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Solska Wilderness

Elmutek · CC BY-SA 4.0

79% trees around it and 100 species recorded.

71Forestyas Score

Forest

  • trees within 3 km79%
  • wild within 10 km85%
  • species recorded100
  • Altitude249 m

The forest around

79% 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 37%Grassland 19%Wetland 0%Bare ground 0%Cropland 42%Built-up 2%Trees 85%Grassland 8%Wetland 0%Cropland 6%Built-up 1%Trees 82%Grassland 9%Cropland 8%Built-up 1%Trees 72%Grassland 10%Cropland 17%Built-up 1%79%trees · 3 km

Trees, ring by ring

  • 0–1 km37%
  • 1–3 km85%
  • 3–6 km82%
  • 6–10 km72%

What covers the land (1–3 km)

  • Trees85%
  • Grassland8%
  • Wetland0%
  • Bare ground0%
  • Cropland6%
  • Built-up1%

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.

Stiff clubmoss
Stiff clubmossLycopodium annotinum9 recordsBernd Haynold · CC BY 2.5
Hepatica
HepaticaHepatica nobilis6 recordsUnknown author · CC BY-SA 3.0
Wood Anemone
Wood AnemoneAnemone nemorosa5 recordsEpgrande · CC BY 4.0
Cypress Spurge
Cypress SpurgeEuphorbia cyparissias5 recordsKrzysztof Golik · CC BY-SA 4.0
May lily
May lilyMaianthemum bifolium4 recordsBouba at French Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 3.0
Cowberry
CowberryVaccinium vitis-idaea4 recordsBartosz Cuber · CC BY-SA 3.0
Yellow marsh marigold
Yellow marsh marigoldCaltha palustris4 recordsW. Bulach · CC BY-SA 4.0
Red-berried Elder
Red-berried ElderSambucus racemosa3 recordsAlgirdas at Lithuanian Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 3.0
Dog's mercury
Dog's mercuryMercurialis perennis3 recordsEpgrande · CC BY 4.0
Dogwood
DogwoodCornus sanguinea3 recordsFrank Vincentz · CC BY-SA 3.0
Cruciata glabra
Cruciata glabraCruciata glabra3 recordsUnknown author · CC BY-SA 3.0
Alternate-leaf golden saxifrage
Alternate-leaf golden saxifrageChrysosplenium alternifolium3 recordsEpgrande · CC BY 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.

71out of 100

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

  • 79%Treesof the land within 3 km
  • 85%Wildno towns or farmland within 10 km
  • 100Speciesrecorded more than once within 5 km
  • 249 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-1°-7°41 mm
  2. Feb1°-6°36 mm
  3. Mar7°-2°44 mm
  4. Apr14°3°45 mm
  5. May20°9°84 mm
  6. Jun23°13°78 mm
  7. Jul25°15°83 mm
  8. Aug25°14°64 mm
  9. Sep20°9°61 mm
  10. Oct13°4°52 mm
  11. Nov6°0°41 mm
  12. Dec0°-5°41 mm
  • Bar: walking comfort; the number on top is the average maximum.
  • Below: average minimum (NASA, 1991–2020).
  • Rain: monthly total.

The place

Solska Wilderness.

Forest in southern Lublin Voivodeship, Poland

Solska Wilderness is a forest in Poland, 249 m above the sea.

Seen from space, 79% of the land within 3 km is trees, and 85% of the land within 10 km has no towns or farmland.

100 species have been recorded around it: 36 plants, 16 fungi, 48 birds and 0 mammals.

The most recorded plants are: Stiff clubmoss, Hepatica and Wood Anemone.

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

Puszcza Solska foto Elmira
Elmutek · 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.

Solska Wilderness 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

  • 14marked trails within 5 kmCentralny Szlak Roztocza, Szlak Puszczy Solskiej, Szlak Walk Partyzanckich and 11 more
  • 3named and notable trees within 6 kmPomnik przyrody
  • 5picnic sites within 4 km
  • 19shelters and huts within 6 km
  • 4viewpoints within 5 km
  • 1visitor centres within 6 km
  • 11car parks within 3 km
  • 6campsites within 10 kmRoztoczeCamp, Leśne Zacisze, Cud Malina and 3 more
  • 39places to stay within 10 kmPokoje gościnne, Szkolne Schronisko Młodzieżowe w Józefowie Filia w Górecku Starym, Noclegi and 36 more
  • 1restaurants 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 Solska Wilderness.

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.

Peakyas10 mountains within 25 km
Gora Kapliczna2.2 kmKamienna Góra9.6 kmBukowa Mountain11 kmPasiasta Góra320 m · 13 kmPolak318 m · 14 kmStokowa Góra15 kmDąbrowa16 kmWapielnia19 km
Cascadyas1 waterfalls within 15 km
Górecko Kościelne - Wodospad na rz. Szum1.9 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.

Szum-river-dam-Solska-Poland
Rudi at Polish Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 3.0
Rezerwat Czartowe Pole RPN1 (3)
Jerzy Opioła · CC BY-SA 4.0
Choinka w puszczy solskiej
Panek · CC BY-SA 4.0

Other forests nearby.

Solska Wilderness

Poland

  • 71Forestyas Score
  • 79%Trees
  • 85%Wild
  • 100Species

Sandomierz Wilderness

Poland · 71 km

  • 57Forestyas Score
  • 74%Trees
  • 93%Wild
  • 2Species

See the guide

Niepołomice Forest

Poland · 194 km

  • 72Forestyas Score
  • 91%Trees
  • 71%Wild
  • 305Species

See the guide

Bartek

Poland · 173 km

  • 65Forestyas Score
  • 77%Trees
  • 95%Wild
  • 10Species

See the guide

Where these figures come from

Name and typeWikidata (Q3411025) · CC0
Land coverESA WorldCover 10 m 2021 v200 · © ESA WorldCover project / Copernicus Sentinel data · CC BY 4.0
Species497 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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