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Dancing Forest

Nikater · CC BY-SA 3.0

27% trees around it and 285 species recorded.

56Forestyas Score

ForestWildBirds

  • trees within 3 km27%
  • wild within 10 km100%
  • species recorded285

The forest around

27% 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 70%Grassland 3%Water 25%Bare ground 2%Trees 22%Grassland 3%Water 69%Bare ground 6%Built-up 1%Trees 10%Grassland 2%Wetland 0%Water 85%Bare ground 2%Trees 5%Grassland 1%Water 94%Bare ground 1%27%trees · 3 km

Trees, ring by ring

  • 0–1 km70%
  • 1–3 km22%
  • 3–6 km10%
  • 6–10 km5%

What covers the land (1–3 km)

  • Trees22%
  • Grassland3%
  • Water69%
  • Bare ground6%
  • Built-up1%

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

285 species recorded.

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

Wild Pansy
Wild PansyViola tricolor18 recordsKim Hansen · CC BY-SA 3.0
European Alder
European AlderAlnus glutinosa13 recordsAEngelhardt · CC BY-SA 3.0
Sheepbit
SheepbitJasione montana13 recordsAlun Williams333 · CC BY-SA 4.0
European dewberry
European dewberryRubus caesius12 recordsIvar Leidus · CC BY-SA 4.0
Scots Pine
Scots PinePinus sylvestris12 recordsHello, I am Bruce on Flickr · CC BY-SA 2.0
Sea pea
Sea peaLathyrus japonicus12 recordsNo machine-readable author provided. Dlanglois assumed (based on copyright claims). · CC BY-SA 3.0
Baby's breath
Baby's breathGypsophila paniculata12 recordsPiPi · Public domain
Arabidopsis arenosa
Arabidopsis arenosaArabidopsis arenosa10 recordsAdrian Tync · CC BY-SA 4.0
Sand sedge
Sand sedgeCarex arenaria9 recordsChristian Fischer · CC BY-SA 3.0
Herb-robert
Herb-robertGeranium robertianum9 recordsEpgrande · CC BY 4.0
Hawkweed
HawkweedHieracium umbellatum9 recordsD. Gordon E. Robertson · CC BY-SA 3.0
Japanese rose
Japanese roseRosa rugosa8 recordsVihljun · 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.

56out of 100

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

  • 27%Treesof the land within 3 km
  • 100%Wildno towns or farmland within 10 km
  • 285Speciesrecorded more than once within 5 km

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. Jan0°-3°66 mm
  2. Feb1°-3°47 mm
  3. Mar4°0°47 mm
  4. Apr9°3°36 mm
  5. May14°8°51 mm
  6. Jun18°13°64 mm
  7. Jul21°16°85 mm
  8. Aug21°16°80 mm
  9. Sep17°12°66 mm
  10. Oct12°7°78 mm
  11. Nov7°4°76 mm
  12. Dec3°0°72 mm
  • Bar: walking comfort; the number on top is the average maximum.
  • Below: average minimum (NASA, 1991–2020).
  • Rain: monthly total.

The place

Dancing Forest.

Unusual pine forest in Kaliningrad Oblast, Russia

Dancing Forest is a forest in Russia.

Seen from space, 27% of the land within 3 km is trees, and 100% of the land within 10 km has no towns or farmland.

285 species have been recorded around it: 115 plants, 4 fungi, 160 birds and 6 mammals.

The most recorded plants are: Wild Pansy, European Alder and Sheepbit.

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

Wald der tanzenden Bäume01
Nikater · 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.

Dancing 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

  • 4marked trails within 5 kmВысота Мюллера, Jakobsweg Via Baltica Russland, Танцующий лес and 1 more
  • 1picnic sites within 4 km
  • 4shelters and huts within 6 km
  • 12viewpoints within 5 kmВысота Эфа, Крутая, Танцующий лес and 9 more
  • 4car parks within 3 km
  • 2campsites within 10 kmТурбаза "Хвойное"
  • 12places to stay within 10 kmГостевой дом, Altrimo, Трактир and 9 more
  • 7restaurants 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 Dancing 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.

Peakyas19 mountains within 25 km
Gora Beregovaya3.7 kmGora Lysaya31 m · 4.9 kmGora Orekhovaya6.1 kmGora Sypuchaya8.3 kmGora Olen'ya8.9 kmGora Krasnaya11 kmUrbas51 m · 16 kmVecekrugas Dune67 m · 22 km
Birdyas2 birding sites within 25 km
Rybachy Biological Station140 species · 2.9 kmFringilla Field Station80 species · 13 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.

Bäume im Tanzenden Wald September 2019
Man77 · CC BY-SA 4.0
Curonian Spit - Dancing forest 1
Alexander Grebenkov · CC BY 3.0
Curonian Spit - Dancing forest 10
Alexander Grebenkov · CC BY 3.0

Other forests nearby.

Dancing Forest

Russia

  • 56Forestyas Score
  • 27%Trees
  • 100%Wild
  • 285Species

Puszcza Borecka

Poland · 142 km

  • 77Forestyas Score
  • 97%Trees
  • 90%Wild
  • 138Species

See the guide

Romincka Forest

Russia · 139 km

  • 70Forestyas Score
  • 98%Trees
  • 96%Wild
  • 12Species

See the guide

Puszcza Piska Forest

Poland · 182 km

  • 80Forestyas Score
  • 93%Trees
  • 99%Wild
  • 116Species

See the guide

Where these figures come from

Name and typeWikidata (Q18922445) · CC0
Land coverESA WorldCover 10 m 2021 v200 · © ESA WorldCover project / Copernicus Sentinel data · CC BY 4.0
Species3,309 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, Birdyas

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

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