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Belanglo State Forest

Maksym Kozlenko · CC BY-SA 4.0

92% trees around it and 559 species recorded.

86Forestyas Score

ForestDense canopyWildlife

  • trees within 3 km92%
  • wild within 10 km98%
  • species recorded559
  • Altitude701 m

The forest around

92% 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 100%Grassland 0%Trees 91%Grassland 9%Trees 77%Grassland 20%Water 0%Cropland 2%Built-up 0%Trees 51%Grassland 46%Water 0%Cropland 2%Built-up 1%92%trees · 3 km

Trees, ring by ring

  • 0–1 km100%
  • 1–3 km91%
  • 3–6 km77%
  • 6–10 km51%

What covers the land (1–3 km)

  • Trees91%
  • Grassland9%
  • Water0%
  • 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

559 species recorded.

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

Eucalyptus apiculata
Eucalyptus apiculataEucalyptus apiculata67 recordsIan Brooker and David Kleinig · CC BY 3.0 au
Persoonia linearis
Persoonia linearisPersoonia linearis63 recordsJohn Tann from Sydney, Australia · CC BY 2.0
Goodenia hederacea
Goodenia hederaceaGoodenia hederacea59 recordsMelburnian · CC BY 3.0
Lomandra longifolia
Lomandra longifoliaLomandra longifolia58 recordsEric in SF · CC BY-SA 3.0
Eucalyptus racemosa
Eucalyptus racemosaEucalyptus racemosa57 recordsPoyt448 Peter Woodard · CC0
Dianella revoluta
Dianella revolutaDianella revoluta54 recordsSam Genas · CC BY-SA 3.0
Grevillea raybrowniiVU
Grevillea raybrowniiGrevillea raybrownii47 recordsAllthingsnative · CC BY-SA 4.0
Entolasia stricta
Entolasia strictaEntolasia stricta45 recordsPoyt448 Peter Woodard · CC BY-SA 3.0
Leptospermum trinervium
Leptospermum trinerviumLeptospermum trinervium44 recordsJohn Tann from Sydney, Australia · CC BY 2.0
Microlaena stipoides
Microlaena stipoidesMicrolaena stipoides43 recordsMacleay Grass Man · CC BY 2.0
Pomax umbellata
Pomax umbellataPomax umbellata43 recordsMark Marathon · CC BY-SA 4.0
Blue-leaf stringybark
Blue-leaf stringybarkEucalyptus agglomerata43 recordsPoyt448 Peter Woodard · CC0

Open records within 5 km (GBIF, licensed for any use). Busy places are better recorded than remote ones.

In numbers

The forest, measured.

86out of 100

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

  • 92%Treesof the land within 3 km
  • 98%Wildno towns or farmland within 10 km
  • 559Speciesrecorded more than once within 5 km
  • 701 mAltitudeabove the sea

When to walk

Best for walking in April.

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

  1. Jan29°14°68 mm
  2. Feb26°14°114 mm
  3. Mar23°12°79 mm
  4. Apr19°9°47 mm
  5. May15°5°37 mm
  6. Jun12°3°74 mm
  7. Jul11°2°42 mm
  8. Aug12°2°52 mm
  9. Sep16°5°43 mm
  10. Oct20°8°56 mm
  11. Nov24°10°74 mm
  12. Dec26°12°69 mm
  • Bar: walking comfort; the number on top is the average maximum.
  • Below: average minimum (NASA, 1991–2020).
  • Rain: monthly total.

The place

Belanglo State Forest.

State forest in New South Wales, Australia

Belanglo State Forest is a forest in Australia, 701 m above the sea.

Seen from space, 92% of the land within 3 km is trees, and 98% of the land within 10 km has no towns or farmland.

559 species have been recorded around it: 417 plants, 9 fungi, 111 birds and 22 mammals.

The most recorded plants are: Eucalyptus apiculata, Persoonia linearis and Goodenia hederacea.

The best time to walk is in April.

Belanglo State Forest
Maksym Kozlenko · CC BY-SA 4.0

Get there and walk

  • Dalys Clearing Campgroundcampsite · 2.0 km · 8 within 10 km
  • Oldbury Cottageplace to stay · 10 km · 2 within 10 km
  • Moss Valenearest town · 14 km in a straight line
  • Sydney Kingsford Smith International Airport (SYD)nearest airport with scheduled flights · 108 km in a straight lineCar hire at SYD airport (Sydney)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.

Belanglo State Forest 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

  • 3picnic sites within 4 km
  • 8campsites within 10 kmDalys Clearing Campground, Berrima Scout Camp and 6 more
  • 2places to stay within 10 kmOldbury Cottage, Applecreek House
  • marked trails within 5 km
  • named and notable trees within 6 km
  • shelters and huts within 6 km
  • viewpoints within 5 km
  • visitor centres within 6 km
  • car parks within 3 km
  • restaurants 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 Belanglo State Forest.

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.

Peakyas35 mountains within 25 km
Sams Mountain510 m · 10 kmMount Penang11 kmMount Gibraltar863 m · 20 kmWanganderry20 kmMount Jellore21 kmMount Waratah22 kmSugarloaf Hill23 kmBig Hill24 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.

2017-03-12 Belanglo State Forest 2
Maksym Kozlenko · CC BY-SA 4.0

Other forests nearby.

Belanglo State Forest

Australia

  • 86Forestyas Score
  • 92%Trees
  • 98%Wild
  • 559Species

Australian National Botanic Gardens

Australia · 132 km

  • 69Forestyas Score
  • 53%Trees
  • 77%Wild
  • 1,437Species

See the guide

Royal Botanic Gardens, Sydney

Australia · 117 km

  • 43Forestyas Score
  • 14%Trees
  • 60%Wild
  • 1,213Species

See the guide

Where these figures come from

Name and typeWikidata (Q815259) · CC0
Land coverESA WorldCover 10 m 2021 v200 · © ESA WorldCover project / Copernicus Sentinel data · CC BY 4.0
Species7,577 open records within 5 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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