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George Washington and Jefferson National Forests

Aneta Kaluzna · CC BY-SA 2.5

46% trees around it and 183 species recorded.

58Forestyas Score

ForestNational forestBirds

  • trees within 3 km46%
  • wild within 10 km77%
  • species recorded183
  • Altitude452 m

The forest around

46% 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 38%Grassland 28%Bare ground 0%Cropland 33%Built-up 1%Trees 47%Grassland 25%Cropland 26%Built-up 2%Trees 56%Grassland 21%Cropland 21%Built-up 2%Trees 57%Grassland 21%Cropland 21%Built-up 2%46%trees · 3 km

Trees, ring by ring

  • 0–1 km38%
  • 1–3 km47%
  • 3–6 km56%
  • 6–10 km57%

What covers the land (1–3 km)

  • Trees47%
  • Grassland25%
  • Bare ground0%
  • Cropland26%
  • Built-up2%

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

183 species recorded.

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

Polygaloides paucifolia
Polygaloides paucifoliaPolygaloides paucifolia2 recordsZen sutherland at English Wikipedia · Public domain
PeachPrunus persica4 records

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

In numbers

The forest, measured.

58out of 100

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

  • 46%Treesof the land within 3 km
  • 77%Wildno towns or farmland within 10 km
  • 183Speciesrecorded more than once within 5 km
  • 452 mAltitudeabove the sea

When to walk

Best for walking in April and in October.

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

  1. Jan3°-6°60 mm
  2. Feb5°-5°63 mm
  3. Mar10°-1°74 mm
  4. Apr17°5°93 mm
  5. May22°11°114 mm
  6. Jun27°15°110 mm
  7. Jul30°18°101 mm
  8. Aug29°17°94 mm
  9. Sep25°13°104 mm
  10. Oct18°6°87 mm
  11. Nov11°0°74 mm
  12. Dec5°-4°77 mm
  • Bar: walking comfort; the number on top is the average maximum.
  • Below: average minimum (NASA, 1991–2020).
  • Rain: monthly total.

The place

George Washington and Jefferson National Forests.

Pair of National Forests in the United States

George Washington and Jefferson National Forests is a national forest in United States, 452 m above the sea.

Seen from space, 46% of the land within 3 km is trees, and 77% of the land within 10 km has no towns or farmland.

183 species have been recorded around it: 2 plants, 0 fungi, 181 birds and 0 mammals.

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

White Rocks Little Sluice Mountain GWNF
Aneta Kaluzna · CC BY-SA 2.5

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.

George Washington and Jefferson National Forests 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 km
  • 2places to stay within 10 kmHome on Mole Hill, Affordable Corporate Suites
  • 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
  • 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 George Washington and Jefferson National Forests.

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.

Peakyas81 mountains within 25 km
Shenandoah Mountain1,340 m · 16 kmHigh Knob1,252 m · 17 kmBother Knob18 kmEvick Knob813 m · 20 kmBrushy Knob21 kmReddish Knob22 kmRound Knob22 kmMassanutten Mountain891 m · 23 km
Darkskyas1 dark-sky places within 30 km
Stokesville ObservatoryBortle 4 · 21 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.

2016-06-06 08 57 22 Pine along U.S. Route 33 (Blue Gray Trail) near the High Knob Trailhead in southeastern Pendleton County, West Virginia
Famartin · CC BY-SA 4.0
2016-07-08 17 36 22 View west along West Virginia State Route 59 (Lower Cove Run Road) near Hardy County Route 59-2 (Mill Gap-Orkney Spring Road) within the George Washington National Forest in Hardy County, West Virginia
Famartin · CC BY-SA 4.0
Campbell Gorge Three Ridges Wilderness
Richard Bonnett · CC BY 2.0

Other forests nearby.

George Washington and Jefferson National Forests

United States

  • 58Forestyas Score
  • 46%Trees
  • 77%Wild
  • 183Species

Monongahela National Forest

United States · 78 km

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

See the guide

National Christmas Tree

United States · 176 km

  • 41Forestyas Score
  • 15%Trees
  • 60%Wild
  • 1,891Species

See the guide

Wayne National Forest

United States · 306 km

  • 84Forestyas Score
  • 87%Trees
  • 99%Wild
  • 136Species

See the guide

Where these figures come from

Name and typeWikidata (Q3079313) · CC0
Land coverESA WorldCover 10 m 2021 v200 · © ESA WorldCover project / Copernicus Sentinel data · CC BY 4.0
Species19,474 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

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

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