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Hestehave Forest

Old Dane · CC BY-SA 4.0

19% trees around it and 974 species recorded.

46Forestyas Score

ForestFungiBirdsWildlife

  • trees within 3 km19%
  • wild within 10 km72%
  • species recorded974

The forest around

19% 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 58%Grassland 16%Wetland 1%Water 20%Cropland 5%Trees 14%Grassland 22%Wetland 0%Water 46%Cropland 12%Built-up 5%Trees 16%Grassland 18%Water 27%Cropland 37%Built-up 2%Trees 32%Grassland 26%Wetland 0%Water 17%Cropland 22%Built-up 3%19%trees · 3 km

Trees, ring by ring

  • 0–1 km58%
  • 1–3 km14%
  • 3–6 km16%
  • 6–10 km32%

What covers the land (1–3 km)

  • Trees14%
  • Grassland22%
  • Wetland0%
  • Water46%
  • Cropland12%
  • Built-up5%

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

974 species recorded.

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

European Beech
European BeechFagus sylvatica659 recordsMalene Thyssen · CC BY-SA 3.0
AshNT
AshFraxinus excelsior369 recordsWillow · CC BY 2.5
Tufted Hair-grass
Tufted Hair-grassDeschampsia cespitosa303 recordsChristian Fischer · CC BY-SA 3.0
Pedunculate Oak
Pedunculate OakQuercus robur281 recordsAlgirdas at Lithuanian Wikipedia · Public domain
Wood Anemone
Wood AnemoneAnemone nemorosa245 recordsEpgrande · CC BY 4.0
Soft Rush
Soft RushJuncus effusus236 recordsThe original uploader was Meggar at English Wikipedia . · CC BY-SA 3.0
Woodruff
WoodruffGalium odoratum226 recordsJopi · Public domain
European woodland sedge
European woodland sedgeCarex sylvatica223 recordsFranz Xaver · CC BY-SA 3.0
Wood melick
Wood melickMelica uniflora212 recordsKenraiz , Krzysztof Ziarnek · CC BY-SA 4.0
Sycamore
SycamoreAcer pseudoplatanus179 recordsChristian Pirkl · CC BY-SA 3.0 at
Wood-barley
Wood-barleyHordelymus europaeus176 recordsJohann Georg Sturm (Painter: Jacob Sturm ) · Public domain
Creeping buttercup
Creeping buttercupRanunculus repens174 recordsUnknown author · CC BY-SA 3.0

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

In numbers

The forest, measured.

46out of 100

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

  • 19%Treesof the land within 3 km
  • 72%Wildno towns or farmland within 10 km
  • 974Speciesrecorded more than once within 5 km

When to walk

Best for walking from June to August.

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

  1. Jan3°0°66 mm
  2. Feb3°0°51 mm
  3. Mar5°1°46 mm
  4. Apr10°4°43 mm
  5. May14°8°54 mm
  6. Jun18°12°77 mm
  7. Jul20°14°82 mm
  8. Aug20°15°86 mm
  9. Sep16°12°68 mm
  10. Oct12°8°86 mm
  11. Nov8°5°74 mm
  12. Dec4°2°69 mm
  • Bar: walking comfort; the number on top is the average maximum.
  • Below: average minimum (NASA, 1991–2020).
  • Rain: monthly total.

The place

Hestehave Forest.

Forest in Mols Bjerge National Park

Hestehave Forest is a forest in Denmark.

Seen from space, 19% of the land within 3 km is trees, and 72% of the land within 10 km has no towns or farmland.

974 species have been recorded around it: 758 plants, 45 fungi, 136 birds and 35 mammals.

The most recorded plants are: European Beech, Ash and Tufted Hair-grass.

The best time to walk is from June to August.

Thyras Hytte, Hestehave Skov 2
Old Dane · 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.

Hestehave 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

  • 6marked trails within 5 kmMolsruten, Kaløstien, Mols Bjerge-stien Kaløetapen and 3 more
  • 2named and notable trees within 6 kmBaron Wilhelms Bøg
  • 47picnic sites within 4 km
  • 30shelters and huts within 6 km
  • 3viewpoints within 5 kmStore Bavnehøj
  • 2visitor centres within 6 kmBesøgscenteret for Danmarks vilde dyr og deres levesteder, Karlsladen
  • 75car parks within 3 km
  • 19campsites within 10 kmStor Lejrplads Kalø Vig, Nappedam Bådehavn, Kaløvig Camping and 16 more
  • 15places to stay within 10 kmRønde Vandrerhjem, Røndegård, Lergravgaard and 12 more
  • 8restaurants 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 Hestehave 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.

Peakyas15 mountains within 25 km
Agri Bavnehøj137 m · 7.8 kmMøgelbjerg83 m · 8.7 kmTrehøje9.4 kmStigsbjerg9.8 kmTothøj13 kmHelligbjerg19 kmEllemandsbjerg99 m · 19 kmJernhatten49 m · 20 km
Coastya3 beaches within 10 km
Følle Beach2.3 kmLøgten Bugt4.1 kmKnebel Strand8.6 km
Lakeyas3 lakes within 15 km
Øjesø0.2 km² · 8.8 kmLangsø0.3 km² · 9.5 kmLake Stubbe3.6 km² · 14 km
Darkskyas1 dark-sky places within 30 km
Ole Rømer ObservatoryBortle 7 · 24 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.

Hestehave, bænk, Følle Bugt
Old Dane · CC BY-SA 4.0
Hestehave Skov, 2025
Toxophilus · CC BY-SA 4.0
Hestehave Skov
Mikkel Houmøller · CC BY-SA 4.0

Other forests nearby.

Hestehave Forest

Denmark

  • 46Forestyas Score
  • 19%Trees
  • 72%Wild
  • 974Species

Silkeborg Forests

Denmark · 57 km

  • 73Forestyas Score
  • 66%Trees
  • 79%Wild
  • 1,445Species

See the guide

Marselisborg Forests

Denmark · 25 km

  • 56Forestyas Score
  • 34%Trees
  • 74%Wild
  • 1,735Species

See the guide

Rold Skov

Denmark · 69 km

  • 70Forestyas Score
  • 80%Trees
  • 62%Wild
  • 329Species

See the guide

Where these figures come from

Name and typeWikidata (Q18621023) · CC0
Land coverESA WorldCover 10 m 2021 v200 · © ESA WorldCover project / Copernicus Sentinel data · CC BY 4.0
Species25,812 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, Coastya, Lakeyas, Darkskyas

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

The family

Do you prefer beaches, lakes, mountains, waterfalls, islands, rivers, canyons, caves, dark skies, viewpoints, birdwatching or forests?

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

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viewpointsViewyasEvery viewpoint with its real 360° panorama: the peaks you can name, how far you see and where the sun sets.Coming soonVisit
birdwatchingBirdyasEvery bird sanctuary and wetland with the species recorded month by month: who is resident, who comes for the summer, who only passes through.Visit
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