First pick
Base Nautique des Girardes
Park or garden
30 ha4.1 km of path
55 minto walk all 4.1 km of path
1.4 km north-eastfrom the center
Directionsto a point inside
Photo: Yodie · CC BY-SA 3.06.7%of the land protected
Outdoors in Lapalud · protected areas, woods and footpaths
Almost every home in Lapalud is within 800 m of a park or wood
Footpaths add up to 10 km across Lapalud (0.6 km per km²). 5% of Lapalud is mapped woodland. 6.7% of Lapalud’s land lies in protected areas. France has no Outdoors Grade yet: these are the figures, each beside the compared towns’ median.
Protected areas
6.7%
of the commune’s land
Compared town: 0.1%
Woodland
5%
of the land, mapped on OpenStreetMap
Compared town: 13%
Footpaths
9.8 km
0.6 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: Base Nautique des Girardes
Throughout this page, the Vaucluse 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 Lapalud 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 areas6.7%Share of the land in a national park, regional nature park, nature reserve or Natura 2000 site
67out of 100
Woodland5%Share of the land mapped as forest or woods on OpenStreetMap
23out of 100
Footpaths0.6 km per km²Km of mapped footpath and track open on foot, per km² of the commune
16out 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
Lapalud has the 13th fewest footpaths per km² of 41 towns its size
The 40 compared French towns nearest in population (3,827 to 3,878 residents), by km of footpath per km². Hover for each one’s protected land and woods; click for its page.
From Saint-Palais-sur-Mer (5.1 km per km²) to Pipriac (0 km per km²).
Every town in the comparison
| Town | Paths (km/km²) | Woodland | Protected | Coast | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Saint-Palais-sur-Mer Charente-Maritime | 5.1 | 58% | 55% | On it |
| 2 | Collonges-sous-Salève Haute-Savoie | 5 | 40% | 51% | 283 km |
| 3 | Beaulieu-sur-Mer Alpes-Maritimes | 4.2 | 0.2% | 0.9% | On it |
| 4 | Réhon Meurthe-et-Moselle | 3.8 | 42% | 0% | 277 km |
| 5 | La Bresse Vosges | 3.5 | 58% | 100% | 450 km |
| 6 | Fraisses Loire | 2.7 | 33% | 0% | 203 km |
| 7 | La Plagne Tarentaise Savoie | 2.7 | 30% | 2.5% | 208 km |
| 8 | Pringy Seine-et-Marne | 2.6 | 24% | 100% | 189 km |
| 9 | Pleumeur-Bodou Côtes-d'Armor | 2.2 | 26% | 17% | On it |
| 10 | Bénodet Finistère | 1.9 | 12% | 0% | On it |
| 11 | Vagney Vosges | 1.9 | 59% | 100% | 440 km |
| 12 | Meyrargues Bouches-du-Rhône | 1.8 | 57% | 46% | 35 km |
| 13 | Saint-Valery-en-Caux Seine-Maritime | 1.8 | 4.3% | 3.2% | On it |
| 14 | Le Vigan Gard | 1.7 | 68% | 100% | 57 km |
| 15 | Saint-Cergues Haute-Savoie | 1.6 | 42% | 19% | 288 km |
| 16 | Saint-Mard Seine-et-Marne | 1.6 | 12% | 0% | 146 km |
| 17 | Sargé-lès-le-Mans Sarthe | 1.6 | 11% | 0% | 136 km |
| 18 | Châteaubernard Charente | 1.5 | 1.2% | 1.6% | 44 km |
| 19 | Le Thuit de l'Oison Eure | 1.5 | 11% | 0% | 46 km |
| 20 | Fléac Charente | 1.4 | 12% | 3.7% | 71 km |
| 21 | Genilac Loire | 1.3 | 14% | 0% | 223 km |
| 22 | La Croix-Valmer Var | 1.3 | 40% | 95% | On it |
| 23 | Ribécourt-Dreslincourt Oise | 1.2 | 37% | 1.5% | 116 km |
| 24 | Wimille Pas-de-Calais | 1.1 | 5.1% | 100% | 1.8 km |
| 25 | Saint-Léger-de-Linières Maine-et-Loire | 1 | 27% | 0% | 109 km |
| 26 | Violaines Pas-de-Calais | 0.8 | 4.8% | 0% | 63 km |
| 27 | Hasnon Nord | 0.8 | 47% | 100% | 94 km |
| 28 | Mondragon Vaucluse | 0.7 | 30% | 17% | 88 km |
| 29 | Lapalud Vaucluse | 0.6 | 5% | 6.7% | 96 km |
| 30 | Celles-sur-Belle Deux-Sèvres | 0.5 | 7.6% | 20% | 67 km |
| 31 | Villieu-Loyes-Mollon Ain | 0.4 | 24% | 17% | 276 km |
| 32 | Saint-Georges-sur-Loire Maine-et-Loire | 0.4 | 7.3% | 7.3% | 101 km |
| 33 | Ferrières-en-Gâtinais Loiret | 0.4 | 19% | 0% | 233 km |
| 34 | Mazères Ariège | 0.3 | 2% | 0.5% | 116 km |
| 35 | Jonquières-Saint-Vincent Gard | 0.3 | 0.1% | 29% | 41 km |
| 36 | Saint-André-de-l'Eure Eure | 0.3 | 11% | 0% | 89 km |
| 37 | Saint-Gildas-des-Bois Loire-Atlantique | 0.3 | 12% | 3.5% | 25 km |
| 38 | Gundershoffen Bas-Rhin | 0.3 | 23% | 0.1% | 422 km |
| 39 | Terranjou Maine-et-Loire | 0.2 | 8.6% | 0% | 118 km |
| 40 | Bosroumois Eure | 0.2 | 1.5% | 0% | 44 km |
| 41 | Pipriac Ille-et-Vilaine | 0 | 3.5% | 0% | 48 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 Lapalud
Named parks, gardens and woods in the commune or within 400 m, the biggest and best-pathed first: Base Nautique des Girardes leads, at 30 ha. Directions go to a point inside.
Source: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL): named parks, gardens and woods; sizes are the whole site.
Protected areas
6.7% of Lapalud 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
Le Rhône aval
6.4% of the commune2.6 km from the center
Natura 2000 site
Milieux alluviaux du Rhône aval
2.9 km from the town center
Share of the commune’s land
Any protected area6.7%
Natura 2000 site6.7%
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.
6.7% of Lapalud’s land is protected, more than in 67% of compared French towns; the median compared town in Vaucluse has 14%.
Source: INPN / PatriNat, protected areas July 2026, Natura 2000 December 2024; shares of IGN’s commune boundary.
Footpaths and woods
10 km of footpaths cross Lapalud
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
9.8 km
0.6 km per km²
Hiking routes
0 km
waymarked: 0 km per km²
Woodland
5%
about 0.9 km² of mapped woods
Km per km² of the commune · mapped on OpenStreetMap
LapaludVaucluse medianFrance median
Footpaths0.6
Hiking routes0
012 km per km²
Share of the land · mapped woods and forest
LapaludVaucluse medianFrance median
Woodland5%
0%50%100%
That is less than in 84% of compared French towns for footpaths per km², and for woodland less than in 77% of compared French towns. Hiking routes often follow paths and lanes already counted, so the two lengths overlap: don’t add them. 99% of Lapalud’s residents live within 800 m of a mapped park or wood, close to the typical town.
Source: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL), extracts of October 25, 2026 (Geofabrik).
When to get out
The best walking months in Lapalud: April, June and August
Météo-France’s 1991–2020 normals at Pierrelatte, 5.4 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) | 9.2 | 10.4 | 11.8 | 13.4 | 14.8 | 15.5 | 15.2 | 14.0 | 12.4 | 10.9 | 9.5 | 8.9 |
| High (°C) | 9 | 11 | 16 | 19 | 23 | 27 | 30 | 30 | 25 | 20 | 13 | 10 |
| Rain (mm) | 62 | 39 | 46 | 65 | 69 | 45 | 40 | 51 | 103 | 111 | 112 | 53 |
February is the driest month (39 mm) and July the warmest (highs of 30 °C). 112 mm of rain falls in November, the wettest month. Frost comes on about 25 nights a year. Summer highs reach 30 °C, too hot for the outline. The climate in Lapalud →
Neighbors
Next to Lapalud
The nearest towns of 2,500 or more, colored by the share of their land in protected areas.
BollènePont-Saint-EspritPierrelatteSaint-Paul-Trois-ChâteauxMondragonBourg-Saint-AndéolLapalud
Under 1%1–10 %10–25 %25–50 %50 %+
| Town | Protected | Woodland | Paths (km/km²) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lapalud | 6.7% | 5% | 0.6 |
| Bollène 14,024 · 5.3 km | 9.5% | 28% | 2.2 |
| Pont-Saint-Esprit 10,958 · 6.9 km | 14% | 5.3% | 0.8 |
| Pierrelatte 13,756 · 7.4 km | 4.4% | 2.8% | 0.7 |
| Saint-Paul-Trois-Châteaux 8,981 · 7.7 km | 0% | 19% | 2.3 |
| Mondragon 3,833 · 8.1 km | 17% | 30% | 0.7 |
| Bourg-Saint-Andéol 7,661 · 8.3 km | 6.1% | 56% | 2 |
Pont-Saint-Esprit and Mondragon have at least twice as much protected land. Bollène, Mondragon and Bourg-Saint-Andéol 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 Lapalud
Is Lapalud in a national or regional nature park?
No, but 6.7% of its land is in a nature reserve or a Natura 2000 site.
Are there good walks in Lapalud?
OpenStreetMap maps 10 km of footpaths and tracks open on foot in the commune, 0.6 km per km² (the median compared town: 1.7 km per km²).
How much of Lapalud is woodland?
5% of the commune is mapped woodland, private woods included; the median compared French town has 13%.
Is Lapalud near the sea?
No: the coast is 96 km from the town center, as the crow flies.
When is the best time for walking in Lapalud?
April, June and August: 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.