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Manti–La Sal National Forest

Intermountain Region US Forest Service · Public domain

24% trees around it and 196 species recorded.

57Forestyas Score

ForestNational forestWildMountain forest

  • trees within 3 km24%
  • wild within 10 km100%
  • species recorded196
  • Altitude3,050 m

The forest around

24% 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 24%Grassland 76%Bare ground 0%Trees 24%Grassland 75%Moss and lichen 0%Bare ground 1%Trees 38%Shrubland 0%Grassland 61%Water 0%Bare ground 1%Trees 56%Shrubland 1%Grassland 41%Moss and lichen 0%Bare ground 2%24%trees · 3 km

Trees, ring by ring

  • 0–1 km24%
  • 1–3 km24%
  • 3–6 km38%
  • 6–10 km56%

What covers the land (1–3 km)

  • Trees24%
  • Shrubland0%
  • Grassland75%
  • Moss and lichen0%
  • Water0%
  • Bare ground1%

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

196 species recorded.

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

Labrador Indian paintbrush
Labrador Indian paintbrushCastilleja septentrionalis11 recordsChristopher Mattrick, White Mountain National Forest Botanist · Public domain
Rydberg's penstemon
Rydberg's penstemonPenstemon rydbergii11 recordsDcrjsr · CC BY 3.0
Smooth penstemon
Smooth penstemonPenstemon subglaber10 recordsAndrey Zharkikh from Salt Lake City, USA · CC BY 2.0
Spiny milkvetch
Spiny milkvetchAstragalus kentrophyta8 recordsJW Stockert · Public domain
White sagebrush
White sagebrushArtemisia ludoviciana7 recordsDidier Descouens · CC BY-SA 4.0
Richardson's geranium
Richardson's geraniumGeranium richardsonii6 recordsJohnIngraham · CC BY-SA 3.0
Timber milkvetch
Timber milkvetchAstragalus miser6 recordsMatt Lavin from Bozeman, Montana, USA · CC BY-SA 2.0
Nevada pea
Nevada peaLathyrus lanszwertii6 recordsUtahwildflowers at English Wikipedia · CC BY 3.0
Splitleaf Indian paintbrush
Splitleaf Indian paintbrushCastilleja rhexiifolia6 recordsJ Schmidt · Public domain
Yellow avalanche-lily
Yellow avalanche-lilyErythronium grandiflorum5 recordsWalter Siegmund · CC BY-SA 3.0
Towering Jacob's-ladder
Towering Jacob's-ladderPolemonium foliosissimum5 recordsJerryFriedman · CC BY-SA 3.0
Hairy clematis
Hairy clematisClematis hirsutissima5 recordsJW Stockert · Public domain

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

In numbers

The forest, measured.

57out of 100

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

  • 24%Treesof the land within 3 km
  • 100%Wildno towns or farmland within 10 km
  • 196Speciesrecorded more than once within 5 km
  • 3,050 mAltitudeabove the sea

When to walk

Best for walking in September.

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

  1. Jan-2°-13°34 mm
  2. Feb-1°-12°30 mm
  3. Mar5°-7°34 mm
  4. Apr9°-4°37 mm
  5. May16°1°32 mm
  6. Jun23°6°18 mm
  7. Jul27°12°23 mm
  8. Aug25°10°28 mm
  9. Sep20°5°33 mm
  10. Oct12°-2°34 mm
  11. Nov4°-7°29 mm
  12. Dec-2°-13°43 mm
  • Bar: walking comfort; the number on top is the average maximum.
  • Below: average minimum (NASA, 1991–2020).
  • Rain: monthly total.

The place

Manti–La Sal National Forest.

National forest in Utah and Colorado, United States

Manti–La Sal National Forest is a national forest in United States, 3,050 m above the sea.

Seen from space, 24% of the land within 3 km is trees, and 100% of the land within 10 km has no towns or farmland.

196 species have been recorded around it: 100 plants, 0 fungi, 82 birds and 14 mammals.

The most recorded plants are: Labrador Indian paintbrush, Rydberg's penstemon and Smooth penstemon.

The best time to walk is in September.

20170521-FS-Manti-La Sal NF-ET5A9740 (34214947714)
Intermountain Region US Forest Service · 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.

Manti–La Sal 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

  • 1marked trails within 5 kmGreat Western Trail - Utah
  • 14campsites within 10 kmSite 1 - Group Site, Site 3 - Group Site, Lake Hill Campground and 11 more
  • 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 Manti–La Sal 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.

Peakyas52 mountains within 25 km
Cove Mountain9.5 kmBald Mountain10 kmBurnt Hill10 kmBirch Spring Point15 kmBlack Hill15 kmBlack Mountain16 kmTemple Hill17 kmBlock Mountain24 km
Lakeyas1 lakes within 15 km
Joes Valley Reservoir3.9 km² · 12 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.

2017-05-21-FS-Dark Canyon Stars and Tent-Manti La Sal NF-01ET5A9556 (34903542261)
Intermountain Region US Forest Service · Public domain

Other forests nearby.

Manti–La Sal National Forest

United States

  • 57Forestyas Score
  • 24%Trees
  • 100%Wild
  • 196Species

Fishlake National Forest

United States · 79 km

  • 63Forestyas Score
  • 45%Trees
  • 98%Wild
  • 78Species

See the guide

Dixie National Forest

United States · 142 km

  • 83Forestyas Score
  • 93%Trees
  • 100%Wild
  • 110Species

See the guide

Ashley National Forest

United States · 149 km

  • 42Forestyas Score
  • 12%Trees
  • 94%Wild
  • 33Species

See the guide

Where these figures come from

Name and typeWikidata (Q456015) · CC0
Land coverESA WorldCover 10 m 2021 v200 · © ESA WorldCover project / Copernicus Sentinel data · CC BY 4.0
Species3,095 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.

The family

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