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Hoh Rainforest

User:Doug Dolde · CC BY-SA 3.0

97% trees around it and 328 species recorded.

90Forestyas Score

ForestDense canopyWildFungiBirdsWorld Heritage

  • trees within 3 km97%
  • wild within 10 km100%
  • species recorded328
  • Altitude214 m

The forest around

97% 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 93%Grassland 1%Water 5%Bare ground 1%Trees 98%Grassland 0%Water 2%Bare ground 0%Trees 99%Water 1%Bare ground 0%Trees 98%Grassland 1%Water 0%Bare ground 0%97%trees · 3 km

Trees, ring by ring

  • 0–1 km93%
  • 1–3 km98%
  • 3–6 km99%
  • 6–10 km98%

What covers the land (1–3 km)

  • Trees98%
  • Grassland0%
  • Water2%
  • Bare ground0%

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

328 species recorded.

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

Western swordfern
Western swordfernPolystichum munitum114 recordsJami Dwyer · CC BY-SA 2.0
Bracken
BrackenPteridium aquilinum42 recordsStefan.lefnaer · CC BY-SA 4.0
Hard Fern
Hard FernStruthiopteris spicant42 recordsSABENCIA Guillermo César Ruiz · CC BY-SA 4.0
Threeleaf foamflower
Threeleaf foamflowerTiarella trifoliata28 recordsWalter Siegmund · CC BY 2.5
Festoon spikemoss
Festoon spikemossSelaginella oregana23 recordsJonathan Hunsberger · CC BY 4.0
Strawberryleaf raspberry
Strawberryleaf raspberryRubus pedatus23 recordsAlpsdake · CC BY-SA 4.0
Salmonberry
SalmonberryRubus spectabilis23 recordsDavid McMaster (= user BlindGoofy ) · CC BY-SA 3.0
Vine Maple
Vine MapleAcer circinatum23 recordsTony Perodeau · CC BY-SA 3.0
Western Hemlock
Western HemlockTsuga heterophylla21 recordsDoug Kerr from Albany, NY, United States · CC BY-SA 2.0
Sitka Spruce
Sitka SprucePicea sitchensis20 recordsWalter Siegmund · CC BY-SA 3.0
Bigleaf Maple
Bigleaf MapleAcer macrophyllum19 recordsAngilbas at English Wikipedia · Public domain
Licorice fern
Licorice fernPolypodium glycyrrhiza19 recordsJ Brew · CC BY-SA 2.0

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

In numbers

The forest, measured.

90out of 100

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

  • 97%Treesof the land within 3 km
  • 100%Wildno towns or farmland within 10 km
  • 328Speciesrecorded more than once within 5 km
  • 214 mAltitudeabove the sea

When to walk

Best for walking from July to August.

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

  1. Jan4°0°286 mm
  2. Feb4°-1°162 mm
  3. Mar5°0°224 mm
  4. Apr8°2°137 mm
  5. May13°5°86 mm
  6. Jun16°7°63 mm
  7. Jul19°10°31 mm
  8. Aug19°10°42 mm
  9. Sep16°8°86 mm
  10. Oct11°5°198 mm
  11. Nov6°2°292 mm
  12. Dec3°0°270 mm
  • Bar: walking comfort; the number on top is the average maximum.
  • Below: average minimum (NASA, 1991–2020).
  • Rain: monthly total.

The place

Hoh Rainforest.

Protected area

Hoh Rainforest is a forest in United States, 214 m above the sea.

Seen from space, 97% of the land within 3 km is trees, and 100% of the land within 10 km has no towns or farmland.

328 species have been recorded around it: 77 plants, 105 fungi, 138 birds and 8 mammals.

The most recorded plants are: Western swordfern, Bracken and Hard Fern.

The best time to walk is from July to August.

BIG LEAF MAPLES HOH
User:Doug Dolde · 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.

Hoh Rainforest 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

  • 1marked trails within 5 kmHall of Mosses Trail
  • 1named and notable trees within 6 kmBig Spruce Tree
  • 6picnic sites within 4 km
  • 1visitor centres within 6 kmHoh Rain Forest Visitor Center
  • 6car parks within 3 km
  • 18campsites within 10 kmHoh Rainforest Campground, Hoh River Dispersed Camping, Mount Tom Creek Campsites and 15 more
  • shelters and huts within 6 km
  • viewpoints within 5 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 Hoh Rainforest.

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.

Peakyas39 mountains within 25 km
Mount Tom2,157 m · 15 kmMount Olympus2,432 m · 17 kmMount Appleton1,834 m · 17 kmMount Mathias2,178 m · 20 kmAthena2,245 m · 20 kmMount Carrie2,132 m · 21 kmAries1,991 m · 21 kmMount Fairchild2,108 m · 22 km
Darkskyas1 dark-sky places within 30 km
Mount OlympusBortle 2 · 17 km
Cascadyas1 waterfalls within 15 km
Sol Duc Falls13 km
Riveryasthe river nearby
Hoh River92 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.

Banana slug in the Hoh Rainforest
National Park Service · Public domain
Fringed moon lichens hoh rainforest d archuleta march 05 2015 (17323126912)
Olympic National Park · Public domain
Hoh Rain Forest - Flickr - GregTheBusker
Greg Schechter from San Francisco, USA · CC BY 2.0

Other forests nearby.

Hoh Rainforest

United States

  • 90Forestyas Score
  • 97%Trees
  • 100%Wild
  • 328Species

Olympic National Forest

United States · 64 km

  • 86Forestyas Score
  • 96%Trees
  • 100%Wild
  • 237Species

See the guide

Mount Baker-Snoqualmie National Forest

United States · 190 km

  • 85Forestyas Score
  • 91%Trees
  • 100%Wild
  • 174Species

See the guide

Wenatchee National Forest

United States · 237 km

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

See the guide

Where these figures come from

Name and typeWikidata (Q1492122) · CC0
Land coverESA WorldCover 10 m 2021 v200 · © ESA WorldCover project / Copernicus Sentinel data · CC BY 4.0
Species26,258 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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