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Rold Skov

Tommy Hansen · Public domain

80% trees around it and 329 species recorded.

70Forestyas Score

ForestArboretum

  • trees within 3 km80%
  • wild within 10 km62%
  • species recorded329
  • Altitude87 m

The forest around

80% 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 79%Grassland 14%Water 0%Cropland 7%Trees 81%Grassland 15%Water 0%Cropland 4%Built-up 0%Trees 46%Grassland 25%Water 1%Cropland 27%Built-up 2%Trees 22%Grassland 29%Water 1%Cropland 44%Built-up 3%80%trees · 3 km

Trees, ring by ring

  • 0–1 km79%
  • 1–3 km81%
  • 3–6 km46%
  • 6–10 km22%

What covers the land (1–3 km)

  • Trees81%
  • Grassland15%
  • Water0%
  • Cropland4%
  • 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

329 species recorded.

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

European Beech
European BeechFagus sylvatica289 recordsMalene Thyssen · CC BY-SA 3.0
Pedunculate Oak
Pedunculate OakQuercus robur245 recordsAlgirdas at Lithuanian Wikipedia · Public domain
Purple moor-grass
Purple moor-grassMolinia caerulea186 recordsElke Freese · CC BY-SA 3.0
Norway Spruce
Norway SprucePicea abies162 recordsIvar Leidus · CC BY-SA 3.0 ee
Tufted Hair-grass
Tufted Hair-grassDeschampsia cespitosa160 recordsChristian Fischer · CC BY-SA 3.0
Brown Birch
Brown BirchBetula pubescens155 recordsDirk Ingo Franke · CC BY-SA 2.0
Wood-sorrel
Wood-sorrelOxalis acetosella148 recordsJörg Hempel · CC BY-SA 3.0 de
Wavy hair-grass
Wavy hair-grassAvenella flexuosa131 recordsBotaurus · Public domain
Sitka Spruce
Sitka SprucePicea sitchensis122 recordsWalter Siegmund · CC BY-SA 3.0
Narrow buckler-fern
Narrow buckler-fernDryopteris carthusiana120 recordsFranz Xaver · CC BY-SA 3.0
Soft Rush
Soft RushJuncus effusus113 recordsThe original uploader was Meggar at English Wikipedia . · CC BY-SA 3.0
Raspberry
RaspberryRubus idaeus105 recordsmako from Kangasala, Suomi (Finland) · CC BY 2.0

Open records within 2 km (GBIF, licensed for any use). Busy places are better recorded than remote ones.

In numbers

The forest, measured.

70out of 100

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

  • 80%Treesof the land within 3 km
  • 62%Wildno towns or farmland within 10 km
  • 329Speciesrecorded more than once within 2 km
  • 87 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. Jan3°-1°74 mm
  2. Feb3°-1°55 mm
  3. Mar5°0°50 mm
  4. Apr10°4°47 mm
  5. May14°8°59 mm
  6. Jun18°11°80 mm
  7. Jul20°14°82 mm
  8. Aug20°14°87 mm
  9. Sep16°11°71 mm
  10. Oct12°7°90 mm
  11. Nov7°4°79 mm
  12. Dec4°1°74 mm
  • Bar: walking comfort; the number on top is the average maximum.
  • Below: average minimum (NASA, 1991–2020).
  • Rain: monthly total.

The place

Rold Skov.

Forest in Himmerland, Denmark

Rold Skov is an arboretum in Denmark.

Seen from space, 80% of the land within 3 km is trees, and 62% of the land within 10 km has no towns or farmland.

329 species have been recorded around it: 288 plants, 16 fungi, 16 birds and 9 mammals.

The most recorded plants are: European Beech, Pedunculate Oak and Purple moor-grass.

The best time to walk is from June to August.

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Tommy Hansen · 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.

Rold Skov 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

  • 7marked trails within 5 kmRebild Bakker Ruten, Gul, Lindenborg Å rundtur and 4 more
  • 3named and notable trees within 6 kmForstrådens Gran, Hvasstræet, Krems' Bøg
  • 30picnic sites within 4 km
  • 53shelters and huts within 6 km
  • 12viewpoints within 5 kmSkovtårnet, Sønderkol and 10 more
  • 2visitor centres within 6 kmRebildPorten, Rebild Turistbureau
  • 8car parks within 3 km
  • 13campsites within 10 kmUrskoven, Klodholm - Primitiv Teltplads, Safari Camping and 10 more
  • 7places to stay within 10 kmHundekroen, Rold StorKro, Danhostel Rebild and 4 more
  • 2restaurants 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 Rold Skov.

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.

Peakyas10 mountains within 25 km
Rold Bavnehøj114 m · 3.7 kmTinghøj12 kmFrendrup Nihøje17 kmStore Harebjerg18 kmRavnhøje21 kmLangager Høje21 kmRisbjerg23 kmLundby Bakker23 km
Islandyasthe island
North Jutlandic Island4,686 km²
Lakeyas2 lakes within 15 km
Store Økssø0.2 km² · 3.2 kmMadum Lake1.9 km² · 7.0 km
Birdyas1 birding sites within 25 km
Rold Skov130 species · this place

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

Photographs

The forest, as people saw it.

Rold Skov sildevejen 1
Sten · CC BY-SA 3.0
Rold Skov sildevejen 2
Sten · CC BY-SA 3.0
Primitiv overnatningsplads
Mikkel Houmøller · CC BY-SA 4.0

Other forests nearby.

Rold Skov

Denmark

  • 70Forestyas Score
  • 80%Trees
  • 62%Wild
  • 329Species

Silkeborg Forests

Denmark · 76 km

  • 73Forestyas Score
  • 66%Trees
  • 79%Wild
  • 1,445Species

See the guide

Marselisborg Forests

Denmark · 82 km

  • 56Forestyas Score
  • 34%Trees
  • 74%Wild
  • 1,735Species

See the guide

Hestehave Forest

Denmark · 69 km

  • 46Forestyas Score
  • 19%Trees
  • 72%Wild
  • 974Species

See the guide

Where these figures come from

Name and typeWikidata (Q2061221) · CC0
Land coverESA WorldCover 10 m 2021 v200 · © ESA WorldCover project / Copernicus Sentinel data · CC BY 4.0
Species6,844 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, Islandyas, Lakeyas, Birdyas

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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