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Drew University

Jim.henderson · CC0

74% trees around it and 146 species recorded.

75Forestyas Score

ArboretumBirds

  • trees within 3 km74%
  • wild within 10 km89%
  • species recorded146
  • Altitude126 m

The forest around

74% 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 72%Grassland 13%Built-up 14%Trees 74%Grassland 15%Water 0%Bare ground 0%Cropland 0%Built-up 10%Trees 77%Grassland 11%Wetland 0%Water 1%Cropland 1%Built-up 10%Trees 79%Grassland 9%Wetland 0%Water 1%Bare ground 0%Cropland 0%Built-up 10%74%trees · 3 km

Trees, ring by ring

  • 0–1 km72%
  • 1–3 km74%
  • 3–6 km77%
  • 6–10 km79%

What covers the land (1–3 km)

  • Trees74%
  • Grassland15%
  • Wetland0%
  • Water0%
  • Bare ground0%
  • Cropland0%
  • Built-up10%

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

146 species recorded.

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

Butterfly weed
Butterfly weedAsclepias tuberosa3 recordsRagesoss · CC BY-SA 3.0
Flowering dogwood
Flowering dogwoodCornus florida2 recordsNo machine-readable author provided. Koba-chan assumed (based on copyright claims). · CC BY 2.5
Trumpet creeper
Trumpet creeperCampsis radicans2 recordsMiwasatoshi · CC BY-SA 4.0
Wild bergamot
Wild bergamotMonarda fistulosa2 recordsHardyplants at English Wikipedia · Public domain

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

In numbers

The forest, measured.

75out of 100

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

  • 74%Treesof the land within 3 km
  • 89%Wildno towns or farmland within 10 km
  • 146Speciesrecorded more than once within 2 km
  • 126 mAltitudeabove the sea

When to walk

Best for walking in May and in October.

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

  1. Jan1°-8°78 mm
  2. Feb2°-7°77 mm
  3. Mar7°-3°97 mm
  4. Apr15°3°100 mm
  5. May21°9°100 mm
  6. Jun26°15°121 mm
  7. Jul29°18°118 mm
  8. Aug28°17°119 mm
  9. Sep25°13°109 mm
  10. Oct17°6°121 mm
  11. Nov10°1°89 mm
  12. Dec4°-4°111 mm
  • Bar: walking comfort; the number on top is the average maximum.
  • Below: average minimum (NASA, 1991–2020).
  • Rain: monthly total.

The place

Drew University.

University in Madison, New Jersey

Drew University is an arboretum in United States.

Seen from space, 74% of the land within 3 km is trees, and 89% of the land within 10 km has no towns or farmland.

146 species have been recorded around it: 4 plants, 1 fungi, 141 birds and 0 mammals.

The most recorded plants are: Butterfly weed, Flowering dogwood and Trumpet creeper.

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

Mead Hall Drew U jeh
Jim.henderson · CC0

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.

Drew University 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

  • 21marked trails within 5 kmGreen Trail, Orange Trail, Patriots' Path and 18 more
  • 1named and notable trees within 6 kmCopper Beech
  • 8picnic sites within 4 km
  • 27shelters and huts within 6 kmConvent Station Gazebo, Solar Pavilion and 25 more
  • 1visitor centres within 6 kmMorris County Visitors Center
  • 221car parks within 3 km
  • 27places to stay within 10 kmArcher Hotel, The Madison Hotel, Hyatt House Morristown and 24 more
  • 43restaurants and cafés within 3 km
  • viewpoints within 5 km
  • campsites within 10 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 Drew University.

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.

Peakyas37 mountains within 25 km
Watnong Mountain294 m · 11 kmTrowbridge Mountain12 kmUnion Hill13 kmTowackhow Mountain17 kmBald Hill18 kmToms Point19 kmTurkey Mountain21 kmWaughaw Mountain22 km
Lakeyas5 lakes within 15 km
Lake Parsippany0.6 km² · 10 kmOrange Reservoir0.2 km² · 12 kmBoonton Reservoir3.0 km² · 13 kmMountain Lake0.2 km² · 14 kmEstling Lake0.2 km² · 15 km
Darkskyas2 dark-sky places within 30 km
William Miller Sperry ObservatoryBortle 9 · 14 kmDaniel S. Schanck ObservatoryBortle 9 · 29 km
Canyonyas1 canyons within 20 km
Boonton Gorge16 km
Cascadyas1 waterfalls within 15 km
Hemlock Falls12 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.

F Asbury statue Drew U jeh
Jim.henderson · CC0
Brothers College Courtyard
CUBJONES83 ( talk ) · Public domain
Drew University, Great Hall of S.W. Bowne
CUBJONES83 · Public domain

Other forests nearby.

Drew University

United States

  • 75Forestyas Score
  • 74%Trees
  • 89%Wild
  • 146Species

Pine Barrens

United States · 116 km

  • 83Forestyas Score
  • 91%Trees
  • 94%Wild
  • 390Species

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New York Botanical Garden

United States · 48 km

  • 48Forestyas Score
  • 25%Trees
  • 57%Wild
  • 1,671Species

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Brooklyn Botanic Garden

United States · 40 km

  • 38Forestyas Score
  • 16%Trees
  • 38%Wild
  • 806Species

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Where these figures come from

Name and typeWikidata (Q1795487) · CC0
Land coverESA WorldCover 10 m 2021 v200 · © ESA WorldCover project / Copernicus Sentinel data · CC BY 4.0
Species8,651 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, Lakeyas, Darkskyas, Canyonyas, Cascadyas

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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