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Boise National Forest

U.S. Forest Service · Public domain

68% trees around it and 89 species recorded.

74Forestyas Score

ForestNational forestWildMountain forest

  • trees within 3 km68%
  • wild within 10 km100%
  • species recorded89
  • Altitude1,757 m

The forest around

68% 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 49%Grassland 51%Trees 70%Grassland 29%Water 0%Bare ground 0%Trees 54%Grassland 45%Water 0%Trees 55%Grassland 44%Bare ground 0%68%trees · 3 km

Trees, ring by ring

  • 0–1 km49%
  • 1–3 km70%
  • 3–6 km54%
  • 6–10 km55%

What covers the land (1–3 km)

  • Trees70%
  • Grassland29%
  • Water0%
  • Bare ground0%

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

89 species recorded.

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

Common bent
Common bentAgrostis capillaris4 recordsRasbak · CC BY-SA 3.0
Arctic rush
Arctic rushJuncus balticus3 recordsMatti Virtala · CC0
White sagebrush
White sagebrushArtemisia ludoviciana3 recordsDidier Descouens · CC BY-SA 4.0
Menzies' campion
Menzies' campionSilene menziesii3 recordsThayne Tuason · CC BY-SA 4.0
Rescuegrass
RescuegrassBromus catharticus2 recordsForest & Kim Starr · CC BY 3.0
Prairie Junegrass
Prairie JunegrassKoeleria macrantha2 recordsDon Pedro28 · CC BY-SA 3.0
Carex kelloggii
Carex kelloggiiCarex kelloggii2 recordsMatt Lavin · CC BY-SA 2.0
Smallwing sedge
Smallwing sedgeCarex microptera2 recordsHurd, E.G., N.L. Shaw, J. Mastrogiuseppe, L.C. Smithman, and S. Goodrich. · Public domain
Stickywilly
StickywillyGalium aparine2 recordsAlvesgaspar · CC BY-SA 3.0
Gooseberryleaf alumroot
Gooseberryleaf alumrootHeuchera grossulariifolia2 recordsUnknown author · CC BY-SA 3.0
Hairy clematis
Hairy clematisClematis hirsutissima2 recordsJW Stockert · Public domain
Antelope bitterbrush
Antelope bitterbrushPurshia tridentata2 recordsWalter Siegmund · CC BY-SA 3.0

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

In numbers

The forest, measured.

74out of 100

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

  • 68%Treesof the land within 3 km
  • 100%Wildno towns or farmland within 10 km
  • 89Speciesrecorded more than once within 5 km
  • 1,757 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-2°-11°91 mm
  2. Feb-1°-10°68 mm
  3. Mar3°-6°87 mm
  4. Apr8°-3°59 mm
  5. May15°2°53 mm
  6. Jun20°6°36 mm
  7. Jul28°12°12 mm
  8. Aug27°11°13 mm
  9. Sep21°6°26 mm
  10. Oct12°0°49 mm
  11. Nov4°-6°78 mm
  12. Dec-2°-11°119 mm
  • Bar: walking comfort; the number on top is the average maximum.
  • Below: average minimum (NASA, 1991–2020).
  • Rain: monthly total.

The place

Boise National Forest.

National forest in the US state of Idaho

Boise National Forest is a national forest in United States, 1,757 m above the sea.

Seen from space, 68% of the land within 3 km is trees, and 100% of the land within 10 km has no towns or farmland.

89 species have been recorded around it: 15 plants, 1 fungi, 73 birds and 0 mammals.

The most recorded plants are: Common bent, Arctic rush and White sagebrush.

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

Boise National Forest 1
U.S. 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.

Boise 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 kmBlack Rock 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 Boise 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.

Peakyas17 mountains within 25 km
Grand Mountain12 kmGranite Mountain14 kmBald Mountain17 kmPilot Peak19 kmFreeman Peak19 kmSteel Mountain2,966 m · 21 kmHorse Ranch Mountain24 kmGoat Mountain24 km
Riveryasthe river nearby
Mores Creek

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

Photographs

The forest, as people saw it.

Big Roaring River Lake
U.S. Forest Service · Public domain
- Boise- (52902879292)
Intermountain Region US Forest Service · Public domain
06 2022 01 FS Boise JH Sandhill crane 2 (52958827475)
Intermountain Region US Forest Service · Public domain

Other forests nearby.

Boise National Forest

United States

  • 74Forestyas Score
  • 68%Trees
  • 100%Wild
  • 89Species

Sawtooth National Forest

United States · 72 km

  • 73Forestyas Score
  • 59%Trees
  • 100%Wild
  • 205Species

See the guide

Salmon–Challis National Forest

United States · 196 km

  • 71Forestyas Score
  • 96%Trees
  • 100%Wild
  • 5Species

See the guide

Malheur National Forest

United States · 263 km

  • 77Forestyas Score
  • 75%Trees
  • 100%Wild
  • 77Species

See the guide

Where these figures come from

Name and typeWikidata (Q891075) · CC0
Land coverESA WorldCover 10 m 2021 v200 · © ESA WorldCover project / Copernicus Sentinel data · CC BY 4.0
Species600 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, Riveryas

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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