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Dalby Söderskog National Park

Sendelbach ( talk ) · CC BY-SA 3.0

25% trees around it and 2,170 species recorded.

42Forestyas Score

ForestFungiBirdsWildlife

  • trees within 3 km25%
  • wild within 10 km44%
  • species recorded2,170
  • Altitude73 m

The forest around

25% 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 22%Grassland 22%Cropland 52%Built-up 4%Trees 26%Grassland 17%Water 1%Cropland 50%Built-up 7%Trees 14%Grassland 20%Bare ground 0%Cropland 60%Built-up 5%Trees 17%Grassland 29%Water 1%Cropland 43%Built-up 9%25%trees · 3 km

Trees, ring by ring

  • 0–1 km22%
  • 1–3 km26%
  • 3–6 km14%
  • 6–10 km17%

What covers the land (1–3 km)

  • Trees26%
  • Grassland17%
  • Water1%
  • Bare ground0%
  • Cropland50%
  • 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

2,170 species recorded.

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

Pasque FlowerNT
Pasque FlowerPulsatilla vulgaris395 recordsPer A.J. Andersson · CC BY-SA 3.0
Wood Anemone
Wood AnemoneAnemone nemorosa216 recordsEpgrande · CC BY 4.0
Bigleaf lupine
Bigleaf lupineLupinus polyphyllus199 recordsJoe Mabel (on Flickr as Joe Mabel from Seattle, US) · CC BY-SA 3.0
Queen of the meadow
Queen of the meadowFilipendula ulmaria189 recordsUnknown author · Public domain
Early-purple Orchid
Early-purple OrchidOrchis mascula185 recordsIvar Leidus · CC BY-SA 4.0
Cuckoo flower
Cuckoo flowerCardamine pratensis181 recordsUnknown author · CC BY-SA 3.0
Mountain arnica
Mountain arnicaArnica montana180 recordsW. Bulach · CC BY-SA 4.0
Marsh valerian
Marsh valerianValeriana dioica171 recordsMeneerke bloem · CC BY-SA 3.0
Hollowroot
HollowrootCorydalis cava170 recordsJohann Jaritz · CC BY-SA 3.0 at
Yellow woodland anemone
Yellow woodland anemoneAnemone ranunculoides168 recordsBogdan · CC BY-SA 3.0
Trollius europaeus
Trollius europaeusTrollius europaeus154 recordsUnknown author · CC BY-SA 3.0
Matgrass
MatgrassNardus stricta153 recordsDaderot · Public domain

Open records within 5 km (GBIF, licensed for any use). Busy places are better recorded than remote ones.

In numbers

The forest, measured.

42out of 100

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

  • 25%Treesof the land within 3 km
  • 44%Wildno towns or farmland within 10 km
  • 2,170Speciesrecorded more than once within 5 km
  • 73 mAltitudeabove the sea

When to walk

Best for walking in June and in September.

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

  1. Jan3°0°63 mm
  2. Feb2°-1°49 mm
  3. Mar5°0°43 mm
  4. Apr9°4°34 mm
  5. May14°8°45 mm
  6. Jun18°12°58 mm
  7. Jul21°15°69 mm
  8. Aug21°15°83 mm
  9. Sep17°12°54 mm
  10. Oct12°8°73 mm
  11. Nov8°5°66 mm
  12. Dec4°2°65 mm
  • Bar: walking comfort; the number on top is the average maximum.
  • Below: average minimum (NASA, 1991–2020).
  • Rain: monthly total.

The place

Dalby Söderskog National Park.

National park

Dalby Söderskog National Park is a forest in Sweden.

Seen from space, 25% of the land within 3 km is trees, and 44% of the land within 10 km has no towns or farmland.

2,170 species have been recorded around it: 1,000 plants, 896 fungi, 242 birds and 32 mammals.

The most recorded plants are: Pasque Flower, Wood Anemone and Bigleaf lupine.

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

Dalby Söderskog nationalpark1
Sendelbach ( talk ) · CC BY-SA 3.0

Get there and walk

  • Official informationAccess, hours and rules from those who manage the place.Official site
  • Lund,Nobelparken 3campsite · 7.8 km · 6 within 10 km
  • Trollskogens gästhus/vandrarhemplace to stay · 4.7 km · 30 within 10 km
  • Dalbynearest town · 1.5 km in a straight line
  • Malmö Sturup Airport (MMX)nearest airport with scheduled flights · 16 km in a straight lineCar hire at MMX airport (Malmö)Discover Cars · sponsored link

Plan the visit

A guided walk, a bed nearby, a car.

Car hire at MMX airport (Malmö)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.

Dalby Söderskog National Park 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

  • 18marked trails within 5 kmGröna spåret, Myrstigen, Bökebacksslingan and 15 more
  • 1named and notable trees within 6 kmMårydsboken
  • 30picnic sites within 4 kmGrillplats 14 - Strövare, Grillplats 8 and 28 more
  • 72shelters and huts within 6 kmObekräftat 303, Belsebo, Grillplats 8 and 69 more
  • 6viewpoints within 5 kmStenbrott and 5 more
  • 1visitor centres within 6 kmSkryllegården
  • 102car parks within 3 km
  • 6campsites within 10 kmLund,Nobelparken 3, Källby Friluftsbad & Camping and 4 more
  • 30places to stay within 10 kmTrollskogens gästhus/vandrarhem, Hobykrok B&B, Scandic Star Lund and 27 more
  • 7restaurants 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 Dalby Söderskog National Park.

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.

Peakyas2 mountains within 25 km
Runestone Hill9.2 kmHelgonabacken9.2 km
Lakeyas2 lakes within 15 km
Krankesjön2.5 km² · 9.9 kmHäckebergasjön0.5 km² · 12 km
Darkskyas1 dark-sky places within 30 km
Lund ObservatoryBortle 8 · 9.4 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.

Anemone ranunculoides in Dalby Söderskog National Park in May 2026
Leo Rudberg (WMSE) · CC BY 4.0
Bäck i Dalby Söderskog
Amkarlsson · CC0
Dalby Söderskog 02
Bengt Oberger · CC BY-SA 3.0

Other forests nearby.

Dalby Söderskog National Park

Sweden

  • 42Forestyas Score
  • 25%Trees
  • 44%Wild
  • 2,170Species

Gribskov

Denmark · 72 km

  • 83Forestyas Score
  • 74%Trees
  • 79%Wild
  • 1,880Species

See the guide

Store Dyrehave

Denmark · 66 km

  • 79Forestyas Score
  • 70%Trees
  • 74%Wild
  • 1,559Species

See the guide

Rude Skov

Denmark · 57 km

  • 72Forestyas Score
  • 60%Trees
  • 82%Wild
  • 1,811Species

See the guide

Where these figures come from

Name and typeWikidata (Q962373) · CC0
Land coverESA WorldCover 10 m 2021 v200 · © ESA WorldCover project / Copernicus Sentinel data · CC BY 4.0
Species180,682 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, Darkskyas

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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