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The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens

Steveshelokhonov · CC BY-SA 4.0

43% trees around it and 253 species recorded.

46Forestyas Score

ArboretumBirds

  • trees within 3 km43%
  • wild within 10 km41%
  • species recorded253
  • Altitude209 m

The forest around

43% 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 71%Shrubland 0%Grassland 1%Water 0%Built-up 27%Trees 39%Grassland 2%Built-up 58%Trees 25%Shrubland 1%Grassland 2%Bare ground 1%Built-up 72%Trees 28%Shrubland 10%Grassland 5%Water 0%Bare ground 1%Built-up 55%43%trees · 3 km

Trees, ring by ring

  • 0–1 km71%
  • 1–3 km39%
  • 3–6 km25%
  • 6–10 km28%

What covers the land (1–3 km)

  • Trees39%
  • Shrubland0%
  • Grassland2%
  • Water0%
  • Bare ground0%
  • Built-up58%

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

253 species recorded.

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

Common gum cistus
Common gum cistusCistus ladanifer9 recordsTaken by Carsten Niehaus ( user:Lumbar ). · CC BY-SA 3.0
Coulter's Matilija poppy
Coulter's Matilija poppyRomneya coulteri6 recordsFlorian Siebeck · CC BY 2.5
Bermuda buttercup
Bermuda buttercupOxalis pes-caprae6 recordsM ath K night and Zachi Evenor אביר המתמטיקה וצחי אבנור · CC BY-SA 4.0
Cootamundra wattle
Cootamundra wattleAcacia baileyana5 recordsDaiju Azuma · CC BY-SA 2.5
Bluecrown passionflower
Bluecrown passionflowerPassiflora caerulea4 recordsPetar Milošević · CC BY-SA 4.0
Persicaria capitata
Persicaria capitataPersicaria capitata4 recordsJJ Harrison ( https://www.jjharrison.com.au/ ) · CC BY-SA 3.0
Common borage
Common borageBorago officinalis4 recordsW. Bulach · CC BY-SA 4.0
Coast Redwood
Coast RedwoodSequoia sempervirens3 recordsAllie_Caulfield from Germany · CC BY 2.0
Asparagus virgatus
Asparagus virgatusAsparagus virgatus3 recordsJohann.rademeyer · CC BY-SA 3.0
Pink woodsorrel
Pink woodsorrelOxalis debilis3 recordsForest & Kim Starr · CC BY 3.0
Tree roofleek, Tree aeonium
Tree roofleek, Tree aeoniumAeonium arboreum3 recordsH. Zell · CC BY-SA 3.0
Radium weed
Radium weedEuphorbia peplus3 recordsSteve1nova · Public domain

Open records within 2 km (GBIF, licensed for any use). Busy places are better recorded than remote ones.

In numbers

The forest, measured.

46out of 100

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

  • 43%Treesof the land within 3 km
  • 41%Wildno towns or farmland within 10 km
  • 253Speciesrecorded more than once within 2 km
  • 209 mAltitudeabove the sea

When to walk

Best for walking in March.

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

  1. Jan17°7°73 mm
  2. Feb17°7°75 mm
  3. Mar19°8°42 mm
  4. Apr21°9°19 mm
  5. May23°12°9 mm
  6. Jun27°14°1 mm
  7. Jul30°17°2 mm
  8. Aug30°18°1 mm
  9. Sep29°17°3 mm
  10. Oct25°14°17 mm
  11. Nov21°10°25 mm
  12. Dec17°7°65 mm
  • Bar: walking comfort; the number on top is the average maximum.
  • Below: average minimum (NASA, 1991–2020).
  • Rain: monthly total.

The place

The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens.

Library and art museum in San Marino, California

The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens is an arboretum in United States, 209 m above the sea.

Seen from space, 43% of the land within 3 km is trees, and 41% of the land within 10 km has no towns or farmland.

253 species have been recorded around it: 32 plants, 19 fungi, 197 birds and 5 mammals.

The most recorded plants are: Common gum cistus, Coulter's Matilija poppy and Bermuda buttercup.

The best time to walk is in March.

Blooming roses at Huntington Library in Pasadena, California. April 2022 20220418 160140
Steveshelokhonov · 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.

The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens 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

  • 2marked trails within 5 kmCalifornia Mission Trail - stage 03 San Juan Capistrano to Mission San Gabriel A, California Mission Trail - stage 04 Mission San Gabriel Arcangel to Mission San
  • 67picnic sites within 4 km
  • 46shelters and huts within 6 km
  • 1viewpoints within 5 kmNorth Vista
  • 2visitor centres within 6 kmMapel Orientation Gallery, Visit Pasadena
  • 256car parks within 3 km
  • 4campsites within 10 kmHenninger Flats, Idlehour Trail Camp, Millard Trail Camp and 1 more
  • 232places to stay within 10 kmHilton, Zinkes Drive Inn, Quality Inn and 229 more
  • 210restaurants 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

Around The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens.

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.

Peakyas41 mountains within 25 km
Mount Lowe1,709 m · 11 kmMount Wilson531 m · 12 kmSan Gabriel Peak1,879 m · 13 kmStrawberry Peak1,880 m · 17 kmMount Lee521 m · 19 kmMount Lukens1,547 m · 19 kmCahuenga Peak555 m · 20 kmVetter Mountain1,802 m · 20 km
Lakeyas1 lakes within 15 km
Silver Lake Reservoir0.3 km² · 14 km
Darkskyas5 dark-sky places within 30 km
Hale Solar LaboratoryBortle 9 · 0.9 kmHooker TelescopeBortle 6 · 12 kmMount Wilson ObservatoryBortle 5 · 12 kmGriffith ObservatoryBortle 9 · 17 kmStony Ridge ObservatoryBortle 5 · 22 km
Viewyas3 viewpoints within 15 kmComing soon
Eaton Canyon8.7 kmArroyo Seco12 kmLittle Tokyo Watchtower15 km
Canyonyas6 canyons within 20 km
Eaton Canyon5.8 kmLittle Santa Anita Canyon7.8 kmWhittier Narrows13 kmArroyo Seco14 kmChavez Ravine14 kmTurnbull Canyon18 km
Cascadyas1 waterfalls within 15 km
Switzer Falls15 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.

Cactus in Huntington Library Botanical Garden, California
Netherzone · CC BY-SA 4.0
Herb Garden, Spring Blooms, Huntington
Pamla J. Eisenberg from USA · CC BY-SA 2.0
Huntington Chinese garden
Caterpillar84 · CC BY-SA 4.0

Other forests nearby.

The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens

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  • 46Forestyas Score
  • 43%Trees
  • 41%Wild
  • 253Species

Angeles National Forest

United States · 23 km

  • 53Forestyas Score
  • 15%Trees
  • 100%Wild
  • 228Species

See the guide

Cleveland National Forest

United States · 152 km

  • 82Forestyas Score
  • 76%Trees
  • 100%Wild
  • 205Species

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Los Padres National Forest

United States · 162 km

  • 72Forestyas Score
  • 65%Trees
  • 100%Wild
  • 74Species

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Where these figures come from

Name and typeWikidata (Q1400558) · CC0
Land coverESA WorldCover 10 m 2021 v200 · © ESA WorldCover project / Copernicus Sentinel data · CC BY 4.0
Species191,467 open records within 2 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, Lakeyas, Darkskyas, Viewyas, Canyonyas, Cascadyas

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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Same idea, other landscapes: field atlases built on open data, in seven languages.

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