First pick
Parcours de santé du Saut le Cerf
Wood or forest · 290 m outside the commune
14 ha2.7 km of path
35 minto walk all 2.7 km of path
1.9 km eastfrom the center
Directionsto a point inside
Photo: NSGGolbey · CC BY-SA 3.026%woodland
Outdoors in Golbey · protected areas, woods and footpaths
Almost every home in Golbey is within 800 m of a park or wood
26% of Golbey is mapped woodland. No protected area reaches Golbey; the nearest, Gîtes chiroptères autour d’Epinal (Natura 2000), is 4.3 km from the town center. Waymarked hiking routes add up to 5 km in Golbey. 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: Gîtes chiroptères autour d’Epinal, 4.3 km
Woodland
26%
of the land, mapped on OpenStreetMap
Compared town: 13%
Footpaths
21 km
2.2 km per km²
Compared town: 1.7 km per km²
Hiking routes
5 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: Parcours de santé du Saut le Cerf
Throughout this page, the Vosges 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 Golbey 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
Woodland26%Share of the land mapped as forest or woods on OpenStreetMap
72out of 100
Footpaths2.2 km per km²Km of mapped footpath and track open on foot, per km² of the commune
61out of 100
Hiking routes0.5 km per km²Km of waymarked hiking routes (GR and others), per km² of the commune
63out of 100
Percentiles among compared French towns; ties count half.
Towns its size
Golbey has the 20th fewest footpaths per km² of 41 towns its size
The 40 compared French towns nearest in population (8,687 to 8,978 residents), by km of footpath per km². Hover for each one’s protected land and woods; click for its page.
From L'Île-Saint-Denis (6.6 km per km²) to Sarlat-la-Canéda (0.3 km per km²).
Every town in the comparison
| Town | Paths (km/km²) | Woodland | Protected | Coast | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | L'Île-Saint-Denis Seine-Saint-Denis | 6.6 | 13% | 19% | 142 km |
| 2 | Beauzelle Haute-Garonne | 5.6 | 9.2% | 25% | 154 km |
| 3 | Le Portel Pas-de-Calais | 5.5 | 3.3% | 6.7% | On it |
| 4 | Wingles Pas-de-Calais | 5.1 | 13% | 0% | 69 km |
| 5 | Les Angles Gard | 5.1 | 27% | 13% | 56 km |
| 6 | Bessancourt Val-d'Oise | 4.6 | 29% | 0% | 127 km |
| 7 | Epagny Metz-Tessy Haute-Savoie | 4.4 | 24% | 0% | 264 km |
| 8 | Périgny Charente-Maritime | 4.1 | 3.4% | 0% | 4.1 km |
| 9 | Chartres-de-Bretagne Ille-et-Vilaine | 4.1 | 5.2% | 0% | 55 km |
| 10 | Quetigny Côte-d'Or | 4 | 0.7% | 0% | 406 km |
| 11 | Meulan-en-Yvelines Yvelines | 3.8 | 11% | 0.4% | 118 km |
| 12 | Artigues-près-Bordeaux Gironde | 3.8 | 9.5% | 0% | 18 km |
| 13 | Gouvieux Oise | 3.5 | 43% | 100% | 122 km |
| 14 | Velaux Bouches-du-Rhône | 3.2 | 29% | 25% | 19 km |
| 15 | Longvic Côte-d'Or | 3.1 | 3.4% | 0% | 406 km |
| 16 | Pibrac Haute-Garonne | 3 | 27% | 0% | 159 km |
| 17 | Gretz-Armainvilliers Seine-et-Marne | 3 | 57% | 0% | 176 km |
| 18 | Bellerive-sur-Allier Allier | 2.7 | 23% | 2.2% | 289 km |
| 19 | Cébazat Puy-de-Dôme | 2.6 | 5.6% | 0% | 263 km |
| 20 | Boucau Pyrénées-Atlantiques | 2.2 | 26% | 5.8% | 3.1 km |
| 21 | Saint-Jean-de-Monts Vendée | 2.2 | 13% | 73% | On it |
| 22 | Golbey Vosges | 2.2 | 26% | 0% | 411 km |
| 23 | Lempdes Puy-de-Dôme | 2.1 | 1.8% | 0% | 254 km |
| 24 | Roquevaire Bouches-du-Rhône | 2.1 | 11% | 66% | 15 km |
| 25 | Le Teil Ardèche | 2 | 37% | 0% | 120 km |
| 26 | Cornebarrieu Haute-Garonne | 1.9 | 13% | 0% | 158 km |
| 27 | Chamonix-Mont-Blanc Haute-Savoie | 1.8 | 15% | 14% | 243 km |
| 28 | Soustons Landes | 1.7 | 65% | 9.6% | On it |
| 29 | Pithiviers Loiret | 1.5 | 2.2% | 0% | 198 km |
| 30 | Monistrol-sur-Loire Haute-Loire | 1.4 | 34% | 16% | 192 km |
| 31 | La Chapelle-d'Armentières Nord | 1.3 | 2.2% | 0% | 52 km |
| 32 | Gonfreville-l'Orcher Seine-Maritime | 0.9 | 5.2% | 6.1% | On it |
| 33 | La Ferté-Bernard Sarthe | 0.9 | 1.2% | 0% | 135 km |
| 34 | Veauche Loire | 0.9 | 1.5% | 3.3% | 223 km |
| 35 | Le Thor Vaucluse | 0.7 | 0.9% | 7.2% | 54 km |
| 36 | Ombrée d'Anjou Maine-et-Loire | 0.7 | 11% | 0% | 94 km |
| 37 | Nangis Seine-et-Marne | 0.6 | 10% | 0% | 205 km |
| 38 | Entraigues-sur-la-Sorgue Vaucluse | 0.5 | 2% | 11% | 61 km |
| 39 | Aigues-Mortes Gard | 0.4 | 2.8% | 100% | 6 km |
| 40 | Les Hauts-d'Anjou Maine-et-Loire | 0.3 | 4.5% | 4.1% | 121 km |
| 41 | Sarlat-la-Canéda Dordogne | 0.3 | 42% | 10% | 143 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 Golbey
Named parks, gardens and woods in the commune or within 400 m, the biggest and best-pathed first: Parcours de santé du Saut le Cerf leads, at 14 ha. Directions go to a point inside.
Parc des Acacias
Park or garden
4.3 ha1.2 km of path
15 minto walk all 1.2 km of path
1.1 km north-eastfrom the center
Directionsto a point inside
L'Ile sous la Gosse
Park or garden
2.8 ha0.9 km of path
10 minto walk all 0.9 km of path
1.1 km south-eastfrom the center
Directionsto a point inside
Source: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL): named parks, gardens and woods; sizes are the whole site.
Protected areas
Gîtes chiroptères autour d’Epinal is the nearest protected area, 4.3 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
Gîtes chiroptères autour d’Epinal
4.3 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
21 km of footpaths and 5 km of hiking routes cross Golbey
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
21 km
2.2 km per km²
Hiking routes
5 km
waymarked: 0.5 km per km²
Woodland
26%
about 2.5 km² of mapped woods
Km per km² of the commune · mapped on OpenStreetMap
GolbeyVosges medianFrance median
Footpaths2.2
Hiking routes0.5
01.53 km per km²
Share of the land · mapped woods and forest
GolbeyVosges medianFrance median
Woodland26%
0%50%100%
That is more than in 61% of compared French towns for footpaths per km², and for woodland more than in 72% 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 Golbey is within 800 m of a mapped park or wood, as in most French towns.
2 named hiking routes within 2 km
GR (long-distance)Other named walk
GR 5018.6 km
Parcours lichens et pollens1.7 km
GR 501 passes within 2 km of Golbey.
Source: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL), extracts of October 25, 2026 (Geofabrik).
When to get out
The best walking months in Golbey: April to September
Météo-France’s 1991–2020 normals at Epinal, 2.4 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) | 8.8 | 10.1 | 11.7 | 13.6 | 15.2 | 16.0 | 15.7 | 14.3 | 12.5 | 10.7 | 9.1 | 8.4 |
| High (°C) | 5 | 7 | 11 | 15 | 19 | 23 | 25 | 25 | 20 | 15 | 9 | 6 |
| Rain (mm) | 77 | 65 | 67 | 62 | 82 | 73 | 72 | 73 | 77 | 89 | 83 | 88 |
April is the driest month (62 mm) and July the warmest (highs of 25 °C). 89 mm of rain falls in October, the wettest month. Frost comes on about 78 nights a year. The climate in Golbey →
Neighbors
Next to Golbey
The nearest towns of 2,500 or more, colored by the share of their land in protected areas.
ChantraineÉpinalThaon-les-VosgesXertignyÉloyesSaint-NabordGolbey
Under 1%1–10 %10–25 %25–50 %50 %+
| Town | Protected | Woodland | Paths (km/km²) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Golbey | 0% | 26% | 2.2 |
| Chantraine 3,198 · 2.6 km | 0% | 74% | 7.1 |
| Épinal 32,251 · 2.7 km | 0% | 67% | 3.7 |
| Thaon-les-Vosges 8,547 · 6.4 km | 0% | 41% | 0.6 |
| Xertigny 2,589 · 17 km | 0% | 42% | 0.4 |
| Éloyes 3,138 · 17 km | 0% | 59% | 1.8 |
| Saint-Nabord 3,953 · 20 km | 3.6% | 62% | 2.1 |
Chantraine, Épinal and Thaon-les-Vosges 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 Golbey
Is Golbey in a national or regional nature park?
No. The nearest protected area is Gîtes chiroptères autour d’Epinal, 4.3 km from the town center.
Are there good walks in Golbey?
OpenStreetMap maps 21 km of footpaths and tracks open on foot in the commune, 2.2 km per km² (the median compared town: 1.7 km per km²); 5 km of waymarked hiking routes cross it.
How much of Golbey is woodland?
26% of the commune is mapped woodland, private woods included; the median compared French town has 13%.
Is Golbey near the sea?
No: the coast is 411 km from the town center, as the crow flies.
When is the best time for walking in Golbey?
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.