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Ouachita National Forest

U.S. Forest Service · Public domain

100% trees around it and 66 species recorded.

81Forestyas Score

ForestNational forestDense canopyWild

  • trees within 3 km100%
  • wild within 10 km99%
  • species recorded66
  • Altitude396 m

The forest around

100% 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 100%Grassland 0%Trees 89%Grassland 11%Cropland 0%Trees 77%Grassland 21%Water 0%Cropland 0%Built-up 1%100%trees · 3 km

Trees, ring by ring

  • 0–1 km100%
  • 1–3 km100%
  • 3–6 km89%
  • 6–10 km77%

What covers the land (1–3 km)

  • Trees100%
  • Grassland0%
  • 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

66 species recorded.

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

American witchhazel
American witchhazelHamamelis virginiana4 recordsFranz Eugen Köhler, Köhler's Medizinal-Pflanzen · Public domain
False Indigo
False IndigoBaptisia alba3 recordsBlueCanoe · CC BY-SA 3.0
Nuttall's wild indigo
Nuttall's wild indigoBaptisia nuttalliana2 recordsEric Hunt · CC BY-SA 4.0
American columbo
American columboFrasera caroliniensis2 recordsMason Brock ( Masebrock ) · Public domain
Muscadine
MuscadineVitis rotundifolia2 recordsUnknown author · Public domain
Waterfall's sedgeCarex latebracteata5 records
Ouachita bluetHoustonia ouachitana3 records
Fuzzy phaceliaPhacelia hirsuta2 records
Round Wild IndigoBaptisia sphaerocarpa2 records

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

In numbers

The forest, measured.

81out of 100

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

  • 100%Treesof the land within 3 km
  • 99%Wildno towns or farmland within 10 km
  • 66Speciesrecorded more than once within 5 km
  • 396 mAltitudeabove the sea

When to walk

Best for walking from March to April and in November.

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

  1. Jan9°-2°84 mm
  2. Feb11°0°103 mm
  3. Mar16°5°129 mm
  4. Apr21°9°144 mm
  5. May25°14°165 mm
  6. Jun30°19°106 mm
  7. Jul33°21°106 mm
  8. Aug33°20°107 mm
  9. Sep29°16°106 mm
  10. Oct23°10°123 mm
  11. Nov16°4°101 mm
  12. Dec10°0°119 mm
  • Bar: walking comfort; the number on top is the average maximum.
  • Below: average minimum (NASA, 1991–2020).
  • Rain: monthly total.

The place

Ouachita National Forest.

US National Forest in Arkansas and Oklahoma

Ouachita National Forest is a national forest in United States, 396 m above the sea.

Seen from space, 100% of the land within 3 km is trees, and 99% of the land within 10 km has no towns or farmland.

66 species have been recorded around it: 9 plants, 0 fungi, 55 birds and 2 mammals.

The most recorded plants are: American witchhazel, False Indigo and Nuttall's wild indigo.

The best time to walk is from March to April and in November.

AR Ouachita National Forest
U.S. Forest Service · 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.

Ouachita 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

  • 1campsites within 10 km
  • 1places to stay within 10 kmSun Country Inn
  • 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
  • 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 Ouachita 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.

Peakyas44 mountains within 25 km
Baker Mountain5.3 kmRich Mountain764 m · 20 kmLittle Round Mountain20 kmCow Creek Mountain21 kmLittle Cow Mountain22 kmPolecat Peak22 kmWalnut Mountain22 kmRound Mountain22 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.

Ouachitanationalforestpicture
Aaron Walden · CC BY 2.5
Athens-Big Fork Trail 2
Fredlyfish4 · CC BY-SA 4.0
Blaylock Creek near West Trailhead, downstream
Brandonrush · CC0

Other forests nearby.

Ouachita National Forest

United States

  • 81Forestyas Score
  • 100%Trees
  • 99%Wild
  • 66Species

Ozark–St. Francis National Forest

United States · 89 km

  • 47Forestyas Score
  • 35%Trees
  • 74%Wild
  • 51Species

See the guide

Kisatchie National Forest

United States · 358 km

  • 81Forestyas Score
  • 98%Trees
  • 100%Wild
  • 68Species

See the guide

Sabine National Forest

United States · 353 km

  • 79Forestyas Score
  • 77%Trees
  • 100%Wild
  • 95Species

See the guide

Where these figures come from

Name and typeWikidata (Q3079109) · CC0
Land coverESA WorldCover 10 m 2021 v200 · © ESA WorldCover project / Copernicus Sentinel data · CC BY 4.0
Species1,036 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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