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Tiveden

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84% trees around it and 668 species recorded.

86Forestyas Score

ForestWildFungi

  • trees within 3 km84%
  • wild within 10 km100%
  • species recorded668
  • Altitude175 m

The forest around

84% 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 89%Grassland 4%Wetland 1%Water 5%Trees 83%Grassland 8%Wetland 1%Water 8%Trees 87%Grassland 8%Wetland 0%Water 5%Trees 68%Grassland 8%Wetland 0%Water 23%Cropland 0%84%trees · 3 km

Trees, ring by ring

  • 0–1 km89%
  • 1–3 km83%
  • 3–6 km87%
  • 6–10 km68%

What covers the land (1–3 km)

  • Trees83%
  • Grassland8%
  • Wetland1%
  • Water8%

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

668 species recorded.

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

Scots Pine
Scots PinePinus sylvestris105 recordsHello, I am Bruce on Flickr · CC BY-SA 2.0
Matgrass
MatgrassNardus stricta91 recordsDaderot · Public domain
Heather
HeatherCalluna vulgaris90 recordsUnknown author · Public domain
Norway Spruce
Norway SprucePicea abies88 recordsIvar Leidus · CC BY-SA 3.0 ee
Pyramidal Bugle
Pyramidal BugleAjuga pyramidalis88 recordsJean-Pol GRANDMONT · CC BY-SA 3.0
Scorzonera humilis
Scorzonera humilisScorzonera humilis81 recordsHerbarium of the University of Coimbra (COI) · CC BY 4.0
Cowberry
CowberryVaccinium vitis-idaea79 recordsBartosz Cuber · CC BY-SA 3.0
Whortleberry
WhortleberryVaccinium myrtillus78 recordsUnknown author · CC BY-SA 3.0
Health Speedwell
Health SpeedwellVeronica officinalis77 recordsKurt Stüber [1] · CC BY-SA 3.0
Common heathgrass
Common heathgrassDanthonia decumbens75 recordsKristian Peters -- Fabelfroh 12:37, 19 February 2007 (UTC) · CC BY-SA 3.0
Erect cinquefoil
Erect cinquefoilPotentilla erecta75 recordsUser:Tigerente · CC BY 2.5
Carnation sedge
Carnation sedgeCarex panicea71 recordsKristian Peters -- Fabelfroh 15:28, 18 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.

86out of 100

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

  • 84%Treesof the land within 3 km
  • 100%Wildno towns or farmland within 10 km
  • 668Speciesrecorded more than once within 5 km
  • 175 mAltitudeabove the sea

When to walk

Best for walking in June and in August.

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

  1. Jan-2°-6°61 mm
  2. Feb-1°-6°49 mm
  3. Mar3°-3°44 mm
  4. Apr10°2°45 mm
  5. May15°7°81 mm
  6. Jun19°12°100 mm
  7. Jul21°14°110 mm
  8. Aug20°13°96 mm
  9. Sep16°9°67 mm
  10. Oct9°4°82 mm
  11. Nov4°0°70 mm
  12. Dec0°-4°62 mm
  • Bar: walking comfort; the number on top is the average maximum.
  • Below: average minimum (NASA, 1991–2020).
  • Rain: monthly total.

The place

Tiveden.

Forest in Sweden

Tiveden is a forest in Sweden.

Seen from space, 84% of the land within 3 km is trees, and 100% of the land within 10 km has no towns or farmland.

668 species have been recorded around it: 471 plants, 72 fungi, 117 birds and 8 mammals.

The most recorded plants are: Scots Pine, Matgrass and Heather.

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

Trollkyrka trail 1
Wiglaf at English Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 3.0

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.

Tiveden 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

  • 11marked trails within 5 kmKyrkstigen Tivedstorp - Tiveds kyrka, Kyrkstigen Åboholm - Tiveds kyrka, Tivedstorps skogspromenad 2,5 km and 8 more
  • 2picnic sites within 4 km
  • 11shelters and huts within 6 kmKölnavattnet, Bosjön and 9 more
  • 1viewpoints within 5 km
  • 3car parks within 3 km
  • 10campsites within 10 kmCamping Tiveden, Metesjön, Mellannäsudden and 7 more
  • 9places to stay within 10 kmSTF Vandrarhem Tivedstorp, Kolarkojorna Tived, Hamgården Nature Resort Tiveden and 6 more
  • 1restaurants and cafés within 3 km
  • named and notable trees within 6 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 Tiveden.

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.

Peakyas2 mountains within 25 km
Trollkyrka7.4 kmTiveden11 km
Lakeyas34 lakes within 15 km
Norra Asplången1.1 km² · 6.7 kmStora Trehörningen1.6 km² · 7.7 kmSödra Asplången1.1 km² · 7.9 kmÖrkaggen2.4 km² · 9.5 kmUnden94 km² · 11 kmKråksjön1.1 km² · 12 kmÖstra Laxsjön7.2 km² · 13 kmVästra Laxsjön9.1 km² · 14 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.

Bosjön i Tiveden
Sjunnesson · CC BY-SA 4.0
Braxnasjön, Tiveden
Sjunnesson · CC BY-SA 4.0
Johannes kammare
Erik Åman · Public domain

Other forests nearby.

Tiveden

Sweden

  • 86Forestyas Score
  • 84%Trees
  • 100%Wild
  • 668Species

Kolmården

Sweden · 107 km

  • 76Forestyas Score
  • 61%Trees
  • 92%Wild
  • 1,611Species

See the guide

Rumskulla oak

Sweden · 130 km

  • 78Forestyas Score
  • 87%Trees
  • 99%Wild
  • 86Species

See the guide

Glaskogen

Sweden · 149 km

  • 73Forestyas Score
  • 60%Trees
  • 100%Wild
  • 433Species

See the guide

Where these figures come from

Name and typeWikidata (Q3752713) · CC0
Land coverESA WorldCover 10 m 2021 v200 · © ESA WorldCover project / Copernicus Sentinel data · CC BY 4.0
Species14,568 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, Lakeyas

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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