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Chugach National Forest

Frank Kovalchek from Anchorage, Alaska, USA · CC BY 2.0

24% trees around it and 1 species recorded.

38Forestyas Score

ForestNational forestWild

  • trees within 3 km24%
  • wild within 10 km100%
  • species recorded1
  • Altitude587 m

The forest around

24% 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 24%Grassland 54%Moss and lichen 17%Water 0%Bare ground 1%Snow and ice 4%Trees 24%Grassland 26%Moss and lichen 22%Water 0%Bare ground 4%Snow and ice 24%Trees 7%Grassland 14%Moss and lichen 16%Water 2%Bare ground 15%Snow and ice 46%Trees 18%Grassland 25%Moss and lichen 16%Water 3%Bare ground 8%Snow and ice 31%24%trees · 3 km

Trees, ring by ring

  • 0–1 km24%
  • 1–3 km24%
  • 3–6 km7%
  • 6–10 km18%

What covers the land (1–3 km)

  • Trees24%
  • Grassland26%
  • Moss and lichen22%
  • Water0%
  • Bare ground4%
  • Snow and ice24%

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

1 species recorded.

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

Mountain Goat
Mountain GoatOreamnos americanus13 recordsDarklich14 · CC BY 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.

38out of 100

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

  • 24%Treesof the land within 3 km
  • 100%Wildno towns or farmland within 10 km
  • 1Speciesrecorded more than once within 5 km
  • 587 mAltitudeabove the sea

When to walk

Best for walking in July.

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

  1. Jan-7°-12°158 mm
  2. Feb-5°-11°140 mm
  3. Mar-4°-11°114 mm
  4. Apr1°-5°124 mm
  5. May4°0°112 mm
  6. Jun10°5°106 mm
  7. Jul14°8°132 mm
  8. Aug13°7°173 mm
  9. Sep8°3°210 mm
  10. Oct2°-2°198 mm
  11. Nov-5°-10°167 mm
  12. Dec-6°-11°189 mm
  • Bar: walking comfort; the number on top is the average maximum.
  • Below: average minimum (NASA, 1991–2020).
  • Rain: monthly total.

The place

Chugach National Forest.

National Forest in Alaska, USA

Chugach National Forest is a national forest in United States, 587 m above the sea.

Seen from space, 24% of the land within 3 km is trees, and 100% of the land within 10 km has no towns or farmland.

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

The best time to walk is in July.

Lost Lake, Seward, Alaska
Frank Kovalchek from Anchorage, Alaska, USA · 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.

Chugach 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 Chugach 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.

    Peakyas15 mountains within 25 km
    Andy Simons Mountain12 kmMount Madson17 kmBlack Mountain17 kmAnderson Peak18 kmIsthmus Peak1,991 m · 18 kmBench Peak21 kmParadise Peak22 kmMount Adair22 km
    Lakeyas3 lakes within 15 km
    Lower Trail Lake1.1 km² · 13 kmLower Paradise Lake0.7 km² · 14 kmUpper Trail Lake6.5 km² · 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.

    1st Place-Scenic-Chugach-SLS-010 (51615006133)
    Forest Service Alaska Region, USDA · Public domain
    1st Place-This is Who We Are-Who We Are-Chugach-SLS-008 (51615647750)
    Forest Service Alaska Region, USDA · Public domain

    Where these figures come from

    Name and typeWikidata (Q1089340) · CC0
    Land coverESA WorldCover 10 m 2021 v200 · © ESA WorldCover project / Copernicus Sentinel data · CC BY 4.0
    Species15 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.

    The family

    Do you prefer beaches, lakes, mountains, waterfalls, islands, rivers, canyons, caves, dark skies, viewpoints, birdwatching or forests?

    Same idea, other landscapes: field atlases built on open data, in seven languages.

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