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White River National Forest

JasonC photography · CC BY-SA 4.0

71% trees around it and 91 species recorded.

76Forestyas Score

ForestNational forestMountain forest

  • trees within 3 km71%
  • wild within 10 km98%
  • species recorded91
  • Altitude3,110 m

The forest around

71% 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 96%Grassland 4%Trees 68%Grassland 32%Trees 73%Grassland 26%Bare ground 0%Cropland 0%Trees 64%Grassland 30%Bare ground 2%Cropland 2%Built-up 2%71%trees · 3 km

Trees, ring by ring

  • 0–1 km96%
  • 1–3 km68%
  • 3–6 km73%
  • 6–10 km64%

What covers the land (1–3 km)

  • Trees68%
  • Grassland32%
  • Bare ground0%
  • 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

91 species recorded.

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

Cluster lady's-slipperCypripedium fasciculatum2 records

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

In numbers

The forest, measured.

76out of 100

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

  • 71%Treesof the land within 3 km
  • 98%Wildno towns or farmland within 10 km
  • 91Speciesrecorded more than once within 5 km
  • 3,110 mAltitudeabove the sea

When to walk

Best for walking in September.

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

  1. Jan-3°-16°54 mm
  2. Feb-2°-15°49 mm
  3. Mar3°-9°51 mm
  4. Apr8°-5°61 mm
  5. May15°-1°50 mm
  6. Jun23°5°26 mm
  7. Jul26°9°43 mm
  8. Aug24°8°42 mm
  9. Sep20°4°47 mm
  10. Oct11°-3°49 mm
  11. Nov3°-9°48 mm
  12. Dec-3°-15°55 mm
  • Bar: walking comfort; the number on top is the average maximum.
  • Below: average minimum (NASA, 1991–2020).
  • Rain: monthly total.

The place

White River National Forest.

National forest in northwest Colorado

White River National Forest is a national forest in United States, 3,110 m above the sea.

Seen from space, 71% of the land within 3 km is trees, and 98% of the land within 10 km has no towns or farmland.

91 species have been recorded around it: 1 plants, 8 fungi, 82 birds and 0 mammals.

The best time to walk is in September.

Tenmile Range, White River National Forest, Colorado
JasonC photography · CC BY-SA 4.0

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.

White River 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 kmHardscrabble Saddle
  • 8campsites within 10 kmAunt Sara's Riverdance RV Resort and 7 more
  • 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
  • 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 White River 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.

Peakyas28 mountains within 25 km
Gobbler Knob16 kmDotsero2,068 m · volcano · 16 kmBlowout Hill18 kmRed Table Mountain3,671 m · 19 kmBasalt Mountain19 kmBuck Point20 kmCastle Peak (Sawatch Range)3,446 m · 24 kmNew York Mountain3,824 m · 24 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.

Conundrum Valley White River National Forest
Nightryder84 · CC BY-SA 3.0
East Fork Williams Fork River
Jeffrey Beall · CC BY 4.0
Ice disc in a small pond alongside Sally Barber Road, White River National Forest, Breckenridge, Summit Co., CO, USA - panoramio
QKC · CC BY-SA 3.0

Other forests nearby.

White River National Forest

United States

  • 76Forestyas Score
  • 71%Trees
  • 98%Wild
  • 91Species

Gunnison National Forest

United States · 99 km

  • 62Forestyas Score
  • 51%Trees
  • 100%Wild
  • 33Species

See the guide

Arapaho National Forest

United States · 107 km

  • 50Forestyas Score
  • 5%Trees
  • 100%Wild
  • 322Species

See the guide

Roosevelt National Forest

United States · 170 km

  • 69Forestyas Score
  • 49%Trees
  • 100%Wild
  • 217Species

See the guide

Where these figures come from

Name and typeWikidata (Q2566990) · CC0
Land coverESA WorldCover 10 m 2021 v200 · © ESA WorldCover project / Copernicus Sentinel data · CC BY 4.0
Species582 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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