United Kingdom forest
Rothiemurchus Forest
User ML5 · Public domain
The forest around
56% 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, ring by ring
- 0–1 km63%
- 1–3 km55%
- 3–6 km48%
- 6–10 km32%
What covers the land (1–3 km)
- Trees55%
- Grassland36%
- Water2%
- Cropland3%
- Built-up3%
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
1,529 species recorded.
The plants, fungi, birds and mammals people have recorded here most often.
Open records within 5 km (GBIF, licensed for any use). Busy places are better recorded than remote ones.
In numbers
The forest, measured.
Our own rating, from open data only: tree cover (40 points), wildness (20), species recorded (30) and protection or heritage (10).
- 56%Treesof the land within 3 km
- 99%Wildno towns or farmland within 10 km
- 1,529Speciesrecorded more than once within 5 km
- 219 mAltitudeabove the sea
When to walk
Best for walking in July.
How good each month is for a walk: mild days and little rain make the bar taller.
- Jan-2°120 mm
- Feb-2°98 mm
- Mar-1°95 mm
- Apr1°85 mm
- May3°102 mm
- Jun6°122 mm
- Jul8°134 mm
- Aug8°147 mm
- Sep6°105 mm
- Oct4°137 mm
- Nov1°123 mm
- Dec-1°112 mm
- Bar: walking comfort; the number on top is the average maximum.
- Below: average minimum (NASA, 1991–2020).
- Rain: monthly total.
The place
Rothiemurchus Forest.
Forest and remnant of the Caledonian Forest in Highland (council area), Scotland
Rothiemurchus Forest is a forest in United Kingdom, 219 m above the sea.
Seen from space, 56% of the land within 3 km is trees, and 99% of the land within 10 km has no towns or farmland.
1,529 species have been recorded around it: 624 plants, 711 fungi, 165 birds and 29 mammals.
The most recorded plants are: Whortleberry, Common Juniper and Cowberry.
The best time to walk is in July.
Get there and walk
- Rothiemurchus Camp and Caravancampsite · 1.2 km · 6 within 10 km
- Sweeney 2place to stay · 2.3 km · 93 within 10 km
- Aviemorenearest town · 2.4 km in a straight line
- Inverness Airport (INV)nearest airport with scheduled flights · 43 km in a straight lineCar hire at INV airport (Inverness)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.
Around, in OpenStreetMap
- 7marked trails within 5 kmSpeyside Way, East Highland Way, Aviemore Orbital and 4 more
- 11picnic sites within 4 km
- 5shelters and huts within 6 kmInshriach ("Drake's") Bothy and 4 more
- 1viewpoints within 5 km
- 1visitor centres within 6 kmLoch An Eilein Visitor Centre
- 58car parks within 3 km
- 6campsites within 10 kmRothiemurchus Camp and Caravan, High Range Holiday Complex, Oakwood Caravan & Camping Park and 3 more
- 93places to stay within 10 kmSweeney 2, Eriskay B&B, Strathspey House and 90 more
- 19restaurants and cafés within 3 km
- named and notable trees 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
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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.
Peakyas147 mountains within 25 km
Lakeyas9 lakes within 15 km
Darkskyas5 dark-sky places within 30 km
Viewyas1 viewpoints within 15 kmComing soon
Birdyas2 birding sites within 25 km
Cascadyas1 waterfalls within 15 kmFigures from the sister sites' databases (Wikidata, HydroATLAS, GeoNames, OpenStreetMap). Links open when each site is online.
Photographs
The forest, as people saw it.
Other forests nearby.
Rothiemurchus Forest
United Kingdom
- 76Forestyas Score
- 56%Trees
- 99%Wild
- 1,529Species
Queen Elizabeth Forest Park
United Kingdom · 120 km
- 87Forestyas Score
- 90%Trees
- 100%Wild
- 709Species
Where these figures come from
| Name and type | Wikidata (Q2356147) · CC0 |
|---|---|
| Land cover | ESA WorldCover 10 m 2021 v200 · © ESA WorldCover project / Copernicus Sentinel data · CC BY 4.0 |
| Species | 48,565 open records within 5 km (GBIF, CC0 and CC BY 4.0 only) |
| See these records | gbif.org |
| Names and photos | Wikidata (CC0); GBIF Backbone Taxonomy · CC BY 4.0; Wikimedia Commons |
| Altitude | Copernicus DEM GLO-30 · © DLR e.V., © Airbus Defence and Space GmbH, Copernicus/ESA |
| Temperature and rain | NASA POWER (CERES SYN1deg, 2001–2020; MERRA-2) |
| What is around | © OpenStreetMap contributors · ODbL |
| Images | EOX Sentinel-2 cloudless 2016 · CC BY 4.0; Wikimedia Commons |
| Sister atlases | Peakyas, Islandyas, Lakeyas, Darkskyas, Viewyas, Birdyas, Cascadyas, Riveryas |
Every figure is an average, an estimate or a count from a public dataset. Licences and methods: data sources.
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