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Gifford Pinchot National Forest

Walter Siegmund · CC BY 2.5

99% trees around it and 11 species recorded.

74Forestyas Score

ForestNational forestDense canopyWild

  • trees within 3 km99%
  • wild within 10 km100%
  • species recorded11
  • Altitude800 m

The forest around

99% 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 99%Grassland 1%Trees 99%Grassland 1%Trees 99%Grassland 1%Trees 98%Grassland 2%99%trees · 3 km

Trees, ring by ring

  • 0–1 km99%
  • 1–3 km99%
  • 3–6 km99%
  • 6–10 km98%

What covers the land (1–3 km)

  • Trees99%
  • Grassland1%

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

11 species recorded.

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

Peltigera gowardii
Peltigera gowardiiPeltigera gowardii3 recordsThis image was created by user Jason Hollinger (jason) at Mushroom Observer , a source for · CC BY-SA 3.0
Scytinium rivaleScytinium rivale2 records
Seaside tube lichenHypogymnia oceanica2 records

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

In numbers

The forest, measured.

74out of 100

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

  • 99%Treesof the land within 3 km
  • 100%Wildno towns or farmland within 10 km
  • 11Speciesrecorded more than once within 5 km
  • 800 mAltitudeabove the sea

When to walk

Best for walking in September.

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

  1. Jan1°-3°278 mm
  2. Feb2°-3°184 mm
  3. Mar5°-1°224 mm
  4. Apr9°1°145 mm
  5. May14°4°97 mm
  6. Jun17°7°69 mm
  7. Jul22°10°16 mm
  8. Aug23°10°27 mm
  9. Sep19°7°70 mm
  10. Oct12°3°182 mm
  11. Nov5°-1°278 mm
  12. Dec1°-4°306 mm
  • Bar: walking comfort; the number on top is the average maximum.
  • Below: average minimum (NASA, 1991–2020).
  • Rain: monthly total.

The place

Gifford Pinchot National Forest.

Protected area in the state of Washington, United States

Gifford Pinchot National Forest is a national forest in United States, 800 m above the sea.

Seen from space, 99% of the land within 3 km is trees, and 100% of the land within 10 km has no towns or farmland.

11 species have been recorded around it: 0 plants, 3 fungi, 8 birds and 0 mammals.

The best time to walk is in September.

OldSnowy 15A
Walter Siegmund · CC BY 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.

Gifford Pinchot 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

  • 1car parks within 3 km
  • 17campsites within 10 kmIsland Shelter, Quartz Creek Butte Trail Backcountry Campsite, Quartz Creek Trail Backcountry Campsite and 14 more
  • 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
  • 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 Gifford Pinchot 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.

Peakyas63 mountains within 25 km
Steamboat Mountain1,653 m · 5.4 kmSawtooth Mountain1,632 m · 13 kmLone Butte1,451 m · volcano · 16 kmBird Mountain1,739 m · 17 kmLemei Rock1,806 m · 19 kmMount Adams3,743 m · volcano · 20 kmEast Crater1,543 m · volcano · 21 kmRed Butte2,196 m · volcano · 24 km
Darkskyas1 dark-sky places within 30 km
Mount AdamsBortle 2 · 20 km
Cascadyas5 waterfalls within 15 km
Swampy Meadows Falls10 kmLower Lewis River Falls10 kmLangfield Falls11 kmBig Spring Creek Falls11 kmBabyshoe Falls13 km
Riveryasthe river nearby
Lewis River146 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.

Basalt cliffs & Mt Adams-Gifford Pinchot (23931354165)
U.S. Forest Service- Pacific Northwest Region · Public domain
20190923-Gifford-CMR-0042a (48871853337)
Forest Service, USDA · Public domain
Forest Road 8040 (10632)
Buidhe · CC BY-SA 4.0

Other forests nearby.

Gifford Pinchot National Forest

United States

  • 74Forestyas Score
  • 99%Trees
  • 100%Wild
  • 11Species

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  • 73Forestyas Score
  • 51%Trees
  • 100%Wild
  • 453Species

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Mount Baker-Snoqualmie National Forest

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  • 100%Wild
  • 174Species

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  • 86Forestyas Score
  • 90%Trees
  • 100%Wild
  • 196Species

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Where these figures come from

Name and typeWikidata (Q670490) · CC0
Land coverESA WorldCover 10 m 2021 v200 · © ESA WorldCover project / Copernicus Sentinel data · CC BY 4.0
Species70 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, Cascadyas, Riveryas

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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Same idea, other landscapes: field atlases built on open data, in seven languages.

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