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Klamath National Forest

Erik Wheaton · Public domain

89% trees around it and 57 species recorded.

81Forestyas Score

ForestNational forestDense canopyWildMountain forest

  • trees within 3 km89%
  • wild within 10 km100%
  • species recorded57
  • Altitude1,538 m

The forest around

89% 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 6%Trees 89%Grassland 11%Water 0%Bare ground 0%Trees 88%Grassland 11%Water 0%Trees 93%Grassland 7%Water 0%89%trees · 3 km

Trees, ring by ring

  • 0–1 km94%
  • 1–3 km89%
  • 3–6 km88%
  • 6–10 km93%

What covers the land (1–3 km)

  • Trees89%
  • Grassland11%
  • 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

57 species recorded.

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

Mat Lupine
Mat LupineLupinus breweri2 recordstomhilton · CC BY 2.0
Bristly gentianGentiana plurisetosa3 records
Wingedseed drabaDraba pterosperma2 records

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

In numbers

The forest, measured.

81out of 100

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

  • 89%Treesof the land within 3 km
  • 100%Wildno towns or farmland within 10 km
  • 57Speciesrecorded more than once within 5 km
  • 1,538 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. Jan5°-2°165 mm
  2. Feb6°-2°144 mm
  3. Mar8°-1°154 mm
  4. Apr11°0°88 mm
  5. May17°4°50 mm
  6. Jun23°7°23 mm
  7. Jul30°11°6 mm
  8. Aug30°11°6 mm
  9. Sep25°8°20 mm
  10. Oct17°3°75 mm
  11. Nov9°0°138 mm
  12. Dec5°-2°230 mm
  • Bar: walking comfort; the number on top is the average maximum.
  • Below: average minimum (NASA, 1991–2020).
  • Rain: monthly total.

The place

Klamath National Forest.

National forest in California, US

Klamath National Forest is a national forest in United States, 1,538 m above the sea.

Seen from space, 89% of the land within 3 km is trees, and 100% of the land within 10 km has no towns or farmland.

57 species have been recorded around it: 3 plants, 1 fungi, 53 birds and 0 mammals.

The most recorded plants are: Mat Lupine, Bristly gentian and Wingedseed draba.

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

Klamath National Forest-16N05 March 05
Erik Wheaton · 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.

Klamath 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

  • 8campsites within 10 kmstock camp, Bear Skull Camp, Stanshaw Equestrian Camp and Trailhead and 5 more
  • 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
  • car parks within 3 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 Klamath 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.

Peakyas36 mountains within 25 km
Black Mountain5.9 kmBald Butte12 kmBlack Marble Mountain14 kmBox Camp Mountain17 kmBear Wallow Peak18 kmBuckhorn Mountain20 kmBoulder Peak22 kmBald Mountain24 km
Lakeyas1 lakes within 15 km
Ukonom Lake0.3 km² · 9.1 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.

Pacific Crest Trail - panoramio
Calaina · CC BY-SA 3.0
Pacific Crest Trail enroute to Taylor Lake - panoramio
Calaina · CC BY-SA 3.0
Green Riffle - Klamath National Forest River Access (33101010136)
Tony Webster from Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States · CC BY-SA 2.0

Other forests nearby.

Klamath National Forest

United States

  • 81Forestyas Score
  • 89%Trees
  • 100%Wild
  • 57Species

Six Rivers National Forest

United States · 49 km

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

See the guide

Hyperion

United States · 66 km

  • 80Forestyas Score
  • 100%Trees
  • 100%Wild
  • 120Species

See the guide

Shasta–Trinity National Forest

United States · 91 km

  • 86Forestyas Score
  • 84%Trees
  • 99%Wild
  • 213Species

See the guide

Where these figures come from

Name and typeWikidata (Q6419646) · CC0
Land coverESA WorldCover 10 m 2021 v200 · © ESA WorldCover project / Copernicus Sentinel data · CC BY 4.0
Species496 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

Every figure is an average, an estimate or a count from a public dataset. Licences and methods: data sources.

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