First pick
Parc des Ibis
Park or garden
9.9 ha4.3 km of path
55 minto walk all 4.3 km of path
Centralin the middle of Le Vésinet
Piste du Tour du Grand LacAvenue des Courses
Directionsto a point inside
Photo: Moonik · CC BY-SA 3.00.1%woodland
Outdoors in Le Vésinet · protected areas, woods and footpaths
Le Vésinet has more footpaths per km² than 8 in 10 French towns
25 km of footpaths cross Le Vésinet (4.9 km per km²). No protected area reaches Le Vésinet; the nearest, Sites de Seine-Saint-Denis (Natura 2000), is 13 km from the town center. Le Vésinet has almost no mapped woodland. 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: Sites de Seine-Saint-Denis, 13 km
Woodland
0.1%
of the land, mapped on OpenStreetMap
Compared town: 13%
Footpaths
25 km
4.9 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
17
named, in or within 400 m of the commune
First: Parc des Ibis
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 Le Vésinet?
Read from the data: what stands out first, good and less good.
A place of footpaths4.9 km per km² of mapped footpath, against 1.7 km per km² for the median compared town.Little mapped woodland0.1% of the land, against 13% for the median compared town.
What sets Le Vésinet apart: its footpaths. It is shorter on woodland.
Against French towns
How Le Vésinet 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
Woodland0.1%Share of the land mapped as forest or woods on OpenStreetMap
1out of 100
Footpaths4.9 km per km²Km of mapped footpath and track open on foot, per km² of the commune
90out 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
Le Vésinet has the 8th most footpaths per km² of 41 towns its size
The 40 compared French towns nearest in population (15,078 to 15,974 residents), by km of footpath per km². Hover for each one’s protected land and woods; click for its page.
From Paris 1er (17.1 km per km²) to Montrevault-sur-Èvre (0.3 km per km²).
Every town in the comparison
| Town | Paths (km/km²) | Woodland | Protected | Coast | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Paris 1er Paris | 17.1 | 0% | 0% | 148 km |
| 2 | Montévrain Seine-et-Marne | 7.3 | 11% | 0% | 165 km |
| 3 | Ramonville-Saint-Agne Haute-Garonne | 5.6 | 9.9% | 0% | 141 km |
| 4 | Fontainebleau Seine-et-Marne | 5.3 | 94% | 94% | 205 km |
| 5 | Castanet-Tolosan Haute-Garonne | 5.1 | 12% | 0% | 138 km |
| 6 | Longwy Meurthe-et-Moselle | 5.1 | 15% | 0% | 275 km |
| 7 | Avrillé Maine-et-Loire | 4.9 | 9.1% | 0% | 117 km |
| 8 | Le Vésinet Yvelines | 4.9 | 0.1% | 0% | 137 km |
| 9 | Francheville Rhône | 4.6 | 29% | 0% | 248 km |
| 10 | Le Bourget Seine-Saint-Denis | 4.5 | 2.2% | 0% | 145 km |
| 11 | Montmagny Val-d'Oise | 4.4 | 25% | 0% | 139 km |
| 12 | Hennebont Morbihan | 4 | 25% | 0% | On it |
| 13 | Saint-Pierre-des-Corps Indre-et-Loire | 3.8 | 6.9% | 9.3% | 186 km |
| 14 | Wattignies Nord | 3.5 | 1.5% | 0% | 66 km |
| 15 | Bouc-Bel-Air Bouches-du-Rhône | 3.5 | 29% | 0% | 12 km |
| 16 | Marseille 16e Bouches-du-Rhône | 3.4 | 8.2% | 0.2% | On it |
| 17 | Ambérieu-en-Bugey Ain | 3.3 | 49% | 0% | 281 km |
| 18 | Vesoul Haute-Saône | 3.1 | 3.3% | 3.6% | 434 km |
| 19 | Vendôme Loir-et-Cher | 3.1 | 32% | 0% | 187 km |
| 20 | Lucé Eure-et-Loir | 3 | 2.6% | 0% | 137 km |
| 21 | Saint-Fargeau-Ponthierry Seine-et-Marne | 2.4 | 13% | 100% | 187 km |
| 22 | Roquebrune-sur-Argens Var | 2.4 | 40% | 25% | On it |
| 23 | Morlaix Finistère | 2.3 | 18% | 3.8% | On it |
| 24 | Guipavas Finistère | 2.2 | 11% | 0.4% | On it |
| 25 | Port-de-Bouc Bouches-du-Rhône | 2.1 | 14% | 28% | On it |
| 26 | Senlis Oise | 2.1 | 48% | 100% | 126 km |
| 27 | Montivilliers Seine-Maritime | 2 | 6.9% | 0% | 6.8 km |
| 28 | Château-Thierry Aisne | 1.9 | 18% | 0% | 176 km |
| 29 | Saint-Amand-les-Eaux Nord | 1.9 | 43% | 100% | 93 km |
| 30 | Rive-de-Gier Loire | 1.7 | 13% | 0.1% | 222 km |
| 31 | Saint-Just-Saint-Rambert Loire | 1.7 | 23% | 13% | 216 km |
| 32 | Wittenheim Haut-Rhin | 1.6 | 32% | 0% | 447 km |
| 33 | Toul Meurthe-et-Moselle | 1.4 | 20% | 0.5% | 348 km |
| 34 | Issoire Puy-de-Dôme | 1.4 | 8% | 3.4% | 229 km |
| 35 | Hayange Moselle | 1.3 | 35% | 0% | 305 km |
| 36 | Biscarrosse Landes | 1.1 | 65% | 20% | On it |
| 37 | Elbeuf Seine-Maritime | 1 | 75% | 0% | 49 km |
| 38 | Tarascon Bouches-du-Rhône | 0.9 | 16% | 13% | 41 km |
| 39 | Beaucaire Gard | 0.7 | 4.5% | 8.8% | 40 km |
| 40 | Fos-sur-Mer Bouches-du-Rhône | 0.5 | 0.6% | 15% | On it |
| 41 | Montrevault-sur-Èvre Maine-et-Loire | 0.3 | 7.3% | 0% | 75 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 Le Vésinet
Named parks, gardens and woods in the commune or within 400 m, the biggest and best-pathed first: Parc des Ibis leads, at 9.9 ha. Directions go to a point inside.
Parc Corbière
Park or garden · 380 m outside the commune
7.9 ha2.8 km of path
40 minto walk all 2.8 km of path
2 km north-westfrom the center
Directionsto a point inside
Grande Pelouse
Park or garden
7.5 ha2.5 km of path
35 minto walk all 2.5 km of path
0.7 km westfrom the center
Directionsto a point inside
Parc Princesse
Park or garden
6.3 ha1.9 km of path
25 minto walk all 1.9 km of path
1.5 km southfrom the center
Promenade Utrillo
Directionsto a point inside
Parc Robert de Montesquiou
Park or garden
4.1 ha1.5 km of path
20 minto walk all 1.5 km of path
1.2 km southfrom the center
Directionsto a point inside
Square de Thame
Park or garden · 20 m outside the commune
2.2 ha1 km of path
15 minto walk all 1 km of path
1.8 km northfrom the center
Directionsto a point inside
Pelouse de La Borde
Park or garden
2.3 ha0.9 km of path
10 minto walk all 0.9 km of path
1.1 km north-westfrom the center
Directionsto a point inside
Clinique Villa des Pages
Park or garden
3.3 ha
Centralin the middle of Le Vésinet
Directionsto a point inside
All 17 named parks, gardens and woods
Parc des IbisPark or garden · 9.9 ha · 4.3 km of path
DirectionsParc CorbièrePark or garden · 7.9 ha · 2.8 km of path · just outside
DirectionsGrande PelousePark or garden · 7.5 ha · 2.5 km of path
DirectionsParc PrincessePark or garden · 6.3 ha · 1.9 km of path
DirectionsParc Robert de MontesquiouPark or garden · 4.1 ha · 1.5 km of path
DirectionsSquare de ThamePark or garden · 2.2 ha · 1 km of path · just outside
DirectionsPelouse de La BordePark or garden · 2.3 ha · 0.9 km of path
DirectionsClinique Villa des PagesPark or garden · 3.3 ha
DirectionsPelouse des FêtesPark or garden · 2.6 ha
DirectionsParc du lac inférieurPark or garden · 1.6 ha · 0.4 km of path
DirectionsParc du Lac SupérieurPark or garden · 1 ha · 0.6 km of path
DirectionsPelouse du MoulinPark or garden · 1.8 ha · 0.1 km of path
DirectionsLe plateauPark or garden · 1 ha · 0.4 km of path · just outside
DirectionsParc de la Blonde ParesseusePark or garden · 0.7 ha · 0.4 km of path · just outside
DirectionsLes milieuxPark or garden · 0.6 ha · 0.2 km of path · just outside
DirectionsÎle CorbièreWood or forest · 3.1 ha · just outside
DirectionsLes lanièresPark or garden · 0.4 ha · 0.2 km of path · just outside
DirectionsSource: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL): named parks, gardens and woods; sizes are the whole site.
Protected areas
Sites de Seine-Saint-Denis is the nearest protected area, 13 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
Sites de Seine-Saint-Denis
13 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
Footpaths and woods in Le Vésinet
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
25 km
4.9 km per km²
Hiking routes
0 km
waymarked: 0 km per km²
Woodland
0.1%
about 0 km² of mapped woods
Km per km² of the commune · mapped on OpenStreetMap
Le VésinetYvelines medianFrance median
Footpaths4.9
Hiking routes0
036 km per km²
Share of the land · mapped woods and forest
Le VésinetYvelines medianFrance median
Woodland0.1%
0%50%100%
That is more than in 90% of compared French towns for footpaths per km², and for woodland less than in 99% 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 Le Vésinet is within 800 m of a mapped park or wood, as in most French towns.
8 named hiking routes within 2 km
GR (long-distance)PR (local walk)Other named walk
GR 211 km
PR 35 km
PR 754.3 km
PR 743.2 km
PR 92.5 km
PR 762.5 km
PR 11.5 km
Chemin des Impressionnistes au Port-Marly1.6 km
GR 2 passes within 2 km of Le Vésinet.
Source: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL), extracts of October 25, 2026 (Geofabrik).
When to get out
The best walking months in Le Vésinet: April and June to September
Météo-France’s 1991–2020 normals at Bagatelle, 8.8 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 | 8.3 |
| High (°C) | 8 | 9 | 14 | 17 | 21 | 24 | 26 | 26 | 22 | 17 | 11 | 8 |
| Rain (mm) | 51 | 45 | 46 | 45 | 70 | 53 | 51 | 55 | 46 | 55 | 58 | 64 |
February is the driest month (45 mm) and July the warmest (highs of 26 °C). 70 mm of rain falls in May, the wettest month. Frost comes on about 36 nights a year. The climate in Le Vésinet →
Gardens
A garden to visit in Le Vésinet
Named gardens in the commune.
Clinique Villa des PagesIn Le Vésinet
DirectionsSource: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL) and Wikidata.
Neighbors
Next to Le Vésinet
The nearest towns of 2,500 or more, colored by the share of their land in protected areas.
ChatouCroissy-sur-SeineLe PecqMontessonLe Port-MarlyBougivalLe Vésinet
Under 1%1–10 %10–25 %25–50 %50 %+
| Town | Protected | Woodland | Paths (km/km²) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Le Vésinet | 0% | 0.1% | 4.9 |
| Chatou 30,598 · 1.6 km | 0% | 0.3% | 4.5 |
| Croissy-sur-Seine 11,013 · 1.8 km | 0% | 2.5% | 3.3 |
| Le Pecq 16,059 · 2 km | 0% | 2.7% | 7.1 |
| Montesson 14,549 · 2.2 km | 0% | 2.3% | 4.7 |
| Le Port-Marly 5,559 · 2.4 km | 0% | 13% | 5.9 |
| Bougival 9,134 · 3.4 km | 0% | 20% | 4.8 |
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 Le Vésinet
Is Le Vésinet in a national or regional nature park?
No. The nearest protected area is Sites de Seine-Saint-Denis, 13 km from the town center.
Are there good walks in Le Vésinet?
OpenStreetMap maps 25 km of footpaths and tracks open on foot in the commune, 4.9 km per km² (the median compared town: 1.7 km per km²).
How much of Le Vésinet is woodland?
0.1% of the commune is mapped woodland, private woods included; the median compared French town has 13%.
Is Le Vésinet near the sea?
No: the coast is 137 km from the town center, as the crow flies.
When is the best time for walking in Le Vésinet?
April and June 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.