |
| 23 | Mimizan Landes | 1.3 | 75% | 8.2% | On it |
| 24 | Melesse Ille-et-Vilaine | 1.1 | 3.7% | 0% | 38 km |
| 25 | L'Aigle Orne | 1.1 | 8.4% | 0% | 78 km |
| 26 | Les Andelys Eure | 1.1 | 22% | 6.1% | 79 km |
| 27 | Langon Gironde | 1 | 12% | 3.9% | 58 km |
| 28 | Beynes Yvelines | 0.9 | 31% | 0% | 128 km |
| 29 | Jaunay-Marigny Vienne | 0.9 | 9.6% | 27% | 123 km |
| 30 | Parentis-en-Born Landes | 0.8 | 69% | 13% | 16 km |
| 31 | Sucé-sur-Erdre Loire-Atlantique | 0.8 | 13% | 25% | 48 km |
| 32 | Biguglia Haute-Corse | 0.8 | 2.9% | 21% | On it |
| 33 | Rosporden Finistère | 0.8 | 4.7% | 0% | 11 km |
| 34 | Pluvigner Morbihan | 0.7 | 19% | 0% | 9.6 km |
| 35 | Auxonne Côte-d'Or | 0.7 | 42% | 8.8% | 413 km |
| 36 | Bain-de-Bretagne Ille-et-Vilaine | 0.7 | 5% | 0% | 65 km |
| 37 | Déols Indre | 0.6 | 4.6% | 6.9% | 225 km |
| 38 | Machecoul-Saint-Même Loire-Atlantique | 0.5 | 12% | 27% | 13 km |
| 39 | Les Avenières Veyrins-Thuellin Isère | 0.4 | 22% | 11% | 249 km |
| 40 | Loireauxence Loire-Atlantique | 0.3 | 8.3% | 10% | 84 km |
| 41 | Hasparren Pyrénées-Atlantiques | 0.3 | 22% | 7.5% | 22 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 Saint-Prix
Named parks, gardens and woods in the commune or within 400 m, the biggest and best-pathed first: Forêt domaniale de Montmorency leads, at 1,619 ha. Directions go to a point inside.
91
Wood or forest · 310 m outside the commune
14 ha2.8 km of path
35 minto walk all 2.8 km of path
4.1 km northfrom the center
Route du FaîteRoute des PrincesFoutue Route
Directionsto a point inside
113
Wood or forest · 330 m outside the commune
14 ha2.4 km of path
30 minto walk all 2.4 km of path
3.5 km northfrom the center
Route Forestière du Milieu
Directionsto a point inside
112
Wood or forest
10 ha2.8 km of path
40 minto walk all 2.8 km of path
3.3 km northfrom the center
Route Forestière du Milieu
Directionsto a point inside
13
Wood or forest · 330 m outside the commune
14 ha2.2 km of path
30 minto walk all 2.2 km of path
4.2 km northfrom the center
Route des PrincesFoutue RouteRoute Forestière du Faîte
Directionsto a point inside
100
Wood or forest
8.7 ha2.6 km of path
35 minto walk all 2.6 km of path
3.4 km northfrom the center
Route Forestière des Fonds
Directionsto a point inside
98
Wood or forest · 0 m outside the commune
7.2 ha2.4 km of path
30 minto walk all 2.4 km of path
3.7 km northfrom the center
Route Forestière des FondsRoute des Princes
Directionsto a point inside
111
Wood or forest
11 ha1.9 km of path
25 minto walk all 1.9 km of path
3 km northfrom the center
Chemin de la Demi-LieueChemin de la Fontaine des Fièvres
Directionsto a point inside
All 15 named parks, gardens and woods
Forêt domaniale de MontmorencyWood or forest · 1,619 ha · 186.8 km of path
Directions91Wood or forest · 14 ha · 2.8 km of path · just outside
Directions113Wood or forest · 14 ha · 2.4 km of path · just outside
Directions112Wood or forest · 10 ha · 2.8 km of path
Directions13Wood or forest · 14 ha · 2.2 km of path · just outside
Directions100Wood or forest · 8.7 ha · 2.6 km of path
Directions98Wood or forest · 7.2 ha · 2.4 km of path · just outside
Directions111Wood or forest · 11 ha · 1.9 km of path
Directions123Wood or forest · 13 ha · 1.6 km of path · just outside
Directions97Wood or forest · 13 ha · 1.4 km of path · just outside
Directions90Wood or forest · 7.1 ha · 2 km of path · just outside
Directions122Wood or forest · 10 ha · 0.8 km of path · just outside
Directions173Wood or forest · 8.4 ha · 1 km of path · just outside
Directions128Wood or forest · 7.6 ha · 0.8 km of path
Directions94Wood or forest · 5 ha · 1.2 km of path · just outside
DirectionsSource: © 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, 3.3 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
Oise-Pays de France Regional Nature Park
3.3 km from the town center
Nature reserve
Tourbière du Nid d’Aigle nature reserve
3.1 km from the town center
Nature reserve
Tourbière de la Cailleuse nature reserve
3.4 km from the town center
Share of the commune’s land
Any protected area0.5%
Nature reserve0.5%
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
Footpaths and woods in Saint-Prix
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
67 km
8.4 km per km²
Hiking routes
6.7 km
waymarked: 0.8 km per km²
Woodland
64%
about 5 km² of mapped woods
Km per km² of the commune · mapped on OpenStreetMap
Saint-PrixVal-d'Oise medianFrance median
Footpaths8.4
Hiking routes0.8
0510 km per km²
Share of the land · mapped woods and forest
Saint-PrixVal-d'Oise medianFrance median
Woodland64%
0%50%100%
That is more than in 98% of compared French towns for footpaths per km², and for woodland more than in 97% 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 Saint-Prix is within 800 m of a mapped park or wood, as in most French towns.
3 named hiking routes within 2 km
GR de PaysOther named walk
GRP de la Ceinture Verte, étape 12 : La Forêt de Montmorency7.7 km
Sentier des Lisières19 km
Un petit coin de campagne au milieu des villes0.8 km
Source: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL), extracts of October 25, 2026 (Geofabrik).
When to get out
The best walking months in Saint-Prix: April to September
Météo-France’s 1991–2020 normals at Le Bourget, 13 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 | 16 | 20 | 23 | 26 | 25 | 22 | 17 | 11 | 8 |
| Rain (mm) | 47 | 41 | 44 | 43 | 61 | 54 | 56 | 53 | 45 | 57 | 54 | 63 |
February is the driest month (41 mm) and July the warmest (highs of 26 °C). 63 mm of rain falls in December, the wettest month. Frost comes on about 37 nights a year. The climate in Saint-Prix →
Neighbors
Next to Saint-Prix
The nearest towns of 2,500 or more, colored by the share of their land in protected areas.
Saint-Leu-la-ForêtMontlignonLe Plessis-BouchardMargencyErmontEaubonneSaint-Prix
Under 1%1–10 %10–25 %25–50 %50 %+
| Town | Protected | Woodland | Paths (km/km²) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Saint-Prix | 0.5% | 64% | 8.4 |
| Saint-Leu-la-Forêt 16,138 · 1.4 km | 0.5% | 36% | 8.5 |
| Montlignon 3,038 · 1.6 km | 0% | 50% | 5.5 |
| Le Plessis-Bouchard 8,518 · 1.9 km | 0% | 1.2% | 5.8 |
| Margency 3,012 · 2.1 km | 0% | 0.9% | 7.4 |
| Ermont 29,489 · 2.1 km | 0% | 0% | 6.9 |
| Eaubonne 26,211 · 2.2 km | 0% | 1.9% | 5 |
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 Saint-Prix
Is Saint-Prix in a national or regional nature park?
No. The nearest protected area is Tourbière du Nid d’Aigle nature reserve, 3.1 km from the town center.
Are there good walks in Saint-Prix?
OpenStreetMap maps 67 km of footpaths and tracks open on foot in the commune, 8.4 km per km² (the median compared town: 1.7 km per km²); 7 km of waymarked hiking routes cross it.
How much of Saint-Prix is woodland?
64% of the commune is mapped woodland, private woods included; the median compared French town has 13%.
Is Saint-Prix 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 Saint-Prix?
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.