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Los Padres National Forest

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65% trees around it and 74 species recorded.

72Forestyas Score

ForestNational forestWildMountain forest

  • trees within 3 km65%
  • wild within 10 km100%
  • species recorded74
  • Altitude1,036 m

The forest around

65% 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 78%Shrubland 10%Grassland 13%Trees 63%Shrubland 19%Grassland 18%Trees 70%Shrubland 18%Grassland 12%Trees 62%Shrubland 13%Grassland 25%Bare ground 0%65%trees · 3 km

Trees, ring by ring

  • 0–1 km78%
  • 1–3 km63%
  • 3–6 km70%
  • 6–10 km62%

What covers the land (1–3 km)

  • Trees63%
  • Shrubland19%
  • Grassland18%

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

74 species recorded.

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

Redskin onion
Redskin onionAllium haematochiton2 recordsNo machine-readable author provided. Curtis Clark assumed (based on copyright claims). · CC BY-SA 2.5

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

In numbers

The forest, measured.

72out of 100

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

  • 65%Treesof the land within 3 km
  • 100%Wildno towns or farmland within 10 km
  • 74Speciesrecorded more than once within 5 km
  • 1,036 mAltitudeabove the sea

When to walk

Best for walking in April and in November.

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

  1. Jan16°9°90 mm
  2. Feb15°8°78 mm
  3. Mar17°9°63 mm
  4. Apr18°10°27 mm
  5. May21°12°12 mm
  6. Jun24°14°3 mm
  7. Jul26°17°2 mm
  8. Aug26°17°1 mm
  9. Sep26°16°3 mm
  10. Oct23°14°22 mm
  11. Nov19°11°32 mm
  12. Dec15°9°72 mm
  • Bar: walking comfort; the number on top is the average maximum.
  • Below: average minimum (NASA, 1991–2020).
  • Rain: monthly total.

The place

Los Padres National Forest.

United States National Forest in California

Los Padres National Forest is a national forest in United States, 1,036 m above the sea.

Seen from space, 65% of the land within 3 km is trees, and 100% of the land within 10 km has no towns or farmland.

74 species have been recorded around it: 1 plants, 0 fungi, 71 birds and 2 mammals.

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

02 Cold Spring Creek Seen From The Bridge By Cold Spring Trailhead
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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.

Los Padres 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

  • 16campsites within 10 kmSanta Cruz Camp, Mission Pine Basin Camp, Little Pine Spring Camp and 13 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 Los Padres 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
Little Pine Mountain1,360 m · 7.4 kmAlexander Peak7.6 kmBig Pine Mountain9.5 kmMadulce Peak1,993 m · 15 kmAlamar Hill15 kmLa Cumbre Peak1,218 m · 19 kmArlington Peak993 m · 21 kmFigueroa Mountain1,382 m · 23 km
Darkskyas1 dark-sky places within 30 km
Las Cumbres ObservatoryBortle 6 · 28 km
Cavernyas1 caves within 20 km
Chumash Painted Cave State Historic Park18 km
Cascadyas1 waterfalls within 15 km
Sisquoc Falls8.7 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.

01 A Bridge Next To Cold Spring Trailhead, Montecito, Santa Barbara County
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Other forests nearby.

Los Padres National Forest

United States

  • 72Forestyas Score
  • 65%Trees
  • 100%Wild
  • 74Species

Sequoia National Forest

United States · 190 km

  • 69Forestyas Score
  • 52%Trees
  • 100%Wild
  • 163Species

See the guide

President

United States · 229 km

  • 82Forestyas Score
  • 95%Trees
  • 100%Wild
  • 219Species

See the guide

General Sherman

United States · 231 km

  • 82Forestyas Score
  • 94%Trees
  • 100%Wild
  • 190Species

See the guide

Where these figures come from

Name and typeWikidata (Q3290802) · CC0
Land coverESA WorldCover 10 m 2021 v200 · © ESA WorldCover project / Copernicus Sentinel data · CC BY 4.0
Species691 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, Darkskyas, Cavernyas, Cascadyas

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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