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Gunnison National Forest

Bob Pearson · CC BY-SA 2.0

51% trees around it and 33 species recorded.

62Forestyas Score

ForestNational forestWildMountain forest

  • trees within 3 km51%
  • wild within 10 km100%
  • species recorded33
  • Altitude3,597 m

The forest around

51% 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 48%Grassland 14%Moss and lichen 34%Bare ground 4%Trees 51%Grassland 14%Moss and lichen 26%Bare ground 8%Trees 63%Grassland 17%Moss and lichen 14%Bare ground 6%Trees 84%Grassland 9%Moss and lichen 4%Bare ground 3%51%trees · 3 km

Trees, ring by ring

  • 0–1 km48%
  • 1–3 km51%
  • 3–6 km63%
  • 6–10 km84%

What covers the land (1–3 km)

  • Trees51%
  • Grassland14%
  • Moss and lichen26%
  • Bare ground8%

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

33 species recorded.

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

Alpine bluegrass
Alpine bluegrassPoa alpina3 recordsDaderot · Public domain
Glaucous bluegrass
Glaucous bluegrassPoa glauca2 recordsHitchcock, A.S. (rev. A. Chase). · Public domain
Alpine fescue
Alpine fescueFestuca brachyphylla2 recordsPatrick Alexander · CC0
Short Sedge
Short SedgeCarex rossii2 recordsHurd, E.G., N.L. Shaw, J. Mastrogiuseppe, L.C. Smithman, and S. Goodrich. · Public domain
Alpine sagebrush
Alpine sagebrushArtemisia scopulorum2 recordsMatt Lavin from Bozeman, Montana, USA · CC BY-SA 2.0
Pygmy gentian
Pygmy gentianGentiana prostrata2 recordsAnton Hartinger · Public domain
Spreading wheatgrass
Spreading wheatgrassElymus scribneri2 recordsHitchcock, A.S. (rev. A. Chase). · Public domain
Blackroot sedgeCarex elynoides3 records
Showy alpine ragwortSenecio amplectens2 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).

  • 51%Treesof the land within 3 km
  • 100%Wildno towns or farmland within 10 km
  • 33Speciesrecorded more than once within 5 km
  • 3,597 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. Jan-1°-13°35 mm
  2. Feb0°-12°36 mm
  3. Mar5°-7°34 mm
  4. Apr10°-4°39 mm
  5. May16°0°34 mm
  6. Jun24°6°16 mm
  7. Jul27°10°44 mm
  8. Aug25°9°44 mm
  9. Sep20°4°44 mm
  10. Oct12°-2°36 mm
  11. Nov5°-7°32 mm
  12. Dec-1°-12°40 mm
  • Bar: walking comfort; the number on top is the average maximum.
  • Below: average minimum (NASA, 1991–2020).
  • Rain: monthly total.

The place

Gunnison National Forest.

U.S. National Forest in Mesa, Gunnison, Hinsdale and Saguache Counties in Western part of the U.S. state of Colorado

Gunnison National Forest is a national forest in United States, 3,597 m above the sea.

Seen from space, 51% of the land within 3 km is trees, and 100% of the land within 10 km has no towns or farmland.

33 species have been recorded around it: 9 plants, 0 fungi, 24 birds and 0 mammals.

The most recorded plants are: Alpine bluegrass, Glaucous bluegrass and Alpine fescue.

The best time to walk is in September.

Copper Lake Trail, Crested Butte
Bob Pearson · CC BY-SA 2.0

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.

Gunnison 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

  • 5campsites within 10 km
  • 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 Gunnison 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
West Elk Peak3,975 m · 2.3 kmMount Guero3,675 m · 15 kmEast Beckwith Mountain3,792 m · 16 kmCarbon Peak3,684 m · 18 kmMount Gunnison3,879 m · 19 kmMount Owen (Colorado)24 kmWhetstone Mountain3,818 m · 24 kmMount Emmons3,780 m · 25 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.

Grand Mesa and Gunnison National Forest
Fancy Fox Jr · CC BY 4.0
Napoleon Pass, Gunnison County, Colorado, USA
John Sowell · CC BY-SA 4.0
Tomichi Pass, Gunnison County, Colorado, USA
John Sowell · CC BY-SA 4.0

Other forests nearby.

Gunnison National Forest

United States

  • 62Forestyas Score
  • 51%Trees
  • 100%Wild
  • 33Species

White River National Forest

United States · 99 km

  • 76Forestyas Score
  • 71%Trees
  • 98%Wild
  • 91Species

See the guide

Rio Grande National Forest

United States · 112 km

  • 67Forestyas Score
  • 48%Trees
  • 100%Wild
  • 139Species

See the guide

San Juan National Forest

United States · 134 km

  • 67Forestyas Score
  • 51%Trees
  • 100%Wild
  • 94Species

See the guide

Where these figures come from

Name and typeWikidata (Q1554840) · CC0
Land coverESA WorldCover 10 m 2021 v200 · © ESA WorldCover project / Copernicus Sentinel data · CC BY 4.0
Species159 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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