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Muskau Park

Kora27 · CC BY-SA 4.0

66% trees around it and 473 species recorded.

82Forestyas Score

ProtectedFungiWorld Heritage

  • trees within 3 km66%
  • wild within 10 km88%
  • species recorded473
  • Altitude114 m

The forest around

66% 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 53%Grassland 24%Water 2%Cropland 4%Built-up 17%Trees 68%Grassland 13%Water 0%Cropland 14%Built-up 5%Trees 70%Grassland 16%Water 1%Cropland 11%Built-up 2%Trees 71%Grassland 16%Wetland 0%Water 1%Bare ground 0%Cropland 8%Built-up 3%66%trees · 3 km

Trees, ring by ring

  • 0–1 km53%
  • 1–3 km68%
  • 3–6 km70%
  • 6–10 km71%

What covers the land (1–3 km)

  • Trees68%
  • Grassland13%
  • Water0%
  • Cropland14%
  • Built-up5%

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

473 species recorded.

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

European Beech
European BeechFagus sylvatica39 recordsMalene Thyssen · CC BY-SA 3.0
Dogwood
DogwoodCornus mas18 recordsB.navez · CC BY-SA 3.0
Baldcypress
BaldcypressTaxodium distichum17 recordsUnknown author · Public domain
Rhododendron luteum
Rhododendron luteumRhododendron luteum16 recordsZeynel Cebeci · CC BY-SA 4.0
Whortleberry
WhortleberryVaccinium myrtillus13 recordsUnknown author · CC BY-SA 3.0
American bird cherry
American bird cherryPrunus serotina13 recordsUnknown author · CC BY-SA 3.0
Bishop's goutweed
Bishop's goutweedAegopodium podagraria12 recordsBeko · CC BY-SA 4.0
Greater Celandine
Greater CelandineChelidonium majus12 recordsUnknown author · CC BY-SA 3.0
Blue-eyed-Mary
Blue-eyed-MaryOmphalodes verna10 recordsAfanasovich · CC BY 4.0
Spindle tree
Spindle treeEuonymus europaeus10 recordsAnRo0002 · CC0
Dark Mullein
Dark MulleinVerbascum nigrum10 recordsUnknown author · CC BY-SA 2.0
Tansy
TansyTanacetum vulgare9 recordsIvar Leidus · 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.

82out of 100

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

  • 66%Treesof the land within 3 km
  • 88%Wildno towns or farmland within 10 km
  • 473Speciesrecorded more than once within 5 km
  • 114 mAltitudeabove the sea

When to walk

Best for walking in May and in September.

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

  1. Jan1°-4°56 mm
  2. Feb3°-4°39 mm
  3. Mar8°-1°46 mm
  4. Apr15°4°34 mm
  5. May20°9°59 mm
  6. Jun24°13°66 mm
  7. Jul26°15°86 mm
  8. Aug25°15°72 mm
  9. Sep20°10°54 mm
  10. Oct14°5°51 mm
  11. Nov8°1°50 mm
  12. Dec3°-2°48 mm
  • Bar: walking comfort; the number on top is the average maximum.
  • Below: average minimum (NASA, 1991–2020).
  • Rain: monthly total.

The place

Muskau Park.

Landscape park in the Upper Lusatia region of Germany and Poland

Muskau Park is a protected forest in Poland.

Seen from space, 66% of the land within 3 km is trees, and 88% of the land within 10 km has no towns or farmland.

473 species have been recorded around it: 333 plants, 59 fungi, 76 birds and 5 mammals.

The most recorded plants are: European Beech, Dogwood and Baldcypress.

The best time to walk is in May and in September.

Das neue Schloss im Fürst- Pückler-Park...2H1A1207WI
Kora27 · CC BY-SA 4.0

Get there and walk

  • Official informationAccess, hours and rules from those who manage the place.Official site
  • Stellplatz Heidewegcampsite · 1.6 km · 12 within 10 km
  • Kulturhotel Fürst Pücklerplace to stay · 0.2 km · 30 within 10 km
  • Bad Muskaunearest town · 0.8 km in a straight line
  • Dresden Airport (DRS)nearest airport with scheduled flights · 81 km in a straight lineCar hire at DRS airport (Dresden)Discover Cars · sponsored link

Plan the visit

A guided walk, a bed nearby, a car.

Car hire at DRS airport (Dresden)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.

Muskau Park 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

  • 12marked trails within 5 kmTöpferweg, Am Drachenberg, Rund um Weißwasser and 9 more
  • 6named and notable trees within 6 kmDąb Klementyny - Clementineneiche, Herthaeiche - Dąb Herty, Georgeiche - Dąb Georga and 3 more
  • 37picnic sites within 4 kmRastplatz and 36 more
  • 76shelters and huts within 6 km
  • 35viewpoints within 5 kmOś widokowa na jaz, Neue Laube, Milka and 32 more
  • 5visitor centres within 6 kmTourismuszentrum Muskauer Park, Touristinformation, Punkt Informacji Turystycznej and 2 more
  • 56car parks within 3 km
  • 12campsites within 10 kmStellplatz Heideweg, Lena CamperPark, Camping Family Bronowice and 9 more
  • 30places to stay within 10 kmKulturhotel Fürst Pückler, Parkstübel, Zimmervermietung Hubatsch and 27 more
  • 17restaurants 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 Muskau Park.

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.

Peakyas22 mountains within 25 km
Katzenberge7.7 kmJungfernberg12 kmHoher Berg184 m · 12 kmHorlitza-Berg13 kmBrandberg175 m · 13 kmZigeunerberg14 kmEichberg20 kmGeorgenberg139 m · 24 km
Lakeyas1 lakes within 15 km
Halbendorfer See0.8 km² · 10 km
Viewyas2 viewpoints within 15 kmComing soon
Gloriette0.4 kmFelixsee Observation Tower14 km
Birdyas3 birding sites within 25 km
Zschornoer Heide8.0 kmMuskauer und Neustädter Heide14 kmTeichgebiete Niederspree-Hammerstadt20 km
Riveryasthe river nearby
Lusatian Nysa254 km · 30 m³/s

Figures from the sister sites' databases (Wikidata, HydroATLAS, GeoNames, OpenStreetMap). Links open when each site is online.

Photographs

The forest, as people saw it.

Fürst-Pückler-Park in Bad Muskau 74
Dr. Bernd Gross · CC BY-SA 3.0
Park Muzakowski1
No machine-readable author provided. Akumiszcza assumed (based on copyright claims). · CC BY 3.0
Park Muzakowski3
No machine-readable author provided. Akumiszcza assumed (based on copyright claims). · CC BY 3.0

Other forests nearby.

Muskau Park

Poland

  • 82Forestyas Score
  • 66%Trees
  • 88%Wild
  • 473Species

Lower Silesian Wilderness

Poland · 34 km

  • 80Forestyas Score
  • 94%Trees
  • 99%Wild
  • 119Species

See the guide

Muskau Heath

Germany · 11 km

  • 72Forestyas Score
  • 77%Trees
  • 92%Wild
  • 84Species

See the guide

Dresden Heath

Germany · 79 km

  • 73Forestyas Score
  • 96%Trees
  • 64%Wild
  • 830Species

See the guide

Where these figures come from

Name and typeWikidata (Q156308) · CC0
Land coverESA WorldCover 10 m 2021 v200 · © ESA WorldCover project / Copernicus Sentinel data · CC BY 4.0
Species3,518 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, Viewyas, Birdyas, Riveryas

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

The family

Do you prefer beaches, lakes, mountains, waterfalls, islands, rivers, canyons, caves, dark skies, viewpoints, birdwatching or forests?

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
birdwatchingBirdyasEvery bird sanctuary and wetland with the species recorded month by month: who is resident, who comes for the summer, who only passes through.Visit
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