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Kaingaroa Forest

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

87% trees around it and 38 species recorded.

75Forestyas Score

ForestDense canopyWild

  • trees within 3 km87%
  • wild within 10 km100%
  • species recorded38
  • Altitude566 m

The forest around

87% 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 94%Grassland 5%Bare ground 0%Trees 86%Grassland 13%Built-up 0%Trees 92%Grassland 8%Trees 88%Grassland 12%87%trees · 3 km

Trees, ring by ring

  • 0–1 km94%
  • 1–3 km86%
  • 3–6 km92%
  • 6–10 km88%

What covers the land (1–3 km)

  • Trees86%
  • Grassland13%
  • Bare ground0%
  • 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

38 species recorded.

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

Eucalyptus paliformis
Eucalyptus paliformisEucalyptus paliformis5 recordsIan Brooker and David Kleinig · CC BY-SA 3.0 au
Dracophyllum subulatum
Dracophyllum subulatumDracophyllum subulatum3 recordsChristopher Stephens · CC BY-SA 4.0
Cranfillia fluviatilis
Cranfillia fluviatilisCranfillia fluviatilis3 recordsMichal Klajban · CC BY-SA 4.0
American everlasting
American everlastingGamochaeta americana2 recordsHarry Rose from South West Rocks, Australia · CC BY 2.0
Eucalyptus oreades
Eucalyptus oreadesEucalyptus oreades2 recordsPoyt448 Peter Woodard · CC0
Camden woollybuttVU
Camden woollybuttEucalyptus macarthurii2 recordsPoyt448 Peter Woodard · CC0
Brown barrel
Brown barrelEucalyptus fastigata2 recordsPoyt448 Peter Woodard · CC0
Ponderosa Pine
Ponderosa PinePinus ponderosa2 recordsWalter Siegmund · CC BY 2.5
Hairy bird's-foot trefoil
Hairy bird's-foot trefoilLotus subbiflorus2 recordsRichard New Forest · 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.

75out of 100

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

  • 87%Treesof the land within 3 km
  • 100%Wildno towns or farmland within 10 km
  • 38Speciesrecorded more than once within 5 km
  • 566 mAltitudeabove the sea

When to walk

Best for walking in March and from November to December.

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

  1. Jan23°12°69 mm
  2. Feb23°12°62 mm
  3. Mar20°10°76 mm
  4. Apr16°8°86 mm
  5. May13°6°86 mm
  6. Jun10°4°104 mm
  7. Jul9°3°110 mm
  8. Aug10°4°88 mm
  9. Sep12°5°78 mm
  10. Oct14°6°78 mm
  11. Nov17°8°55 mm
  12. Dec20°10°77 mm
  • Bar: walking comfort; the number on top is the average maximum.
  • Below: average minimum (NASA, 1991–2020).
  • Rain: monthly total.

The place

Kaingaroa Forest.

Forest plantation in New Zealand

Kaingaroa Forest is a forest in New Zealand, 566 m above the sea.

Seen from space, 87% of the land within 3 km is trees, and 100% of the land within 10 km has no towns or farmland.

38 species have been recorded around it: 9 plants, 4 fungi, 25 birds and 0 mammals.

The most recorded plants are: Eucalyptus paliformis, Dracophyllum subulatum and Cranfillia fluviatilis.

The best time to walk is in March and from November to December.

Kaingaroa Forest 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.

Kaingaroa 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

  • 7car parks within 3 km
  • marked trails within 5 km
  • named and notable trees within 6 km
  • picnic sites within 4 km
  • shelters and huts within 6 km
  • viewpoints within 5 km
  • visitor centres within 6 km
  • campsites within 10 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 Kaingaroa 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.

Peakyas59 mountains within 25 km
Tawhiuau1,017 m · 20 kmTakapakapa1,030 m · 21 kmKoa1,024 m · 22 kmRuarepuae979 m · 22 kmKanakana925 m · 22 kmPokaingakakahu1,034 m · 23 kmMount Tarawera1,111 m · 23 kmRuawahia1,111 m · 23 km
Islandyasthe island
North Island113,729 km²

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

Other forests nearby.

Kaingaroa Forest

New Zealand

  • 75Forestyas Score
  • 87%Trees
  • 100%Wild
  • 38Species

Redwoods Forest

New Zealand · 40 km

  • 74Forestyas Score
  • 56%Trees
  • 94%Wild
  • 1,108Species

See the guide

Where these figures come from

Name and typeWikidata (Q1143464) · CC0
Land coverESA WorldCover 10 m 2021 v200 · © ESA WorldCover project / Copernicus Sentinel data · CC BY 4.0
Species247 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, Islandyas

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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