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Eshtaol Forest

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44% trees around it and 303 species recorded.

54Forestyas Score

ForestBirds

  • trees within 3 km44%
  • wild within 10 km74%
  • species recorded303
  • Altitude280 m

The forest around

44% 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 33%Shrubland 21%Grassland 34%Cropland 6%Built-up 7%Trees 46%Shrubland 21%Grassland 19%Cropland 10%Built-up 4%Trees 29%Shrubland 20%Grassland 22%Water 0%Bare ground 1%Cropland 18%Built-up 11%Trees 28%Shrubland 22%Grassland 22%Bare ground 1%Cropland 18%Built-up 8%44%trees · 3 km

Trees, ring by ring

  • 0–1 km33%
  • 1–3 km46%
  • 3–6 km29%
  • 6–10 km28%

What covers the land (1–3 km)

  • Trees46%
  • Shrubland21%
  • Grassland19%
  • Bare ground0%
  • Cropland10%
  • Built-up4%

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

303 species recorded.

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

Animated oat
Animated oatAvena sterilis536 recordsEpgrande · CC BY 4.0
Spontaneous barley
Spontaneous barleyHordeum spontaneum33 recordsDaderot · Public domain
Slender Oat
Slender OatAvena barbata28 recordsJose Hernandez · Public domain
Rivet wheat
Rivet wheatTriticum turgidum23 recordsStan Shebs · CC BY-SA 3.0
St. John's Bread
St. John's BreadCeratonia siliqua19 recordsUnknown author · CC BY-SA 3.0
Mastic tree
Mastic treePistacia lentiscus7 recordsFranz Eugen Köhler, Köhler's Medizinal-Pflanzen · Public domain
Prickly-ivy
Prickly-ivySmilax aspera7 recordsUnknown author · CC BY-SA 3.0
Garden leek
Garden leekAllium ampeloprasum6 recordsRoger Culos · CC BY-SA 3.0
Allium tel-avivense
Allium tel-avivenseAllium tel-avivense6 recordsאבישי טייכר · CC BY 2.5
Allium curtum
Allium curtumAllium curtum5 recordsZeynel Cebeci · CC BY-SA 4.0
Butterfly orchid
Butterfly orchidAnacamptis papilionacea4 recordsHans Hillewaert · CC BY-SA 3.0
Cream narcissus
Cream narcissusNarcissus tazetta4 recordsZachi Evenor · CC BY 2.0

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

In numbers

The forest, measured.

54out of 100

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

  • 44%Treesof the land within 3 km
  • 74%Wildno towns or farmland within 10 km
  • 303Speciesrecorded more than once within 5 km
  • 280 mAltitudeabove the sea

When to walk

Best for walking in March.

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

  1. Jan16°7°88 mm
  2. Feb17°8°62 mm
  3. Mar20°9°37 mm
  4. Apr24°12°21 mm
  5. May28°15°5 mm
  6. Jun31°18°1 mm
  7. Jul33°20°1 mm
  8. Aug33°21°0 mm
  9. Sep31°20°2 mm
  10. Oct28°17°14 mm
  11. Nov23°13°46 mm
  12. Dec18°9°83 mm
  • Bar: walking comfort; the number on top is the average maximum.
  • Below: average minimum (NASA, 1991–2020).
  • Rain: monthly total.

The place

Eshtaol Forest.

Forest in Israel, near Moshav Eshta'ol

Eshtaol Forest is a forest in Israel, 280 m above the sea.

Seen from space, 44% of the land within 3 km is trees, and 74% of the land within 10 km has no towns or farmland.

303 species have been recorded around it: 48 plants, 1 fungi, 247 birds and 7 mammals.

The most recorded plants are: Animated oat, Spontaneous barley and Slender Oat.

The best time to walk is in March.

Eshtaol Forest
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Get there and walk

  • חניון מח"ל - בורמהcampsite · 3.8 km · 11 within 10 km
  • Receptionplace to stay · 2.0 km · 8 within 10 km
  • Mesillat Tsiyyonnearest town · 2.6 km in a straight line
  • Ben Gurion International Airport (TLV)nearest airport with scheduled flights · 25 km in a straight lineCar hire at TLV airport (Tel Aviv)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.

Eshtaol 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

  • 60marked trails within 5 kmשביל ישראל, דרך נוף דרומית, דרך נוף צפונית and 57 more
  • 2named and notable trees within 6 kmפטל, אקליפטוס
  • 54picnic sites within 4 kmחניון דור לדור, המרפסת and 52 more
  • 2shelters and huts within 6 kmקופות שמורת הטבע מערת הנטיפים
  • 19viewpoints within 5 kmתל צרעה, מצפה הראל, מצפה צרעה and 16 more
  • 1visitor centres within 6 km
  • 14car parks within 3 km
  • 11campsites within 10 kmחניון מח"ל - בורמה, חניון לילה נחל כסלון, מה"ד שלח and 8 more
  • 8places to stay within 10 kmReception, חולדה בית, מלון לוגוס and 5 more
  • 6restaurants 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 Eshtaol 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.

Peakyas64 mountains within 25 km
Har HaMenuchot750 m · 18 kmMount Herzl834 m · 19 kmHar Hotzvim700 m · 22 kmCalvary23 kmMount Zion765 m · 23 kmTemple Mount743 m · 24 kmMoriah768 m · 24 kmMount Scopus826 m · 25 km
Darkskyas1 dark-sky places within 30 km
Planetarium WilliamsBortle 9 · 20 km
Birdyas1 birding sites within 25 km
Jerusalem Bird Observatory234 species · 21 km
Cavernyas6 caves within 20 km
B'nai B'rith cave5.1 kmAvshalom Cave6.2 kmHa-Teomim cave8.9 kmAyalon Cave13 kmMe‘arot Pa‘amon14 kmLuzit Caves16 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.

Eshtaol Forest 3
No machine-readable author provided. Itai assumed (based on copyright claims). · Public domain
BikeTrip15 05 2004 Eshtaol(23) (52724489)
Yaniv Ben-Arie from Tel-Aviv, Israel · CC BY-SA 2.0
BikeTrip15 05 2004 Eshtaol(3) (52725707)
Yaniv Ben-Arie from Tel-Aviv, Israel · CC BY-SA 2.0

Other forests nearby.

Eshtaol Forest

Israel

  • 54Forestyas Score
  • 44%Trees
  • 74%Wild
  • 303Species

Forest of the Martyrs

Israel · 8 km

  • 65Forestyas Score
  • 59%Trees
  • 86%Wild
  • 255Species

See the guide

Aminadav Forest

Israel · 15 km

  • 52Forestyas Score
  • 40%Trees
  • 73%Wild
  • 327Species

See the guide

Ben Shemen forest

Israel · 16 km

  • 49Forestyas Score
  • 50%Trees
  • 55%Wild
  • 260Species

See the guide

Where these figures come from

Name and typeWikidata (Q975644) · CC0
Land coverESA WorldCover 10 m 2021 v200 · © ESA WorldCover project / Copernicus Sentinel data · CC BY 4.0
Species81,626 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, Darkskyas, Birdyas, Cavernyas

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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