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Wayne National Forest

Forest Service, USDA · Public domain

87% trees around it and 136 species recorded.

84Forestyas Score

ForestNational forestDense canopyWildBirds

  • trees within 3 km87%
  • wild within 10 km99%
  • species recorded136
  • Altitude241 m

The forest around

87% 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 74%Grassland 25%Bare ground 0%Cropland 0%Trees 89%Grassland 11%Cropland 0%Trees 85%Grassland 13%Cropland 2%Trees 90%Grassland 9%Cropland 1%87%trees · 3 km

Trees, ring by ring

  • 0–1 km74%
  • 1–3 km89%
  • 3–6 km85%
  • 6–10 km90%

What covers the land (1–3 km)

  • Trees89%
  • Grassland11%
  • Bare ground0%
  • Cropland0%

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

136 species recorded.

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

Reed-grass, reed-canary grass
Reed-grass, reed-canary grassPhalaris arundinacea14 recordsFranz Xaver · CC BY-SA 3.0
Kansas hawthorn
Kansas hawthornCrataegus coccinioides2 recordsBritton, N.L., and A. Brown. 1913. An illustrated flora of the northern United States, Can · Public domain
Crataegus gattingeriCrataegus gattingeri2 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).

  • 87%Treesof the land within 3 km
  • 99%Wildno towns or farmland within 10 km
  • 136Speciesrecorded more than once within 5 km
  • 241 mAltitudeabove the sea

When to walk

Best for walking in April and in October.

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

  1. Jan4°-5°73 mm
  2. Feb6°-4°82 mm
  3. Mar12°1°90 mm
  4. Apr19°6°102 mm
  5. May24°12°115 mm
  6. Jun28°17°100 mm
  7. Jul31°19°117 mm
  8. Aug31°18°80 mm
  9. Sep28°14°83 mm
  10. Oct20°8°86 mm
  11. Nov13°1°73 mm
  12. Dec7°-2°93 mm
  • Bar: walking comfort; the number on top is the average maximum.
  • Below: average minimum (NASA, 1991–2020).
  • Rain: monthly total.

The place

Wayne National Forest.

Protected area in Ohio, USA

Wayne National Forest is a national forest in United States, 241 m above the sea.

Seen from space, 87% of the land within 3 km is trees, and 99% of the land within 10 km has no towns or farmland.

136 species have been recorded around it: 3 plants, 0 fungi, 133 birds and 0 mammals.

The most recorded plants are: Reed-grass, reed-canary grass, Kansas hawthorn and Crataegus gattingeri.

The best time to walk is in April and in October.

2021.07.21 Wayne National Forest Headquarters and Athens Ranger Station
Forest Service, USDA · 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.

Wayne 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

  • 3campsites within 10 kmElkins Creek Horse Camp & Tack, Paddle Creek Horse Camp, Iron Ridge Campground
  • marked trails within 5 km
  • named and notable trees within 6 km
  • picnic sites within 4 km
  • shelters and huts within 6 km
  • viewpoints within 5 km
  • visitor centres within 6 km
  • car parks within 3 km
  • places to stay within 10 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 Wayne 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.

Peakyas10 mountains within 25 km
Tipton Knob3.8 kmPigeon Knob4.1 kmMiller Hill4.4 kmPhillips Knob8.7 kmSand Hill13 kmFive Forks Hill14 kmPoplar Knob16 kmCadot Hill21 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.

Wayne National Forest (3956592278)
Wayne National Forest · CC BY 2.0
082924-FS-Wayne-BikerOnBaileysTrailSystem-02 Anna Owens (53970471401)
usfs_Eastern_Region · Public domain
171007-FS-Wayne-F-GC001 (24028400848)
usfs_Eastern_Region · Public domain

Other forests nearby.

Wayne National Forest

United States

  • 84Forestyas Score
  • 87%Trees
  • 99%Wild
  • 136Species

Daniel Boone National Forest

United States · 197 km

  • 76Forestyas Score
  • 90%Trees
  • 99%Wild
  • 20Species

See the guide

Monongahela National Forest

United States · 228 km

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

See the guide

Cincinnati Zoo and Botanical Garden

United States · 179 km

  • 54Forestyas Score
  • 40%Trees
  • 65%Wild
  • 461Species

See the guide

Where these figures come from

Name and typeWikidata (Q3079164) · CC0
Land coverESA WorldCover 10 m 2021 v200 · © ESA WorldCover project / Copernicus Sentinel data · CC BY 4.0
Species4,796 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

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

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