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Gila National Forest

Zereshk · CC BY-SA 3.0

41% trees around it and 100 species recorded.

62Forestyas Score

ForestNational forestWildMountain forest

  • trees within 3 km41%
  • wild within 10 km100%
  • species recorded100
  • Altitude2,454 m

The forest around

41% 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 62%Grassland 38%Trees 39%Shrubland 0%Grassland 61%Trees 28%Shrubland 0%Grassland 71%Trees 55%Shrubland 1%Grassland 44%41%trees · 3 km

Trees, ring by ring

  • 0–1 km62%
  • 1–3 km39%
  • 3–6 km28%
  • 6–10 km55%

What covers the land (1–3 km)

  • Trees39%
  • Shrubland0%
  • Grassland61%

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

100 species recorded.

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

Douglas-fir
Douglas-firPseudotsuga menziesii2 recordsWalter Siegmund · CC BY-SA 3.0
New Mexico muhly
New Mexico muhlyMuhlenbergia pauciflora2 recordsChase, Agnes; Hitchcock, A. S. · Public domain
Annual muhly
Annual muhlyMuhlenbergia minutissima2 recordsHitchcock, A.S. (rev. A. Chase). · Public domain
Intermediate wheatgrass
Intermediate wheatgrassThinopyrum intermedium2 recordsDehaan · CC BY-SA 3.0 us
Wild potato
Wild potatoSolanum jamesii2 recordsPatrick Alexander from Las Cruces, NM · CC0
Pingue rubberweed
Pingue rubberweedHymenoxys richardsonii2 recordsMatt Lavin from Bozeman, Montana, USA · CC BY-SA 2.0
Groundcover milkvetch
Groundcover milkvetchAstragalus humistratus2 recordsDean Wm. Taylor · CC BY 2.0
Hawkweed buckwheatEriogonum hieraciifolium2 records
Clark Valley larkspurDelphinium geraniifolium2 records
Gila milkvetchAstragalus gilensis2 records
Hymenothrix dissectaHymenothrix dissecta2 records

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

In numbers

The forest, measured.

62out of 100

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

  • 41%Treesof the land within 3 km
  • 100%Wildno towns or farmland within 10 km
  • 100Speciesrecorded more than once within 5 km
  • 2,454 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. Jan8°-5°28 mm
  2. Feb9°-4°23 mm
  3. Mar14°-2°18 mm
  4. Apr18°1°11 mm
  5. May23°6°11 mm
  6. Jun29°12°13 mm
  7. Jul28°14°83 mm
  8. Aug27°13°81 mm
  9. Sep24°10°54 mm
  10. Oct19°4°25 mm
  11. Nov13°-2°24 mm
  12. Dec7°-5°28 mm
  • Bar: walking comfort; the number on top is the average maximum.
  • Below: average minimum (NASA, 1991–2020).
  • Rain: monthly total.

The place

Gila National Forest.

US National forest in New Mexico first established in 1899 as Gila River Forest Reserve

Gila National Forest is a national forest in United States, 2,454 m above the sea.

Seen from space, 41% of the land within 3 km is trees, and 100% of the land within 10 km has no towns or farmland.

100 species have been recorded around it: 11 plants, 0 fungi, 83 birds and 6 mammals.

The most recorded plants are: Douglas-fir, New Mexico muhly and Annual muhly.

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

Gila Natl Forest Nima1
Zereshk · CC BY-SA 3.0

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.

Gila 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

  • 2marked trails within 5 kmCDT jmjGR, CDT jmlGR
  • 8campsites within 10 kmDipping Vat, Gwynn Tank, Willow Creek Campground and 5 more
  • 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 Gila 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.

Peakyas45 mountains within 25 km
Aeroplane Mesa14 kmWhitewater Baldy3,322 m · 19 kmCenter Baldy21 kmIndian Peak22 kmMogollon Baldy3,284 m · 22 kmGrouse Mountain23 kmApache Peak23 kmEagle Peak2,987 m · 24 km
Lakeyas1 lakes within 15 km
Snow Lake0.3 km² · 6.1 km
Viewyas1 viewpoints within 15 kmComing soon
Bearwallow Lookout13 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.

A beaver dam spans a section of the Middle Fork of the Gila River
Matthew.kowal · CC BY-SA 4.0
Overlooking Jordan Hot Springs in the Gila National Forest, full size
Matthew.kowal · CC BY-SA 4.0
2019 US Capitol Christmas Tree Whistle stop, Gila National Forest, Black Range Ranger District (49168565513)
Region 3 Photography · Public domain

Other forests nearby.

Gila National Forest

United States

  • 62Forestyas Score
  • 41%Trees
  • 100%Wild
  • 100Species

Apache–Sitgreaves National Forests

United States · 72 km

  • 78Forestyas Score
  • 67%Trees
  • 100%Wild
  • 253Species

See the guide

Cibola National Forest

United States · 139 km

  • 47Forestyas Score
  • 27%Trees
  • 100%Wild
  • 12Species

See the guide

Lincoln National Forest

United States · 275 km

  • 84Forestyas Score
  • 96%Trees
  • 100%Wild
  • 141Species

See the guide

Where these figures come from

Name and typeWikidata (Q1523874) · CC0
Land coverESA WorldCover 10 m 2021 v200 · © ESA WorldCover project / Copernicus Sentinel data · CC BY 4.0
Species588 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, Lakeyas, Viewyas

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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