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Lolo National Forest

Forest Service - Northern Region · Public domain

98% trees around it and 60 species recorded.

81Forestyas Score

ForestNational forestDense canopyWildMountain forest

  • trees within 3 km98%
  • wild within 10 km100%
  • species recorded60
  • Altitude1,456 m

The forest around

98% 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 99%Grassland 1%Trees 98%Grassland 2%Trees 94%Grassland 5%Bare ground 0%Cropland 0%Trees 91%Grassland 8%Moss and lichen 1%Bare ground 1%Cropland 0%98%trees · 3 km

Trees, ring by ring

  • 0–1 km99%
  • 1–3 km98%
  • 3–6 km94%
  • 6–10 km91%

What covers the land (1–3 km)

  • Trees98%
  • Grassland2%
  • Moss and lichen0%
  • Bare ground0%
  • Cropland0%

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

60 species recorded.

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

Chipping Sparrow
Chipping SparrowSpizella passerina14 recordsMdf , Edited by Fir0002 · CC BY-SA 3.0
American Robin
American RobinTurdus migratorius14 recordsRhododendrites · CC BY-SA 4.0
Hammond's Flycatcher
Hammond's FlycatcherEmpidonax hammondii12 recordsDominic Sherony · CC BY-SA 2.0
Western Wood Pewee
Western Wood PeweeContopus sordidulus12 recordsJerryFriedman · CC BY-SA 3.0
Myrtle Warbler
Myrtle WarblerSetophaga coronata9 recordsRhododendrites · CC BY-SA 4.0
Wilson's Snipe
Wilson's SnipeGallinago delicata7 recordsen:User:Talshiarr (Sean Breazeal) · CC BY-SA 3.0
Cedar Waxwing
Cedar WaxwingBombycilla cedrorum7 recordsJason Quinn · CC BY-SA 3.0
Red-breasted Nuthatch
Red-breasted NuthatchSitta canadensis7 recordsBecky Matsubara from El Sobrante, California · CC BY 2.0
Mangrove Warbler
Mangrove WarblerSetophaga petechia7 recordsgpasch · CC BY-SA 4.0
Warbling Vireo
Warbling VireoVireo gilvus6 recordsRhododendrites · CC BY-SA 4.0
Northern Flicker
Northern FlickerColaptes auratus5 recordsNature's Pic's (www.naturespicsonline.com) · Attribution
Brown-headed Cowbird
Brown-headed CowbirdMolothrus ater5 recordsRhododendrites · CC BY-SA 4.0

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).

  • 98%Treesof the land within 3 km
  • 100%Wildno towns or farmland within 10 km
  • 60Speciesrecorded more than once within 5 km
  • 1,456 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-2°-11°79 mm
  2. Feb-1°-11°68 mm
  3. Mar4°-6°78 mm
  4. Apr9°-3°69 mm
  5. May15°2°74 mm
  6. Jun19°6°77 mm
  7. Jul26°11°24 mm
  8. Aug26°10°31 mm
  9. Sep20°5°38 mm
  10. Oct11°-1°64 mm
  11. Nov3°-6°78 mm
  12. Dec-2°-11°82 mm
  • Bar: walking comfort; the number on top is the average maximum.
  • Below: average minimum (NASA, 1991–2020).
  • Rain: monthly total.

The place

Lolo National Forest.

National forest in Montana, United States

Lolo National Forest is a national forest in United States, 1,456 m above the sea.

Seen from space, 98% of the land within 3 km is trees, and 100% of the land within 10 km has no towns or farmland.

60 species have been recorded around it: 0 plants, 0 fungi, 58 birds and 2 mammals.

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

2021 restoration and replacement of the windows at Skookum Butte Lookout (51820299483)
Forest Service - Northern Region · 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.

Lolo 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

  • 2campsites within 10 kmKreis Pond Campground, CCC Campsite
  • 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 Lolo 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.

Peakyas29 mountains within 25 km
Blackrock Peak6.9 kmCh-paa-qn Peak2,435 m · 7.2 kmCayuse Hill14 kmBurnt Fork Pinnacle18 kmMartin Point22 kmCyr Peak22 kmCobden Peak23 kmAlbert Point24 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.

A skidder on the 2019 Beeskov Fire, Lolo National Forest (52941132245)
Forest Service - Northern Region · Public domain
20250603-FS-SF-1002 (54567507683)
Forest Service Photography · Public domain
20250603-FS-SF-1009 (54567507648)
Forest Service Photography · Public domain

Other forests nearby.

Lolo National Forest

United States

  • 81Forestyas Score
  • 98%Trees
  • 100%Wild
  • 60Species

Bitterroot National Forest

United States · 109 km

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

See the guide

Clearwater National Forest

United States · 86 km

  • 68Forestyas Score
  • 99%Trees
  • 100%Wild
  • 2Species

See the guide

Flathead National Forest

United States · 109 km

  • 73Forestyas Score
  • 95%Trees
  • 100%Wild
  • 9Species

See the guide

Where these figures come from

Name and typeWikidata (Q390819) · CC0
Land coverESA WorldCover 10 m 2021 v200 · © ESA WorldCover project / Copernicus Sentinel data · CC BY 4.0
Species320 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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