The last decades have seen a growing trend for environmental conservation and natural and cultural patrimony preservation with the implementation of protected areas, notably through land-use planning and regulations. These zones can lead to conflicts on use as most protected areas are located in populated areas and requested by a variety of stakeholders. Therefore, it is likely that they will have different opinions depending on multiple political, environmental or cultural issues. For this purpose, this paper aims at studying users’ social representations of protected areas, especially of the Grand site classé de l’Anse de Paulilles. Moreover, it strives to set the emphasis put in site management on patrimony and to evaluate if it constitutes a component of Paulilles’ representation. Essentially methodological, this research wants to explore social representations’ theory and observation and data analysis tools. Then, the study of the relation between social representations of a user group and the identification of the explicative variable has been realized by descriptive statistic. The results show that there is a correlation between patrimony and Paulilles’ site representations, principally in function of age and place of residence. To conclude, this work put the emphasis on social representations theory’s contribution in environmental science in order to better understand the point of view and thus, protected areas actors’ behaviours and practices related to management objectives.