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Monongahela National Forest

Valerius Tygart · CC BY-SA 3.0

100% trees around it and 115 species recorded.

84Forestyas Score

ForestNational forestDense canopyWildMountain forest

  • trees within 3 km100%
  • wild within 10 km100%
  • species recorded115
  • Altitude1,198 m

The forest around

100% 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 100%Grassland 0%Trees 100%Trees 94%Grassland 6%Trees 96%Grassland 4%100%trees · 3 km

Trees, ring by ring

  • 0–1 km100%
  • 1–3 km100%
  • 3–6 km94%
  • 6–10 km96%

What covers the land (1–3 km)

  • Trees100%
  • Grassland0%

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

115 species recorded.

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

American Beech
American BeechFagus grandifolia2 recordsBruce Marlin · CC BY-SA 2.5
Mountain-laurel
Mountain-laurelKalmia latifolia2 recordsQwert1234 · CC BY-SA 3.0
American witchhazel
American witchhazelHamamelis virginiana2 recordsFranz Eugen Köhler, Köhler's Medizinal-Pflanzen · Public domain
Zigzag goldenrod
Zigzag goldenrodSolidago flexicaulis2 recordsUnknown author · Public domain
Sitolobium punctilobulumSitobolium punctilobulum2 records
Chamaenerion dodonaeiChamaenerion dodonaei2 records
American mountain-ashSorbus americana2 records
Bird cherryPrunus pensylvanica2 records

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

In numbers

The forest, measured.

84out of 100

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

  • 100%Treesof the land within 3 km
  • 100%Wildno towns or farmland within 10 km
  • 115Speciesrecorded more than once within 5 km
  • 1,198 mAltitudeabove the sea

When to walk

Best for walking in May.

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

  1. Jan1°-8°81 mm
  2. Feb3°-7°83 mm
  3. Mar8°-2°92 mm
  4. Apr15°3°110 mm
  5. May19°9°126 mm
  6. Jun23°13°116 mm
  7. Jul25°15°126 mm
  8. Aug25°14°91 mm
  9. Sep23°11°91 mm
  10. Oct16°5°94 mm
  11. Nov9°-1°81 mm
  12. Dec3°-5°97 mm
  • Bar: walking comfort; the number on top is the average maximum.
  • Below: average minimum (NASA, 1991–2020).
  • Rain: monthly total.

The place

Monongahela National Forest.

National forest in West Virginia, United States

Monongahela National Forest is a national forest in United States, 1,198 m above the sea.

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

115 species have been recorded around it: 8 plants, 0 fungi, 100 birds and 7 mammals.

The most recorded plants are: American Beech, Mountain-laurel and American witchhazel.

The best time to walk is in May.

MonNatForest
Valerius Tygart · CC BY-SA 3.0

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.

Monongahela 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

  • 1viewpoints within 5 kmOverlook
  • 3car parks within 3 km
  • 2campsites within 10 kmEast Fork Campground & Horse Hotel, Stonecoal Dispersed Camping
  • marked trails within 5 km
  • named and notable trees within 6 km
  • picnic sites within 4 km
  • shelters and huts within 6 km
  • visitor centres within 6 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 Monongahela 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.

Peakyas49 mountains within 25 km
Burner Mountain7.6 kmBarton Knob7.6 kmWhite Top1,245 m · 7.8 kmGaudineer Knob7.9 kmRich Knob11 kmBald Knob1,476 m · 12 kmAllegheny Mountain1,365 m · 19 kmThorny Flat1,478 m · 20 km
Darkskyas1 dark-sky places within 30 km
Green Bank ObservatoryBortle 3 · 14 km
Riveryasthe river nearby
Shavers Fork143 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.

Monongahela National Forest - Entrance Gate
Brian M. Powell (user Bitmapped on en.wikipedia ) · CC BY-SA 3.0
Monongahela National Forest - Middle Mountain Cabins
Brian M. Powell (user Bitmapped on en.wikipedia ) · CC BY-SA 3.0
BlackwaterCanyon
Valerius Tygart · Public domain

Other forests nearby.

Monongahela National Forest

United States

  • 84Forestyas Score
  • 100%Trees
  • 100%Wild
  • 115Species

George Washington and Jefferson National Forests

United States · 78 km

  • 58Forestyas Score
  • 46%Trees
  • 77%Wild
  • 183Species

See the guide

Wayne National Forest

United States · 228 km

  • 84Forestyas Score
  • 87%Trees
  • 99%Wild
  • 136Species

See the guide

Uwharrie National Forest

United States · 347 km

  • 86Forestyas Score
  • 90%Trees
  • 99%Wild
  • 212Species

See the guide

Where these figures come from

Name and typeWikidata (Q513450) · CC0
Land coverESA WorldCover 10 m 2021 v200 · © ESA WorldCover project / Copernicus Sentinel data · CC BY 4.0
Species1,720 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, Riveryas

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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