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Umpqua National Forest

Ian Poellet · CC BY-SA 3.0

99% trees around it and 115 species recorded.

84Forestyas Score

ForestNational forestDense canopyWildMountain forestWildlife

  • trees within 3 km99%
  • wild within 10 km100%
  • species recorded115
  • Altitude1,290 m

The forest around

99% 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 99%Grassland 1%Trees 99%Grassland 1%Trees 95%Grassland 2%Water 2%Bare ground 1%99%trees · 3 km

Trees, ring by ring

  • 0–1 km100%
  • 1–3 km99%
  • 3–6 km99%
  • 6–10 km95%

What covers the land (1–3 km)

  • Trees99%
  • Grassland1%
  • Water0%
  • Bare ground0%

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

115 species recorded.

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

Western Hemlock
Western HemlockTsuga heterophylla2 recordsDoug Kerr from Albany, NY, United States · CC BY-SA 2.0
Greenleaf manzanita
Greenleaf manzanitaArctostaphylos patula2 recordsWalter Siegmund · CC BY 2.5
Western cordilleran bunchberry
Western cordilleran bunchberryCornus unalaschkensis2 recordsWalter Siegmund · CC BY-SA 3.0
Pink purslane
Pink purslaneClaytonia sibirica2 recordsWalter Siegmund · CC BY-SA 3.0
Deerfoot
DeerfootAchlys triphylla2 recordsborn1945 from Hillsboro, Oregon, USA · CC BY 2.0
Montana huckleberryVaccinium membranaceum3 records

Open records within 5 km (GBIF, licensed for any use). Busy places are better recorded than remote ones.

In numbers

The forest, measured.

84out of 100

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

  • 99%Treesof the land within 3 km
  • 100%Wildno towns or farmland within 10 km
  • 115Speciesrecorded more than once within 5 km
  • 1,290 mAltitudeabove the sea

When to walk

Best for walking in June.

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

  1. Jan4°-3°148 mm
  2. Feb5°-3°112 mm
  3. Mar7°-2°131 mm
  4. Apr10°0°92 mm
  5. May15°4°64 mm
  6. Jun19°6°36 mm
  7. Jul26°10°8 mm
  8. Aug27°10°12 mm
  9. Sep23°7°33 mm
  10. Oct15°3°78 mm
  11. Nov8°-1°145 mm
  12. Dec3°-3°202 mm
  • Bar: walking comfort; the number on top is the average maximum.
  • Below: average minimum (NASA, 1991–2020).
  • Rain: monthly total.

The place

Umpqua National Forest.

United States national forest in Oregon

Umpqua National Forest is a national forest in United States, 1,290 m above the sea.

Seen from space, 99% of the land within 3 km is trees, and 100% of the land within 10 km has no towns or farmland.

115 species have been recorded around it: 6 plants, 3 fungi, 90 birds and 16 mammals.

The most recorded plants are: Western Hemlock, Greenleaf manzanita and Western cordilleran bunchberry.

The best time to walk is in June.

Colliding Rivers - Glide Oregon
Ian Poellet · 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.

Umpqua 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

  • 1picnic sites within 4 km
  • 2viewpoints within 5 km
  • 1car parks within 3 km
  • 15campsites within 10 kmClearwater Falls Campground, Briggs Camp, Whitehorse Falls Campground and 12 more
  • 1places to stay within 10 kmDiamond Lake Lodge
  • marked trails within 5 km
  • named and notable trees within 6 km
  • shelters and huts within 6 km
  • visitor centres within 6 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 Umpqua 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.

Peakyas50 mountains within 25 km
Mount Bailey2,553 m · 8.0 kmCinnamon Butte1,959 m · 12 kmBasket Butte12 kmMount Thielsen2,799 m · 17 kmHowlock Mountain2,561 m · 18 kmBald Crater20 kmBalm Mountain21 kmCappy Mountain24 km
Lakeyas3 lakes within 15 km
Diamond Lake12 km² · 11 kmLemolo Lake1.4 km² · 12 kmToketee Lake0.2 km² · 14 km
Darkskyas1 dark-sky places within 30 km
Mount ThielsenBortle 2 · 17 km
Cascadyas3 waterfalls within 15 km
Clearwater Falls3.6 kmWhitehorse Falls5.0 kmWatson Falls11 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.

Forest trail, fern, hemlock
Jsayre64 · CC BY-SA 3.0
Beaver Swamp Trail, Rogue-Umpqua Divide Wilderness, Umpqua National Forest (39602075691)
U.S. Forest Service- Pacific Northwest Region · Public domain
Fungi growing along Brice Creek Trail, Umpqua National Forest (25027620287)
U.S. Forest Service- Pacific Northwest Region · Public domain

Other forests nearby.

Umpqua National Forest

United States

  • 84Forestyas Score
  • 99%Trees
  • 100%Wild
  • 115Species

Willamette National Forest

United States · 99 km

  • 85Forestyas Score
  • 99%Trees
  • 100%Wild
  • 173Species

See the guide

Deschutes National Forest

United States · 106 km

  • 85Forestyas Score
  • 93%Trees
  • 100%Wild
  • 157Species

See the guide

Old Man of the Lake

United States · 33 km

  • 39Forestyas Score
  • 1%Trees
  • 100%Wild
  • 99Species

See the guide

Where these figures come from

Name and typeWikidata (Q3079111) · CC0
Land coverESA WorldCover 10 m 2021 v200 · © ESA WorldCover project / Copernicus Sentinel data · CC BY 4.0
Species2,350 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, Darkskyas, Cascadyas

Every figure is an average, an estimate or a count from a public dataset. Licences and methods: data sources.

The family

Do you prefer beaches, lakes, mountains, waterfalls, islands, rivers, canyons, caves, dark skies, viewpoints, birdwatching or forests?

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

beachesCoastyaFind your beach: sea temperature, sun and swimming month by month.Visit lakesLakeyasEvery lake on Earth: water temperature, ice, depth and the shore.Visit mountainsPeakyasEvery summit in 3D: summit weather, the 0 °C line, huts and trails.Visit waterfallsCascadyasEvery waterfall: height, flow month by month and when it roars.Visit islandsIslandyasEvery island from the sea up: size, sea temperature, ferries and 3D.Visit riversRiveryasEvery river from source to sea: the journey, the flow and the basin in numbers.Visit canyonsCanyonyasEvery canyon cut to scale: depth to the floor, rim and floor temperatures, trails and viewpoints.Visit cavesCavernyasEvery cave with its real depth and length: the rock above, the temperature inside all year, and how to visit.Visit dark skiesDarkskyasWhere the night is still dark: the sky of every place, the Milky Way month by month, the Moon, eclipses and auroras.Visit
viewpointsViewyasEvery viewpoint with its real 360° panorama: the peaks you can name, how far you see and where the sun sets.Coming soonVisit
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