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Chippewa National Forest

Forest Service Photography · Public domain

62% trees around it and 149 species recorded.

74Forestyas Score

ForestNational forestWildBirds

  • trees within 3 km62%
  • wild within 10 km100%
  • species recorded149
  • Altitude401 m

The forest around

62% 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 64%Grassland 33%Wetland 0%Water 0%Built-up 2%Trees 62%Shrubland 0%Grassland 15%Wetland 1%Water 22%Built-up 0%Trees 54%Shrubland 1%Grassland 14%Wetland 1%Water 30%Trees 54%Shrubland 0%Grassland 10%Wetland 1%Water 35%62%trees · 3 km

Trees, ring by ring

  • 0–1 km64%
  • 1–3 km62%
  • 3–6 km54%
  • 6–10 km54%

What covers the land (1–3 km)

  • Trees62%
  • Shrubland0%
  • Grassland15%
  • Wetland1%
  • Water22%
  • 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

149 species recorded.

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

Reed-grass, reed-canary grass
Reed-grass, reed-canary grassPhalaris arundinacea14 recordsFranz Xaver · CC BY-SA 3.0
Purple-loosestrife
Purple-loosestrifeLythrum salicaria3 recordsGeorge Chernilevsky · CC BY 4.0
Tall cottongrass
Tall cottongrassEriophorum angustifolium2 recordsW. Bulach · CC BY-SA 4.0
Smooth Serviceberry
Smooth ServiceberryAmelanchier laevis2 recordsRobert H. Mohlenbrock · Public domain
Three way sedge
Three way sedgeDulichium arundinaceum2 recordsRobert H. Mohlenbrock. USDA SCS. 1989. Midwest wetland flora: Field office illustrated gui · Public domain
Early Blue (Hook) Violet
Early Blue (Hook) VioletViola adunca2 recordsThegreenj · CC BY-SA 3.0
Leathery grapefernSceptridium multifidum2 records
Bird cherryPrunus pensylvanica2 records

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).

  • 62%Treesof the land within 3 km
  • 100%Wildno towns or farmland within 10 km
  • 149Speciesrecorded more than once within 5 km
  • 401 mAltitudeabove the sea

When to walk

Best for walking in May and in September.

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

  1. Jan-10°-19°17 mm
  2. Feb-7°-18°17 mm
  3. Mar2°-8°31 mm
  4. Apr10°-1°50 mm
  5. May17°6°76 mm
  6. Jun23°13°100 mm
  7. Jul27°16°80 mm
  8. Aug26°14°72 mm
  9. Sep20°9°71 mm
  10. Oct10°1°64 mm
  11. Nov2°-6°26 mm
  12. Dec-6°-15°23 mm
  • Bar: walking comfort; the number on top is the average maximum.
  • Below: average minimum (NASA, 1991–2020).
  • Rain: monthly total.

The place

Chippewa National Forest.

National forest in Minnesota, United States

Chippewa National Forest is a national forest in United States, 401 m above the sea.

Seen from space, 62% of the land within 3 km is trees, and 100% of the land within 10 km has no towns or farmland.

149 species have been recorded around it: 8 plants, 0 fungi, 140 birds and 1 mammals.

The most recorded plants are: Reed-grass, reed-canary grass, Purple-loosestrife and Tall cottongrass.

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

180901-FS-Chippewa-RF-4 (29872349787)
Forest Service Photography · 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.

Chippewa 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

  • 1car parks within 3 km
  • 3campsites within 10 kmBig Winnie RV Park & Campground, Six Mile Lake Campground, Winnie Campground
  • 1restaurants and cafés within 3 km
  • 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
  • places to stay within 10 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 Chippewa 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.

Lakeyas7 lakes within 15 km
Sixmile Lake5.0 km² · 6.6 kmPortage Lake5.8 km² · 7.0 kmNushka Lake0.3 km² · 8.4 kmLake Winnibigoshish248 km² · 9.3 kmLittle Portage Lake0.2 km² · 10 kmRice Lake0.2 km² · 10 kmTamarack Lake0.2 km² · 11 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.

171003-FS-Chippewa-LostForty hiking trail (37237435390)
usfs_Eastern_Region · Public domain
171003-FS-Chippewa-LostForty trailhead (36785742254)
usfs_Eastern_Region · Public domain
Chippewa National Forest - Social - 2
Chippewa National Forest U.S. Forest Service · Public domain

Other forests nearby.

Chippewa National Forest

United States

  • 74Forestyas Score
  • 62%Trees
  • 100%Wild
  • 149Species

Superior National Forest

United States · 208 km

  • 78Forestyas Score
  • 72%Trees
  • 100%Wild
  • 122Species

See the guide

Chequamegon–Nicolet National Forest

United States · 286 km

  • 86Forestyas Score
  • 90%Trees
  • 100%Wild
  • 196Species

See the guide

Where these figures come from

Name and typeWikidata (Q3079117) · CC0
Land coverESA WorldCover 10 m 2021 v200 · © ESA WorldCover project / Copernicus Sentinel data · CC BY 4.0
Species2,634 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 atlasesLakeyas

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

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