First pick
Arboretum de Saint-Nabord
Park or garden
2 ha
1.3 km westfrom the center
Directionsto a point inside
Photo: René Dinkel · CC BY-SA 3.03.6%of the land protected
Outdoors in Saint-Nabord · protected areas, woods and footpaths
62% of Saint-Nabord is woodland, more than in 9 in 10 French towns
Saint-Nabord has 99 km of waymarked hiking routes. 81 km of footpaths cross Saint-Nabord (2.1 km per km²). 3.6% of Saint-Nabord’s land lies in protected areas. France has no Outdoors Grade yet: these are the figures, each beside the compared towns’ median.
Protected areas
3.6%
of the commune’s land
Compared town: 0.1%
Woodland
62%
of the land, mapped on OpenStreetMap
Compared town: 13%
Footpaths
81 km
2.1 km per km²
Compared town: 1.7 km per km²
Hiking routes
99 km
waymarked, GR and others
Compared town: 0.3 km per km²
Parks & woods
2
named, in or within 400 m of the commune
First: Arboretum de Saint-Nabord
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.
What kind of place
What kind of outdoors place is Saint-Nabord?
Read from the data: what stands out first, good and less good.
A wooded commune62% mapped woodland, more than in 96% of compared French towns, against 13% for the median compared town.On waymarked routes99 km of GR and other hiking routes cross the commune.
What sets Saint-Nabord apart: its woods, then its hiking routes.
Against French towns
How Saint-Nabord 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 areas3.6%Share of the land in a national park, regional nature park, nature reserve or Natura 2000 site
63out of 100
Woodland62%Share of the land mapped as forest or woods on OpenStreetMap
96out of 100
Footpaths2.1 km per km²Km of mapped footpath and track open on foot, per km² of the commune
60out of 100
Hiking routes2.6 km per km²Km of waymarked hiking routes (GR and others), per km² of the commune
98out of 100
Percentiles among compared French towns; ties count half.
Towns its size
Saint-Nabord has the 4th most footpaths per km² of 41 towns its size
The 40 compared French towns nearest in population (3,930 to 3,983 residents), by km of footpath per km². Hover for each one’s protected land and woods; click for its page.
From La Rochette (3.6 km per km²) to Aiguillon (0.1 km per km²).
Every town in the comparison
| Town | Paths (km/km²) | Woodland | Protected | Coast | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | La Rochette Seine-et-Marne | 3.6 | 67% | 56% | 193 km |
| 2 | Ferrières-en-Brie Seine-et-Marne | 3.3 | 45% | 0% | 168 km |
| 3 | Jarrie Isère | 3.2 | 33% | 0.8% | 196 km |
| 4 | Saint-Nabord Vosges | 2.1 | 62% | 3.6% | 429 km |
| 5 | Allevard Isère | 2 | 55% | 0% | 211 km |
| 6 | Pujaut Gard | 2 | 10% | 0% | 62 km |
| 7 | Condrieu Rhône | 2 | 20% | 100% | 219 km |
| 8 | Montry Seine-et-Marne | 2 | 20% | 0% | 166 km |
| 9 | Mozac Puy-de-Dôme | 2 | 1.7% | 0% | 270 km |
| 10 | Toufflers Nord | 1.9 | 0.4% | 0% | 65 km |
| 11 | Hondschoote Nord | 1.6 | 0% | 0% | 12 km |
| 12 | Argences Calvados | 1.5 | 16% | 0% | 18 km |
| 13 | Porte-de-Savoie Savoie | 1.4 | 18% | 86% | 224 km |
| 14 | Erquy Côtes-d'Armor | 1.4 | 6.8% | 15% | On it |
| 15 | Quévert Côtes-d'Armor | 1.3 | 12% | 100% | 6.9 km |
| 16 | Allaire Morbihan | 1.2 | 17% | 6.3% | 22 km |
| 17 | Boos Seine-Maritime | 1.2 | 21% | 0% | 60 km |
| 18 | Boissise-le-Roi Seine-et-Marne | 1.2 | 10% | 100% | 190 km |
| 19 | Rousies Nord | 1.2 | 20% | 100% | 132 km |
| 20 | Pierrevert Alpes-de-Haute-Provence | 1.1 | 36% | 100% | 61 km |
| 21 | Tinténiac Ille-et-Vilaine | 1 | 3.9% | 2.2% | 22 km |
| 22 | Plouvien Finistère | 1 | 9.4% | 0.6% | 3.9 km |
| 23 | Fontaine-le-Comte Vienne | 0.9 | 20% | 0% | 110 km |
| 24 | Saint-Martin-en-Haut Rhône | 0.8 | 17% | 0% | 236 km |
| 25 | Cires-lès-Mello Oise | 0.8 | 36% | 0% | 112 km |
| 26 | Sailly-sur-la-Lys Pas-de-Calais | 0.8 | 1.3% | 0.9% | 51 km |
| 27 | Le Bignon Loire-Atlantique | 0.8 | 14% | 0% | 37 km |
| 28 | Maing Nord | 0.7 | 4.2% | 0% | 108 km |
| 29 | Villeveyrac Hérault | 0.6 | 7% | 85% | 12 km |
| 30 | Gourin Morbihan | 0.6 | 12% | 1.7% | 34 km |
| 31 | Le Lude Sarthe | 0.5 | 23% | 7.6% | 157 km |
| 32 | Châtelaudren-Plouagat Côtes-d'Armor | 0.5 | 4.2% | 0% | 14 km |
| 33 | Verfeil Haute-Garonne | 0.4 | 7.7% | 0% | 133 km |
| 34 | Poligny Jura | 0.4 | 77% | 0.1% | 368 km |
| 35 | Salses-le-Château Pyrénées-Orientales | 0.3 | 4.1% | 34% | 10 km |
| 36 | Replonges Ain | 0.3 | 9.3% | 19% | 311 km |
| 37 | Moreuil Somme | 0.3 | 21% | 1.9% | 73 km |
| 38 | Val d'Anast Ille-et-Vilaine | 0.2 | 12% | 0% | 52 km |
| 39 | Suippes Marne | 0.2 | 24% | 0% | 237 km |
| 40 | Saint-Chély-d'Apcher Lozère | 0.2 | 21% | 0% | 150 km |
| 41 | Aiguillon Lot-et-Garonne | 0.1 | 1.4% | 2.5% | 108 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 Saint-Nabord
Named parks, gardens and woods in the commune or within 400 m, the biggest and best-pathed first: Arboretum de Saint-Nabord leads, at 2 ha. Directions go to a point inside.
Source: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL): named parks, gardens and woods; sizes are the whole site.
Protected areas
3.6% of Saint-Nabord lies in protected areas
The protected areas reaching the commune, and the nearest: national parks, regional nature parks, nature reserves and Natura 2000 sites.
Regional nature park
Ballons des Vosges Regional Nature Park
5.6 km from the town center
Natura 2000 site
Confluence Moselle - Moselotte
3.2% of the commune0.4 km from the center
Natura 2000 site
Etang et tourbière de la Demoiselle
4.1 km from the town center
Share of the commune’s land
Any protected area3.6%
Natura 2000 site3.6%
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.
3.6% of Saint-Nabord’s land is protected, more than in 63% of compared French towns; the median compared town in Vosges has 2.4%. A regional nature park is a charter between communes to look after a landscape: farming, building and hunting go on inside it.
Source: INPN / PatriNat, protected areas July 2026, Natura 2000 December 2024; shares of IGN’s commune boundary.
Footpaths and woods
81 km of footpaths and 99 km of hiking routes cross Saint-Nabord
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
81 km
2.1 km per km²
Hiking routes
99 km
waymarked: 2.6 km per km²
Woodland
62%
about 23.4 km² of mapped woods
Km per km² of the commune · mapped on OpenStreetMap
Saint-NabordVosges medianFrance median
Footpaths2.1
Hiking routes2.6
01.53 km per km²
Share of the land · mapped woods and forest
Saint-NabordVosges medianFrance median
Woodland62%
0%50%100%
That is more than in 60% of compared French towns for footpaths per km², and for woodland more than in 96% 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 Saint-Nabord is within 800 m of a mapped park or wood, as in most French towns.
16 named hiking routes within 2 km
GR (long-distance)Other named walk
GR 714 km
GR 5017.2 km
Tour de Saint-Nabord47 km
Circuit de la Tête du Champ Carré19 km
Sentier "Raon-Aux-Bois"15 km
Sentier "Vrupt"8.6 km
Circulaire du Tour le la Malpierre7.6 km
Sentier des Ducs7.2 km
Sentier "La Grande Feigne"6.4 km
Circulaire des Étangs de la Demoiselle et du Renard5.2 km
Sentier "Montiroche"3.9 km
Circuit du Parmont3.3 km
+4 more
2 GR routes pass within 2 km of Saint-Nabord: GR 7 and GR 501.
Source: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL), extracts of October 25, 2026 (Geofabrik).
When to get out
The best walking months in Saint-Nabord: April to September
Météo-France’s 1991–2020 normals at Val-D Ajol, 14 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 | 9.2 | 8.4 |
| High (°C) | 5 | 7 | 12 | 16 | 20 | 24 | 26 | 26 | 21 | 16 | 9 | 5 |
| Rain (mm) | 166 | 132 | 124 | 96 | 132 | 105 | 115 | 114 | 112 | 143 | 154 | 183 |
April is the driest month (96 mm) and July the warmest (highs of 26 °C). 183 mm of rain falls in December, the wettest month. Frost comes on about 81 nights a year. The climate in Saint-Nabord →
Neighbors
Next to Saint-Nabord
The nearest towns of 2,500 or more, colored by the share of their land in protected areas.
Saint-Étienne-lès-RemiremontRemiremontÉloyesVagneyLe Val-d'AjolRupt-sur-MoselleSaint-Nabord
Under 1%1–10 %10–25 %25–50 %50 %+
| Town | Protected | Woodland | Paths (km/km²) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Saint-Nabord | 3.6% | 62% | 2.1 |
| Saint-Étienne-lès-Remiremont 3,818 · 2.8 km | 22% | 73% | 1.6 |
| Remiremont 7,388 · 2.8 km | 18% | 70% | 3.5 |
| Éloyes 3,138 · 6.6 km | 0% | 59% | 1.8 |
| Vagney 3,843 · 11 km | 100% | 59% | 1.9 |
| Le Val-d'Ajol 3,885 · 13 km | 100% | 53% | 0.8 |
| Rupt-sur-Moselle 3,419 · 14 km | 100% | 67% | 1.3 |
Saint-Étienne-lès-Remiremont, Remiremont and Vagney have at least twice as much protected land.
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 Saint-Nabord
Is Saint-Nabord in a national or regional nature park?
No, but 3.6% of its land is in a nature reserve or a Natura 2000 site.
Are there good walks in Saint-Nabord?
OpenStreetMap maps 81 km of footpaths and tracks open on foot in the commune, 2.1 km per km² (the median compared town: 1.7 km per km²); 99 km of waymarked hiking routes cross it.
How much of Saint-Nabord is woodland?
62% of the commune is mapped woodland, private woods included; the median compared French town has 13%.
Is Saint-Nabord near the sea?
No: the coast is 429 km from the town center, as the crow flies.
When is the best time for walking in Saint-Nabord?
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.