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Cincinnati Zoo and Botanical Garden

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40% trees around it and 461 species recorded.

54Forestyas Score

ArboretumFungiBirds

  • trees within 3 km40%
  • wild within 10 km65%
  • species recorded461
  • Altitude222 m

The forest around

40% 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 48%Grassland 4%Built-up 48%Trees 39%Grassland 9%Water 0%Bare ground 0%Built-up 51%Trees 43%Grassland 9%Water 4%Bare ground 0%Cropland 0%Built-up 43%Trees 56%Grassland 11%Water 3%Bare ground 0%Built-up 29%40%trees · 3 km

Trees, ring by ring

  • 0–1 km48%
  • 1–3 km39%
  • 3–6 km43%
  • 6–10 km56%

What covers the land (1–3 km)

  • Trees39%
  • Grassland9%
  • Water0%
  • Bare ground0%
  • Built-up51%

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

461 species recorded.

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

Pale touch-me-not
Pale touch-me-notImpatiens pallida32 recordsUser:SB_Johnny · CC BY-SA 3.0
Indian-banana
Indian-bananaAsimina triloba28 recordsScott Bauer, USDA · Public domain
Yellow poplar
Yellow poplarLiriodendron tulipifera25 recordsJean-Pol GRANDMONT · CC BY 3.0
American Beech
American BeechFagus grandifolia24 recordsBruce Marlin · CC BY-SA 2.5
Pigeon Berry
Pigeon BerryPhytolacca americana24 recordsEpgrande · CC BY 4.0
Common hackberry
Common hackberryCeltis occidentalis22 recordsMasebrock at English Wikipedia · Public domain
Virginia creeper
Virginia creeperParthenocissus quinquefolia20 recordsUnknown author · Public domain
Limestone wild petunia
Limestone wild petuniaRuellia strepens18 recordsSalicyna · CC BY-SA 4.0
Bois d'Arc
Bois d'ArcMaclura pomifera17 recordsThomas R Machnitzki ( thomas machnitzki.com) · CC BY 3.0
Eastern redbud
Eastern redbudCercis canadensis17 recordsGreg Hume · CC BY-SA 3.0
Eastern poison ivy
Eastern poison ivyToxicodendron radicans15 recordsUnknown author · Public domain
American bird cherry
American bird cherryPrunus serotina13 recordsUnknown author · CC BY-SA 3.0

Open records within 2 km (GBIF, licensed for any use). Busy places are better recorded than remote ones.

In numbers

The forest, measured.

54out of 100

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

  • 40%Treesof the land within 3 km
  • 65%Wildno towns or farmland within 10 km
  • 461Speciesrecorded more than once within 2 km
  • 222 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. Jan3°-5°73 mm
  2. Feb5°-5°77 mm
  3. Mar11°0°101 mm
  4. Apr18°6°111 mm
  5. May23°12°118 mm
  6. Jun28°17°106 mm
  7. Jul30°19°105 mm
  8. Aug30°18°79 mm
  9. Sep27°14°82 mm
  10. Oct20°7°92 mm
  11. Nov12°1°81 mm
  12. Dec6°-3°92 mm
  • Bar: walking comfort; the number on top is the average maximum.
  • Below: average minimum (NASA, 1991–2020).
  • Rain: monthly total.

The place

Cincinnati Zoo and Botanical Garden.

Second oldest zoo in the United States

Cincinnati Zoo and Botanical Garden is an arboretum in United States, 222 m above the sea.

Seen from space, 40% of the land within 3 km is trees, and 65% of the land within 10 km has no towns or farmland.

461 species have been recorded around it: 220 plants, 55 fungi, 175 birds and 11 mammals.

The most recorded plants are: Pale touch-me-not, Indian-banana and Yellow poplar.

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

Solar panels at cincinnati zoo
User:quadell · CC BY-SA 3.0

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.

Cincinnati Zoo and Botanical Garden 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

  • 7marked trails within 5 kmBuckeye Trail, Skywalk, Buckeye Trail (Loveland) and 4 more
  • 5named and notable trees within 6 km
  • 153picnic sites within 4 km
  • 66shelters and huts within 6 kmMontgomery Rd & Sherman Ave, Braam Gazebo and 64 more
  • 31viewpoints within 5 kmRansohoff Overlook, Spencer Overlook and 29 more
  • 2visitor centres within 6 kmWilliam Howard Taft National Historic Site
  • 666car parks within 3 km
  • 4campsites within 10 kmWoodland RV Park, Tucker's Landing and 2 more
  • 77places to stay within 10 kmRest Inn, Parkway Inn, The Guild Hotel and 74 more
  • 138restaurants 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 Cincinnati Zoo and Botanical Garden.

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.

Peakyas8 mountains within 25 km
Brighton Hill2.8 kmGoat Hill3.2 kmProspect Hill248 m · 3.5 kmMount Adams4.2 kmBald Knob4.3 kmOrchard Hill11 kmJohns Hill14 kmPye Hill20 km
Darkskyas1 dark-sky places within 30 km
Cincinnati ObservatoryBortle 9 · 7.3 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.

Cincinnati Zoo
Original uploader was Mind meal at en.wikipedia · CC BY 2.0
ReptileHouseCZ2
Photo by Greg Hume ( Greg5030 ) · CC BY-SA 3.0
Good Red River Hog (9648940505)
Charles Barilleaux from Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America · CC BY 2.0

Other forests nearby.

Cincinnati Zoo and Botanical Garden

United States

  • 54Forestyas Score
  • 40%Trees
  • 65%Wild
  • 461Species

Wayne National Forest

United States · 179 km

  • 84Forestyas Score
  • 87%Trees
  • 99%Wild
  • 136Species

See the guide

Hoosier National Forest

United States · 190 km

  • 84Forestyas Score
  • 90%Trees
  • 94%Wild
  • 175Species

See the guide

Daniel Boone National Forest

United States · 214 km

  • 76Forestyas Score
  • 90%Trees
  • 99%Wild
  • 20Species

See the guide

Where these figures come from

Name and typeWikidata (Q623333) · CC0
Land coverESA WorldCover 10 m 2021 v200 · © ESA WorldCover project / Copernicus Sentinel data · CC BY 4.0
Species70,616 open records within 2 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, Darkskyas

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

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