{"id":68183,"date":"2026-08-21T19:24:13","date_gmt":"2026-08-21T19:24:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/68183\/"},"modified":"2026-08-21T19:24:13","modified_gmt":"2026-08-21T19:24:13","slug":"popular-forest-near-paris-to-reopen-after-wildfire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/68183\/","title":{"rendered":"Popular forest near Paris to reopen after wildfire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">A hugely popular forest outside Paris is to reopen to the public this weekend after being partially ravaged by a wildfire in July, a local official said on Friday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The sprawling Fontainebleau forest, around 60 kilometres (40 miles) southeast of the capital, draws hikers, nature lovers and climbers who come from around the world to tackle its famous boulders.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">But public access has been restricted since a wildfire last month scorched some 2,000 hectares (5,000 acres) &#8212; around 10 percent of the former royal hunting ground.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">On Saturday, &#8220;eighty percent of the forest will be able to reopen and be safely accessible to the public&#8221;, said Benoit Kaplan, a deputy prefect of the Seine-et-Marne area.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">One area of the forest will remain off-limits for the time being, he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Within the roughly 4,000-hectare restricted area &#8212; half of which was directly affected by the flames, with the remainder serving as a buffer zone &#8212; &#8220;firefighters are out every day extinguishing hotspots&#8221;, Kaplan said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">He urged visitors to stick to designated walking paths, with barbecues and smoking prohibited to prevent vegetation severely parched by successive heatwaves from catching fire.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">France has been hit by three heatwaves in quick succession during a historically hot European summer that has seen widespread drought and wildfires fuelled by global warming.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">ecb\/ekf\/gv<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A hugely popular forest outside Paris is to reopen to the public this weekend after being partially ravaged&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":68184,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[33385,32987,30,37506,31207],"class_list":["post-68183","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-paris","tag-firefighters","tag-fontainebleau-forest","tag-paris","tag-simon-wohlfahrt","tag-wildfire"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68183","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=68183"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68183\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/68184"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68183"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68183"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68183"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}