First pick
Forêt de la Maha
Wood or forest · 380 m outside the commune
113 ha7 km of path
1 h 35 minto walk all 7 km of path
5.7 km south-eastfrom the center
Directionsto a point inside
Photo: Surkål · CC BY-SA 4.02.3%woodland
Outdoors in La Gaubretière · protected areas, woods and footpaths
Parks, woods and footpaths in La Gaubretière
Footpaths add up to 9 km across La Gaubretière (0.3 km per km²). 2.3% of La Gaubretière is mapped woodland. No protected area reaches La Gaubretière; the nearest, Marais de Goulaine (Natura 2000), is 35 km from the town center. 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: Marais de Goulaine, 35 km
Woodland
2.3%
of the land, mapped on OpenStreetMap
Compared town: 13%
Footpaths
8.7 km
0.3 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
Green space nearby
92%
of residents within 800 m of a park or wood
Compared town: 100%
Throughout this page, the Vendée 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 La Gaubretière 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
Woodland2.3%Share of the land mapped as forest or woods on OpenStreetMap
12out of 100
Footpaths0.3 km per km²Km of mapped footpath and track open on foot, per km² of the commune
6out of 100
Hiking routes0 km per km²Km of waymarked hiking routes (GR and others), per km² of the commune
12out of 100
Green space nearby92%Share of residents within 800 m of a mapped park or wood
9out of 100
Percentiles among compared French towns; ties count half.
Towns its size
La Gaubretière has the 6th fewest footpaths per km² of 41 towns its size
The 40 compared French towns nearest in population (3,204 to 3,243 residents), by km of footpath per km². Hover for each one’s protected land and woods; click for its page.
From Fonbeauzard (4.4 km per km²) to Albias (0 km per km²).
Every town in the comparison
| Town | Paths (km/km²) | Woodland | Protected | Coast | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Fonbeauzard Haute-Garonne | 4.4 | 10% | 0% | 151 km |
| 2 | Saint-Quay-Portrieux Côtes-d'Armor | 4.1 | 0% | 0% | On it |
| 3 | L'Île-Rousse Haute-Corse | 3.6 | 0% | 0% | On it |
| 4 | Volx Alpes-de-Haute-Provence | 3.1 | 37% | 100% | 71 km |
| 5 | Ville-di-Pietrabugno Haute-Corse | 2.7 | 25% | 0% | On it |
| 6 | Bousse Moselle | 2.6 | 33% | 0% | 316 km |
| 7 | Jard-sur-Mer Vendée | 2.1 | 21% | 43% | On it |
| 8 | Ormoy Essonne | 2 | 25% | 0% | 180 km |
| 9 | Magland Haute-Savoie | 1.9 | 44% | 19% | 257 km |
| 10 | Fretin Nord | 1.8 | 3.1% | 0% | 72 km |
| 11 | Montagny Rhône | 1.7 | 25% | 0% | 235 km |
| 12 | Proville Nord | 1.6 | 15% | 9.5% | 109 km |
| 13 | Bréviandes Aube | 1.4 | 26% | 0% | 277 km |
| 14 | Rochecorbon Indre-et-Loire | 1.3 | 21% | 7.3% | 190 km |
| 15 | Saint-Geniès-de-Malgoirès Gard | 1.3 | 32% | 0% | 44 km |
| 16 | Saint-Parres-aux-Tertres Aube | 1.2 | 8.7% | 0.6% | 274 km |
| 17 | Davézieux Ardèche | 1.2 | 4.3% | 0% | 195 km |
| 18 | Veynes Hautes-Alpes | 1.1 | 51% | 63% | 137 km |
| 19 | Romilly-sur-Andelle Eure | 1.1 | 39% | 5.8% | 66 km |
| 20 | Haveluy Nord | 0.8 | 4.2% | 99% | 101 km |
| 21 | Boves Somme | 0.8 | 24% | 8.8% | 63 km |
| 22 | Creuzier-le-Vieux Allier | 0.8 | 10% | 3% | 293 km |
| 23 | Saint-Sauveur-Villages Manche | 0.8 | 2% | 35% | 13 km |
| 24 | Offranville Seine-Maritime | 0.8 | 4.5% | 0% | 5.3 km |
| 25 | Seltz Bas-Rhin | 0.6 | 36% | 57% | 447 km |
| 26 | Anould Vosges | 0.6 | 49% | 0.1% | 443 km |
| 27 | Flixecourt Somme | 0.6 | 26% | 0% | 34 km |
| 28 | Bram Aude | 0.6 | 3.5% | 0% | 81 km |
| 29 | Lansargues Hérault | 0.5 | 0.6% | 27% | 10 km |
| 30 | Carentoir Morbihan | 0.5 | 20% | 0% | 40 km |
| 31 | La Tour-du-Crieu Ariège | 0.4 | 0% | 0% | 114 km |
| 32 | Montendre Charente-Maritime | 0.4 | 17% | 15% | 23 km |
| 33 | Azay-sur-Cher Indre-et-Loire | 0.3 | 15% | 0% | 189 km |
| 34 | Brou Eure-et-Loir | 0.3 | 2.2% | 0% | 149 km |
| 35 | Aix-Villemaur-Pâlis Aube | 0.3 | 26% | 0.9% | 263 km |
| 36 | La Gaubretière Vendée | 0.3 | 2.3% | 0% | 69 km |
| 37 | Illiers-Combray Eure-et-Loir | 0.3 | 8.1% | 0% | 142 km |
| 38 | Picauville Manche | 0.2 | 2.9% | 100% | 15 km |
| 39 | Verneuil-l'Étang Seine-et-Marne | 0.2 | 9.8% | 0% | 189 km |
| 40 | Argentonnay Deux-Sèvres | 0.1 | 5.2% | 4.8% | 91 km |
| 41 | Albias Tarn-et-Garonne | 0 | 4.8% | 1.4% | 173 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 La Gaubretière
Named parks, gardens and woods in the commune or within 400 m, the biggest and best-pathed first: Forêt de la Maha leads, at 113 ha. Directions go to a point inside.
Parc de Landebaudière
Park or garden
7.5 ha1.2 km of path
15 minto walk all 1.2 km of path
1 km north-westfrom the center
Directionsto a point inside
Source: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL): named parks, gardens and woods; sizes are the whole site.
Close to home
9 in 10 residents of La Gaubretière live within 800 m of a park or wood
Each square is 1 resident in 100: in green, those within 800 m, as the crow flies, of a mapped park, garden or woodland edge (INSEE’s 200 m population grid against OpenStreetMap).
92% within 800 m8.4% further
Residents within 800 m of green space · share of residents
La GaubretièreVendée medianFrance median
Within 800 m92%
0%50%100%
About 300 residents live further away. The distance is a straight line to the edge of a mapped park or wood, not a walk to a gate, and a wood can be private.
Protected areas
Marais de Goulaine is the nearest protected area, 35 km away
The protected areas reaching the commune, and the nearest: national parks, regional nature parks, nature reserves and Natura 2000 sites.
Natura 2000 site
Marais de Goulaine
35 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
9 km of footpaths cross La Gaubretière
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
8.7 km
0.3 km per km²
Hiking routes
0 km
waymarked: 0 km per km²
Woodland
2.3%
about 0.7 km² of mapped woods
Km per km² of the commune · mapped on OpenStreetMap
La GaubretièreVendée medianFrance median
Footpaths0.3
Hiking routes0
012 km per km²
Share of the land · mapped woods and forest
La GaubretièreVendée medianFrance median
Woodland2.3%
0%50%100%
That is less than in 94% of compared French towns for footpaths per km², and for woodland less than in 88% of compared French towns. Hiking routes often follow paths and lanes already counted, so the two lengths overlap: don’t add them.
2 named hiking routes within 2 km
Other named walk
Boucle des Collines6.6 km
Boucle du Bocage6.6 km
Source: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL), extracts of October 25, 2026 (Geofabrik).
When to get out
The best walking months in La Gaubretière: April to September
Météo-France’s 1991–2020 normals at Cholet, 21 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) | 8.9 | 10.2 | 11.8 | 13.5 | 15.0 | 15.9 | 15.5 | 14.2 | 12.5 | 10.8 | 9.3 | 8.5 |
| High (°C) | 8 | 10 | 13 | 16 | 19 | 23 | 25 | 25 | 22 | 17 | 12 | 9 |
| Rain (mm) | 83 | 62 | 58 | 57 | 64 | 40 | 49 | 46 | 62 | 80 | 85 | 86 |
June is the driest month (40 mm) and August the warmest (highs of 25 °C). 86 mm of rain falls in December, the wettest month. Frost comes on about 34 nights a year. The climate in La Gaubretière →
Neighbors
Next to La Gaubretière
The nearest towns of 2,500 or more, colored by the share of their land in protected areas.
Les Landes-GenussonChanverrieLes HerbiersMortagne-sur-SèvreSaint-FulgentLa BruffièreLa Gaubretière
Under 1%1–10 %10–25 %25–50 %50 %+
| Town | Protected | Woodland | Paths (km/km²) |
|---|---|---|---|
| La Gaubretière | 0% | 2.3% | 0.3 |
| Les Landes-Genusson 2,638 · 5.2 km | 0% | 2.4% | 0.4 |
| Chanverrie 5,653 · 5.6 km | 0% | 5.5% | 0.7 |
| Les Herbiers 16,521 · 8.9 km | 0% | 6.5% | 1.1 |
| Mortagne-sur-Sèvre 6,057 · 10 km | 0% | 7.8% | 1.3 |
| Saint-Fulgent 3,994 · 13 km | 0% | 5.8% | 0.5 |
| La Bruffière 3,987 · 13 km | 0% | 2.9% | 0.4 |
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 La Gaubretière
Is La Gaubretière in a national or regional nature park?
No. The nearest protected area is Marais de Goulaine, 35 km from the town center.
Are there good walks in La Gaubretière?
OpenStreetMap maps 9 km of footpaths and tracks open on foot in the commune, 0.3 km per km² (the median compared town: 1.7 km per km²).
How much of La Gaubretière is woodland?
2.3% of the commune is mapped woodland, private woods included; the median compared French town has 13%.
Is La Gaubretière near the sea?
No: the coast is 69 km from the town center, as the crow flies.
When is the best time for walking in La Gaubretière?
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 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.