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Ocala National Forest

Sandra Friend · Public domain

77% trees around it and 202 species recorded.

82Forestyas Score

ForestNational forestWildBirds

  • trees within 3 km77%
  • wild within 10 km100%
  • species recorded202

The forest around

77% 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 86%Grassland 9%Wetland 1%Water 4%Trees 76%Grassland 13%Wetland 3%Water 8%Built-up 1%Trees 79%Grassland 13%Wetland 1%Water 6%Built-up 1%Trees 88%Grassland 10%Wetland 0%Water 2%Built-up 0%77%trees · 3 km

Trees, ring by ring

  • 0–1 km86%
  • 1–3 km76%
  • 3–6 km79%
  • 6–10 km88%

What covers the land (1–3 km)

  • Trees76%
  • Grassland13%
  • Wetland3%
  • Water8%
  • Built-up1%

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

202 species recorded.

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

Alligatorweed
AlligatorweedAlternanthera philoxeroides77 recordsNational Plant Data Center, Baton Rouge, LA 70874-4490 USA. · Public domain
Water spangles
Water spanglesSalvinia minima58 recordsForest & Kim Starr · CC BY 3.0
Pontederia crassipes
Pontederia crassipesPontederia crassipes34 recordsDataBase Center for Life Science (DBCLS) · CC BY 4.0
Indian Stargrass
Indian StargrassHydrilla verticillata34 recordsUnknown author · Public domain
Water Lettuce
Water LettucePistia stratiotes24 recordsKurt Stüber [1] · CC BY-SA 3.0
Sand heath
Sand heathCeratiola ericoides3 recordsRiverbanks Outdoor Store from New Port Richey, FL, United States · CC BY 2.0
Scarletbush
ScarletbushHamelia patens3 recordsForest & Kim Starr · CC BY 3.0
Garberia
GarberiaGarberia heterophylla3 recordshomeredwardprice · CC BY 2.0
Watersprite
WaterspriteCeratopteris thalictroides2 recordsShow_ryu · CC BY-SA 3.0
Torpedo grass
Torpedo grassPanicum repens2 recordsForest & Kim Starr · CC BY 3.0
Elodea densa
Elodea densaElodea densa2 recordsKristian Peters -- Fabelfroh 15:13, 16 March 2006 (UTC) · CC BY-SA 3.0
Cyperus blepharoleptosCyperus blepharoleptos26 records

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).

  • 77%Treesof the land within 3 km
  • 100%Wildno towns or farmland within 10 km
  • 202Speciesrecorded more than once within 5 km

When to walk

Best for walking in January.

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

  1. Jan20°8°64 mm
  2. Feb22°10°65 mm
  3. Mar25°12°75 mm
  4. Apr28°16°58 mm
  5. May32°20°93 mm
  6. Jun32°23°196 mm
  7. Jul31°24°184 mm
  8. Aug31°24°190 mm
  9. Sep30°22°154 mm
  10. Oct28°18°70 mm
  11. Nov24°13°48 mm
  12. Dec22°10°61 mm
  • Bar: walking comfort; the number on top is the average maximum.
  • Below: average minimum (NASA, 1991–2020).
  • Rain: monthly total.

The place

Ocala National Forest.

Second largest National Forest in Florida

Ocala National Forest is a national forest in United States.

Seen from space, 77% of the land within 3 km is trees, and 100% of the land within 10 km has no towns or farmland.

202 species have been recorded around it: 17 plants, 25 fungi, 156 birds and 4 mammals.

The most recorded plants are: Alligatorweed, Water spangles and Pontederia crassipes.

The best time to walk is in January.

Farles Prairie, Ocala National Forest
Sandra Friend · 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.

Ocala 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

  • 1shelters and huts within 6 km
  • 2campsites within 10 kmLake Eaton
  • marked trails within 5 km
  • named and notable trees within 6 km
  • picnic sites within 4 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 Ocala 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.

Lakeyas7 lakes within 15 km
Halfmoon Lake1.2 km² · 2.6 kmLake Bryant2.9 km² · 4.7 kmLake Eaton0.9 km² · 10 kmLake Mary0.4 km² · 11 kmLake Pendarvis0.2 km² · 13 kmLake Fay0.2 km² · 14 kmParramore Prairie0.2 km² · 14 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.

FL SR 19 Bridge; NW Fog over Juniper Creek
DanTD · CC BY-SA 4.0
Hidden Pond Juniper Prairie Wilderness Ocala National Forest
Whoisjohngalt · CC BY-SA 4.0
20150615-FS-Ocala-SB-002 (19119853381)
US Forest Service - Southern Region · Public domain

Other forests nearby.

Ocala National Forest

United States

  • 82Forestyas Score
  • 77%Trees
  • 100%Wild
  • 202Species

Apalachicola National Forest

United States · 295 km

  • 85Forestyas Score
  • 94%Trees
  • 100%Wild
  • 172Species

See the guide

Where these figures come from

Name and typeWikidata (Q2013302) · CC0
Land coverESA WorldCover 10 m 2021 v200 · © ESA WorldCover project / Copernicus Sentinel data · CC BY 4.0
Species16,527 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 atlasesLakeyas

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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