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Baikushev's pine

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49% trees around it and 245 species recorded.

72Forestyas Score

Notable treeWildMountain forestFungiWorld Heritage

  • trees within 3 km49%
  • wild within 10 km98%
  • species recorded245
  • Altitude1,868 m

The forest around

49% trees.

Read like the rings of a cut trunk: from the centre out, the land within 1, 3, 6 and 10 km, coloured by what covers it.

Trees 78%Grassland 21%Bare ground 1%Trees 45%Grassland 39%Bare ground 15%Built-up 0%Trees 59%Grassland 31%Water 0%Bare ground 10%Trees 73%Grassland 21%Water 0%Bare ground 3%Cropland 1%Built-up 2%49%trees · 3 km

Trees, ring by ring

  • 0–1 km78%
  • 1–3 km45%
  • 3–6 km59%
  • 6–10 km73%

What covers the land (1–3 km)

  • Trees45%
  • Grassland39%
  • Water0%
  • Bare ground15%
  • Cropland0%
  • Built-up0%

ESA WorldCover 2021 (10 m, from Sentinel satellites), sampled every 120 m. A clearing, a road or a lake counts as what it is.

Who lives here

245 species recorded.

The plants, fungi, birds and mammals people have recorded here most often.

Mezereon
MezereonDaphne mezereum9 recordsIvar Leidus · CC BY-SA 4.0
Geum coccineum
Geum coccineumGeum coccineum8 recordsJerzy Opioła · CC BY-SA 4.0
Hardy geranium
Hardy geraniumGeranium macrorrhizum6 recordsDidier Descouens · CC BY-SA 4.0
Northern hollyfern
Northern hollyfernPolystichum lonchitis5 recordsWalter Siegmund · CC BY-SA 3.0
Cypress Spurge
Cypress SpurgeEuphorbia cyparissias5 recordsKrzysztof Golik · CC BY-SA 4.0
Spreading bellflower
Spreading bellflowerCampanula patula5 recordsUnknown author · CC BY-SA 3.0
Rose Daphne
Rose DaphneDaphne cneorum5 recordsGiuseppe Frizzi · Public domain
Common Juniper
Common JuniperJuniperus communis4 recordsIvar Leidus · CC BY-SA 4.0
Western Marsh-orchid
Western Marsh-orchidDactylorhiza majalis4 recordsW. Bulach · CC BY-SA 4.0
Monk's rhubarb
Monk's rhubarbRumex alpinus4 recordsUnknown author · CC BY-SA 3.0
Wild caraway
Wild carawayCarum carvi4 recordsFranz Eugen Köhler, Köhler's Medizinal-Pflanzen · Public domain
Veronica saturejoidesVeronica saturejoides9 records

Open records within 2 km (GBIF, licensed for any use). Busy places are better recorded than remote ones.

In numbers

The forest, measured.

72out of 100

Our own rating, from open data only: tree cover (40 points), wildness (20), species recorded (30) and protection or heritage (10).

  • 49%Treesof the land within 3 km
  • 98%Wildno towns or farmland within 10 km
  • 245Speciesrecorded more than once within 2 km
  • 1,868 mAltitudeabove the sea

When to walk

Best for walking in May and in September.

How good each month is for a walk: mild days and little rain make the bar taller.

  1. Jan1°-6°52 mm
  2. Feb3°-5°44 mm
  3. Mar7°-2°58 mm
  4. Apr12°2°59 mm
  5. May18°7°71 mm
  6. Jun22°11°76 mm
  7. Jul26°13°56 mm
  8. Aug26°13°50 mm
  9. Sep21°9°51 mm
  10. Oct15°4°56 mm
  11. Nov9°0°45 mm
  12. Dec3°-4°57 mm
  • Bar: walking comfort; the number on top is the average maximum.
  • Below: average minimum (NASA, 1991–2020).
  • Rain: monthly total.

The place

Baikushev's pine.

One of the oldest known individuals of the species Pinus heldreichii

Baikushev's pine is a notable tree in Bulgaria, 1,868 m above the sea.

Seen from space, 49% of the land within 3 km is trees, and 98% of the land within 10 km has no towns or farmland.

245 species have been recorded around it: 100 plants, 42 fungi, 99 birds and 4 mammals.

The most recorded plants are: Mezereon, Geum coccineum and Hardy geranium.

The best time to walk is in May and in September.

Байкушева мура 01
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Get there and walk

  • Бивакcampsite · 3.3 km · 8 within 10 km
  • Апартаментен Хотел "Аспен"place to stay · 8.0 km · 149 within 10 km
  • Banskonearest town · 9.4 km in a straight line
  • Sofia Airport (SOF)nearest airport with scheduled flights · 103 km in a straight lineCar hire at SOF airport (Sofia)Discover Cars · sponsored link

Plan the visit

A guided walk, a bed nearby, a car.

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From above

The forest and its surroundings.

The satellite image of the 6 × 6 km around the place, with the trails, notable trees, picnic sites and huts that OpenStreetMap shows.

Baikushev's pine seen from above (Sentinel-2)
Seen from above: Sentinel-2 cloudless 2016 (EOX, CC BY 4.0), 6 × 6 km, north up. Points © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Around, in OpenStreetMap

  • 14marked trails within 5 kmх. Вихрен - х. Демяница, Банско - х. Яне Сандански, x. Демяница - x. Яне Сандански and 11 more
  • 1named and notable trees within 6 kmБайкушевата мура;Байкушева мура
  • 7picnic sites within 4 km
  • 25shelters and huts within 6 kmз.Казана, заслон Кончето, з. Бункера and 22 more
  • 6viewpoints within 5 kmВихрен, Waterfall and 4 more
  • 12car parks within 3 km
  • 8campsites within 10 kmБивак, Wild camp, Between the Mountains and 5 more
  • 149places to stay within 10 kmАпартаментен Хотел "Аспен", Хотел "Сънрайз Парк енд СПА", Санто Банско and 146 more
  • 3restaurants and cafés within 3 km
  • visitor centres within 6 km

Counted in OpenStreetMap, the map anyone can edit. A low number may just mean nobody has mapped it yet.

In our other atlases

Around Baikushev's pine.

The mountains, lakes, rivers, waterfalls and canyons around this forest, the viewpoints above it, the birds and the night sky, in the family's atlases.

Peakyas33 mountains within 25 km
Todorka2,746 m · 1.8 kmVihren2,914 m · 2.0 kmKutelo2,908 m · 2.2 kmBanski Suhodol2,884 m · 3.3 kmBayuvi Dupki Peak2,820 m · 4.8 kmMalak Polezhan2,822 m · 7.4 kmPolezhan2,851 m · 7.5 kmKamenitsa Peak2,822 m · 11 km
Viewyas1 viewpoints within 15 kmComing soon
Vihren2,914 m · 1.9 km
Cavernyas1 caves within 20 km
Vihren Cave170 m · 1.3 km
Cascadyas1 waterfalls within 15 km
Popinolashki waterfall15 m · 11 km

Figures from the sister sites' databases (Wikidata, HydroATLAS, GeoNames, OpenStreetMap). Links open when each site is online.

Photographs

The forest, as people saw it.

Baikushev's pine kz01
Krzysztof Ziarnek, Kenraiz · CC BY-SA 4.0
Vihren 002
Vislupus · CC BY-SA 4.0
Vihren 027
Vislupus · CC BY-SA 4.0

Other forests nearby.

Baikushev's pine

Bulgaria

  • 72Forestyas Score
  • 49%Trees
  • 98%Wild
  • 245Species

Kedrinos Lofos

Greece · 131 km

  • 68Forestyas Score
  • 71%Trees
  • 71%Wild
  • 585Species

See the guide

Beli Oak

North Macedonia · 89 km

  • 21Forestyas Score
  • 20%Trees
  • 72%Wild
  • 1Species

See the guide

Dadia Forest

Greece · 245 km

  • 71Forestyas Score
  • 74%Trees
  • 79%Wild
  • 357Species

See the guide

Where these figures come from

Name and typeWikidata (Q804139) · CC0
Land coverESA WorldCover 10 m 2021 v200 · © ESA WorldCover project / Copernicus Sentinel data · CC BY 4.0
Species2,865 open records within 2 km (GBIF, CC0 and CC BY 4.0 only)
See these recordsgbif.org
Names and photosWikidata (CC0); GBIF Backbone Taxonomy · CC BY 4.0; Wikimedia Commons
AltitudeCopernicus DEM GLO-30 · © DLR e.V., © Airbus Defence and Space GmbH, Copernicus/ESA
Temperature and rainNASA POWER (CERES SYN1deg, 2001–2020; MERRA-2)
What is around© OpenStreetMap contributors · ODbL
ImagesEOX Sentinel-2 cloudless 2016 · CC BY 4.0; Wikimedia Commons
Sister atlasesPeakyas, Viewyas, Cavernyas, Cascadyas

Every figure is an average, an estimate or a count from a public dataset. Licences and methods: data sources.

The family

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