First pick
Parc de la mairie
Park or garden · 360 m outside the commune
0.8 ha
6.3 km north-westfrom the center
Directionsto a point inside
Photo: Yodie · CC BY-SA 3.017%of the land protected
Outdoors in Mondragon · protected areas, woods and footpaths
Almost every home in Mondragon is within 800 m of a park or wood
Mapped woodland covers 30% of Mondragon. Footpaths add up to 27 km across Mondragon (0.7 km per km²). 17% of Mondragon’s land lies in protected areas. France has no Outdoors Grade yet: these are the figures, each beside the compared towns’ median.
Protected areas
17%
of the commune’s land
Compared town: 0.1%
Woodland
30%
of the land, mapped on OpenStreetMap
Compared town: 13%
Footpaths
27 km
0.7 km per km²
Compared town: 1.7 km per km²
Hiking routes
25 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: Parc de la mairie
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 Mondragon 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 areas17%Share of the land in a national park, regional nature park, nature reserve or Natura 2000 site
76out of 100
Woodland30%Share of the land mapped as forest or woods on OpenStreetMap
76out of 100
Footpaths0.7 km per km²Km of mapped footpath and track open on foot, per km² of the commune
20out of 100
Hiking routes0.6 km per km²Km of waymarked hiking routes (GR and others), per km² of the commune
68out of 100
Percentiles among compared French towns; ties count half.
Towns its size
Mondragon has the 13th fewest footpaths per km² of 41 towns its size
The 40 compared French towns nearest in population (3,804 to 3,863 residents), by km of footpath per km². Hover for each one’s protected land and woods; click for its page.
From Argonay (5.1 km per km²) to Pipriac (0 km per km²).
Every town in the comparison
| Town | Paths (km/km²) | Woodland | Protected | Coast | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Argonay Haute-Savoie | 5.1 | 35% | 0% | 263 km |
| 2 | Saint-Palais-sur-Mer Charente-Maritime | 5.1 | 58% | 55% | On it |
| 3 | Collonges-sous-Salève Haute-Savoie | 5 | 40% | 51% | 283 km |
| 4 | Soorts-Hossegor Landes | 4.9 | 30% | 0% | On it |
| 5 | Montgermont Ille-et-Vilaine | 4.8 | 3.2% | 0% | 43 km |
| 6 | Clouange Moselle | 3.9 | 50% | 0% | 312 km |
| 7 | La Bresse Vosges | 3.5 | 58% | 100% | 450 km |
| 8 | La Plagne Tarentaise Savoie | 2.7 | 30% | 2.5% | 208 km |
| 9 | Bouliac Gironde | 2.6 | 13% | 4.7% | 22 km |
| 10 | Les Martres-de-Veyre Puy-de-Dôme | 2.6 | 13% | 15% | 245 km |
| 11 | Châteauneuf-Grasse Alpes-Maritimes | 2.6 | 12% | 0% | 13 km |
| 12 | Trébeurden Côtes-d'Armor | 2.5 | 25% | 24% | On it |
| 13 | Pleumeur-Bodou Côtes-d'Armor | 2.2 | 26% | 17% | On it |
| 14 | Bénodet Finistère | 1.9 | 12% | 0% | On it |
| 15 | Vagney Vosges | 1.9 | 59% | 100% | 440 km |
| 16 | Meyrargues Bouches-du-Rhône | 1.8 | 57% | 46% | 35 km |
| 17 | Saint-Valery-en-Caux Seine-Maritime | 1.8 | 4.3% | 3.2% | On it |
| 18 | Callian Var | 1.7 | 59% | 10% | 19 km |
| 19 | Le Vigan Gard | 1.7 | 68% | 100% | 57 km |
| 20 | Saint-Étienne-lès-Remiremont Vosges | 1.6 | 73% | 22% | 432 km |
| 21 | Saint-Mard Seine-et-Marne | 1.6 | 12% | 0% | 146 km |
| 22 | Sargé-lès-le-Mans Sarthe | 1.6 | 11% | 0% | 136 km |
| 23 | Le Thuit de l'Oison Eure | 1.5 | 11% | 0% | 46 km |
| 24 | Fléac Charente | 1.4 | 12% | 3.7% | 71 km |
| 25 | Genilac Loire | 1.3 | 14% | 0% | 223 km |
| 26 | La Croix-Valmer Var | 1.3 | 40% | 95% | On it |
| 27 | Violaines Pas-de-Calais | 0.8 | 4.8% | 0% | 63 km |
| 28 | Hasnon Nord | 0.8 | 47% | 100% | 94 km |
| 29 | Mondragon Vaucluse | 0.7 | 30% | 17% | 88 km |
| 30 | Beaumont-de-Lomagne Tarn-et-Garonne | 0.6 | 6.5% | 0% | 177 km |
| 31 | Lapalud Vaucluse | 0.6 | 5% | 6.7% | 96 km |
| 32 | Celles-sur-Belle Deux-Sèvres | 0.5 | 7.6% | 20% | 67 km |
| 33 | Vouziers Ardennes | 0.5 | 14% | 18% | 234 km |
| 34 | Villieu-Loyes-Mollon Ain | 0.4 | 24% | 17% | 276 km |
| 35 | Saint-Georges-sur-Loire Maine-et-Loire | 0.4 | 7.3% | 7.3% | 101 km |
| 36 | Ferrières-en-Gâtinais Loiret | 0.4 | 19% | 0% | 233 km |
| 37 | Mazères Ariège | 0.3 | 2% | 0.5% | 116 km |
| 38 | Saint-André-de-l'Eure Eure | 0.3 | 11% | 0% | 89 km |
| 39 | Saint-Gildas-des-Bois Loire-Atlantique | 0.3 | 12% | 3.5% | 25 km |
| 40 | Gundershoffen Bas-Rhin | 0.3 | 23% | 0.1% | 422 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 Mondragon
Named parks, gardens and woods in the commune or within 400 m, the biggest and best-pathed first: Parc de la mairie leads, at 0.8 ha. Directions go to a point inside.
Source: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL): named parks, gardens and woods; sizes are the whole site.
Protected areas
17% of Mondragon 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
17% of the commune1.4 km from the center
Natura 2000 site
Marais de l’Ile Vieille et alentour
17% of the commune1.4 km from the center
Share of the commune’s land
Any protected area17%
Natura 2000 site17%
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.
17% of Mondragon’s land is protected, more than in 76% 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
27 km of footpaths and 25 km of hiking routes cross Mondragon
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
27 km
0.7 km per km²
Hiking routes
25 km
waymarked: 0.6 km per km²
Woodland
30%
about 12 km² of mapped woods
Km per km² of the commune · mapped on OpenStreetMap
MondragonVaucluse medianFrance median
Footpaths0.7
Hiking routes0.6
012 km per km²
Share of the land · mapped woods and forest
MondragonVaucluse medianFrance median
Woodland30%
0%50%100%
That is less than in 80% of compared French towns for footpaths per km², and for woodland more than in 76% of compared French towns. Hiking routes often follow paths and lanes already counted, so the two lengths overlap: don’t add them. 99% of Mondragon’s residents live within 800 m of a mapped park or wood, close to the typical town.
3 named hiking routes within 2 km
Other named walk
Tour du Massif d'Uchaux34 km
La sente de la Farigoule11 km
Sentier Botanique1.3 km
Source: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL), extracts of October 25, 2026 (Geofabrik).
When to get out
The best walking months in Mondragon: April to June
Météo-France’s 1991–2020 normals at Pont St Esprit, 7.5 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 | 31 | 30 | 25 | 19 | 13 | 10 |
| Rain (mm) | 68 | 44 | 47 | 67 | 64 | 49 | 40 | 47 | 109 | 118 | 118 | 59 |
July is the driest month (40 mm) and the warmest (highs of 31 °C). 118 mm of rain falls in November, the wettest month. Frost comes on about 31 nights a year. Summer highs reach 31 °C, too hot for the outline. The climate in Mondragon →
Neighbors
Next to Mondragon
The nearest towns of 2,500 or more, colored by the share of their land in protected areas.
MornasBollènePont-Saint-EspritPiolencLapaludSérignan-du-ComtatMondragon
Under 1%1–10 %10–25 %25–50 %50 %+
| Town | Protected | Woodland | Paths (km/km²) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mondragon | 17% | 30% | 0.7 |
| Mornas 2,569 · 4.4 km | 5% | 35% | 1.5 |
| Bollène 14,024 · 6.1 km | 9.5% | 28% | 2.2 |
| Pont-Saint-Esprit 10,958 · 6.6 km | 14% | 5.3% | 0.8 |
| Piolenc 5,718 · 7.5 km | 1.9% | 20% | 1.4 |
| Lapalud 3,853 · 8.1 km | 6.7% | 5% | 0.6 |
| Sérignan-du-Comtat 2,939 · 12 km | 1.7% | 28% | 1.2 |
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 Mondragon
Is Mondragon in a national or regional nature park?
No, but 17% of its land is in a nature reserve or a Natura 2000 site.
Are there good walks in Mondragon?
OpenStreetMap maps 27 km of footpaths and tracks open on foot in the commune, 0.7 km per km² (the median compared town: 1.7 km per km²); 25 km of waymarked hiking routes cross it.
How much of Mondragon is woodland?
30% of the commune is mapped woodland, private woods included; the median compared French town has 13%.
Is Mondragon near the sea?
No: the coast is 88 km from the town center, as the crow flies.
When is the best time for walking in Mondragon?
April to June: 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 9, 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.