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Mount Baker-Snoqualmie National Forest

Lhb1239 · CC BY-SA 3.0

91% trees around it and 174 species recorded.

85Forestyas Score

ForestNational forestDense canopyWildFungi

  • trees within 3 km91%
  • wild within 10 km100%
  • species recorded174
  • Altitude894 m

The forest around

91% 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 94%Grassland 6%Trees 90%Grassland 7%Moss and lichen 2%Bare ground 1%Trees 92%Grassland 6%Moss and lichen 1%Water 1%Bare ground 1%Trees 94%Grassland 5%Moss and lichen 0%Water 0%Bare ground 0%91%trees · 3 km

Trees, ring by ring

  • 0–1 km94%
  • 1–3 km90%
  • 3–6 km92%
  • 6–10 km94%

What covers the land (1–3 km)

  • Trees90%
  • Grassland7%
  • Moss and lichen2%
  • 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

174 species recorded.

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

British Columbia wildginger
British Columbia wildgingerAsarum caudatum13 recordsWalter Siegmund · CC BY 2.5
Pioneer violet
Pioneer violetViola glabella8 recordsStan Shebs · CC BY-SA 3.0
Pacific trillium
Pacific trilliumTrillium ovatum5 recordsWalter Siegmund · CC BY-SA 3.0
Deerfoot
DeerfootAchlys triphylla5 recordsborn1945 from Hillsboro, Oregon, USA · CC BY 2.0
Western Redcedar
Western RedcedarThuja plicata3 recordsabdallahh from Montréal, Canada · CC BY 2.0
Starry false lily of the valley
Starry false lily of the valleyMaianthemum stellatum3 recordsWalter Siegmund · CC BY 2.5
Western columbine
Western columbineAquilegia formosa3 recordsWalter Siegmund · CC BY-SA 3.0
Devilsclub
DevilsclubOplopanax horridus3 recordsWalter Siegmund · CC BY 2.5
Vine Maple
Vine MapleAcer circinatum3 recordsTony Perodeau · CC BY-SA 3.0
Licorice fern
Licorice fernPolypodium glycyrrhiza3 recordsJ Brew · CC BY-SA 2.0
Cow Parsley
Cow ParsleyAnthriscus sylvestris3 recordsEpgrande · CC BY 4.0
Beech Fern
Beech FernPhegopteris connectilis2 recordsde:Benutzer:Griensteidl · CC BY-SA 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.

85out of 100

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

  • 91%Treesof the land within 3 km
  • 100%Wildno towns or farmland within 10 km
  • 174Speciesrecorded more than once within 5 km
  • 894 mAltitudeabove the sea

When to walk

Best for walking in July.

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

  1. Jan0°-6°267 mm
  2. Feb0°-6°174 mm
  3. Mar2°-4°215 mm
  4. Apr6°-2°136 mm
  5. May12°3°103 mm
  6. Jun15°6°80 mm
  7. Jul19°9°33 mm
  8. Aug20°9°42 mm
  9. Sep16°6°86 mm
  10. Oct9°1°197 mm
  11. Nov3°-3°284 mm
  12. Dec-1°-6°256 mm
  • Bar: walking comfort; the number on top is the average maximum.
  • Below: average minimum (NASA, 1991–2020).
  • Rain: monthly total.

The place

Mount Baker-Snoqualmie National Forest.

Protected area in the United States

Mount Baker-Snoqualmie National Forest is a national forest in United States, 894 m above the sea.

Seen from space, 91% of the land within 3 km is trees, and 100% of the land within 10 km has no towns or farmland.

174 species have been recorded around it: 26 plants, 73 fungi, 74 birds and 1 mammals.

The most recorded plants are: British Columbia wildginger, Pioneer violet and Pacific trillium.

The best time to walk is in July.

Mount Baker from Baker Lake
Lhb1239 · 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.

Mount Baker-Snoqualmie 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

  • 4marked trails within 5 kmBarclay Lake Trail, Baring Mountain Trail, Eagle Lake Fisherman's Trail and 1 more
  • 2viewpoints within 5 km
  • 1car parks within 3 km
  • 9campsites within 10 kmStone Lake Camping Area, Barclay Lake Backcountry Sites, Eagle Lake Camping Area and 6 more
  • 4places to stay within 10 kmCascadia Inn, Onemish Lodge, Baring Bend Lodge and 1 more
  • named and notable trees within 6 km
  • picnic sites within 4 km
  • shelters and huts within 6 km
  • visitor centres within 6 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 Mount Baker-Snoqualmie 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.

Peakyas92 mountains within 25 km
Baring Mountain1,867 m · 4.6 kmGunn Peak1,903 m · 7.6 kmColumbia Peak2,186 m · 22 kmThunder Mountain1,998 m · 22 kmWilmans Peaks2,098 m · 23 kmMonte Cristo Peak2,175 m · 23 kmMac Peak2,091 m · 24 kmCadet Peak2,190 m · 24 km
Viewyas1 viewpoints within 15 kmComing soon
Evergreen Mountain Lookout5,577 m · 12 km
Cascadyas8 waterfalls within 15 km
Eagle Falls11 kmCanyon Falls12 kmSunset Falls14 kmKanim Falls14 kmBear Creek Falls14 kmBridal Veil Falls14 kmMonkey Cage Falls15 kmDeception Falls15 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.

Skagit River 8667s
Walter Siegmund · CC BY-SA 3.0
Alpine Trees, Clouds and Snow above Necklace Valley, Mt Baker Snoqualmie National Forest (31270479244)
U.S. Forest Service- Pacific Northwest Region · Public domain
Bridge over Carbon River
Trougnouf · CC BY 4.0

Other forests nearby.

Mount Baker-Snoqualmie National Forest

United States

  • 85Forestyas Score
  • 91%Trees
  • 100%Wild
  • 174Species

Wenatchee National Forest

United States · 46 km

  • 86Forestyas Score
  • 90%Trees
  • 100%Wild
  • 196Species

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Olympic National Forest

United States · 126 km

  • 86Forestyas Score
  • 96%Trees
  • 100%Wild
  • 237Species

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Okanogan National Forest

United States · 136 km

  • 79Forestyas Score
  • 78%Trees
  • 100%Wild
  • 80Species

See the guide

Where these figures come from

Name and typeWikidata (Q3079176) · CC0
Land coverESA WorldCover 10 m 2021 v200 · © ESA WorldCover project / Copernicus Sentinel data · CC BY 4.0
Species1,748 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, Viewyas, 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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Same idea, other landscapes: field atlases built on open data, in seven languages.

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viewpointsViewyasEvery viewpoint with its real 360° panorama: the peaks you can name, how far you see and where the sun sets.Coming soonVisit
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