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Wasatch–Cache National Forest

Intermountain Forest Service, USDA Region 4 Photography · Public domain

64% trees around it and 180 species recorded.

66Forestyas Score

ForestNational forestMountain forest

  • trees within 3 km64%
  • wild within 10 km75%
  • species recorded180
  • Altitude2,602 m

The forest around

64% 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 55%Shrubland 9%Grassland 31%Bare ground 4%Trees 65%Shrubland 18%Grassland 15%Bare ground 2%Trees 38%Shrubland 17%Grassland 34%Bare ground 2%Cropland 8%Built-up 1%Trees 19%Shrubland 9%Grassland 33%Water 1%Bare ground 2%Cropland 32%Built-up 3%64%trees · 3 km

Trees, ring by ring

  • 0–1 km55%
  • 1–3 km65%
  • 3–6 km38%
  • 6–10 km19%

What covers the land (1–3 km)

  • Trees65%
  • Shrubland18%
  • Grassland15%
  • Water0%
  • Bare ground2%
  • Cropland0%
  • 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

180 species recorded.

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

Common motherwort
Common motherwortLeonurus cardiaca8 recordsD. Gordon E. Robertson · CC BY-SA 3.0
Wild oat
Wild oatAvena fatua7 recordsHelge Oskarsen · CC BY-SA 3.0
Bracken
BrackenPteridium aquilinum7 recordsStefan.lefnaer · CC BY-SA 4.0
Bluebunch wheatgrass
Bluebunch wheatgrassPseudoroegneria spicata6 recordsMatt Lavin from Bozeman, Montana, USA · CC BY-SA 2.0
Wasatch beardtongue
Wasatch beardtonguePenstemon cyananthus6 recordsAndrey Zharkikh from Salt Lake City, USA · CC BY 2.0
Catnip
CatnipNepeta cataria6 recordsJohann Georg Sturm (Painter: Jacob Sturm) · Public domain
Sandberg bluegrass
Sandberg bluegrassPoa secunda5 recordsMatt Lavin from Bozeman, Montana, USA · CC BY-SA 2.0
Dwarf or Ballhead Waterleaf
Dwarf or Ballhead WaterleafHydrophyllum capitatum5 recordsWalter Siegmund · CC BY-SA 3.0
Wyoming Indian paintbrush
Wyoming Indian paintbrushCastilleja linariifolia5 recordsUnknown author · Public domain
Common yarrow
Common yarrowAchillea millefolium4 recordsEpgrande · CC BY 4.0
Alpine enchanter’s-nightshade
Alpine enchanter’s-nightshadeCircaea alpina4 recordsJoe F. Duft · Public domain
Douglas-fir
Douglas-firPseudotsuga menziesii3 recordsWalter Siegmund · 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.

66out of 100

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

  • 64%Treesof the land within 3 km
  • 75%Wildno towns or farmland within 10 km
  • 180Speciesrecorded more than once within 5 km
  • 2,602 mAltitudeabove the sea

When to walk

Best for walking in May.

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

  1. Jan-1°-10°53 mm
  2. Feb2°-8°44 mm
  3. Mar8°-3°51 mm
  4. Apr12°-1°62 mm
  5. May18°4°57 mm
  6. Jun25°10°30 mm
  7. Jul31°15°14 mm
  8. Aug29°14°22 mm
  9. Sep23°8°37 mm
  10. Oct14°2°45 mm
  11. Nov6°-4°44 mm
  12. Dec0°-9°61 mm
  • Bar: walking comfort; the number on top is the average maximum.
  • Below: average minimum (NASA, 1991–2020).
  • Rain: monthly total.

The place

Wasatch–Cache National Forest.

National forest administratively combined in 2007 with the Uinta to form the Uinta–Wasatch–Cache National Forest

Wasatch–Cache National Forest is a national forest in United States, 2,602 m above the sea.

Seen from space, 64% of the land within 3 km is trees, and 75% of the land within 10 km has no towns or farmland.

180 species have been recorded around it: 67 plants, 5 fungi, 108 birds and 0 mammals.

The most recorded plants are: Common motherwort, Wild oat and Bracken.

The best time to walk is in May.

20190707-FS-UWC NF-NL-South Utah Valley-01 (48937779536)
Intermountain Forest Service, USDA Region 4 Photography · Public domain

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.

Wasatch–Cache 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

  • 2viewpoints within 5 kmPleasant View Point
  • 1car parks within 3 km
  • 4campsites within 10 kmCrystal Hot Springs, Camp Rendezvous, Petersen Park Camp and 1 more
  • 1places to stay within 10 kmCamelot Inn at Honeyville
  • marked trails within 5 km
  • named and notable trees within 6 km
  • picnic sites within 4 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 Wasatch–Cache 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.

Peakyas40 mountains within 25 km
Bob Stewart Peak0.7 kmBox Elder Peak1.6 kmMendon Peak3.9 kmCache Butte16 kmBlack Rock16 kmLittle Mountain1,679 m · 20 kmPoint Lookout Mountains1,741 m · 21 kmJunction Hills1,822 m · 24 km
Lakeyas2 lakes within 15 km
Dry Lake0.5 km² · 10 kmHyrum Reservoir1.6 km² · 14 km
Canyonyas3 canyons within 20 km
Wellsville Canyon7.1 kmBox Elder Canyon18 kmProvidence Canyon19 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.

20170116-FS-UWC NF-NL-Hike to donut falls (23807302398)
Intermountain Forest Service, USDA Region 4 Photography · Public domain
Cecret Lake Panorama Albion Basin Alta Utah July 2009
Jeffrey McGrath ( talk · contribs ) · CC BY-SA 3.0

Other forests nearby.

Wasatch–Cache National Forest

United States

  • 66Forestyas Score
  • 64%Trees
  • 75%Wild
  • 180Species

Bridger–Teton National Forest

United States · 224 km

  • 76Forestyas Score
  • 61%Trees
  • 96%Wild
  • 344Species

See the guide

Caribou–Targhee National Forest

United States · 132 km

  • 39Forestyas Score
  • 10%Trees
  • 76%Wild
  • 104Species

See the guide

Ashley National Forest

United States · 203 km

  • 42Forestyas Score
  • 12%Trees
  • 94%Wild
  • 33Species

See the guide

Where these figures come from

Name and typeWikidata (Q3083447) · CC0
Land coverESA WorldCover 10 m 2021 v200 · © ESA WorldCover project / Copernicus Sentinel data · CC BY 4.0
Species2,670 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, Canyonyas

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.

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viewpointsViewyasEvery viewpoint with its real 360° panorama: the peaks you can name, how far you see and where the sun sets.Coming soonVisit
birdwatchingBirdyasEvery bird sanctuary and wetland with the species recorded month by month: who is resident, who comes for the summer, who only passes through.Visit
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