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Østmarka

Kjetil Ree · CC BY-SA 3.0

91% trees around it and 1,402 species recorded.

86Forestyas Score

ForestDense canopyFungiBirdsWildlife

  • trees within 3 km91%
  • wild within 10 km90%
  • species recorded1,402
  • Altitude258 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 90%Grassland 1%Wetland 1%Water 8%Trees 91%Grassland 1%Water 8%Trees 90%Grassland 2%Water 6%Cropland 2%Built-up 1%Trees 74%Grassland 4%Water 7%Bare ground 0%Cropland 4%Built-up 11%91%trees · 3 km

Trees, ring by ring

  • 0–1 km90%
  • 1–3 km91%
  • 3–6 km90%
  • 6–10 km74%

What covers the land (1–3 km)

  • Trees91%
  • Grassland1%
  • Wetland0%
  • Water8%
  • Cropland0%
  • Built-up0%

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

1,402 species recorded.

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

Hepatica
HepaticaHepatica nobilis328 recordsUnknown author · CC BY-SA 3.0
Norway Spruce
Norway SprucePicea abies247 recordsIvar Leidus · CC BY-SA 3.0 ee
Queen of the meadow
Queen of the meadowFilipendula ulmaria238 recordsUnknown author · Public domain
Whortleberry
WhortleberryVaccinium myrtillus226 recordsUnknown author · CC BY-SA 3.0
Rowan
RowanSorbus aucuparia225 recordsGiallopolenta · Public domain
Cowberry
CowberryVaccinium vitis-idaea223 recordsBartosz Cuber · CC BY-SA 3.0
Beech Fern
Beech FernPhegopteris connectilis211 recordsde:Benutzer:Griensteidl · CC BY-SA 3.0
Calamagrostis arundinacea
Calamagrostis arundinaceaCalamagrostis arundinacea210 recordsJames K. Lindsey · CC BY-SA 3.0
Buckbean
BuckbeanMenyanthes trifoliata209 recordsDidier Descouens · CC BY-SA 4.0
European Alder
European AlderAlnus glutinosa207 recordsAEngelhardt · CC BY-SA 3.0
Goldenrod
GoldenrodSolidago virgaurea206 recordsVictor M. Vicente Selvas · CC BY-SA 4.0
Common dog-violet
Common dog-violetViola riviniana205 recordsCarl Axel Magnus Lindman · Public domain

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

In numbers

The forest, measured.

86out 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
  • 90%Wildno towns or farmland within 10 km
  • 1,402Speciesrecorded more than once within 5 km
  • 258 mAltitudeabove the sea

When to walk

Best for walking from June to August.

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

  1. Jan-3°-8°80 mm
  2. Feb-2°-8°62 mm
  3. Mar2°-5°57 mm
  4. Apr9°0°62 mm
  5. May14°5°93 mm
  6. Jun18°10°94 mm
  7. Jul20°12°112 mm
  8. Aug19°11°125 mm
  9. Sep15°7°96 mm
  10. Oct8°2°106 mm
  11. Nov2°-2°98 mm
  12. Dec-2°-7°81 mm
  • Bar: walking comfort; the number on top is the average maximum.
  • Below: average minimum (NASA, 1991–2020).
  • Rain: monthly total.

The place

Østmarka.

Forested area near Oslo, Norway

Østmarka is a forest in Norway, 258 m above the sea.

Seen from space, 91% of the land within 3 km is trees, and 90% of the land within 10 km has no towns or farmland.

1,402 species have been recorded around it: 520 plants, 720 fungi, 142 birds and 20 mammals.

The most recorded plants are: Hepatica, Norway Spruce and Queen of the meadow.

The best time to walk is from June to August.

Svartoren Østmarka 18. juni 2022
Kjetil Ree · 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.

Østmarka 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

  • 38marked trails within 5 kmFlyktningeruta, Blåstier i Østmarka, Losbyrunden, lille and 35 more
  • 10picnic sites within 4 km
  • 20shelters and huts within 6 kmØvresaga, Røyrivannskoia, Bøvelstad and 17 more
  • 9viewpoints within 5 kmTronfjellet and 8 more
  • 2campsites within 10 km
  • 18places to stay within 10 kmLosby Gods, Sørmarka kurs- og konferansesenter, Sagstua fritidshytte and 15 more
  • 1restaurants and cafés within 3 km
  • named and notable trees within 6 km
  • visitor centres within 6 km
  • car parks 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 Østmarka.

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.

Peakyas818 mountains within 25 km
Haugerkollen356 m · 4.4 kmBarlindåsen398 m · 6.8 kmBarlinderåsen400 m · 6.8 kmHaukåsen358 m · 7.0 kmRamstadslottet394 m · 7.1 kmVardåsen374 m · 10 kmPrekestolen411 m · 22 kmFoksen299 m · 24 km
Lakeyas27 lakes within 15 km
Sør-Elvåga1.5 km² · 4.2 kmNøklevann0.8 km² · 5.7 kmLutvann0.4 km² · 8.6 kmØstensjøvannet0.3 km² · 8.9 kmØyeren70 km² · 12 kmGjersjøen2.6 km² · 12 kmAlungsjøen0.4 km² · 14 kmNærevann0.7 km² · 14 km
Darkskyas1 dark-sky places within 30 km
Oslo ObservatoryBortle 9 · 15 km
Birdyas1 birding sites within 25 km
Øyeren279 species · 11 km
Cascadyas7 waterfalls within 15 km
Svanefoss2.4 kmDånnåfossen7.2 kmSøstufossen8.4 kmKvennhusfossen8.5 kmLeirfossen12 kmNedre Foss14 kmBjølsenfossen15 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.

Østmarka
Sondrekv · Public domain
Dølerud i Østmarka (15. august 2020)
Kjetil Ree · CC BY-SA 3.0
Tømmerfrakt i Østmarka
Jan-Tore Egge · CC BY-SA 4.0

Other forests nearby.

Østmarka

Norway

  • 86Forestyas Score
  • 91%Trees
  • 90%Wild
  • 1,402Species

Lillomarka

Norway · 17 km

  • 82Forestyas Score
  • 90%Trees
  • 80%Wild
  • 2,126Species

See the guide

Vestmarka

Norway · 33 km

  • 85Forestyas Score
  • 91%Trees
  • 87%Wild
  • 1,941Species

See the guide

Krokskogen

Norway · 39 km

  • 84Forestyas Score
  • 78%Trees
  • 99%Wild
  • 650Species

See the guide

Where these figures come from

Name and typeWikidata (Q6515617) · CC0
Land coverESA WorldCover 10 m 2021 v200 · © ESA WorldCover project / Copernicus Sentinel data · CC BY 4.0
Species49,600 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, Darkskyas, Birdyas, 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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