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Tongass National Forest

Mark Brennan from Oakton, Virginia, United States of America · CC BY-SA 2.0

60% trees around it and 119 species recorded.

72Forestyas Score

ForestNational forestWild

  • trees within 3 km60%
  • wild within 10 km100%
  • species recorded119
  • Altitude72 m

The forest around

60% 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 56%Grassland 44%Trees 60%Grassland 21%Moss and lichen 0%Water 19%Trees 72%Grassland 19%Water 9%Built-up 0%Trees 74%Grassland 17%Water 9%Built-up 0%60%trees · 3 km

Trees, ring by ring

  • 0–1 km56%
  • 1–3 km60%
  • 3–6 km72%
  • 6–10 km74%

What covers the land (1–3 km)

  • Trees60%
  • Grassland21%
  • Water19%
  • Built-up0%

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

119 species recorded.

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

Reed-grass, reed-canary grass
Reed-grass, reed-canary grassPhalaris arundinacea40 recordsFranz Xaver · CC BY-SA 3.0
True forget-me-not
True forget-me-notMyosotis scorpioides26 recordsIvar Leidus · CC BY-SA 4.0
Round-leaved Sundew
Round-leaved SundewDrosera rotundifolia3 recordsGiuseppe Frizzi · Public domain
Lady's Mantle
Lady's MantleAlchemilla mollis2 recordsNo machine-readable author provided. Ies assumed (based on copyright claims). · CC BY-SA 3.0
Swamp gentian
Swamp gentianGentiana douglasiana2 recordsJason Hollinger · CC BY 2.0
Common eyebright
Common eyebrightEuphrasia nemorosa2 recordsJohann Georg Sturm (Painter: Jacob Sturm ) · Public domain
Yellow Iris
Yellow IrisIris pseudacorus2 recordsJean-Jacques MILAN · 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.

72out of 100

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

  • 60%Treesof the land within 3 km
  • 100%Wildno towns or farmland within 10 km
  • 119Speciesrecorded more than once within 5 km
  • 72 mAltitudeabove the sea

When to walk

Best for walking from July to August.

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

  1. Jan-1°-5°338 mm
  2. Feb-1°-6°208 mm
  3. Mar1°-4°213 mm
  4. Apr4°-1°174 mm
  5. May8°3°149 mm
  6. Jun12°7°143 mm
  7. Jul15°9°198 mm
  8. Aug14°9°264 mm
  9. Sep11°6°363 mm
  10. Oct6°2°372 mm
  11. Nov1°-3°334 mm
  12. Dec-1°-5°331 mm
  • Bar: walking comfort; the number on top is the average maximum.
  • Below: average minimum (NASA, 1991–2020).
  • Rain: monthly total.

The place

Tongass National Forest.

National forest in Alaska, United States

Tongass National Forest is a national forest in United States.

Seen from space, 60% of the land within 3 km is trees, and 100% of the land within 10 km has no towns or farmland.

119 species have been recorded around it: 7 plants, 10 fungi, 99 birds and 3 mammals.

The most recorded plants are: Reed-grass, reed-canary grass, True forget-me-not and Round-leaved Sundew.

The best time to walk is from July to August.

Tongass National Forest 4
Mark Brennan from Oakton, Virginia, United States of America · CC BY-SA 2.0

Get there and walk

  • Official informationAccess, hours and rules from those who manage the place.Official site
  • The Treescampsite · 8.4 km · 1 within 10 km
  • Nordic Houseplace to stay · 6.7 km · 7 within 10 km
  • Petersburgnearest town · 7.5 km in a straight line
  • Petersburg James A Johnson Airport (PSG)nearest airport with scheduled flights · 7 km in a straight lineCar hire in SitkaDiscover Cars · sponsored link

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.

Tongass 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

  • 2shelters and huts within 6 kmRavens Roost
  • 1campsites within 10 kmThe Trees
  • 7places to stay within 10 kmNordic House, Nortic House, Scandia House and 4 more
  • marked trails within 5 km
  • named and notable trees within 6 km
  • picnic sites within 4 km
  • viewpoints within 5 km
  • visitor centres within 6 km
  • car parks within 3 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 Tongass 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.

Peakyas11 mountains within 25 km
Narrows Peak9.8 kmDel Monte Peak13 kmSherman Peak17 kmDuncan Peaks18 kmHorn Mountain18 kmSheridan Peak18 kmScott Peak19 kmPortage Mountain20 km
Islandyasthe island
Kupreanof Island2,813 km²

Figures from the sister sites' databases (Wikidata, HydroATLAS, GeoNames, OpenStreetMap). Links open when each site is online.

Photographs

The forest, as people saw it.

Rain Forest Path - Alaska
Seth Anderson · CC BY-SA 2.0
1st Place-Recreation-Kennel Creek Crab-Tongass-JRH-007 (51615648400)
Forest Service Alaska Region, USDA · Public domain
Tongass National Forest 3
Mark Brennan from Oakton, Virginia, United States of America · CC BY-SA 2.0

Where these figures come from

Name and typeWikidata (Q1502633) · CC0
Land coverESA WorldCover 10 m 2021 v200 · © ESA WorldCover project / Copernicus Sentinel data · CC BY 4.0
Species2,238 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

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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