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Hyperion

Sentinel-2 cloudless 2016 by EOX IT Services GmbH (contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data), CC BY 4.0, with relief shading from Copernicus WorldDEM-30

100% trees around it and 120 species recorded.

80Forestyas Score

Notable treeDense canopyWild

  • trees within 3 km100%
  • wild within 10 km100%
  • species recorded120
  • Altitude138 m

The forest around

100% 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%Water 1%Trees 100%Trees 98%Grassland 2%Trees 83%Grassland 4%Wetland 0%Water 12%Bare ground 0%100%trees · 3 km

Trees, ring by ring

  • 0–1 km99%
  • 1–3 km100%
  • 3–6 km98%
  • 6–10 km83%

What covers the land (1–3 km)

  • Trees100%
  • Grassland0%
  • Water0%

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

120 species recorded.

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

Coast Redwood
Coast RedwoodSequoia sempervirens10 recordsAllie_Caulfield from Germany · CC BY 2.0
Western swordfern
Western swordfernPolystichum munitum4 recordsJami Dwyer · CC BY-SA 2.0
California spikenard
California spikenardAralia californica3 recordsUnknown author · Public domain
Hard Fern
Hard FernStruthiopteris spicant3 recordsSABENCIA Guillermo César Ruiz · CC BY-SA 4.0
Chicory
ChicoryCichorium intybus3 recordsOriginal book source: Prof. Dr. Otto Wilhelm Thomé Flora von Deutschland, Österreich und d · Public domain
Pacific trillium
Pacific trilliumTrillium ovatum2 recordsWalter Siegmund · CC BY-SA 3.0
Pacific rhododendron
Pacific rhododendronRhododendron macrophyllum2 recordsRobert Dunning · CC BY-SA 3.0

Open records within 2 km (GBIF, licensed for any use). Busy places are better recorded than remote ones.

In numbers

The forest, measured.

80out of 100

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

  • 100%Treesof the land within 3 km
  • 100%Wildno towns or farmland within 10 km
  • 120Speciesrecorded more than once within 2 km
  • 138 mAltitudeabove the sea

When to walk

Best for walking from May to June and in October.

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

  1. Jan9°2°186 mm
  2. Feb10°1°159 mm
  3. Mar11°2°169 mm
  4. Apr13°3°92 mm
  5. May17°6°48 mm
  6. Jun22°9°20 mm
  7. Jul28°12°4 mm
  8. Aug28°12°5 mm
  9. Sep25°10°19 mm
  10. Oct20°6°78 mm
  11. Nov13°3°143 mm
  12. Dec9°1°257 mm
  • Bar: walking comfort; the number on top is the average maximum.
  • Below: average minimum (NASA, 1991–2020).
  • Rain: monthly total.

The place

Hyperion.

Tallest known living tree

Hyperion is a notable tree in United States.

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

120 species have been recorded around it: 7 plants, 3 fungi, 109 birds and 1 mammals.

The most recorded plants are: Coast Redwood, Western swordfern and California spikenard.

The best time to walk is from May to June and in October.

Hyperion seen from above (Sentinel-2)
Sentinel-2 cloudless 2016 by EOX IT Services GmbH (contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data), CC BY 4.0, with relief shading from Copernicus WorldDEM-30

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.

Hyperion 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

  • 1named and notable trees within 6 kmHyperion
  • 1shelters and huts within 6 km
  • 1car parks within 3 km
  • 6campsites within 10 km44 Camp, Elk Country RV Resort & Campground, Elam Camp and 3 more
  • 1places to stay within 10 kmPalm Motel
  • marked trails within 5 km
  • picnic sites within 4 km
  • viewpoints within 5 km
  • visitor centres within 6 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 Hyperion.

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.

Peakyas11 mountains within 25 km
Rodgers Peak4.9 kmOrick Hill11 kmCandy Mountain14 kmDevils Peak14 kmCoyote Peak15 kmHooker Mountain16 kmRanger Mountain21 kmHupa Mountain23 km
Lakeyas3 lakes within 15 km
Stone Lagoon2.4 km² · 8.1 kmBig Lagoon5.3 km² · 9.0 kmFreshwater Lagoon0.8 km² · 9.4 km
Riveryasthe river nearby
Redwood Creek99 km · 28 m³/s

Figures from the sister sites' databases (Wikidata, HydroATLAS, GeoNames, OpenStreetMap). Links open when each site is online.

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  • 80Forestyas Score
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  • 100%Wild
  • 120Species

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Where these figures come from

Name and typeWikidata (Q425608) · CC0
Land coverESA WorldCover 10 m 2021 v200 · © ESA WorldCover project / Copernicus Sentinel data · CC BY 4.0
Species1,261 open records within 2 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, 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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