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Pioneer Cabin Tree

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96% trees around it and 256 species recorded.

83Forestyas Score

Notable treeDense canopyWildMountain forestBirds

  • trees within 3 km96%
  • wild within 10 km100%
  • species recorded256
  • Altitude1,471 m

The forest around

96% 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 97%Grassland 3%Trees 95%Grassland 5%Trees 94%Grassland 6%Water 0%Built-up 0%Trees 94%Grassland 6%96%trees · 3 km

Trees, ring by ring

  • 0–1 km97%
  • 1–3 km95%
  • 3–6 km94%
  • 6–10 km94%

What covers the land (1–3 km)

  • Trees95%
  • Grassland5%

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

256 species recorded.

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

Giant Sequoia
Giant SequoiaSequoiadendron giganteum119 recordsMike Murphy ( talk · contribs ) · CC BY-SA 3.0
Western red baneberry
Western red baneberryActaea rubra38 recordsKurt Stüber [1] · CC BY-SA 3.0
California Incense-cedar
California Incense-cedarCalocedrus decurrens27 recordsThe original uploader was Geographer at English Wikipedia . · CC BY 1.0
American trailplant
American trailplantAdenocaulon bicolor23 recordsUnknown author Unknown author · Public domain
Sugar Pine
Sugar PinePinus lambertiana23 recordsMitch from Costa Mesa, CA, USA · CC BY-SA 2.0
Pine violet
Pine violetViola lobata23 recordsWalter Siegmund · CC BY-SA 3.0
Kellogg oak
Kellogg oakQuercus kelloggii22 recordsPatrick Cox · CC BY 4.0
Lysimachia latifolia
Lysimachia latifoliaLysimachia latifolia21 recordsbrewbooks · CC BY-SA 2.0
Beaked hazelnut
Beaked hazelnutCorylus cornuta17 recordsUnknown author · Public domain
White Fir
White FirAbies concolor14 recordsPuncsos · CC BY-SA 3.0
California false hellebore
California false helleboreVeratrum californicum14 recordsJerryFriedman · CC BY-SA 3.0
Wild strawberry
Wild strawberryFragaria vesca13 recordsJörg Hempel · CC BY-SA 3.0 de

Open records within 2 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).

  • 96%Treesof the land within 3 km
  • 100%Wildno towns or farmland within 10 km
  • 256Speciesrecorded more than once within 2 km
  • 1,471 mAltitudeabove the sea

When to walk

Best for walking from May to June and from September to October.

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

  1. Jan4°-6°104 mm
  2. Feb4°-6°108 mm
  3. Mar7°-4°104 mm
  4. Apr10°-2°62 mm
  5. May16°2°40 mm
  6. Jun23°7°12 mm
  7. Jul28°11°10 mm
  8. Aug27°10°7 mm
  9. Sep23°7°9 mm
  10. Oct16°2°41 mm
  11. Nov9°-3°72 mm
  12. Dec3°-6°132 mm
  • Bar: walking comfort; the number on top is the average maximum.
  • Below: average minimum (NASA, 1991–2020).
  • Rain: monthly total.

The place

Pioneer Cabin Tree.

Historical giant sequoia tunnel tree in Calaveras Big Trees State Park, California

Pioneer Cabin Tree is a notable tree in United States, 1,471 m above the sea.

Seen from space, 96% of the land within 3 km is trees, and 100% of the land within 10 km has no towns or farmland.

256 species have been recorded around it: 77 plants, 26 fungi, 147 birds and 6 mammals.

The most recorded plants are: Giant Sequoia, Western red baneberry and California Incense-cedar.

The best time to walk is from May to June and from September to October.

CalaverasTreeTunnel1
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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.

Pioneer Cabin Tree 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

  • 6marked trails within 5 kmArnold Rim Trail, Logging Museum Trail, North Grove Trail and 3 more
  • 3named and notable trees within 6 kmPalace Hotel Tree, Kansas Group, Agassiz Tree
  • 4picnic sites within 4 kmOak Leaf and 3 more
  • 1viewpoints within 5 km
  • 1visitor centres within 6 kmCalaveras Big Trees State Park Visitor Center
  • 10car parks within 3 km
  • 10campsites within 10 kmSugar Pine Environmental Camp, Stanislaus View, Lone Snag and 7 more
  • 7places to stay within 10 kmDorrington Hotel, The Dorrington Hotel, Bear's Lair and 4 more
  • 1restaurants and cafés within 3 km
  • shelters and huts within 6 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 Pioneer Cabin Tree.

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.

Peakyas23 mountains within 25 km
Doud Hill8.1 kmBlue Mountain8.8 kmCone Hill11 kmBuck Mountain12 kmDarby Knob14 kmCrandall Peak19 kmDevils Nose23 kmBald Mountain25 km
Cavernyas1 caves within 20 km
California Caverns20 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.

Calaveras Big Trees State Park Erlend Haddeland
Erlend Haddeland · CC BY-SA 4.0
Pioneer's Cabin, Mariposa Grove, Cal, by E. & H.T. Anthony (Firm)
E. & H.T. Anthony (Firm) -- Photographer · Public domain
Pioneer's Cabin, near view, diameter 32 ft. Mammoth Grove, Calaveras County, by Lawrence & Houseworth 3
Lawrence & Houseworth -- Publisher · Public domain

Other forests nearby.

Pioneer Cabin Tree

United States

  • 83Forestyas Score
  • 96%Trees
  • 100%Wild
  • 256Species

Stanislaus National Forest

United States · 27 km

  • 84Forestyas Score
  • 98%Trees
  • 100%Wild
  • 139Species

See the guide

Eldorado National Forest

United States · 52 km

  • 84Forestyas Score
  • 96%Trees
  • 100%Wild
  • 134Species

See the guide

Mariposa Grove

United States · 105 km

  • 90Forestyas Score
  • 99%Trees
  • 100%Wild
  • 353Species

See the guide

Where these figures come from

Name and typeWikidata (Q28164976) · CC0
Land coverESA WorldCover 10 m 2021 v200 · © ESA WorldCover project / Copernicus Sentinel data · CC BY 4.0
Species20,305 open records within 2 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, Cavernyas

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

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