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Allegheny National Forest

usfs_Eastern_Region · Public domain

96% trees around it and 184 species recorded.

85Forestyas Score

ForestNational forestDense canopyWild

  • trees within 3 km96%
  • wild within 10 km100%
  • species recorded184
  • Altitude559 m

The forest around

96% 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 98%Grassland 1%Built-up 0%Trees 96%Grassland 3%Built-up 0%Trees 97%Grassland 2%Built-up 0%Trees 98%Grassland 1%Built-up 0%96%trees · 3 km

Trees, ring by ring

  • 0–1 km98%
  • 1–3 km96%
  • 3–6 km97%
  • 6–10 km98%

What covers the land (1–3 km)

  • Trees96%
  • Grassland3%
  • 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

184 species recorded.

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

Eutrochium fistulosum
Eutrochium fistulosumEutrochium fistulosum4 recordsNo machine-readable author provided. Hardyplants assumed (based on copyright claims). · Public domain
Lesser Bulrush
Lesser BulrushTypha angustifolia4 recordsW. Bulach · CC BY-SA 4.0
Painted trillium
Painted trilliumTrillium undulatum3 recordsD. Gordon E. Robertson · CC BY-SA 3.0
Eutrochium maculatum
Eutrochium maculatumEutrochium maculatum3 recordsCody Hough · CC BY-SA 3.0
Parasol whitetop
Parasol whitetopDoellingeria umbellata3 recordsJoshua Mayer · CC BY-SA 2.0
Intermediate woodfern
Intermediate woodfernDryopteris intermedia3 recordsHomer Edward Price · CC BY 2.0
Canada goldenrod
Canada goldenrodSolidago altissima3 recordsKENPEI · CC BY-SA 3.0
Georgia bulrush
Georgia bulrushScirpus georgianus2 recordsRobert H. Mohlenbrock. USDA NRCS. 1995. Northeast wetland flora: Field office guide to pla · Public domain
Lesser purple fringed orchid
Lesser purple fringed orchidPlatanthera psycodes2 recordsTucker SP · Public domain
Jack in the pulpit
Jack in the pulpitArisaema triphyllum2 records. The original uploader was Chris Light at English Wikipedia . · Public domain
Wild sarsaparilla
Wild sarsaparillaAralia nudicaulis2 recordsHardyplants at English Wikipedia · Public domain
Coltsfoot
ColtsfootTussilago farfara2 recordsAndreas Trepte · CC BY-SA 2.5

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

In numbers

The forest, measured.

85out of 100

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

  • 96%Treesof the land within 3 km
  • 100%Wildno towns or farmland within 10 km
  • 184Speciesrecorded more than once within 5 km
  • 559 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-2°-9°70 mm
  2. Feb0°-9°63 mm
  3. Mar5°-5°76 mm
  4. Apr13°1°87 mm
  5. May19°8°104 mm
  6. Jun23°13°106 mm
  7. Jul26°15°108 mm
  8. Aug26°14°94 mm
  9. Sep23°11°99 mm
  10. Oct15°4°101 mm
  11. Nov8°-1°76 mm
  12. Dec1°-6°85 mm
  • Bar: walking comfort; the number on top is the average maximum.
  • Below: average minimum (NASA, 1991–2020).
  • Rain: monthly total.

The place

Allegheny National Forest.

National Forest in the United States

Allegheny National Forest is a national forest in United States, 559 m above the sea.

Seen from space, 96% of the land within 3 km is trees, and 100% of the land within 10 km has no towns or farmland.

184 species have been recorded around it: 28 plants, 38 fungi, 118 birds and 0 mammals.

The most recorded plants are: Eutrochium fistulosum, Lesser Bulrush and Painted trillium.

The best time to walk is in May.

092717-FS-Allegheny-JLP-005 (23501796048)
usfs_Eastern_Region · 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.

Allegheny 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

  • 1marked trails within 5 kmNorth Country National Scenic Trail (PA)
  • 1car parks within 3 km
  • 8campsites within 10 kmCaterpillar Tree Campsite, Messenger Run Campsite, Rock City Campsite and 5 more
  • 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
  • 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 Allegheny 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.

Peakyas7 mountains within 25 km
Bull Hill5.6 kmBald Hill5.9 kmSwede Hill15 kmStone Hill18 kmClarion Summit19 kmCoal Knob21 kmFools Knob24 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.

BeaverMeadowsAlleghenyForest
Unknown author · Public domain
Minister Creek - Allegheny National Forest
Alexvallejo at English Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 3.0
20221004-FS-Allegheny-SO-001 Rimrock Corner Overlook USDA Forest Service photo by Shoshanna Ochocki
usfs_Eastern_Region · Public domain

Other forests nearby.

Allegheny National Forest

United States

  • 85Forestyas Score
  • 96%Trees
  • 100%Wild
  • 184Species

Finger Lakes National Forest

United States · 207 km

  • 72Forestyas Score
  • 69%Trees
  • 81%Wild
  • 227Species

See the guide

Monongahela National Forest

United States · 352 km

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

See the guide

Drew University

United States · 397 km

  • 75Forestyas Score
  • 74%Trees
  • 89%Wild
  • 146Species

See the guide

Where these figures come from

Name and typeWikidata (Q448940) · CC0
Land coverESA WorldCover 10 m 2021 v200 · © ESA WorldCover project / Copernicus Sentinel data · CC BY 4.0
Species2,330 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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