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Roosevelt National Forest

USFWS Mountain Prairie · Public domain

49% trees around it and 217 species recorded.

69Forestyas Score

ForestNational forestWildMountain forestBirds

  • trees within 3 km49%
  • wild within 10 km100%
  • species recorded217
  • Altitude2,303 m

The forest around

49% 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 16%Grassland 84%Trees 54%Grassland 46%Trees 64%Grassland 35%Bare ground 1%Trees 70%Grassland 26%Water 1%Bare ground 3%49%trees · 3 km

Trees, ring by ring

  • 0–1 km16%
  • 1–3 km54%
  • 3–6 km64%
  • 6–10 km70%

What covers the land (1–3 km)

  • Trees54%
  • Grassland46%
  • Water0%
  • Bare ground0%

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

217 species recorded.

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

Pulsatilla nuttalliana
Pulsatilla nuttallianaPulsatilla nuttalliana9 recordsMary Krieger, some rights reserved (CC BY) · CC BY 4.0
Delicious raspberry
Delicious raspberryRubus deliciosus8 recordsUlf Eliasson · CC BY 2.5
Chokecherry
ChokecherryPrunus virginiana7 recordsNadiatalent · Public domain
Snowball Pediocactus
Snowball PediocactusPediocactus simpsonii7 recordsRebou at German Wikipedia ( Original text: Rebou ) · Public domain
Cutleaf daisy
Cutleaf daisyErigeron compositus5 recordsMatt Lavin from Bozeman, Montana, USA · CC BY-SA 2.0
Front Range beardtongue
Front Range beardtonguePenstemon virens5 recordsDave Powell, USDA FS, bugwood.org · Public domain
Common starlily
Common starlilyLeucocrinum montanum4 recordsJpkole at English Wikipedia · Public domain
White prairie aster
White prairie asterSymphyotrichum falcatum4 recordsMatt Lavin from Bozeman, Montana, USA · CC BY-SA 2.0
Ponderosa Pine
Ponderosa PinePinus ponderosa4 recordsWalter Siegmund · CC BY 2.5
Scrambled eggs
Scrambled eggsCorydalis aurea4 recordsDavid H. Kinder · Public domain
Starry false lily of the valley
Starry false lily of the valleyMaianthemum stellatum3 recordsWalter Siegmund · CC BY 2.5
Snakeweed
SnakeweedBistorta bistortoides3 recordsWalter Siegmund · CC BY-SA 3.0

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

In numbers

The forest, measured.

69out of 100

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

  • 49%Treesof the land within 3 km
  • 100%Wildno towns or farmland within 10 km
  • 217Speciesrecorded more than once within 5 km
  • 2,303 mAltitudeabove the sea

When to walk

Best for walking in September.

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

  1. Jan-3°-12°34 mm
  2. Feb-2°-12°39 mm
  3. Mar3°-9°47 mm
  4. Apr8°-5°64 mm
  5. May14°-1°68 mm
  6. Jun22°5°44 mm
  7. Jul25°9°54 mm
  8. Aug23°8°44 mm
  9. Sep19°3°42 mm
  10. Oct10°-3°43 mm
  11. Nov3°-8°35 mm
  12. Dec-3°-12°37 mm
  • Bar: walking comfort; the number on top is the average maximum.
  • Below: average minimum (NASA, 1991–2020).
  • Rain: monthly total.

The place

Roosevelt National Forest.

National forest located in north central Colorado, United States

Roosevelt National Forest is a national forest in United States, 2,303 m above the sea.

Seen from space, 49% of the land within 3 km is trees, and 100% of the land within 10 km has no towns or farmland.

217 species have been recorded around it: 69 plants, 6 fungi, 136 birds and 6 mammals.

The most recorded plants are: Pulsatilla nuttalliana, Delicious raspberry and Chokecherry.

The best time to walk is in September.

Zimmerman-Cliffs (14710852037)
USFWS Mountain Prairie · 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.

Roosevelt 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

  • 1viewpoints within 5 km
  • 71campsites within 10 kmJacks Gulch Campground and 70 more
  • marked trails within 5 km
  • named and notable trees within 6 km
  • picnic sites within 4 km
  • shelters and huts within 6 km
  • visitor centres within 6 km
  • car parks within 3 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 Roosevelt 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.

Peakyas51 mountains within 25 km
Mount McConnel2,442 m · 11 kmSouth Bald Mountain3,356 m · 11 kmBoston Peak16 kmBear Mountain16 kmBlack Mountain19 kmBlacktail Point21 kmBuckhorn Mountain24 kmGreyrock Mountain2,321 m · 24 km
Darkskyas1 dark-sky places within 30 km
Poudre CanyonBortle 3 · 3.7 km
Canyonyas1 canyons within 20 km
Poudre Canyon1.3 km
Riveryasthe river nearby
Cache la Poudre River203 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.

Rawah Wilderness
refractor · CC BY 2.0
Big Thompson River
Wusel007 · CC BY-SA 3.0
Elkhorn Creek Trailhead - Arapaho and Roosevelt National Forests - Colorado (52949218212)
Tony Webster · CC BY 2.0

Other forests nearby.

Roosevelt National Forest

United States

  • 69Forestyas Score
  • 49%Trees
  • 100%Wild
  • 217Species

White River National Forest

United States · 170 km

  • 76Forestyas Score
  • 71%Trees
  • 98%Wild
  • 91Species

See the guide

Arapaho National Forest

United States · 125 km

  • 50Forestyas Score
  • 5%Trees
  • 100%Wild
  • 322Species

See the guide

Pike National Forest

United States · 171 km

  • 46Forestyas Score
  • 6%Trees
  • 100%Wild
  • 118Species

See the guide

Where these figures come from

Name and typeWikidata (Q7366477) · CC0
Land coverESA WorldCover 10 m 2021 v200 · © ESA WorldCover project / Copernicus Sentinel data · CC BY 4.0
Species5,647 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, Darkskyas, Canyonyas, 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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