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Store Dyrehave

Ramblersen · CC BY-SA 4.0

70% trees around it and 1,559 species recorded.

79Forestyas Score

ForestFungiBirdsWildlifeWorld Heritage

  • trees within 3 km70%
  • wild within 10 km74%
  • species recorded1,559
  • Altitude83 m

The forest around

70% 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 98%Grassland 2%Trees 67%Grassland 18%Water 1%Cropland 8%Built-up 7%Trees 44%Grassland 31%Water 1%Bare ground 0%Cropland 13%Built-up 10%Trees 38%Grassland 28%Water 5%Cropland 19%Built-up 9%70%trees · 3 km

Trees, ring by ring

  • 0–1 km98%
  • 1–3 km67%
  • 3–6 km44%
  • 6–10 km38%

What covers the land (1–3 km)

  • Trees67%
  • Grassland18%
  • Water1%
  • Cropland8%
  • Built-up7%

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

1,559 species recorded.

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

European Beech
European BeechFagus sylvatica1,305 recordsMalene Thyssen · CC BY-SA 3.0
Soft Rush
Soft RushJuncus effusus816 recordsThe original uploader was Meggar at English Wikipedia . · CC BY-SA 3.0
European Alder
European AlderAlnus glutinosa775 recordsAEngelhardt · CC BY-SA 3.0
Pedunculate Oak
Pedunculate OakQuercus robur718 recordsAlgirdas at Lithuanian Wikipedia · Public domain
Tufted Hair-grass
Tufted Hair-grassDeschampsia cespitosa649 recordsChristian Fischer · CC BY-SA 3.0
Sycamore
SycamoreAcer pseudoplatanus579 recordsChristian Pirkl · CC BY-SA 3.0 at
Broadleaf cattail
Broadleaf cattailTypha latifolia540 recordsAndrawaag · CC BY-SA 4.0
Grey Willow
Grey WillowSalix cinerea523 recordsBCB · Public domain
Creeping buttercup
Creeping buttercupRanunculus repens512 recordsUnknown author · CC BY-SA 3.0
Common Duckweed
Common DuckweedLemna minor472 recordsUnknown author · CC BY-SA 3.0
AshNT
AshFraxinus excelsior463 recordsWillow · CC BY 2.5
Cyperus sedge
Cyperus sedgeCarex pseudocyperus447 recordsKristian Peters -- Fabelfroh 08:04, 26 July 2006 (UTC) · 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.

79out of 100

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

  • 70%Treesof the land within 3 km
  • 74%Wildno towns or farmland within 10 km
  • 1,559Speciesrecorded more than once within 5 km
  • 83 mAltitudeabove the sea

When to walk

Best for walking in June and from August to September.

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

  1. Jan2°-1°67 mm
  2. Feb2°-1°54 mm
  3. Mar5°0°45 mm
  4. Apr10°3°37 mm
  5. May15°8°51 mm
  6. Jun18°12°73 mm
  7. Jul21°15°79 mm
  8. Aug20°15°88 mm
  9. Sep17°12°57 mm
  10. Oct12°7°77 mm
  11. Nov7°4°68 mm
  12. Dec4°1°70 mm
  • Bar: walking comfort; the number on top is the average maximum.
  • Below: average minimum (NASA, 1991–2020).
  • Rain: monthly total.

The place

Store Dyrehave.

Forest in Denmark

Store Dyrehave is a forest in Denmark.

Seen from space, 70% of the land within 3 km is trees, and 74% of the land within 10 km has no towns or farmland.

1,559 species have been recorded around it: 1,000 plants, 336 fungi, 183 birds and 40 mammals.

The most recorded plants are: European Beech, Soft Rush and European Alder.

The best time to walk is in June and from August to September.

Store Dyrehave - Stjernen 1
Ramblersen · 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.

Store Dyrehave 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

  • 10marked trails within 5 kmPræstevang hjertesti, Nordsjællandsruten, Den danske Pilgrimsrute - Nordsjælland and 7 more
  • 3named and notable trees within 6 kmKarens bøg, Selskovs suttetræ
  • 64picnic sites within 4 kmSkreks swamp and 63 more
  • 82shelters and huts within 6 kmKnurreborgvang Hytte, Knurreborgvang Shelter, Eghjorten and 79 more
  • 1viewpoints within 5 kmSkansebakken
  • 232car parks within 3 km
  • 36campsites within 10 kmGammel Grønholt Vang, Gribskov, Nødebo Holt - fri teltning, Helledes Bakke Teltplads and 33 more
  • 13places to stay within 10 kmDanhostel Hillerød, Naturly, Hotel Hillerød and 10 more
  • 6restaurants and cafés within 3 km
  • visitor centres 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

Around Store Dyrehave.

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.

Peakyas17 mountains within 25 km
Maglebjerg10 kmVittenbjerg12 kmStrø Bjerge13 kmStrø Bjerg14 kmGeels Bakke14 kmOdinshøj41 m · 21 kmThyrahøj23 kmStore Orebjerg23 m · 24 km
Islandyasthe island
Zealand7,031 km²
Lakeyas7 lakes within 15 km
Sjælsø2.5 km² · 7.7 kmLake Esrum16 km² · 11 kmBastrup Sø0.2 km² · 12 kmFarum Sø0.9 km² · 13 kmBuresø0.6 km² · 13 kmFuresø8.5 km² · 14 kmGurre Lake1.5 km² · 15 km
Darkskyas3 dark-sky places within 30 km
StjärneborgBortle 4 · 21 kmObservatorium TusculanumBortle 6 · 26 kmTycho Brahe PlanetariumBortle 9 · 30 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.

Store Dyrehave - stone wall 2
Ramblersen · CC BY-SA 4.0
DK Hilleröd hwy 201 kongevej Store Dyrehave IMG 5714
Bjoertvedt · CC BY-SA 3.0
Storedyrehave1
Søren Johannessen · CC BY-SA 4.0

Other forests nearby.

Store Dyrehave

Denmark

  • 79Forestyas Score
  • 70%Trees
  • 74%Wild
  • 1,559Species

Gribskov

Denmark · 9 km

  • 83Forestyas Score
  • 74%Trees
  • 79%Wild
  • 1,880Species

See the guide

Rude Skov

Denmark · 11 km

  • 72Forestyas Score
  • 60%Trees
  • 82%Wild
  • 1,811Species

See the guide

Folehaveskoven

Denmark · 12 km

  • 67Forestyas Score
  • 45%Trees
  • 89%Wild
  • 1,318Species

See the guide

Where these figures come from

Name and typeWikidata (Q1390044) · CC0
Land coverESA WorldCover 10 m 2021 v200 · © ESA WorldCover project / Copernicus Sentinel data · CC BY 4.0
Species71,276 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, Islandyas, Lakeyas, Darkskyas

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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