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Sequoia National Forest

Sheltonclan · CC BY-SA 4.0

52% trees around it and 163 species recorded.

69Forestyas Score

ForestNational forestWildMountain forest

  • trees within 3 km52%
  • wild within 10 km100%
  • species recorded163
  • Altitude1,634 m

The forest around

52% 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 38%Shrubland 3%Grassland 60%Trees 54%Shrubland 2%Grassland 43%Bare ground 1%Trees 65%Shrubland 4%Grassland 31%Bare ground 1%Trees 73%Shrubland 5%Grassland 21%Bare ground 2%52%trees · 3 km

Trees, ring by ring

  • 0–1 km38%
  • 1–3 km54%
  • 3–6 km65%
  • 6–10 km73%

What covers the land (1–3 km)

  • Trees54%
  • Shrubland2%
  • Grassland43%
  • Bare ground1%

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

163 species recorded.

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

Hosackia oblongifolia
Hosackia oblongifoliaHosackia oblongifolia9 recordsMerrie Freed · Public domain
Post Oak
Post OakQuercus garryana7 recordsDavid Stanley from Nanaimo, Canada · CC BY 2.0
Woollypod milkweed
Woollypod milkweedAsclepias eriocarpa7 recordsAnthony Valois · Public domain
Mat Lupine
Mat LupineLupinus breweri6 recordstomhilton · CC BY 2.0
Kellogg oak
Kellogg oakQuercus kelloggii5 recordsPatrick Cox · CC BY 4.0
Goosefoot yellow violet
Goosefoot yellow violetViola pinetorum5 recordstomhilton · CC BY 2.0
California Incense-cedar
California Incense-cedarCalocedrus decurrens4 recordsThe original uploader was Geographer at English Wikipedia . · CC BY 1.0
Canyon live oak
Canyon live oakQuercus chrysolepis4 recordsDoug Beckers on Flickr · CC BY-SA 2.0
Grand collomia
Grand collomiaCollomia grandiflora4 recordsKeith Edkins · CC BY 2.5
Harlequin annual lupine
Harlequin annual lupineLupinus stiversii4 recordsVelo Steve · CC BY-SA 2.0
Chaparral whitethorn
Chaparral whitethornCeanothus leucodermis4 recordsAnthony Valois and the National Park Service · Public domain
Anderson's lupineLupinus andersonii8 records

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).

  • 52%Treesof the land within 3 km
  • 100%Wildno towns or farmland within 10 km
  • 163Speciesrecorded more than once within 5 km
  • 1,634 mAltitudeabove the sea

When to walk

Best for walking in April and in November.

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

  1. Jan13°1°49 mm
  2. Feb13°1°44 mm
  3. Mar16°3°42 mm
  4. Apr18°5°29 mm
  5. May24°9°13 mm
  6. Jun30°14°2 mm
  7. Jul34°18°2 mm
  8. Aug32°17°2 mm
  9. Sep30°14°2 mm
  10. Oct23°9°13 mm
  11. Nov17°4°27 mm
  12. Dec12°1°57 mm
  • Bar: walking comfort; the number on top is the average maximum.
  • Below: average minimum (NASA, 1991–2020).
  • Rain: monthly total.

The place

Sequoia National Forest.

National forest in the U.S. state of California

Sequoia National Forest is a national forest in United States, 1,634 m above the sea.

Seen from space, 52% of the land within 3 km is trees, and 100% of the land within 10 km has no towns or farmland.

163 species have been recorded around it: 59 plants, 1 fungi, 99 birds and 4 mammals.

The most recorded plants are: Hosackia oblongifolia, Post Oak and Woollypod milkweed.

The best time to walk is in April and in November.

BuckRockFireLookoutSequoiaNationalForest
Sheltonclan · CC BY-SA 4.0

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.

Sequoia 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 kmPeppermint Creek Falls
  • 1car parks within 3 km
  • 6campsites within 10 kmDispersed camping area 5, Lower Peppermint Campground, Upper Peppermint Dispersed Area and 3 more
  • 1places to stay within 10 kmQuiet Mind Lodge Retreat & Spa Sequoias
  • 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
  • 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 Sequoia 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.

Peakyas42 mountains within 25 km
Sentinel Peak1,872 m · 3.4 kmThe Needles2,517 m · 7.9 kmSherman Peak3,021 m · 11 kmSirretta Peak3,042 m · 20 kmBaker Peak20 kmBaker Point21 kmBull Run Peak24 kmWhite Mountain2,662 m · 24 km
Cascadyas1 waterfalls within 15 km
Nobe Young Falls5.4 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.

Grizzly Falls, Sequoia National Forest
Pbjamesphoto · CC BY-SA 4.0
Gothic Arch aka Alta Twin Sequoia Trees (distance) in Sequoia National Park (July 2023)
Marty Aligata · CC BY-SA 4.0
Tree fire protection at the Sequoia National Forest
Pacific Southwest Forest Service, USDA · Public domain

Other forests nearby.

Sequoia National Forest

United States

  • 69Forestyas Score
  • 52%Trees
  • 100%Wild
  • 163Species

President

United States · 62 km

  • 82Forestyas Score
  • 95%Trees
  • 100%Wild
  • 219Species

See the guide

General Sherman

United States · 64 km

  • 82Forestyas Score
  • 94%Trees
  • 100%Wild
  • 190Species

See the guide

General Grant

United States · 89 km

  • 82Forestyas Score
  • 92%Trees
  • 100%Wild
  • 191Species

See the guide

Where these figures come from

Name and typeWikidata (Q3079145) · CC0
Land coverESA WorldCover 10 m 2021 v200 · © ESA WorldCover project / Copernicus Sentinel data · CC BY 4.0
Species1,633 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, Cascadyas

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

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