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Mariposa Grove

Marty Aligata · CC BY-SA 4.0

99% trees around it and 353 species recorded.

90Forestyas Score

ForestDense canopyWildMountain forestBirdsWorld Heritage

  • trees within 3 km99%
  • wild within 10 km100%
  • species recorded353
  • Altitude1,912 m

The forest around

99% 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 99%Grassland 1%Trees 85%Grassland 14%Bare ground 1%Trees 89%Grassland 10%Bare ground 1%99%trees · 3 km

Trees, ring by ring

  • 0–1 km99%
  • 1–3 km99%
  • 3–6 km85%
  • 6–10 km89%

What covers the land (1–3 km)

  • Trees99%
  • Grassland1%
  • 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

353 species recorded.

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

Giant Sequoia
Giant SequoiaSequoiadendron giganteum548 recordsMike Murphy ( talk · contribs ) · CC BY-SA 3.0
Snowplant
SnowplantSarcodes sanguinea50 recordsMelinda · CC BY-SA 2.0
Mountain misery
Mountain miseryChamaebatia foliolosa35 recordsStan Shebs · CC BY-SA 3.0
Western azalea
Western azaleaRhododendron occidentale29 recordsEric Hunt · CC BY 2.5
California Incense-cedar
California Incense-cedarCalocedrus decurrens23 recordsThe original uploader was Geographer at English Wikipedia . · CC BY 1.0
White Fir
White FirAbies concolor21 recordsPuncsos · CC BY-SA 3.0
Hosackia crassifolia
Hosackia crassifoliaHosackia crassifolia16 recordsJustin Paulin · CC BY 4.0
Cardinal catchfly
Cardinal catchflySilene laciniata16 recordsStickpen · Public domain
Diplacus torreyi
Diplacus torreyiDiplacus torreyi16 recordsMerrie Freed · Public domain
Woodland pinedrops
Woodland pinedropsPterospora andromedea15 recordsWalter Siegmund · CC BY-SA 3.0
Harlequin annual lupine
Harlequin annual lupineLupinus stiversii14 recordsVelo Steve · CC BY-SA 2.0
Littleleaf ceanothus
Littleleaf ceanothusCeanothus parvifolius14 recordsDcrjsr · CC BY 3.0

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

In numbers

The forest, measured.

90out of 100

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

  • 99%Treesof the land within 3 km
  • 100%Wildno towns or farmland within 10 km
  • 353Speciesrecorded more than once within 5 km
  • 1,912 mAltitudeabove the sea

When to walk

Best for walking from May to June and from September to October.

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

  1. Jan4°-7°116 mm
  2. Feb4°-7°111 mm
  3. Mar6°-5°98 mm
  4. Apr10°-2°62 mm
  5. May16°2°35 mm
  6. Jun22°7°8 mm
  7. Jul27°11°8 mm
  8. Aug26°10°6 mm
  9. Sep22°6°6 mm
  10. Oct16°1°39 mm
  11. Nov9°-3°61 mm
  12. Dec3°-7°125 mm
  • Bar: walking comfort; the number on top is the average maximum.
  • Below: average minimum (NASA, 1991–2020).
  • Rain: monthly total.

The place

Mariposa Grove.

Place in California listed on National Register of Historic Places

Mariposa Grove is a forest in United States, 1,912 m above the sea.

Seen from space, 99% of the land within 3 km is trees, and 100% of the land within 10 km has no towns or farmland.

353 species have been recorded around it: 158 plants, 20 fungi, 164 birds and 11 mammals.

The most recorded plants are: Giant Sequoia, Snowplant and Mountain misery.

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

Faithful Couple Tree, Mariposa Grove, Yosemite National Park - June 2022
Marty Aligata · CC BY-SA 4.0

Get there and walk

Plan the visit

A guided walk, a bed nearby, a car.

Guided forest walks and tours near Mariposa GroveGetYourGuideSee prices Cabins and stays near Mariposa GroveBooking.comSee prices Car hire at FAT airport (Fresno)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.

Mariposa Grove 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

  • 8marked trails within 5 kmBig Trees Loop Trail, Grizzly Giant Loop Trail, Mariposa Grove Trail and 5 more
  • 9named and notable trees within 6 kmBachelor and Three Graces, Grizzly Giant, California Tunnel Tree and 6 more
  • 1picnic sites within 4 km
  • 1shelters and huts within 6 km
  • 8viewpoints within 5 kmLower Chilnualna Fall viewpoint, (View from the Bridge), Bachelor and Three Graces and 5 more
  • 2visitor centres within 6 kmWawona Campground Office, Wawona Visitor's Center
  • 9car parks within 3 km
  • 14campsites within 10 kmGoat Meadow Dispersed Campsite, Summerdale Campground, Camp Wawona and 11 more
  • 3places to stay within 10 kmTenaya Lodge at Yosemite, Wawona Hotel, Narrow Gauge Inn
  • 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 Mariposa Grove.

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.

Peakyas58 mountains within 25 km
Redtop3,039 m · 18 kmGale Peak3,258 m · 20 kmMadera Peak3,203 m · 20 kmMerced Peak3,567 m · 23 kmRed Peak3,566 m · 23 kmOttoway Peak3,501 m · 24 kmGray Peak3,528 m · 24 kmTriple Divide Peak3,541 m · 24 km
Darkskyas3 dark-sky places within 30 km
Tenaya CanyonBortle 3 · 26 kmHalf DomeBortle 2 · 27 kmIndian CanyonBortle 2 · 28 km
Viewyas2 viewpoints within 15 km
Wawona Point1.0 kmSignal Peak Lookout6,965 m · 12 km
Cascadyas3 waterfalls within 15 km
Chilnualna Fall212 m · 6.1 kmAlder Creek Falls10 kmCorlieu Falls11 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.

Bachelor and Three Graces Trees, Mariposa Grove, Yosemite National Park - June 2022
Marty Aligata · CC BY-SA 4.0
Mariposa Grove - panoramio
Dameon Hudson · CC BY 3.0
Mariposa Grove - upper grove panorama (natural colors)
File:Mariposa Grove - upper grove panorama.jpg : Guywelch2000 Recoloring: Hike395 · CC BY 4.0

Other forests nearby.

Mariposa Grove

United States

  • 90Forestyas Score
  • 99%Trees
  • 100%Wild
  • 353Species

Wawona Tree

United States · 1 km

  • 88Forestyas Score
  • 95%Trees
  • 100%Wild
  • 187Species

See the guide

Grizzly Giant

United States · 1 km

  • 88Forestyas Score
  • 98%Trees
  • 100%Wild
  • 190Species

See the guide

Sierra National Forest

United States · 40 km

  • 81Forestyas Score
  • 79%Trees
  • 100%Wild
  • 134Species

See the guide

Where these figures come from

Name and typeWikidata (Q2717697) · CC0
Land coverESA WorldCover 10 m 2021 v200 · © ESA WorldCover project / Copernicus Sentinel data · CC BY 4.0
Species49,676 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, Viewyas, Cascadyas

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

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