First pick
Forêt de Rosny
Wood or forest
1,874 ha19.4 km of path
4 h 20 minto walk all 19.4 km of path
5 km southfrom the center
Chemin des Vignes
Directionsto a point inside
Photo: Akiry · CC BY-SA 3.051%of the land protected
Outdoors in Freneuse · protected areas, woods and footpaths
51% of Freneuse’s land is protected for nature
Mapped woodland covers 34% of Freneuse. 4 km of footpaths cross Freneuse (0.4 km per km²). France has no Outdoors Grade yet: these are the figures, each beside the compared towns’ median.
Protected areas
51%
of the commune’s land
Compared town: 0.1%
Woodland
34%
of the land, mapped on OpenStreetMap
Compared town: 13%
Footpaths
4.4 km
0.4 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
1
named, in or within 400 m of the commune
First: Forêt de Rosny
Throughout this page, the Yvelines 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 Freneuse?
Read from the data: what stands out first, good and less good.
Protected countryside51% of the land lies in protected areas.A wooded commune34% mapped woodland, more than in 81% of compared French towns, against 13% for the median compared town.Few mapped footpaths0.4 km per km², against 1.7 km per km² for the median compared town.
What sets Freneuse apart: its protected countryside, then its woods. It is shorter on footpaths.
Against French towns
How Freneuse 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 areas51%Share of the land in a national park, regional nature park, nature reserve or Natura 2000 site
87out of 100
Woodland34%Share of the land mapped as forest or woods on OpenStreetMap
81out of 100
Footpaths0.4 km per km²Km of mapped footpath and track open on foot, per km² of the commune
11out 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
Freneuse has the 4th fewest footpaths per km² of 41 towns its size
The 40 compared French towns nearest in population (4,471 to 4,533 residents), by km of footpath per km². Hover for each one’s protected land and woods; click for its page.
From Cap-d'Ail (10.8 km per km²) to Marans (0.2 km per km²).
Every town in the comparison
| Town | Paths (km/km²) | Woodland | Protected | Coast | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Cap-d'Ail Alpes-Maritimes | 10.8 | 7.8% | 0.2% | On it |
| 2 | Jacob-Bellecombette Savoie | 7.4 | 26% | 45% | 232 km |
| 3 | Saint-Nicolas Pas-de-Calais | 4.8 | 2.8% | 0% | 79 km |
| 4 | Royat Puy-de-Dôme | 4.2 | 63% | 0.2% | 257 km |
| 5 | Bretteville-sur-Odon Calvados | 3.2 | 4.3% | 0% | 17 km |
| 6 | La Chaussée-Saint-Victor Loir-et-Cher | 3 | 11% | 8.1% | 215 km |
| 7 | Montrabé Haute-Garonne | 3 | 6.6% | 0% | 142 km |
| 8 | Montigny-en-Ostrevent Nord | 2.8 | 13% | 0.4% | 92 km |
| 9 | Écrouves Meurthe-et-Moselle | 2.6 | 23% | 100% | 346 km |
| 10 | Saint-Laurent-du-Pont Isère | 2.3 | 67% | 100% | 224 km |
| 11 | Notre-Dame-d'Oé Indre-et-Loire | 1.9 | 2.7% | 0% | 189 km |
| 12 | Saint-Marcel Eure | 1.8 | 24% | 0% | 88 km |
| 13 | Noirmoutier-en-l'Île Vendée | 1.7 | 4% | 38% | On it |
| 14 | Maintenon Eure-et-Loir | 1.6 | 28% | 0.5% | 130 km |
| 15 | Guise Aisne | 1.5 | 4.9% | 0% | 143 km |
| 16 | Plougonvelin Finistère | 1.4 | 4.3% | 0.9% | On it |
| 17 | Marchiennes Nord | 1.4 | 38% | 100% | 91 km |
| 18 | Banyuls-sur-Mer Pyrénées-Orientales | 1.3 | 6.4% | 78% | On it |
| 19 | Plobsheim Bas-Rhin | 1.1 | 10% | 31% | 459 km |
| 20 | Saint-Aunès Hérault | 1 | 4.7% | 0% | 10 km |
| 21 | Saint-Pair-sur-Mer Manche | 0.9 | 2.5% | 4.5% | 0.9 km |
| 22 | Beaussais-sur-Mer Côtes-d'Armor | 0.9 | 12% | 100% | On it |
| 23 | Hergnies Nord | 0.9 | 8.5% | 100% | 94 km |
| 24 | Hesdin-la-Forêt Pas-de-Calais | 0.9 | 51% | 0% | 28 km |
| 25 | Castelmaurou Haute-Garonne | 0.8 | 20% | 0% | 143 km |
| 26 | Lamotte-Beuvron Loir-et-Cher | 0.7 | 52% | 100% | 239 km |
| 27 | Crespin Nord | 0.7 | 34% | 99% | 105 km |
| 28 | Saint-Martin-de-May Calvados | 0.7 | 2.9% | 0% | 21 km |
| 29 | Sainte-Marie-aux-Chênes Moselle | 0.6 | 2.2% | 0% | 314 km |
| 30 | Villeneuve-lès-Béziers Hérault | 0.6 | 1.8% | 30% | 7.4 km |
| 31 | Mesnil-Roc'h Ille-et-Vilaine | 0.6 | 36% | 100% | 8.2 km |
| 32 | Montagnac Hérault | 0.6 | 11% | 14% | 17 km |
| 33 | Lunel-Viel Hérault | 0.6 | 4.6% | 0% | 13 km |
| 34 | La Réole Gironde | 0.5 | 7.2% | 6.5% | 64 km |
| 35 | Pineuilh Gironde | 0.5 | 8.5% | 2.2% | 67 km |
| 36 | Jarnac Charente | 0.5 | 6.2% | 23% | 53 km |
| 37 | Gonfaron Var | 0.4 | 42% | 23% | 21 km |
| 38 | Freneuse Yvelines | 0.4 | 34% | 51% | 100 km |
| 39 | Charmes Vosges | 0.4 | 60% | 8% | 391 km |
| 40 | Camaret-sur-Aigues Vaucluse | 0.3 | 2.4% | 0.8% | 79 km |
| 41 | Marans Charente-Maritime | 0.2 | 0.3% | 100% | 11 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 Freneuse
Named parks, gardens and woods in the commune or within 400 m, the biggest and best-pathed first: Forêt de Rosny leads, at 1,874 ha. Directions go to a point inside.
Source: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL): named parks, gardens and woods; sizes are the whole site.
Protected areas
Protected land in and around Freneuse
The protected areas reaching the commune, and the nearest: national parks, regional nature parks, nature reserves and Natura 2000 sites.
Regional nature park
Vexin Français Regional Nature Park
1.5 km from the town center
Natura 2000 site
Boucles de Moisson, de Guernes et de Rosny
51% of the commune0.5 km from the center
Natura 2000 site
Coteaux et boucles de la seine
1.9% of the commune1.5 km from the center
Share of the commune’s land
Any protected area51%
Natura 2000 site51%
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.
51% of Freneuse’s land is protected, more than in 87% of compared French towns; the median compared town in Yvelines has 0%. 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
4 km of footpaths cross Freneuse
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
4.4 km
0.4 km per km²
Hiking routes
0 km
waymarked: 0 km per km²
Woodland
34%
about 3.5 km² of mapped woods
Km per km² of the commune · mapped on OpenStreetMap
FreneuseYvelines medianFrance median
Footpaths0.4
Hiking routes0
02.55 km per km²
Share of the land · mapped woods and forest
FreneuseYvelines medianFrance median
Woodland34%
0%50%100%
That is less than in 89% of compared French towns for footpaths per km², and for woodland more than in 81% 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 Freneuse is within 800 m of a mapped park or wood, as in most French towns.
5 named hiking routes within 2 km
GR (long-distance)Other named walk
GR 25.8 km
GR 263.9 km
De Villennes-sur-Seine à Villers-sur-Mer, accès2.7 km
PR311.6 km
PR321.5 km
2 GR routes pass within 2 km of Freneuse: GR 2 and GR 26.
Source: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL), extracts of October 25, 2026 (Geofabrik).
When to get out
The best walking months in Freneuse: April to September
Météo-France’s 1991–2020 normals at Magnanville, 10 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) | 8.7 | 10.1 | 11.7 | 13.6 | 15.3 | 16.2 | 15.8 | 14.4 | 12.5 | 10.7 | 9.1 | 8.2 |
| High (°C) | 7 | 8 | 12 | 16 | 19 | 23 | 26 | 25 | 21 | 17 | 11 | 7 |
| Rain (mm) | 49 | 48 | 48 | 43 | 62 | 54 | 52 | 57 | 41 | 65 | 57 | 67 |
September is the driest month (41 mm) and July the warmest (highs of 26 °C). 67 mm of rain falls in December, the wettest month. Frost comes on about 40 nights a year. The climate in Freneuse →
Neighbors
Next to Freneuse
The nearest towns of 2,500 or more, colored by the share of their land in protected areas.
Bonnières-sur-SeineRosny-sur-SeineGasnyMantes-la-JolieBuchelayMagnanvilleFreneuse
Under 1%1–10 %10–25 %25–50 %50 %+
| Town | Protected | Woodland | Paths (km/km²) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Freneuse | 51% | 34% | 0.4 |
| Bonnières-sur-Seine 5,064 · 1.9 km | 20% | 45% | 2.1 |
| Rosny-sur-Seine 7,328 · 5.2 km | 62% | 60% | 0.7 |
| Gasny 3,062 · 5.6 km | 9.7% | 35% | 0.8 |
| Mantes-la-Jolie 43,526 · 8.6 km | 7.1% | 12% | 3.7 |
| Buchelay 3,360 · 8.7 km | 0% | 7.5% | 2.8 |
| Magnanville 6,383 · 10 km | 0% | 17% | 1.9 |
Rosny-sur-Seine is 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 Freneuse
Is Freneuse in a national or regional nature park?
No, but 51% of its land is in a nature reserve or a Natura 2000 site.
Are there good walks in Freneuse?
OpenStreetMap maps 4 km of footpaths and tracks open on foot in the commune, 0.4 km per km² (the median compared town: 1.7 km per km²).
How much of Freneuse is woodland?
34% of the commune is mapped woodland, private woods included; the median compared French town has 13%.
Is Freneuse near the sea?
No: the coast is 100 km from the town center, as the crow flies.
When is the best time for walking in Freneuse?
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.