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Idar Forest

Markus Braun · Public domain

90% trees around it and 187 species recorded.

74Forestyas Score

ForestDense canopy

  • trees within 3 km90%
  • wild within 10 km80%
  • species recorded187
  • Altitude747 m

The forest around

90% 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 86%Grassland 14%Trees 91%Grassland 6%Cropland 2%Built-up 0%Trees 64%Grassland 20%Cropland 14%Built-up 2%Trees 58%Grassland 18%Cropland 20%Built-up 3%90%trees · 3 km

Trees, ring by ring

  • 0–1 km86%
  • 1–3 km91%
  • 3–6 km64%
  • 6–10 km58%

What covers the land (1–3 km)

  • Trees91%
  • Grassland6%
  • Cropland2%
  • Built-up0%

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

187 species recorded.

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

Garden yellow loosestrife
Garden yellow loosestrifeLysimachia vulgaris15 recordsLe.Loup.Gris · CC BY-SA 3.0
Queen of the meadow
Queen of the meadowFilipendula ulmaria13 recordsUnknown author · Public domain
Yellow marsh marigold
Yellow marsh marigoldCaltha palustris10 recordsW. Bulach · CC BY-SA 4.0
Devil's-bit Scabious
Devil's-bit ScabiousSuccisa pratensis9 recordsStefan.lefnaer · CC BY-SA 4.0
Round-leaved Sundew
Round-leaved SundewDrosera rotundifolia9 recordsGiuseppe Frizzi · Public domain
European Beech
European BeechFagus sylvatica8 recordsMalene Thyssen · CC BY-SA 3.0
Mountain arnica
Mountain arnicaArnica montana8 recordsW. Bulach · CC BY-SA 4.0
Small Cranberry
Small CranberryVaccinium oxycoccos7 recordsChristian Fischer · CC BY-SA 3.0
Marsh thistle
Marsh thistleCirsium palustre7 recordsEpgrande · CC BY 4.0
Greater butterfly-orchid
Greater butterfly-orchidPlatanthera chlorantha6 recordsJörg Hempel · CC BY-SA 3.0 de
Ground-ivy
Ground-ivyGlechoma hederacea6 recordsAnRo0002 · CC0
Rowan
RowanSorbus aucuparia6 recordsGiallopolenta · Public domain

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

In numbers

The forest, measured.

74out of 100

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

  • 90%Treesof the land within 3 km
  • 80%Wildno towns or farmland within 10 km
  • 187Speciesrecorded more than once within 5 km
  • 747 mAltitudeabove the sea

When to walk

Best for walking in May and in September.

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

  1. Jan3°-3°60 mm
  2. Feb4°-2°51 mm
  3. Mar8°0°52 mm
  4. Apr14°3°44 mm
  5. May18°8°70 mm
  6. Jun22°11°65 mm
  7. Jul25°14°67 mm
  8. Aug24°13°71 mm
  9. Sep20°9°52 mm
  10. Oct14°5°57 mm
  11. Nov7°2°61 mm
  12. Dec3°-1°69 mm
  • Bar: walking comfort; the number on top is the average maximum.
  • Below: average minimum (NASA, 1991–2020).
  • Rain: monthly total.

The place

Idar Forest.

Mountains in Germany

Idar Forest is a forest in Germany, 747 m above the sea.

Seen from space, 90% of the land within 3 km is trees, and 80% of the land within 10 km has no towns or farmland.

187 species have been recorded around it: 90 plants, 2 fungi, 90 birds and 5 mammals.

The most recorded plants are: Garden yellow loosestrife, Queen of the meadow and Yellow marsh marigold.

The best time to walk is in May and in September.

Idarbach-Hausen01
Markus Braun · Public domain

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.

Idar 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

  • 13marked trails within 5 kmSaar-Hunsrück-Steig, Saar-Hunsrück-Steig Traumschleifen LandZeitTour, Jakobsweg: Mainz - Bingen - Trier and 10 more
  • 8named and notable trees within 6 kmKugelbuche, 2 Buchen, Kaisereiche and 5 more
  • 5picnic sites within 4 km
  • 20shelters and huts within 6 kmDie "Schwääßa"-Hütte and 19 more
  • 1viewpoints within 5 kmIdarkopfturm
  • 5car parks within 3 km
  • 9campsites within 10 kmEdelsteincamp, Campingplatz Harfenmühle, Parkplatz Wildenburg and 6 more
  • 61places to stay within 10 kmChristmann, Schlossmühle, Landhaus Arnoth and 58 more
  • 3restaurants and cafés within 3 km
  • visitor centres within 6 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 Idar 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.

Peakyas141 mountains within 25 km
An den zwei Steinen766 m · 0.7 kmIdarkopf746 m · 5.0 kmWildenburger Kopf671 m · 7.0 kmKahlheid766 m · 12 kmErbeskopf816 m · 15 kmRuppelstein763 m · 18 kmSandkopf757 m · 22 kmFriedrichskopf707 m · 22 km
Lakeyas1 lakes within 15 km
Steinbach Reservoir0.3 km² · 6.4 km
Viewyas4 viewpoints within 15 kmComing soon
Idarkopfturm5.0 kmWildenburg Castle7.0 kmRömerturm14 kmErbeskopf tower15 km
Birdyas1 birding sites within 25 km
Wälder zwischen Wittlich und Cochem23 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.

Idarkopf01
Markus Braun · Public domain

Other forests nearby.

Idar Forest

Germany

  • 74Forestyas Score
  • 90%Trees
  • 80%Wild
  • 187Species

Black Forest High Forest

Germany · 32 km

  • 75Forestyas Score
  • 77%Trees
  • 89%Wild
  • 228Species

See the guide

Palatinate Forest

Germany · 77 km

  • 83Forestyas Score
  • 98%Trees
  • 99%Wild
  • 279Species

See the guide

Grünewald

Luxembourg · 77 km

  • 81Forestyas Score
  • 91%Trees
  • 77%Wild
  • 1,522Species

See the guide

Where these figures come from

Name and typeWikidata (Q1656636) · CC0
Land coverESA WorldCover 10 m 2021 v200 · © ESA WorldCover project / Copernicus Sentinel data · CC BY 4.0
Species2,049 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, Birdyas

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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