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Crooked Forest

Artur Strzelczyk · CC BY-SA 3.0

46% trees around it and 269 species recorded.

  • trees within 3 km46%
  • wild within 10 km69%
  • species recorded269

The forest around

46% 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 44%Grassland 35%Water 5%Bare ground 0%Cropland 0%Built-up 14%Trees 46%Grassland 29%Wetland 6%Water 8%Bare ground 0%Cropland 4%Built-up 7%Trees 43%Grassland 19%Wetland 15%Water 5%Cropland 14%Built-up 3%Trees 31%Grassland 18%Wetland 7%Water 4%Cropland 39%Built-up 1%46%trees · 3 km

Trees, ring by ring

  • 0–1 km44%
  • 1–3 km46%
  • 3–6 km43%
  • 6–10 km31%

What covers the land (1–3 km)

  • Trees46%
  • Grassland29%
  • Wetland6%
  • Water8%
  • Bare ground0%
  • Cropland4%
  • Built-up7%

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

269 species recorded.

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

Common Juniper
Common JuniperJuniperus communis38 recordsIvar Leidus · CC BY-SA 4.0
Hairy woodrush
Hairy woodrushLuzula pilosa34 recordsDaderot · Public domain
Heal-all
Heal-allPrunella vulgaris10 recordsIvar Leidus · CC BY-SA 3.0
Vipers bugloss
Vipers buglossEchium vulgare9 recordsGiuseppe Frizzi · Public domain
Hoary alison
Hoary alisonBerteroa incana9 recordsHardyplants at English Wikipedia · Public domain
Common bugloss
Common buglossAnchusa officinalis8 recordsUnknown author · CC BY-SA 3.0
Sickleweed
SickleweedFalcaria vulgaris7 recordsFornax · CC BY-SA 3.0
Bouncingbet
BouncingbetSaponaria officinalis6 recordsImg · Public domain
Meadow pea
Meadow peaLathyrus pratensis6 recordsDidier Descouens · CC BY-SA 4.0
Oregano
OreganoOriganum vulgare5 recordsTopjabot · Public domain
Yellow woodland anemone
Yellow woodland anemoneAnemone ranunculoides5 recordsBogdan · CC BY-SA 3.0
Tansy
TansyTanacetum vulgare5 recordsIvar Leidus · 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.

52out of 100

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

  • 46%Treesof the land within 3 km
  • 69%Wildno towns or farmland within 10 km
  • 269Speciesrecorded more than once within 5 km

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. Jan1°-4°51 mm
  2. Feb3°-3°38 mm
  3. Mar8°-1°40 mm
  4. Apr14°3°31 mm
  5. May19°8°54 mm
  6. Jun23°12°57 mm
  7. Jul26°15°83 mm
  8. Aug25°14°60 mm
  9. Sep20°10°49 mm
  10. Oct14°5°49 mm
  11. Nov7°2°47 mm
  12. Dec3°-2°48 mm
  • Bar: walking comfort; the number on top is the average maximum.
  • Below: average minimum (NASA, 1991–2020).
  • Rain: monthly total.

The place

Crooked Forest.

Forest of crooked pines in Poland

Crooked Forest is a forest in Poland.

Seen from space, 46% of the land within 3 km is trees, and 69% of the land within 10 km has no towns or farmland.

269 species have been recorded around it: 114 plants, 8 fungi, 145 birds and 2 mammals.

The most recorded plants are: Common Juniper, Hairy woodrush and Heal-all.

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

Nowe czarnowo-krzywy las
Artur Strzelczyk · CC BY-SA 3.0

Get there and walk

  • VisitingHours in OpenStreetMap: 24/7
  • Campingplatz am Oderstromcampsite · 4.5 km · 3 within 10 km
  • Zajazd Sagaplace to stay · 1.3 km · 20 within 10 km
  • Gryfinonearest town · 4.4 km in a straight line
  • Solidarity Szczecin–Goleniów Airport (SZZ)nearest airport with scheduled flights · 50 km in a straight lineCar hire at SZZ airport (Szczecin)Discover Cars · sponsored link

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.

Crooked 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

  • 8marked trails within 5 kmSzlak Woja Żelisława, Szlak Nadodrzański, Märkischer Landweg and 5 more
  • 6picnic sites within 4 kmPlac Spotkań, Plac Zakochanych and 4 more
  • 33shelters and huts within 6 km
  • 5viewpoints within 5 kmStettiner Berg, Seeberg, Aussichtsturm and 2 more
  • 7car parks within 3 km
  • 3campsites within 10 kmCampingplatz am Oderstrom, Kanurast- und Biwakplatz Gartz
  • 20places to stay within 10 kmZajazd Saga, Rentumi Hostel, Zimmervermietung Florian and 17 more
  • 1restaurants and cafés within 3 km
  • named and notable trees within 6 km
  • visitor centres within 6 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 Crooked 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.

Peakyas7 mountains within 25 km
Galgen-Berg15 kmCzajcza Góra16 kmWacht-Berg19 kmLisica19 kmSchäfer-Berg23 kmSchwarzen Berge24 kmBlocks Berg25 km
Lakeyas4 lakes within 15 km
Steklno0.4 km² · 6.6 kmWełtyńskie Jezioro2.2 km² · 7.2 kmJezioro Lubicz0.2 km² · 11 kmJezioro Samotne0.3 km² · 14 km
Viewyas2 viewpoints within 15 kmComing soon
Mescherin Observation Tower5.2 kmObservation Platform in Widuchowa72 m · 10 km
Birdyas3 birding sites within 25 km
Randow-Welse-Bruch3.2 kmUnteres Odertal16 kmRandowtal24 km

Figures from the sister sites' databases (Wikidata, HydroATLAS, GeoNames, OpenStreetMap). Links open when each site is online.

Other forests nearby.

Crooked Forest

Poland

  • 52Forestyas Score
  • 46%Trees
  • 69%Wild
  • 269Species

Ueckermünde Heath

Poland · 46 km

  • 75Forestyas Score
  • 89%Trees
  • 98%Wild
  • 35Species

See the guide

Spandauer Forst

Germany · 112 km

  • 79Forestyas Score
  • 82%Trees
  • 78%Wild
  • 1,029Species

See the guide

Grunewald

Germany · 117 km

  • 78Forestyas Score
  • 90%Trees
  • 69%Wild
  • 1,574Species

See the guide

Where these figures come from

Name and typeWikidata (Q1602409) · CC0
Land coverESA WorldCover 10 m 2021 v200 · © ESA WorldCover project / Copernicus Sentinel data · CC BY 4.0
Species4,360 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, Viewyas, Birdyas, Riveryas

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

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