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Bartek

Goku122 · CC BY-SA 3.0

77% trees around it and 10 species recorded.

65Forestyas Score

Notable tree

  • trees within 3 km77%
  • wild within 10 km95%
  • species recorded10
  • Altitude319 m

The forest around

77% 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 77%Grassland 12%Built-up 11%Trees 77%Grassland 19%Cropland 1%Built-up 3%Trees 79%Grassland 17%Water 0%Bare ground 0%Cropland 1%Built-up 2%Trees 74%Grassland 20%Bare ground 0%Cropland 2%Built-up 4%77%trees · 3 km

Trees, ring by ring

  • 0–1 km77%
  • 1–3 km77%
  • 3–6 km79%
  • 6–10 km74%

What covers the land (1–3 km)

  • Trees77%
  • Grassland19%
  • Bare ground0%
  • Cropland1%
  • Built-up3%

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

10 species recorded.

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

Lily-of-the-valley
Lily-of-the-valleyConvallaria majalis2 recordsIvar Leidus · CC BY-SA 4.0

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

In numbers

The forest, measured.

65out of 100

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

  • 77%Treesof the land within 3 km
  • 95%Wildno towns or farmland within 10 km
  • 10Speciesrecorded more than once within 2 km
  • 319 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. Jan-1°-7°44 mm
  2. Feb1°-6°38 mm
  3. Mar7°-2°42 mm
  4. Apr14°3°46 mm
  5. May19°9°84 mm
  6. Jun23°13°71 mm
  7. Jul26°15°86 mm
  8. Aug25°14°64 mm
  9. Sep20°9°56 mm
  10. Oct13°4°50 mm
  11. Nov6°0°43 mm
  12. Dec1°-4°41 mm
  • Bar: walking comfort; the number on top is the average maximum.
  • Below: average minimum (NASA, 1991–2020).
  • Rain: monthly total.

The place

Bartek.

Ancient oak tree in Poland

Bartek is a notable tree in Poland, 319 m above the sea.

Seen from space, 77% of the land within 3 km is trees, and 95% of the land within 10 km has no towns or farmland.

10 species have been recorded around it: 1 plants, 0 fungi, 8 birds and 1 mammals.

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

Bartek-ulica
Goku122 · CC BY-SA 3.0

Get there and walk

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.

Bartek 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

  • 5marked trails within 5 kmGłówny Szlak Świętokrzyski im. Edmunda Massalskiego, Bliżyn - Zagnańsk PKP, Barcza - Bukowa Góra and 2 more
  • 40named and notable trees within 6 kmDąb Bartek, Kapliczka na drzewie, Helena and 37 more
  • 8picnic sites within 4 km
  • 48shelters and huts within 6 km
  • 1viewpoints within 5 km
  • 2visitor centres within 6 kmCentrum usługowe Dąb Bartek, Punkt informacji turystycznej w Samsonowie
  • 29car parks within 3 km
  • 1campsites within 10 kmMoto-raj (PFCC nr 115)
  • 28places to stay within 10 kmAbies Villa, Agroturystyka Grago, Pod Jaskółką and 25 more
  • 3restaurants and cafés within 3 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 Bartek.

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.

Peakyas17 mountains within 25 km
Bukowa Góra12 kmRadostowa451 m · 14 kmTelegraf408 m · 16 kmOtrocz263 m · 16 kmŁysica19 kmLysica - 612 m. n. p. m.608 m · 19 kmGóra Miejska426 m · 20 kmSzczygiełkowa - Przełęcz Św. Mikołaja 535m.541 m · 22 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.

Dab Bartek
Unknown author · CC BY-SA 3.0
20180430 Dąb Bartek w Zagnańsku 2550 DxO
Jakub Hałun · CC BY-SA 4.0
20180430 Dąb Bartek w Zagnańsku 2551 DxO
Jakub Hałun · CC BY-SA 4.0

Other forests nearby.

Bartek

Poland

  • 65Forestyas Score
  • 77%Trees
  • 95%Wild
  • 10Species

Niepołomice Forest

Poland · 107 km

  • 72Forestyas Score
  • 91%Trees
  • 71%Wild
  • 305Species

See the guide

Sandomierz Wilderness

Poland · 108 km

  • 57Forestyas Score
  • 74%Trees
  • 93%Wild
  • 2Species

See the guide

Kampinos Forest

Poland · 149 km

  • 68Forestyas Score
  • 68%Trees
  • 88%Wild
  • 136Species

See the guide

Where these figures come from

Name and typeWikidata (Q790880) · CC0
Land coverESA WorldCover 10 m 2021 v200 · © ESA WorldCover project / Copernicus Sentinel data · CC BY 4.0
Species51 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

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

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