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Forest of Tronçais

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84% trees around it and 1,057 species recorded.

80Forestyas Score

ForestFungiBirdsWildlife

  • trees within 3 km84%
  • wild within 10 km78%
  • species recorded1,057
  • Altitude232 m

The forest around

84% 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 93%Grassland 3%Water 3%Built-up 1%Trees 83%Grassland 9%Water 2%Cropland 6%Built-up 0%Trees 60%Grassland 24%Water 0%Cropland 15%Built-up 0%Trees 34%Grassland 39%Water 1%Cropland 26%Built-up 1%84%trees · 3 km

Trees, ring by ring

  • 0–1 km93%
  • 1–3 km83%
  • 3–6 km60%
  • 6–10 km34%

What covers the land (1–3 km)

  • Trees83%
  • Grassland9%
  • Water2%
  • Cropland6%
  • 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

1,057 species recorded.

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

European Beech
European BeechFagus sylvatica344 recordsMalene Thyssen · CC BY-SA 3.0
Hornbeam
HornbeamCarpinus betulus261 recordsBotaurus · Public domain
Sessile Oak
Sessile OakQuercus petraea258 recordsUnknown author · CC BY-SA 2.5
English holly
English hollyIlex aquifolium252 recordsUnknown author · Public domain
Common Ivy
Common IvyHedera helix236 recordskallerna · CC BY-SA 4.0
Bracken
BrackenPteridium aquilinum214 recordsStefan.lefnaer · CC BY-SA 4.0
European honeysuckle
European honeysuckleLonicera periclymenum207 recordsLuc Viatour · CC BY-SA 3.0
Purple moor-grass
Purple moor-grassMolinia caerulea171 recordsElke Freese · CC BY-SA 3.0
Ruscus aculeatus
Ruscus aculeatusRuscus aculeatus158 recordsNo machine-readable author provided. Vista~commonswiki assumed (based on copyright claims) · CC BY-SA 3.0
Soft Rush
Soft RushJuncus effusus128 recordsThe original uploader was Meggar at English Wikipedia . · CC BY-SA 3.0
Alder Buckthorn
Alder BuckthornFrangula alnus128 recordsOldMuzzle · CC BY-SA 3.0
Pedunculate Oak
Pedunculate OakQuercus robur126 recordsAlgirdas at Lithuanian Wikipedia · 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.

80out of 100

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

  • 84%Treesof the land within 3 km
  • 78%Wildno towns or farmland within 10 km
  • 1,057Speciesrecorded more than once within 5 km
  • 232 mAltitudeabove the sea

When to walk

Best for walking in May.

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

  1. Jan6°0°59 mm
  2. Feb7°-1°44 mm
  3. Mar11°2°57 mm
  4. Apr15°5°64 mm
  5. May19°8°82 mm
  6. Jun23°13°66 mm
  7. Jul26°14°62 mm
  8. Aug26°14°66 mm
  9. Sep22°10°51 mm
  10. Oct17°7°69 mm
  11. Nov10°3°65 mm
  12. Dec6°0°64 mm
  • Bar: walking comfort; the number on top is the average maximum.
  • Below: average minimum (NASA, 1991–2020).
  • Rain: monthly total.

The place

Forest of Tronçais.

Forest in France

Forest of Tronçais is a forest in France, 232 m above the sea.

Seen from space, 84% of the land within 3 km is trees, and 78% of the land within 10 km has no towns or farmland.

1,057 species have been recorded around it: 729 plants, 122 fungi, 150 birds and 56 mammals.

The most recorded plants are: European Beech, Hornbeam and Sessile Oak.

The best time to walk is in May.

Arbres de la Futaie de Colbert en Forêt de Tronçais (03)
Clame Reporter · CC BY-SA 4.0

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.

Forest of Tronçais 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

  • 3marked trails within 5 kmSentier pédagogique : la Futaie Colbert II, Le Bourbonnais, de Vallons-en-Sully à Cérilly, Circuit des Prés Laugers
  • 12named and notable trees within 6 kmChêne "Carré" en Forêt de Tronçais, Chêne Stebbing, Chêne Saint-Louis and 9 more
  • 20picnic sites within 4 km
  • 4shelters and huts within 6 km
  • 1viewpoints within 5 kmPlateforme paysagère
  • 1visitor centres within 6 km
  • 13car parks within 3 km
  • 8campsites within 10 kmAire de stationnement Saint-Bonnet-Tronçais, Camping de Champ Fossé, Camping du Champ de la Chapelle and 5 more
  • 6places to stay within 10 kmAuberge Le Rond Gardien, Gîte d'étape, Lefieux Jérôme and 3 more
  • 4restaurants 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 Forest of Tronçais.

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.

Lakeyas1 lakes within 15 km
Étang de Saint-Bonnet0.3 km² · 2.8 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.

Forêt deTronçais près du chêne carré.
Gérard JOYON · CC BY 3.0
Forêt de Tronçais Etang de PIROT
Gérard JOYON · CC BY 3.0
Fontaine de Viljot
Donniedarko37 · Public domain

Other forests nearby.

Forest of Tronçais

France

  • 80Forestyas Score
  • 84%Trees
  • 78%Wild
  • 1,057Species

Forêt d'Orléans

France · 158 km

  • 78Forestyas Score
  • 86%Trees
  • 74%Wild
  • 1,055Species

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Forest of Fontainebleau

France · 196 km

  • 84Forestyas Score
  • 90%Trees
  • 83%Wild
  • 1,921Species

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Forest of Chaux

France · 230 km

  • 83Forestyas Score
  • 96%Trees
  • 82%Wild
  • 1,324Species

See the guide

Where these figures come from

Name and typeWikidata (Q761970) · CC0
Land coverESA WorldCover 10 m 2021 v200 · © ESA WorldCover project / Copernicus Sentinel data · CC BY 4.0
Species48,317 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 atlasesLakeyas

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

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