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Lewis and Clark National Forest

Forest Service - Northern Region · Public domain

94% trees around it and 164 species recorded.

85Forestyas Score

ForestNational forestDense canopyWildMountain forest

  • trees within 3 km94%
  • wild within 10 km100%
  • species recorded164
  • Altitude2,158 m

The forest around

94% 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 4%Bare ground 1%Trees 94%Grassland 6%Bare ground 0%Built-up 0%Trees 90%Grassland 9%Bare ground 0%Trees 91%Grassland 8%Bare ground 1%94%trees · 3 km

Trees, ring by ring

  • 0–1 km94%
  • 1–3 km94%
  • 3–6 km90%
  • 6–10 km91%

What covers the land (1–3 km)

  • Trees94%
  • Grassland6%
  • Bare ground0%

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

164 species recorded.

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

Northern bedstraw
Northern bedstrawGalium boreale4 recordsKristian Peters -- Fabelfroh 06:36, 2 July 2007 (UTC) · CC BY-SA 3.0
Arctic alpine forget-me-not
Arctic alpine forget-me-notEritrichium nanum4 recordsMeneerke bloem ( talk · contribs ) · CC BY-SA 3.0
Little larkspur
Little larkspurDelphinium bicolor4 recordsUnknown author Unknown author · Public domain
Pygmyflower rockjasmine
Pygmyflower rockjasmineAndrosace septentrionalis4 recordsStan Shebs · CC BY-SA 3.0
White Clover
White CloverTrifolium repens4 recordsEpgrande · CC BY 4.0
Yellow avalanche-lily
Yellow avalanche-lilyErythronium grandiflorum3 recordsWalter Siegmund · CC BY-SA 3.0
Snakeweed
SnakeweedBistorta bistortoides3 recordsWalter Siegmund · CC BY-SA 3.0
Sticky purple geranium
Sticky purple geraniumGeranium viscosissimum3 recordsRG Johnsson · Public domain
Longstyle thistleCirsium longistylum13 records
Frasera speciosaFrasera speciosa5 records
Thickleaved Wild StrawberryFragaria virginiana5 records
Jones' columbineAquilegia jonesii4 records

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

In numbers

The forest, measured.

85out of 100

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

  • 94%Treesof the land within 3 km
  • 100%Wildno towns or farmland within 10 km
  • 164Speciesrecorded more than once within 5 km
  • 2,158 mAltitudeabove the sea

When to walk

Best for walking in June and in September.

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

  1. Jan-3°-11°36 mm
  2. Feb-3°-12°39 mm
  3. Mar3°-7°44 mm
  4. Apr7°-4°73 mm
  5. May13°1°96 mm
  6. Jun19°6°97 mm
  7. Jul25°10°45 mm
  8. Aug24°9°47 mm
  9. Sep17°4°51 mm
  10. Oct8°-2°52 mm
  11. Nov2°-6°37 mm
  12. Dec-3°-11°37 mm
  • Bar: walking comfort; the number on top is the average maximum.
  • Below: average minimum (NASA, 1991–2020).
  • Rain: monthly total.

The place

Lewis and Clark National Forest.

US national forest in west central Montana, from 1907 to 2015, first established in 1897 as Lewis and Clarke Forest Reserve

Lewis and Clark National Forest is a national forest in United States, 2,158 m above the sea.

Seen from space, 94% of the land within 3 km is trees, and 100% of the land within 10 km has no towns or farmland.

164 species have been recorded around it: 83 plants, 0 fungi, 71 birds and 10 mammals.

The most recorded plants are: Northern bedstraw, Arctic alpine forget-me-not and Little larkspur.

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

Autumn in the North Fork Teton River valley, Helena-Lewis and Clark National Forest (52940386672)
Forest Service - Northern Region · Public domain

Get there and walk

Plan the visit

A guided walk, a bed nearby, a car.

Guided forest walks and tours near Lewis and Clark National ForestGetYourGuideSee prices Cabins and stays near Lewis and Clark National ForestBooking.comSee prices Car hire at GTF airport (Great Falls)Discover CarsSee prices 

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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.

Lewis and Clark 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

  • 1shelters and huts within 6 kmKings Hill Cabin
  • 4car parks within 3 km
  • 2campsites within 10 kmMany Pines Campground, Kings Hill Campground
  • 1places to stay within 10 kmBob's Bar Dining & Motel
  • marked trails within 5 km
  • named and notable trees within 6 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 Lewis and Clark 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.

Peakyas42 mountains within 25 km
Big Deer Point4.2 kmCoyote Peak6.3 kmCabin Mountain7.4 kmBig Baldy Mountain2,798 m · 12 kmBelt Park Butte16 kmBandbox Mountain18 kmGibson Peak21 kmBlack Butte23 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.

Autumn in the North Fork Teton River valley, Helena-Lewis and Clark National Forest (52940390962)
Forest Service - Northern Region · Public domain

Other forests nearby.

Lewis and Clark National Forest

United States

  • 85Forestyas Score
  • 94%Trees
  • 100%Wild
  • 164Species

Custer National Forest

United States · 197 km

  • 69Forestyas Score
  • 56%Trees
  • 100%Wild
  • 96Species

See the guide

Gallatin National Forest

United States · 180 km

  • 59Forestyas Score
  • 49%Trees
  • 100%Wild
  • 19Species

See the guide

Bitterroot National Forest

United States · 262 km

  • 81Forestyas Score
  • 90%Trees
  • 98%Wild
  • 67Species

See the guide

Where these figures come from

Name and typeWikidata (Q1822187) · CC0
Land coverESA WorldCover 10 m 2021 v200 · © ESA WorldCover project / Copernicus Sentinel data · CC BY 4.0
Species1,364 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

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

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