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Kaibab National Forest

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85% trees around it and 432 species recorded.

89Forestyas Score

ForestNational forestWildMountain forestFungiBirds

  • trees within 3 km85%
  • wild within 10 km100%
  • species recorded432
  • Altitude2,685 m

The forest around

85% 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 71%Shrubland 3%Grassland 27%Trees 87%Shrubland 2%Grassland 11%Trees 92%Shrubland 2%Grassland 5%Trees 90%Shrubland 4%Grassland 5%Bare ground 0%85%trees · 3 km

Trees, ring by ring

  • 0–1 km71%
  • 1–3 km87%
  • 3–6 km92%
  • 6–10 km90%

What covers the land (1–3 km)

  • Trees87%
  • Shrubland2%
  • Grassland11%

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

432 species recorded.

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

Largehead clover
Largehead cloverTrifolium macrocephalum40 recordsWalter Siegmund · CC BY-SA 3.0
Achillea setacea
Achillea setaceaAchillea setacea25 recordsDon Pedro28 · CC BY-SA 3.0
Kaibab Plateau Indian paintbrush
Kaibab Plateau Indian paintbrushCastilleja kaibabensis22 recordsK. Warren, NPS · Public domain
Parry's bellflower
Parry's bellflowerCampanula parryi13 recordsChris English · CC BY-SA 3.0
Arizona rubberweed
Arizona rubberweedHymenoxys subintegra12 recordsWendy McCrady, some rights reserved (CC BY) · CC BY 4.0
Porter's sandwort
Porter's sandwortEremogone fendleri12 recordsJerryFriedman · CC BY-SA 3.0
Woolly cinquefoil
Woolly cinquefoilPotentilla hippiana12 recordsStan Shebs · CC BY-SA 3.0
Greater creeping spearwort
Greater creeping spearwortRanunculus flammula10 recordsChristian Fischer · CC BY-SA 3.0
Dieteria bigelovii
Dieteria bigeloviiDieteria bigelovii10 recordsClements, Edith Gertrude (Schwartz); Clements, Frederic E. · Public domain
Rydberg's penstemon
Rydberg's penstemonPenstemon rydbergii10 recordsDcrjsr · CC BY 3.0
Yellow Owl-clover
Yellow Owl-cloverOrthocarpus luteus9 recordsJerryFriedman · CC BY-SA 3.0
Slenderbeak sedge
Slenderbeak sedgeCarex athrostachya8 recordsHurd, E.G., N.L. Shaw, J. Mastrogiuseppe, L.C. Smithman, and S. Goodrich. · 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.

89out of 100

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

  • 85%Treesof the land within 3 km
  • 100%Wildno towns or farmland within 10 km
  • 432Speciesrecorded more than once within 5 km
  • 2,685 mAltitudeabove the sea

When to walk

Best for walking in April and in October.

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

  1. Jan5°-5°25 mm
  2. Feb8°-4°25 mm
  3. Mar14°-1°19 mm
  4. Apr18°2°13 mm
  5. May24°8°12 mm
  6. Jun31°14°6 mm
  7. Jul33°18°33 mm
  8. Aug31°17°39 mm
  9. Sep27°12°25 mm
  10. Oct19°5°26 mm
  11. Nov12°-2°16 mm
  12. Dec5°-5°20 mm
  • Bar: walking comfort; the number on top is the average maximum.
  • Below: average minimum (NASA, 1991–2020).
  • Rain: monthly total.

The place

Kaibab National Forest.

National forest in Coconino, Yavapai, and Mohave counties in Arizona, United States

Kaibab National Forest is a national forest in United States, 2,685 m above the sea.

Seen from space, 85% of the land within 3 km is trees, and 100% of the land within 10 km has no towns or farmland.

432 species have been recorded around it: 166 plants, 106 fungi, 149 birds and 11 mammals.

The most recorded plants are: Largehead clover, Achillea setacea and Kaibab Plateau Indian paintbrush.

The best time to walk is in April and in October.

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Forest Service Photography · 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.

Kaibab 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

  • 4marked trails within 5 kmArizona Trail, Hayduke Trail #10, East Rim Trail and 1 more
  • 2viewpoints within 5 kmEast Rim Viewpoint
  • 2campsites within 10 kmDemotte Campground, Kaibab National Forest Free Campsite
  • 1places to stay within 10 kmKaibab Lodge
  • 1restaurants and cafés within 3 km
  • named and notable trees within 6 km
  • picnic sites within 4 km
  • shelters and huts within 6 km
  • visitor centres within 6 km
  • car parks 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 Kaibab 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.

Peakyas23 mountains within 25 km
Lindbergh Hill2,718 m · 13 kmThe Dragon20 kmMount Hayden22 kmHoly Grail Temple22 kmMasonic Temple1,904 m · 24 kmSteamboat Mountain24 kmAlsap Butte2,285 m · 24 kmDox Castle1,457 m · 25 km
Viewyas1 viewpoints within 15 kmComing soon
Dry Park Lookout8,707 m · 10 km
Canyonyas1 canyons within 20 km
Big Spring Canyon15 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.

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Forest Service Photography · Public domain

Other forests nearby.

Kaibab National Forest

United States

  • 89Forestyas Score
  • 85%Trees
  • 100%Wild
  • 432Species

Dixie National Forest

United States · 184 km

  • 83Forestyas Score
  • 93%Trees
  • 100%Wild
  • 110Species

See the guide

Coconino National Forest

United States · 187 km

  • 60Forestyas Score
  • 24%Trees
  • 97%Wild
  • 429Species

See the guide

Prescott National Forest

United States · 195 km

  • 44Forestyas Score
  • 0%Trees
  • 93%Wild
  • 207Species

See the guide

Where these figures come from

Name and typeWikidata (Q1427269) · CC0
Land coverESA WorldCover 10 m 2021 v200 · © ESA WorldCover project / Copernicus Sentinel data · CC BY 4.0
Species13,191 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, Viewyas, Canyonyas

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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