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Fishlake National Forest

Mark Muir · Public domain

45% trees around it and 78 species recorded.

63Forestyas Score

ForestNational forestWildMountain forest

  • trees within 3 km45%
  • wild within 10 km98%
  • species recorded78
  • Altitude2,173 m

The forest around

45% 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 45%Shrubland 2%Grassland 53%Trees 45%Shrubland 2%Grassland 54%Trees 48%Shrubland 1%Grassland 50%Bare ground 2%Trees 36%Shrubland 1%Grassland 55%Water 0%Bare ground 5%Cropland 2%Built-up 1%45%trees · 3 km

Trees, ring by ring

  • 0–1 km45%
  • 1–3 km45%
  • 3–6 km48%
  • 6–10 km36%

What covers the land (1–3 km)

  • Trees45%
  • Shrubland2%
  • Grassland54%
  • Bare ground0%
  • Cropland0%
  • Built-up0%

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

78 species recorded.

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

Scarlet gilia
Scarlet giliaIpomopsis aggregata5 recordsWalter Siegmund · CC BY-SA 3.0
Pelecyphora vivipara
Pelecyphora viviparaPelecyphora vivipara4 recordsBentham-Moxon Trust.; Curtis, William; Curtis's botanical magazine dedications, 1827-1927 · Public domain
Bridge penstemon
Bridge penstemonPenstemon rostriflorus4 recordsStan Shebs · CC BY-SA 3.0
Sisymbrium linifolium
Sisymbrium linifoliumSisymbrium linifolium3 recordsPatrick Alexander from Las Cruces, NM · CC0
Chambers' twinpod
Chambers' twinpodPhysaria chambersii3 recordsStan Shebs · CC BY-SA 3.0
Firecracker penstemon
Firecracker penstemonPenstemon eatonii3 recordsStan Shebs · CC BY-SA 3.0
Common pepperweed
Common pepperweedLepidium densiflorum3 recordsJim Pisarowicz · Public domain
Needle and thread
Needle and threadHesperostipa comata2 recordsCharles Sauer · CC BY-SA 4.0
Gambel oak
Gambel oakQuercus gambelii2 recordsUnknown author · CC BY-SA 3.0
Eaton's fleabane
Eaton's fleabaneErigeron eatonii2 recordsUnknown author · Public domain
Mottled Milkvetch
Mottled MilkvetchAstragalus lentiginosus2 recordsUnknown author · CC BY-SA 3.0
Antelope bitterbrush
Antelope bitterbrushPurshia tridentata2 recordsWalter Siegmund · CC BY-SA 3.0

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

In numbers

The forest, measured.

63out of 100

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

  • 45%Treesof the land within 3 km
  • 98%Wildno towns or farmland within 10 km
  • 78Speciesrecorded more than once within 5 km
  • 2,173 mAltitudeabove the sea

When to walk

Best for walking in May and in September.

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

  1. Jan0°-11°27 mm
  2. Feb1°-10°27 mm
  3. Mar6°-6°32 mm
  4. Apr10°-4°30 mm
  5. May16°1°26 mm
  6. Jun24°7°13 mm
  7. Jul27°12°36 mm
  8. Aug25°10°31 mm
  9. Sep21°6°31 mm
  10. Oct13°-1°32 mm
  11. Nov6°-6°24 mm
  12. Dec0°-11°32 mm
  • Bar: walking comfort; the number on top is the average maximum.
  • Below: average minimum (NASA, 1991–2020).
  • Rain: monthly total.

The place

Fishlake National Forest.

United States National Forest in Utah, United States

Fishlake National Forest is a national forest in United States, 2,173 m above the sea.

Seen from space, 45% of the land within 3 km is trees, and 98% of the land within 10 km has no towns or farmland.

78 species have been recorded around it: 21 plants, 1 fungi, 56 birds and 0 mammals.

The most recorded plants are: Scarlet gilia, Pelecyphora vivipara and Bridge penstemon.

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

AspenOverview0172
Mark Muir · 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.

Fishlake 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

  • 1campsites within 10 kmBig Lake CUA Dispersed
  • marked trails within 5 km
  • named and notable trees within 6 km
  • picnic sites within 4 km
  • shelters and huts within 6 km
  • viewpoints within 5 km
  • visitor centres within 6 km
  • car parks within 3 km
  • places to stay 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 Fishlake 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.

Peakyas21 mountains within 25 km
Bull Claim Hill5.8 kmSignal Peak3,419 m · 10 kmGlenwood Mountain10 kmBlack Knoll13 kmOscars Vision17 kmTable Mountain2,236 m · 18 kmDevils Dutch Oven21 kmMonroe Peak22 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.

171103-FS-Fishlake-KC-006 (30467079937)
Intermountain Forest Service, USDA Region 4 Photography · Public domain
171103-FS-FishlakeNF-JK-004 (44682889464)
Intermountain Forest Service, USDA Region 4 Photography · Public domain

Other forests nearby.

Fishlake National Forest

United States

  • 63Forestyas Score
  • 45%Trees
  • 98%Wild
  • 78Species

Dixie National Forest

United States · 82 km

  • 83Forestyas Score
  • 93%Trees
  • 100%Wild
  • 110Species

See the guide

Manti–La Sal National Forest

United States · 79 km

  • 57Forestyas Score
  • 24%Trees
  • 100%Wild
  • 196Species

See the guide

Kaibab National Forest

United States · 256 km

  • 89Forestyas Score
  • 85%Trees
  • 100%Wild
  • 432Species

See the guide

Where these figures come from

Name and typeWikidata (Q2642417) · CC0
Land coverESA WorldCover 10 m 2021 v200 · © ESA WorldCover project / Copernicus Sentinel data · CC BY 4.0
Species450 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

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

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