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Six Rivers National Forest

Clinton Steeds · CC BY 2.0

100% trees around it and 100 species recorded.

83Forestyas Score

ForestNational forestDense canopyWild

  • trees within 3 km100%
  • wild within 10 km100%
  • species recorded100
  • Altitude590 m

The forest around

100% 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 100%Bare ground 0%Trees 98%Grassland 2%Trees 100%Grassland 0%100%trees · 3 km

Trees, ring by ring

  • 0–1 km100%
  • 1–3 km100%
  • 3–6 km98%
  • 6–10 km100%

What covers the land (1–3 km)

  • Trees100%
  • Grassland0%

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

100 species recorded.

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

Lawson's CypressNT
Lawson's CypressChamaecyparis lawsoniana5 recordsJami Dwyer from Portland, OR, USA · CC BY-SA 2.0
Pseudotrillium rivaleVU
Pseudotrillium rivalePseudotrillium rivale4 recordsEric in SF · CC BY-SA 3.0
Common whipplea
Common whippleaWhipplea modesta4 recordsWalter Siegmund · CC BY-SA 3.0
Common Juniper
Common JuniperJuniperus communis3 recordsIvar Leidus · CC BY-SA 4.0
Slender cinquefoil
Slender cinquefoilPotentilla gracilis3 recordsStan Shebs · CC BY-SA 3.0
California butterwort
California butterwortPinguicula macroceras3 recordsBill Bouton from San Luis Obispo, CA, USA · CC BY-SA 2.0
California pitcherplant
California pitcherplantDarlingtonia californica3 recordsIan Poellet · CC BY-SA 4.0
California Incense-cedar
California Incense-cedarCalocedrus decurrens2 recordsThe original uploader was Geographer at English Wikipedia . · CC BY 1.0
Pacific trillium
Pacific trilliumTrillium ovatum2 recordsWalter Siegmund · CC BY-SA 3.0
American vetch
American vetchVicia americana2 recordsWalter Siegmund · CC BY-SA 3.0
Wild strawberry
Wild strawberryFragaria vesca2 recordsJörg Hempel · CC BY-SA 3.0 de
Arctic sweet coltsfoot
Arctic sweet coltsfootPetasites frigidus2 recordsWalter Siegmund · CC BY 2.5

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

In numbers

The forest, measured.

83out of 100

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

  • 100%Treesof the land within 3 km
  • 100%Wildno towns or farmland within 10 km
  • 100Speciesrecorded more than once within 5 km
  • 590 mAltitudeabove the sea

When to walk

Best for walking from May to June and in October.

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

  1. Jan9°2°207 mm
  2. Feb9°1°170 mm
  3. Mar10°2°192 mm
  4. Apr12°3°107 mm
  5. May17°6°54 mm
  6. Jun22°9°25 mm
  7. Jul28°12°5 mm
  8. Aug27°12°5 mm
  9. Sep24°10°26 mm
  10. Oct18°7°94 mm
  11. Nov12°3°173 mm
  12. Dec8°1°285 mm
  • Bar: walking comfort; the number on top is the average maximum.
  • Below: average minimum (NASA, 1991–2020).
  • Rain: monthly total.

The place

Six Rivers National Forest.

National forest in California, US

Six Rivers National Forest is a national forest in United States, 590 m above the sea.

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

100 species have been recorded around it: 25 plants, 5 fungi, 69 birds and 1 mammals.

The most recorded plants are: Lawson's Cypress, Pseudotrillium rivale and Common whipplea.

The best time to walk is from May to June and in October.

Smith River near Crescent City, CA
Clinton Steeds · CC BY 2.0

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.

Six Rivers 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

  • 4campsites within 10 kmBig Flat Campground, Buck Creek Camp, Elkhorn Bar Camp and 1 more
  • marked trails within 5 km
  • named and notable trees within 6 km
  • picnic sites within 4 km
  • shelters and huts within 6 km
  • viewpoints within 5 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 Six Rivers 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.

Peakyas55 mountains within 25 km
Bald Hill15 kmChilds Hill15 kmBear Mountain1,955 m · 16 kmPeak Eight1,581 m · 20 kmPreston Peak2,229 m · 23 kmHowland Hill24 kmRound Knob24 kmHowland Summit25 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.

Doing post fire survey damage to private waterlines that were damaged and destroyed from the Smith River Fire Complex (20230921-FS-PS-001)
Forest Service Photography · Public domain
DroneUASFirefighting-SixRivers-AA-03 (52358266356)
Region 5 Photography · Public domain
McCash Fire and Klamath River August 25 2021
Geoff Liesik · Public domain

Other forests nearby.

Six Rivers National Forest

United States

  • 83Forestyas Score
  • 100%Trees
  • 100%Wild
  • 100Species

Klamath National Forest

United States · 49 km

  • 81Forestyas Score
  • 89%Trees
  • 100%Wild
  • 57Species

See the guide

Hyperion

United States · 60 km

  • 80Forestyas Score
  • 100%Trees
  • 100%Wild
  • 120Species

See the guide

Rogue River–Siskiyou National Forest

United States · 38 km

  • 72Forestyas Score
  • 85%Trees
  • 100%Wild
  • 6Species

See the guide

Where these figures come from

Name and typeWikidata (Q3079149) · CC0
Land coverESA WorldCover 10 m 2021 v200 · © ESA WorldCover project / Copernicus Sentinel data · CC BY 4.0
Species721 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

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

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