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Pine Barrens

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91% trees around it and 390 species recorded.

83Forestyas Score

ForestDense canopyFungiBirds

  • trees within 3 km91%
  • wild within 10 km94%
  • species recorded390

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 94%Grassland 4%Water 1%Trees 90%Grassland 5%Wetland 0%Water 1%Cropland 2%Built-up 1%Trees 88%Grassland 7%Wetland 0%Water 1%Cropland 4%Built-up 0%Trees 84%Grassland 9%Wetland 0%Water 0%Cropland 6%Built-up 1%91%trees · 3 km

Trees, ring by ring

  • 0–1 km94%
  • 1–3 km90%
  • 3–6 km88%
  • 6–10 km84%

What covers the land (1–3 km)

  • Trees90%
  • Grassland5%
  • Wetland0%
  • Water1%
  • Cropland2%
  • 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

390 species recorded.

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

Spoonleaf sundew
Spoonleaf sundewDrosera intermedia12 recordsNo machine-readable author provided. NoahElhardt assumed (based on copyright claims). · CC BY-SA 2.5
American white waterlily
American white waterlilyNymphaea odorata10 recordsIvanTortuga · CC BY-SA 3.0
Coastal sweetpepperbush
Coastal sweetpepperbushClethra alnifolia10 recordsSten Porse · CC BY-SA 3.0
White Cypress
White CypressChamaecyparis thyoides9 recordsRobert H. Mohlenbrock @ USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / USDA NRCS. 1995. Northeast wetland flo · Public domain
New Jersey muhly
New Jersey muhlyMuhlenbergia torreyana9 recordsBritton, N.L., and A. Brown. 1913. An illustrated flora of the northern United States, Can · Public domain
Mountain-laurel
Mountain-laurelKalmia latifolia9 recordsQwert1234 · CC BY-SA 3.0
Wand goldenrod
Wand goldenrodSolidago stricta9 recordsSusan Fenimore Cooper · Public domain
Cranberry
CranberryVaccinium macrocarpon8 recordsPhoto by Keith Weller · Public domain
Green arrow arum
Green arrow arumPeltandra virginica8 recordsMiguel Andrade · Public domain
Sheep laurel
Sheep laurelKalmia angustifolia7 recordsA. Barra · CC BY 3.0
White beak-sedge
White beak-sedgeRhynchospora alba6 recordsElke Freese · CC BY-SA 3.0
Eastern teaberryGaultheria procumbens11 records

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

In numbers

The forest, measured.

83out 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
  • 94%Wildno towns or farmland within 10 km
  • 390Speciesrecorded more than once within 5 km

When to walk

Best for walking in October.

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

  1. Jan3°-5°78 mm
  2. Feb5°-5°78 mm
  3. Mar10°-1°100 mm
  4. Apr17°5°97 mm
  5. May22°11°96 mm
  6. Jun27°16°121 mm
  7. Jul30°19°124 mm
  8. Aug29°19°121 mm
  9. Sep26°15°102 mm
  10. Oct19°8°110 mm
  11. Nov12°2°90 mm
  12. Dec6°-2°111 mm
  • Bar: walking comfort; the number on top is the average maximum.
  • Below: average minimum (NASA, 1991–2020).
  • Rain: monthly total.

The place

Pine Barrens.

Coastal pine barrens in southern New Jersey, United States

Pine Barrens is a forest in United States.

Seen from space, 91% of the land within 3 km is trees, and 94% of the land within 10 km has no towns or farmland.

390 species have been recorded around it: 170 plants, 78 fungi, 142 birds and 0 mammals.

The most recorded plants are: Spoonleaf sundew, American white waterlily and Coastal sweetpepperbush.

The best time to walk is in October.

Batsto River
Unknown author · 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.

Pine Barrens 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

  • 5marked trails within 5 kmMullica River Trail (yellow), Atsion Lake Red Trail, Atsion Lake Blue Trail and 2 more
  • 4car parks within 3 km
  • 7campsites within 10 kmAtsion Family Campground, Goshen Pond Campground, Lower Forge Campground and 4 more
  • 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
  • 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 Pine Barrens.

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.

Peakyas3 mountains within 25 km
Stone Mountain13 kmApple Pie Hill62 m · 15 kmPine Hill22 km
Lakeyas2 lakes within 15 km
Lake Atsion0.3 km² · 1.8 kmUpper Marlton Lake0.2 km² · 14 km
Riveryasthe river nearby
Batsto River

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

Photographs

The forest, as people saw it.

2013-05-10 11 04 57 A dense Atlantic White Cedar swamp along the Mount Misery Trail in Brendan T Byrne State Forest in New Jersey
Famartin · CC BY-SA 3.0
2014-08-29 11 34 32 The fire tower on top of Apple Pie Hill in Wharton State Forest, Tabernacle Township, New Jersey
Famartin · CC BY-SA 4.0
Central Jersey Rain I
ScifoRobert · CC BY-SA 4.0

Other forests nearby.

Pine Barrens

United States

  • 83Forestyas Score
  • 91%Trees
  • 94%Wild
  • 390Species

Drew University

United States · 116 km

  • 75Forestyas Score
  • 74%Trees
  • 89%Wild
  • 146Species

See the guide

New York Botanical Garden

United States · 144 km

  • 48Forestyas Score
  • 25%Trees
  • 57%Wild
  • 1,671Species

See the guide

Brooklyn Botanic Garden

United States · 122 km

  • 38Forestyas Score
  • 16%Trees
  • 38%Wild
  • 806Species

See the guide

Where these figures come from

Name and typeWikidata (Q2095497) · CC0
Land coverESA WorldCover 10 m 2021 v200 · © ESA WorldCover project / Copernicus Sentinel data · CC BY 4.0
Species11,261 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, Riveryas

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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