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Carson National Forest

David Herrera from Albuquerque, NM, Bernalillo · CC BY 2.0

92% trees around it and 50 species recorded.

80Forestyas Score

ForestNational forestDense canopyWildMountain forest

  • trees within 3 km92%
  • wild within 10 km100%
  • species recorded50
  • Altitude2,521 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 91%Shrubland 2%Grassland 7%Trees 87%Shrubland 3%Grassland 9%Cropland 1%Trees 89%Shrubland 2%Grassland 8%Cropland 0%92%trees · 3 km

Trees, ring by ring

  • 0–1 km100%
  • 1–3 km91%
  • 3–6 km87%
  • 6–10 km89%

What covers the land (1–3 km)

  • Trees91%
  • Shrubland2%
  • Grassland7%
  • Cropland0%

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

50 species recorded.

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

Vasey's rabbitbrush
Vasey's rabbitbrushChrysothamnus vaseyi4 recordsno rights reserved · CC0
Scarlet gilia
Scarlet giliaIpomopsis aggregata3 recordsWalter Siegmund · CC BY-SA 3.0
Nodding onion
Nodding onionAllium cernuum2 recordsWalter Siegmund · CC BY-SA 3.0
Wild blue flax
Wild blue flaxLinum lewisii2 recordsSkoch3 · CC BY-SA 3.0
Pineywoods geranium
Pineywoods geraniumGeranium caespitosum2 recordsJerryFriedman · CC BY-SA 3.0
Common yarrow
Common yarrowAchillea millefolium2 recordsEpgrande · CC BY 4.0
Rocky Mountain penstemon
Rocky Mountain penstemonPenstemon strictus2 recordsJerryFriedman · CC BY-SA 3.0
Ponderosa Pine
Ponderosa PinePinus ponderosa2 recordsWalter Siegmund · CC BY 2.5
Woodland pinedrops
Woodland pinedropsPterospora andromedea2 recordsWalter Siegmund · CC BY-SA 3.0
Lorandersonia microcephalaLorandersonia microcephala4 records
Hairy false goldenasterHeterotheca hirsutissima2 records
Acmispon wrightiiAcmispon wrightii2 records

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

In numbers

The forest, measured.

80out 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
  • 100%Wildno towns or farmland within 10 km
  • 50Speciesrecorded more than once within 5 km
  • 2,521 mAltitudeabove the sea

When to walk

Best for walking in May.

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

  1. Jan2°-11°33 mm
  2. Feb4°-9°32 mm
  3. Mar9°-5°26 mm
  4. Apr14°-2°30 mm
  5. May20°3°28 mm
  6. Jun27°9°18 mm
  7. Jul28°12°60 mm
  8. Aug27°11°52 mm
  9. Sep23°7°47 mm
  10. Oct16°0°34 mm
  11. Nov8°-5°28 mm
  12. Dec2°-10°39 mm
  • Bar: walking comfort; the number on top is the average maximum.
  • Below: average minimum (NASA, 1991–2020).
  • Rain: monthly total.

The place

Carson National Forest.

National forest in the US state of New Mexico

Carson National Forest is a national forest in United States, 2,521 m above the sea.

Seen from space, 92% of the land within 3 km is trees, and 100% of the land within 10 km has no towns or farmland.

50 species have been recorded around it: 18 plants, 0 fungi, 30 birds and 2 mammals.

The most recorded plants are: Vasey's rabbitbrush, Scarlet gilia and Nodding onion.

The best time to walk is in May.

Lake Fork, Pueblo, and Wheeler Pks
David Herrera from Albuquerque, NM, Bernalillo · CC BY 2.0

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.

Carson 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

    • 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
    • campsites within 10 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 Carson 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.

    Peakyas20 mountains within 25 km
    Mesa de la Jarita1.9 kmBig Rock5.4 kmKiowa Mountain9.9 kmBanco Lona19 kmCerro Colorado20 kmCanjilón Mountain3,329 m · 21 kmBurned Mountain22 kmCerro Negro23 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.

    Bighorns at Questa
    It'sOnlyMakeBelieve · CC BY-SA 4.0
    Aspens along Toltec Gorge - panoramio
    Fredlyfish4 · CC BY-SA 4.0
    Carson National Forest - 2021-01-20
    U.S. Forest Service-Carson National Forest · Public domain

    Other forests nearby.

    Carson National Forest

    United States

    • 80Forestyas Score
    • 92%Trees
    • 100%Wild
    • 50Species

    Santa Fe National Forest

    United States · 91 km

    • 66Forestyas Score
    • 49%Trees
    • 100%Wild
    • 88Species

    See the guide

    San Isabel National Forest

    United States · 191 km

    • 85Forestyas Score
    • 94%Trees
    • 100%Wild
    • 178Species

    See the guide

    Rio Grande National Forest

    United States · 152 km

    • 67Forestyas Score
    • 48%Trees
    • 100%Wild
    • 139Species

    See the guide

    Where these figures come from

    Name and typeWikidata (Q2746705) · CC0
    Land coverESA WorldCover 10 m 2021 v200 · © ESA WorldCover project / Copernicus Sentinel data · CC BY 4.0
    Species279 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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