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Bighorn National Forest

US Forest Service · Public domain

16% trees around it and 13 species recorded.

42Forestyas Score

ForestNational forestWildMountain forest

  • trees within 3 km16%
  • wild within 10 km100%
  • species recorded13
  • Altitude3,045 m

The forest around

16% 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 9%Grassland 4%Moss and lichen 85%Bare ground 3%Trees 17%Grassland 4%Moss and lichen 75%Water 0%Bare ground 4%Trees 54%Grassland 5%Moss and lichen 38%Water 1%Bare ground 2%Trees 65%Grassland 7%Moss and lichen 24%Water 1%Bare ground 2%16%trees · 3 km

Trees, ring by ring

  • 0–1 km9%
  • 1–3 km17%
  • 3–6 km54%
  • 6–10 km65%

What covers the land (1–3 km)

  • Trees17%
  • Grassland4%
  • Moss and lichen75%
  • Water0%
  • Bare ground4%

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

13 species recorded.

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

Dwarf red whortleberryVaccinium scoparium2 records

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

In numbers

The forest, measured.

42out of 100

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

  • 16%Treesof the land within 3 km
  • 100%Wildno towns or farmland within 10 km
  • 13Speciesrecorded more than once within 5 km
  • 3,045 mAltitudeabove the sea

When to walk

Best for walking in June and in September.

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

  1. Jan-5°-16°33 mm
  2. Feb-5°-16°38 mm
  3. Mar0°-11°46 mm
  4. Apr5°-6°62 mm
  5. May11°-1°89 mm
  6. Jun18°4°64 mm
  7. Jul24°9°38 mm
  8. Aug23°8°37 mm
  9. Sep17°2°52 mm
  10. Oct7°-4°55 mm
  11. Nov0°-10°35 mm
  12. Dec-5°-16°31 mm
  • Bar: walking comfort; the number on top is the average maximum.
  • Below: average minimum (NASA, 1991–2020).
  • Rain: monthly total.

The place

Bighorn National Forest.

U.S. National Forest in Wyoming, United States

Bighorn National Forest is a national forest in United States, 3,045 m above the sea.

Seen from space, 16% of the land within 3 km is trees, and 100% of the land within 10 km has no towns or farmland.

13 species have been recorded around it: 1 plants, 7 fungi, 5 birds and 0 mammals.

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

Bighorn National Forest - August 2017
US Forest Service · Public domain

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.

Bighorn National 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

  • 1campsites within 10 kmCoffeen Park Campground
  • marked trails within 5 km
  • named and notable trees within 6 km
  • picnic sites within 4 km
  • shelters and huts within 6 km
  • viewpoints within 5 km
  • visitor centres within 6 km
  • car parks within 3 km
  • places to stay within 10 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 Bighorn National 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.

Peakyas34 mountains within 25 km
Black Tooth Mountain3,965 m · 20 kmHallelujah Peak3,839 m · 20 kmMount Woolsey3,957 m · 20 kmThe Innominate3,980 m · 20 kmPenrose Peak3,798 m · 21 kmSawtooth Mountain3,855 m · 21 kmCloud Peak4,013 m · 22 kmBomber Mountain24 km
Lakeyas1 lakes within 15 km
Adelaide Lake0.4 km² · 4.4 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.

Bighorn National Forest - July 12 2017
US Forest Service · Public domain
Bighorn National Forest
Fabien Fivaz · CC BY 2.0
Ten sleep creek - panoramio
Scott Thompson · CC BY 3.0

Other forests nearby.

Bighorn National Forest

United States

  • 42Forestyas Score
  • 16%Trees
  • 100%Wild
  • 13Species

Shoshone National Forest

United States · 180 km

  • 64Forestyas Score
  • 39%Trees
  • 100%Wild
  • 180Species

See the guide

Custer National Forest

United States · 203 km

  • 69Forestyas Score
  • 56%Trees
  • 100%Wild
  • 96Species

See the guide

Bridger–Teton National Forest

United States · 297 km

  • 76Forestyas Score
  • 61%Trees
  • 96%Wild
  • 344Species

See the guide

Where these figures come from

Name and typeWikidata (Q951806) · CC0
Land coverESA WorldCover 10 m 2021 v200 · © ESA WorldCover project / Copernicus Sentinel data · CC BY 4.0
Species80 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, Lakeyas

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

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