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Romincka Forest

Rimantas Lazdynas · CC BY-SA 3.0

98% trees around it and 12 species recorded.

  • trees within 3 km98%
  • wild within 10 km96%
  • species recorded12
  • Altitude180 m

The forest around

98% 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 99%Grassland 1%Trees 98%Grassland 2%Water 0%Trees 97%Grassland 2%Water 1%Trees 73%Grassland 20%Wetland 0%Water 1%Bare ground 0%Cropland 6%Built-up 0%98%trees · 3 km

Trees, ring by ring

  • 0–1 km99%
  • 1–3 km98%
  • 3–6 km97%
  • 6–10 km73%

What covers the land (1–3 km)

  • Trees98%
  • Grassland2%
  • Wetland0%
  • Water0%
  • Cropland0%

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

12 species recorded.

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

Spring vetchling
Spring vetchlingLathyrus vernus4 recordsPrazak · CC BY-SA 3.0
Alternate-leaf golden saxifrage
Alternate-leaf golden saxifrageChrysosplenium alternifolium4 recordsEpgrande · CC BY 4.0
Glyceria lithuanica
Glyceria lithuanicaGlyceria lithuanica3 recordsValerii Glazunov · CC BY 4.0
Giant Knotweed
Giant KnotweedReynoutria sachalinensis2 recordsVelocicaptor at en.wikipedia · Public domain
Hepatica
HepaticaHepatica nobilis2 recordsUnknown author · CC BY-SA 3.0
Mezereon
MezereonDaphne mezereum2 recordsIvar Leidus · CC BY-SA 4.0

Open records within 5 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).

  • 98%Treesof the land within 3 km
  • 96%Wildno towns or farmland within 10 km
  • 12Speciesrecorded more than once within 5 km
  • 180 mAltitudeabove the sea

When to walk

Best for walking in May and in September.

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

  1. Jan-2°-8°56 mm
  2. Feb-1°-7°43 mm
  3. Mar5°-4°44 mm
  4. Apr12°1°40 mm
  5. May18°7°65 mm
  6. Jun21°11°80 mm
  7. Jul23°14°95 mm
  8. Aug23°13°85 mm
  9. Sep18°8°59 mm
  10. Oct11°3°66 mm
  11. Nov5°0°57 mm
  12. Dec0°-4°55 mm
  • Bar: walking comfort; the number on top is the average maximum.
  • Below: average minimum (NASA, 1991–2020).
  • Rain: monthly total.

The place

Romincka Forest.

Russian Poland forest

Romincka Forest is a forest in Russia.

Seen from space, 98% of the land within 3 km is trees, and 96% of the land within 10 km has no towns or farmland.

12 species have been recorded around it: 6 plants, 0 fungi, 6 birds and 0 mammals.

The most recorded plants are: Spring vetchling, Alternate-leaf golden saxifrage and Glyceria lithuanica.

The best time to walk is in May and in September.

Romintosgiria2
Rimantas Lazdynas · CC BY-SA 3.0

Get there and walk

  • Турбаза "Мариново"campsite · 5.3 km · 1 within 10 km
  • Лесная поляна (Саша и Наташа)place to stay · 7.4 km · 12 within 10 km
  • Gołdapnearest town · 16 km in a straight line
  • Kaunas International Airport (KUN)nearest airport with scheduled flights · 120 km in a straight lineCar hire at KUN airport (Kaunas)Discover Cars · sponsored link

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.

Romincka 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

  • 4marked trails within 5 kmEuropean long distance path E11 - part Poland, Szlak Mazur Garbatych, Puszcza Romincka and 1 more
  • 20named and notable trees within 6 km
  • 1picnic sites within 4 km
  • 4shelters and huts within 6 km
  • 1viewpoints within 5 km
  • 1campsites within 10 kmТурбаза "Мариново"
  • 12places to stay within 10 kmЛесная поляна (Саша и Наташа), Усадьба Заеца, Усадьба Титова and 9 more
  • 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 Romincka 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.

Peakyas13 mountains within 25 km
Gora Dozor231 m · 5.9 kmGora Krepkaya6.2 kmGora Krutaya14 kmGora Ploskaya17 kmTatarska Góra308 m · 22 kmSzeska Góra309 m · 24 kmGora Zelënaya24 kmGora Podlesnaya25 km
Lakeyas8 lakes within 15 km
Marinovo0.4 km² · 5.0 kmJezioro Czarne1.5 km² · 9.1 kmJezioro Przerośl0.6 km² · 11 kmOzero Kamyshovoye0.2 km² · 12 kmGołdap1.9 km² · 13 kmBoczne Lake0.4 km² · 14 kmKościelne Lake0.4 km² · 14 kmVištytis17 km² · 15 km
Darkskyas1 dark-sky places within 30 km
VištytisBortle 2 · 15 km
Viewyas1 viewpoints within 15 kmComing soon
Observation tower in Stańczyki12 km
Riveryasthe river nearby
Krasnaya River83 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.

20230807 Rominter Heide - Moorlandschaft
Matthias Bethke · CC BY-SA 4.0
10 09 08 Warnen 215
Günter Räder · CC BY-SA 3.0
10 09 08 Warnen 230
Günter Räder · CC BY-SA 3.0

Other forests nearby.

Romincka Forest

Russia

  • 70Forestyas Score
  • 98%Trees
  • 96%Wild
  • 12Species

Puszcza Borecka

Poland · 39 km

  • 77Forestyas Score
  • 97%Trees
  • 90%Wild
  • 138Species

See the guide

Augustów Primeval Forest

Belarus · 76 km

  • 79Forestyas Score
  • 90%Trees
  • 99%Wild
  • 93Species

See the guide

Puszcza Piska Forest

Poland · 105 km

  • 80Forestyas Score
  • 93%Trees
  • 99%Wild
  • 116Species

See the guide

Where these figures come from

Name and typeWikidata (Q1896968) · CC0
Land coverESA WorldCover 10 m 2021 v200 · © ESA WorldCover project / Copernicus Sentinel data · CC BY 4.0
Species79 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, Viewyas, Riveryas

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

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