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Deschutes National Forest

U.S. Forest Service- Pacific Northwest Region · Public domain

93% trees around it and 157 species recorded.

85Forestyas Score

ForestNational forestDense canopyWildMountain forestBirds

  • trees within 3 km93%
  • wild within 10 km100%
  • species recorded157
  • Altitude1,566 m

The forest around

93% 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 92%Grassland 8%Trees 94%Grassland 6%Trees 91%Grassland 9%Trees 92%Grassland 7%Water 0%Bare ground 1%93%trees · 3 km

Trees, ring by ring

  • 0–1 km92%
  • 1–3 km94%
  • 3–6 km91%
  • 6–10 km92%

What covers the land (1–3 km)

  • Trees94%
  • Grassland6%
  • Bare ground0%

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

157 species recorded.

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

Woodland pinedrops
Woodland pinedropsPterospora andromedea5 recordsWalter Siegmund · CC BY-SA 3.0
White Fir
White FirAbies concolor3 recordsPuncsos · CC BY-SA 3.0
Greenleaf manzanita
Greenleaf manzanitaArctostaphylos patula3 recordsWalter Siegmund · CC BY 2.5
White-Vein Wintergreen
White-Vein WintergreenPyrola picta3 recordsWalter Siegmund · CC BY-SA 3.0
Tall white bog orchid
Tall white bog orchidPlatanthera dilatata2 recordsBill Bouton from San Luis Obispo, CA, USA · CC BY-SA 2.0
Pipsissewa
PipsissewaChimaphila umbellata2 recordsChristian Fischer · CC BY-SA 3.0
Columbian monkshood
Columbian monkshoodAconitum columbianum2 recordsWalter Siegmund · CC BY-SA 3.0
Nuphar polysepala
Nuphar polysepalaNuphar polysepala2 recordsBrocken Inaglory · CC BY-SA 3.0
Tobacco-brushCeanothus velutinus6 records

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

In numbers

The forest, measured.

85out of 100

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

  • 93%Treesof the land within 3 km
  • 100%Wildno towns or farmland within 10 km
  • 157Speciesrecorded more than once within 5 km
  • 1,566 mAltitudeabove the sea

When to walk

Best for walking from May to June and in September.

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

  1. Jan3°-5°82 mm
  2. Feb4°-5°61 mm
  3. Mar8°-3°69 mm
  4. Apr11°-1°53 mm
  5. May17°3°47 mm
  6. Jun21°6°32 mm
  7. Jul27°10°8 mm
  8. Aug26°10°11 mm
  9. Sep22°6°22 mm
  10. Oct14°1°46 mm
  11. Nov7°-3°78 mm
  12. Dec2°-5°109 mm
  • Bar: walking comfort; the number on top is the average maximum.
  • Below: average minimum (NASA, 1991–2020).
  • Rain: monthly total.

The place

Deschutes National Forest.

United States National Forest in Oregon

Deschutes National Forest is a national forest in United States, 1,566 m above the sea.

Seen from space, 93% of the land within 3 km is trees, and 100% of the land within 10 km has no towns or farmland.

157 species have been recorded around it: 9 plants, 0 fungi, 141 birds and 7 mammals.

The most recorded plants are: Woodland pinedrops, White Fir and Greenleaf manzanita.

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

Deschutes National Forest Deschutes River (36951230241)
U.S. Forest Service- Pacific Northwest Region · Public domain

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.

Deschutes 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

  • 1marked trails within 5 kmMrazek Trail
  • 4shelters and huts within 6 kmSwede Ridge Shelter, Nordeen Shelter, Meissner Shelter and 1 more
  • 4viewpoints within 5 km
  • 3car parks within 3 km
  • 2places to stay within 10 kmWorldMark Bend - Seventh Mountain Resort
  • named and notable trees within 6 km
  • picnic sites within 4 km
  • visitor centres within 6 km
  • campsites 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 Deschutes 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.

Peakyas51 mountains within 25 km
Tumalo Mountain2,370 m · 11 kmLava Butte1,531 m · 15 kmMount Bachelor2,764 m · volcano · 15 kmBall Butte16 kmAnns Butte17 kmBroken Top2,797 m · 18 kmPilot Butte1,262 m · volcano · 19 kmSouth Sister3,159 m · volcano · 24 km
Lakeyas1 lakes within 15 km
Three Creek Lake0.3 km² · 15 km
Darkskyas2 dark-sky places within 30 km
Sunriver ObservatoryBortle 3 · 13 kmMount BachelorBortle 2 · 15 km
Viewyas1 viewpoints within 15 kmComing soon
Lava Butte Lookout4,958 m · 15 km
Cavernyas1 caves within 20 km
Lava River Cave16 km
Cascadyas5 waterfalls within 15 km
Tumalo Falls6.6 kmBridge Creek Falls7.2 kmLava Island Falls8.3 kmDillon Falls8.5 kmBenham Falls9.9 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.

Ancient Snags along the Pacific Crest Trail, Deschutes and Willamette National Forest (23826206672)
U.S. Forest Service- Pacific Northwest Region · Public domain
Deschutes National Forest - Oregon - 6031621271
Dougtone · CC BY-SA 2.0
Deschutes National Forest - Oregon - 6031621501
Dougtone · CC BY-SA 2.0

Other forests nearby.

Deschutes National Forest

United States

  • 85Forestyas Score
  • 93%Trees
  • 100%Wild
  • 157Species

Willamette National Forest

United States · 56 km

  • 85Forestyas Score
  • 99%Trees
  • 100%Wild
  • 173Species

See the guide

Umpqua National Forest

United States · 106 km

  • 84Forestyas Score
  • 99%Trees
  • 100%Wild
  • 115Species

See the guide

Mount Hood National Forest

United States · 149 km

  • 73Forestyas Score
  • 51%Trees
  • 100%Wild
  • 453Species

See the guide

Where these figures come from

Name and typeWikidata (Q3079128) · CC0
Land coverESA WorldCover 10 m 2021 v200 · © ESA WorldCover project / Copernicus Sentinel data · CC BY 4.0
Species7,595 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, Viewyas, Cavernyas, Cascadyas

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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viewpointsViewyasEvery viewpoint with its real 360° panorama: the peaks you can name, how far you see and where the sun sets.Coming soonVisit
birdwatchingBirdyasEvery bird sanctuary and wetland with the species recorded month by month: who is resident, who comes for the summer, who only passes through.Visit
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