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Okanogan National Forest

Miguel Vieira · CC BY 2.0

78% trees around it and 80 species recorded.

79Forestyas Score

ForestNational forestWildMountain forest

  • trees within 3 km78%
  • wild within 10 km100%
  • species recorded80
  • Altitude1,326 m

The forest around

78% 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 60%Grassland 39%Moss and lichen 0%Bare ground 0%Trees 80%Grassland 20%Moss and lichen 0%Trees 76%Grassland 23%Moss and lichen 1%Bare ground 0%Trees 75%Grassland 22%Moss and lichen 3%Bare ground 0%78%trees · 3 km

Trees, ring by ring

  • 0–1 km60%
  • 1–3 km80%
  • 3–6 km76%
  • 6–10 km75%

What covers the land (1–3 km)

  • Trees80%
  • Grassland20%
  • Moss and lichen0%
  • 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

80 species recorded.

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

Scarlet gilia
Scarlet giliaIpomopsis aggregata3 recordsWalter Siegmund · CC BY-SA 3.0
Silky lupine
Silky lupineLupinus sericeus2 recordsUnknown author Unknown author · Public domain
Bigleaf lupine
Bigleaf lupineLupinus polyphyllus2 recordsJoe Mabel (on Flickr as Joe Mabel from Seattle, US) · CC BY-SA 3.0
Thickleaved Wild StrawberryFragaria virginiana2 records

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

In numbers

The forest, measured.

79out of 100

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

  • 78%Treesof the land within 3 km
  • 100%Wildno towns or farmland within 10 km
  • 80Speciesrecorded more than once within 5 km
  • 1,326 mAltitudeabove the sea

When to walk

Best for walking in June and in September.

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

  1. Jan-3°-10°80 mm
  2. Feb-1°-10°51 mm
  3. Mar2°-6°64 mm
  4. Apr8°-3°40 mm
  5. May15°3°49 mm
  6. Jun19°6°37 mm
  7. Jul24°10°16 mm
  8. Aug24°9°16 mm
  9. Sep18°5°25 mm
  10. Oct10°0°58 mm
  11. Nov1°-6°83 mm
  12. Dec-4°-11°93 mm
  • Bar: walking comfort; the number on top is the average maximum.
  • Below: average minimum (NASA, 1991–2020).
  • Rain: monthly total.

The place

Okanogan National Forest.

National forest of Washington State

Okanogan National Forest is a national forest in United States, 1,326 m above the sea.

Seen from space, 78% of the land within 3 km is trees, and 100% of the land within 10 km has no towns or farmland.

80 species have been recorded around it: 4 plants, 0 fungi, 75 birds and 1 mammals.

The most recorded plants are: Scarlet gilia, Silky lupine and Bigleaf lupine.

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

North Cascades at Okanogan National Forest
Miguel Vieira · CC BY 2.0

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.

Okanogan 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

  • 11campsites within 10 kmFalls Creek Campground, Upper Bobcat Campground, Bobcat Campground and 8 more
  • marked trails within 5 km
  • named and notable trees within 6 km
  • picnic sites within 4 km
  • shelters and huts within 6 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 Okanogan 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.

Peakyas62 mountains within 25 km
Primus Peak2,593 m · 5.4 kmKlawatti Peak2,586 m · 8.6 kmPearrygin Peak2,025 m · 12 kmBlue Buck Mountain1,895 m · 16 kmCoxit Mountain1,955 m · 18 kmThunder Mountain2,153 m · 19 kmGoat Peak2,134 m · 24 kmColeman Peak2,344 m · 25 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.

Blue Lake Trail at Okanogan National Forest
MiguelVieira at Flickr · CC BY 2.0
Clear Creek Falls Overlook 1
Z3lvs · CC0
Clear Creek Falls Overlook 2
Z3lvs · CC0

Other forests nearby.

Okanogan National Forest

United States

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

Wenatchee National Forest

United States · 112 km

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

See the guide

Mount Baker-Snoqualmie National Forest

United States · 136 km

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

See the guide

Colville National Forest

United States · 180 km

  • 86Forestyas Score
  • 100%Trees
  • 100%Wild
  • 193Species

See the guide

Where these figures come from

Name and typeWikidata (Q3079103) · CC0
Land coverESA WorldCover 10 m 2021 v200 · © ESA WorldCover project / Copernicus Sentinel data · CC BY 4.0
Species649 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

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

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