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Alberta Mountain forests

Steve Jurvetson from Menlo Park, California · CC BY 2.0

49% trees around it and 159 species recorded.

64Forestyas Score

ForestWildMountain forestWildlife

  • trees within 3 km49%
  • wild within 10 km100%
  • species recorded159
  • Altitude1,863 m

The forest around

49% 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 35%Grassland 5%Moss and lichen 6%Bare ground 53%Trees 51%Grassland 3%Moss and lichen 4%Bare ground 42%Trees 59%Grassland 6%Moss and lichen 5%Water 3%Bare ground 26%Built-up 0%Trees 76%Grassland 4%Moss and lichen 3%Water 4%Bare ground 13%Built-up 0%49%trees · 3 km

Trees, ring by ring

  • 0–1 km35%
  • 1–3 km51%
  • 3–6 km59%
  • 6–10 km76%

What covers the land (1–3 km)

  • Trees51%
  • Grassland3%
  • Moss and lichen4%
  • Water0%
  • Bare ground42%
  • 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

159 species recorded.

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

Blanket Flower
Blanket FlowerGaillardia aristata14 recordsAlvesgaspar · CC BY-SA 3.0
Wild blue flax
Wild blue flaxLinum lewisii8 recordsSkoch3 · CC BY-SA 3.0
Anticlea elegans
Anticlea elegansAnticlea elegans8 recordsAdam Humphreys · CC BY-SA 3.0
Northern bedstraw
Northern bedstrawGalium boreale7 recordsKristian Peters -- Fabelfroh 06:36, 2 July 2007 (UTC) · CC BY-SA 3.0
Yellow Owl-clover
Yellow Owl-cloverOrthocarpus luteus6 recordsJerryFriedman · CC BY-SA 3.0
Western Red Lily
Western Red LilyLilium philadelphicum5 recordsMason Brock ( Masebrock ) · Public domain
Whitebark Pine
Whitebark PinePinus albicaulis5 recordsMatt Lavin from Bozeman, Montana, USA · CC BY-SA 2.0
Balkan Toadflax
Balkan ToadflaxLinaria dalmatica5 recordsviridian · CC0
Douglas-fir
Douglas-firPseudotsuga menziesii4 recordsWalter Siegmund · CC BY-SA 3.0
Nodding onion
Nodding onionAllium cernuum4 recordsWalter Siegmund · CC BY-SA 3.0
Silverberry
SilverberryElaeagnus commutata4 recordsUnknown author · Public domain
Prairie sagewort
Prairie sagewortArtemisia frigida4 recordsFranz Xaver · 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.

64out of 100

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

  • 49%Treesof the land within 3 km
  • 100%Wildno towns or farmland within 10 km
  • 159Speciesrecorded more than once within 5 km
  • 1,863 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-8°-16°34 mm
  2. Feb-7°-17°29 mm
  3. Mar-3°-13°46 mm
  4. Apr2°-8°50 mm
  5. May9°-2°69 mm
  6. Jun14°3°103 mm
  7. Jul17°6°99 mm
  8. Aug16°4°68 mm
  9. Sep11°0°58 mm
  10. Oct3°-5°47 mm
  11. Nov-4°-12°43 mm
  12. Dec-9°-17°28 mm
  • Bar: walking comfort; the number on top is the average maximum.
  • Below: average minimum (NASA, 1991–2020).
  • Rain: monthly total.

The place

Alberta Mountain forests.

Temperate coniferous forest ecoregion in Alberta and British Columbia

Alberta Mountain forests is a forest in Canada, 1,863 m above the sea.

Seen from space, 49% of the land within 3 km is trees, and 100% of the land within 10 km has no towns or farmland.

159 species have been recorded around it: 60 plants, 2 fungi, 80 birds and 17 mammals.

The most recorded plants are: Blanket Flower, Wild blue flax and Anticlea elegans.

The best time to walk is from July to August.

View of Lake Louise
Steve Jurvetson from Menlo Park, California · CC BY 2.0

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.

Alberta Mountain forests 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

  • 1marked trails within 5 kmOverlander Trail
  • 1shelters and huts within 6 km
  • 2campsites within 10 kmSnaring River Overflow Campground, Snaring River Campground
  • 1places to stay within 10 kmPyramid Lake Resort
  • 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 Alberta Mountain forests.

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.

Peakyas49 mountains within 25 km
Pyramid Mountain2,766 m · 11 kmSirdar Mountain2,804 m · 15 kmGargoyle Mountain2,693 m · 15 kmMount Tekarra2,694 m · 18 kmConsort Mountain2,883 m · 22 kmThe Watchtower2,791 m · 22 kmSnaring Mountain2,931 m · 22 kmMount Oliver2,865 m · 24 km
Lakeyas8 lakes within 15 km
Edna Lake0.2 km² · 8.9 kmEdith Lake0.5 km² · 10 kmTalbot Lake3.5 km² · 11 kmPyramid Lake1.2 km² · 11 kmAnnette Lake0.3 km² · 11 kmPatricia Lake0.7 km² · 12 kmJasper Lake11 km² · 12 kmLac Beauvert0.3 km² · 14 km
Darkskyas2 dark-sky places within 30 km
Maligne CanyonBortle 2 · 8.9 kmJasper National ParkBortle 1 · 23 km
Canyonyas1 canyons within 20 km
Maligne Canyon6.7 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.

Chetamon, Esplanade,Gargoyle seen from Snaring River
dvs · CC BY 2.0
2025-06-10-204858 CAN Alberta Western Alberta (Jasper) 1005.5
Hansueli Krapf · CC BY-SA 4.0
2025-06-10-205407 CAN Alberta Western Alberta (Jasper) 997.3
Hansueli Krapf · CC BY-SA 4.0

Other forests nearby.

Alberta Mountain forests

Canada

  • 64Forestyas Score
  • 49%Trees
  • 100%Wild
  • 159Species

Alberta-British Columbia foothills forests

Canada · 258 km

  • 69Forestyas Score
  • 90%Trees
  • 100%Wild
  • 9Species

See the guide

Where these figures come from

Name and typeWikidata (Q3079264) · CC0
Land coverESA WorldCover 10 m 2021 v200 · © ESA WorldCover project / Copernicus Sentinel data · CC BY 4.0
Species949 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, 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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