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Cherokee National Forest

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98% trees around it and 59 species recorded.

81Forestyas Score

ForestNational forestDense canopyWild

  • trees within 3 km98%
  • wild within 10 km100%
  • species recorded59
  • Altitude661 m

The forest around

98% 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 98%Grassland 2%Trees 94%Grassland 6%Trees 93%Grassland 5%Water 1%Cropland 0%Built-up 0%98%trees · 3 km

Trees, ring by ring

  • 0–1 km100%
  • 1–3 km98%
  • 3–6 km94%
  • 6–10 km93%

What covers the land (1–3 km)

  • Trees98%
  • Grassland2%
  • Water0%
  • 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

59 species recorded.

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

Eastern poison ivy
Eastern poison ivyToxicodendron radicans3 recordsUnknown author · Public domain
Rosepink
RosepinkSabatia angularis2 recordsArx Fortis · 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.

81out of 100

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

  • 98%Treesof the land within 3 km
  • 100%Wildno towns or farmland within 10 km
  • 59Speciesrecorded more than once within 5 km
  • 661 mAltitudeabove the sea

When to walk

Best for walking in April and in October.

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

  1. Jan6°-3°100 mm
  2. Feb9°-2°109 mm
  3. Mar14°2°105 mm
  4. Apr19°7°115 mm
  5. May23°12°107 mm
  6. Jun28°17°108 mm
  7. Jul29°18°137 mm
  8. Aug30°18°98 mm
  9. Sep27°14°99 mm
  10. Oct20°8°84 mm
  11. Nov14°2°96 mm
  12. Dec9°-1°117 mm
  • Bar: walking comfort; the number on top is the average maximum.
  • Below: average minimum (NASA, 1991–2020).
  • Rain: monthly total.

The place

Cherokee National Forest.

Forest in the United States

Cherokee National Forest is a national forest in United States, 661 m above the sea.

Seen from space, 98% of the land within 3 km is trees, and 100% of the land within 10 km has no towns or farmland.

59 species have been recorded around it: 2 plants, 0 fungi, 57 birds and 0 mammals.

The best time to walk is in April and in October.

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USDAgov · Public domain

Get there and walk

  • Official informationAccess, hours and rules from those who manage the place.Official site
  • Fox Fire Riverside Campgroundcampsite · 9.3 km · 11 within 10 km
  • French Broad Outpost Dude Ranchplace to stay · 6.5 km · 4 within 10 km
  • Newportnearest town · 16 km in a straight line
  • Asheville Regional Airport (AVL)nearest airport with scheduled flights · 67 km in a straight lineCar hire at AVL airport (Asheville)Discover Cars · sponsored link

Plan the visit

A guided walk, a bed nearby, a car.

Car hire at AVL airport (Asheville)Discover CarsSee prices 

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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.

Cherokee 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

  • 11campsites within 10 kmFox Fire Riverside Campground, Round Mountain Campground, Pigeon River Campground and 8 more
  • 4places to stay within 10 kmFrench Broad Outpost Dude Ranch, Standing Bear Farm and Hostel, Wileys Place and 1 more
  • 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
  • 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 Cherokee 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.

Peakyas137 mountains within 25 km
Max Patch1,411 m · 12 kmMount Cammerer14 kmMount Sterling19 kmEnglish Mountain21 kmSpring Creek Mountain1,229 m · 22 kmOld Black1,942 m · 24 kmBalsam Corner24 kmBald Top24 km
Viewyas1 viewpoints within 15 kmComing soon
Mount Cammerer Fire Lookout4,908 m · 14 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.

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USDAgov · Public domain

Other forests nearby.

Cherokee National Forest

United States

  • 81Forestyas Score
  • 98%Trees
  • 100%Wild
  • 59Species

Pisgah National Forest

United States · 61 km

  • 89Forestyas Score
  • 100%Trees
  • 100%Wild
  • 452Species

See the guide

Nantahala National Forest

United States · 83 km

  • 84Forestyas Score
  • 100%Trees
  • 100%Wild
  • 143Species

See the guide

Chattahoochee–Oconee National Forest

United States · 155 km

  • 85Forestyas Score
  • 97%Trees
  • 100%Wild
  • 172Species

See the guide

Where these figures come from

Name and typeWikidata (Q3079114) · CC0
Land coverESA WorldCover 10 m 2021 v200 · © ESA WorldCover project / Copernicus Sentinel data · CC BY 4.0
Species369 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, Viewyas

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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