First pick
Forêt de Rocheservière
Wood or forest · 310 m outside the commune
216 ha1.2 km of path
15 minto walk all 1.2 km of path
5 km westfrom the center
Directionsto a point inside
Photo: Etienne Baudon · Public domain8.4%woodland
Outdoors in Rocheservière · protected areas, woods and footpaths
Almost every home in Rocheservière is within 800 m of a park or wood
No protected area reaches Rocheservière; the nearest, Bocage Humide des Cailleries nature reserve, is 11 km from the town center. 8.4% of Rocheservière is mapped woodland. Footpaths add up to 31 km across Rocheservière (1.1 km per km²). 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: Bocage Humide des Cailleries nature reserve, 11 km
Woodland
8.4%
of the land, mapped on OpenStreetMap
Compared town: 13%
Footpaths
31 km
1.1 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
3
named, in or within 400 m of the commune
First: Forêt de Rocheservière
The sea
37 km
from the town center to the coast
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 Rocheservière 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
Woodland8.4%Share of the land mapped as forest or woods on OpenStreetMap
35out of 100
Footpaths1.1 km per km²Km of mapped footpath and track open on foot, per km² of the commune
34out 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
Rocheservière has the 16th fewest footpaths per km² of 41 towns its size
The 40 compared French towns nearest in population (3,566 to 3,623 residents), by km of footpath per km². Hover for each one’s protected land and woods; click for its page.
From Saint-Brice-Courcelles (3.7 km per km²) to Saint-Savin (0 km per km²).
Every town in the comparison
| Town | Paths (km/km²) | Woodland | Protected | Coast | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Saint-Brice-Courcelles Marne | 3.7 | 15% | 0% | 195 km |
| 2 | Bavans Doubs | 3.7 | 43% | 0% | 415 km |
| 3 | Orry-la-Ville Oise | 3.3 | 58% | 100% | 131 km |
| 4 | Apprieu Isère | 3 | 45% | 0% | 222 km |
| 5 | Jonzac Charente-Maritime | 2.7 | 11% | 8.4% | 24 km |
| 6 | Masevaux-Niederbruck Haut-Rhin | 2.6 | 78% | 100% | 445 km |
| 7 | Cournonsec Hérault | 2.5 | 0.2% | 49% | 13 km |
| 8 | Longeville-lès-Saint-Avold Moselle | 2.5 | 52% | 4.6% | 351 km |
| 9 | Orcines Puy-de-Dôme | 2.5 | 59% | 100% | 259 km |
| 10 | Marines Val-d'Oise | 2.2 | 36% | 100% | 108 km |
| 11 | Fontvieille Bouches-du-Rhône | 2.2 | 35% | 100% | 33 km |
| 12 | Montréal-la-Cluse Ain | 2.1 | 67% | 0% | 306 km |
| 13 | Saint-Jean-de-Moirans Isère | 1.8 | 5.5% | 0% | 217 km |
| 14 | Saint-Brès Hérault | 1.8 | 0.7% | 0% | 12 km |
| 15 | Montrichard Val de Cher Loir-et-Cher | 1.7 | 60% | 0% | 211 km |
| 16 | Givry Saône-et-Loire | 1.7 | 46% | 2.2% | 361 km |
| 17 | Pradines Lot | 1.6 | 32% | 0% | 169 km |
| 18 | Boujan-sur-Libron Hérault | 1.6 | 9.8% | 0% | 14 km |
| 19 | Villers-Semeuse Ardennes | 1.5 | 7.8% | 0% | 210 km |
| 20 | Saint-Tropez Var | 1.5 | 16% | 0.1% | On it |
| 21 | Saint-Germain-des-Fossés Allier | 1.4 | 11% | 25% | 298 km |
| 22 | Lumbres Pas-de-Calais | 1.3 | 24% | 100% | 31 km |
| 23 | Espaly-Saint-Marcel Haute-Loire | 1.3 | 11% | 1.5% | 166 km |
| 24 | Neuilly-Crimolois Côte-d'Or | 1.3 | 17% | 0% | 409 km |
| 25 | La Roche-de-Glun Drôme | 1.1 | 0% | 0% | 173 km |
| 26 | Rocheservière Vendée | 1.1 | 8.4% | 0% | 37 km |
| 27 | Plan-d'Orgon Bouches-du-Rhône | 1 | 5.9% | 12% | 41 km |
| 28 | Pompignac Gironde | 1 | 25% | 0% | 21 km |
| 29 | Canet Hérault | 0.8 | 2.7% | 2.8% | 27 km |
| 30 | Thury-Harcourt-le-Hom Calvados | 0.8 | 20% | 0% | 37 km |
| 31 | Corps-Nuds Ille-et-Vilaine | 0.6 | 2.7% | 0% | 65 km |
| 32 | Marzy Nièvre | 0.6 | 8.6% | 20% | 332 km |
| 33 | Le Pont-de-Beauvoisin Isère | 0.5 | 8.4% | 0% | 240 km |
| 34 | Rochechouart Haute-Vienne | 0.4 | 29% | 99% | 131 km |
| 35 | Saint-Jean-d'Hermine Vendée | 0.4 | 9.2% | 2.4% | 27 km |
| 36 | Vic-Fezensac Gers | 0.3 | 13% | 0% | 136 km |
| 37 | Baziège Haute-Garonne | 0.2 | 1.6% | 0% | 127 km |
| 38 | Magalas Hérault | 0.2 | 2.8% | 0% | 24 km |
| 39 | Derval Loire-Atlantique | 0.2 | 9.6% | 0% | 56 km |
| 40 | Vald'Yerre Eure-et-Loir | 0.1 | 6.5% | 0.1% | 159 km |
| 41 | Saint-Savin Gironde | 0 | 24% | 4% | 16 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 Rocheservière
Named parks, gardens and woods in the commune or within 400 m, the biggest and best-pathed first: Forêt de Rocheservière leads, at 216 ha. Directions go to a point inside.
Aire de Loisirs de L'Audrenière
Park or garden · 70 m outside the commune
1.6 ha0.5 km of path
5 minto walk all 0.5 km of path
5.3 km southfrom the center
Directionsto a point inside
Square Ernest Pivin
Park or garden
0.2 ha
Centralin the middle of Rocheservière
Directionsto a point inside
Source: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL): named parks, gardens and woods; sizes are the whole site.
Protected areas
Bocage Humide des Cailleries nature reserve is the nearest protected area, 11 km away
The protected areas reaching the commune, and the nearest: national parks, regional nature parks, nature reserves and Natura 2000 sites.
Nature reserve
Bocage Humide des Cailleries nature reserve
11 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
31 km of footpaths cross Rocheservière
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
31 km
1.1 km per km²
Hiking routes
0 km
waymarked: 0 km per km²
Woodland
8.4%
about 2.4 km² of mapped woods
Km per km² of the commune · mapped on OpenStreetMap
RocheservièreVendée medianFrance median
Footpaths1.1
Hiking routes0
012 km per km²
Share of the land · mapped woods and forest
RocheservièreVendée medianFrance median
Woodland8.4%
0%50%100%
That is less than in 66% of compared French towns for footpaths per km², and for woodland less than in 65% 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 Rocheservière is within 800 m of a mapped park or wood, as in most French towns.
A named hiking route within 2 km
Other named walk
Santiers des Hauts de Saint-Étienne4.8 km
Source: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL), extracts of October 25, 2026 (Geofabrik).
When to get out
The best walking months in Rocheservière: April to September
Météo-France’s 1991–2020 normals at Rocheserviere, 2.9 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) | 9 | 11 | 14 | 16 | 20 | 24 | 26 | 26 | 23 | 18 | 13 | 10 |
| Rain (mm) | 88 | 66 | 61 | 62 | 57 | 45 | 48 | 48 | 67 | 90 | 96 | 102 |
June is the driest month (45 mm) and August the warmest (highs of 26 °C). 102 mm of rain falls in December, the wettest month. Frost comes on about 39 nights a year. The climate in Rocheservière →
Neighbors
Next to Rocheservière
The nearest towns of 2,500 or more, colored by the share of their land in protected areas.
Saint-Philbert-de-BouaineMontréverdCorcoué-sur-LogneVieillevigneLegéLes Lucs-sur-BoulogneRocheservière
Under 1%1–10 %10–25 %25–50 %50 %+
| Town | Protected | Woodland | Paths (km/km²) | Coast |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rocheservière | 0% | 8.4% | 1.1 | 37 km |
| Saint-Philbert-de-Bouaine 3,653 · 6 km | 0% | 2.5% | 0.7 | 35 km |
| Montréverd 3,857 · 6.5 km | 0% | 4.2% | 0.3 | 44 km |
| Corcoué-sur-Logne 3,265 · 6.7 km | 0% | 13% | 0.4 | 31 km |
| Vieillevigne 4,150 · 7.1 km | 0% | 4% | 0.2 | 42 km |
| Legé 4,817 · 7.8 km | 0% | 7.2% | 0.2 | 33 km |
| Les Lucs-sur-Boulogne 3,701 · 10 km | 0% | 5.4% | 0.4 | 38 km |
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 Rocheservière
Is Rocheservière in a national or regional nature park?
No. The nearest protected area is Bocage Humide des Cailleries nature reserve, 11 km from the town center.
Are there good walks in Rocheservière?
OpenStreetMap maps 31 km of footpaths and tracks open on foot in the commune, 1.1 km per km² (the median compared town: 1.7 km per km²).
How much of Rocheservière is woodland?
8.4% of the commune is mapped woodland, private woods included; the median compared French town has 13%.
Is Rocheservière near the sea?
No: the coast is 37 km from the town center, as the crow flies.
When is the best time for walking in Rocheservière?
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.