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Anja's Park

Anja Laaksonen · CC BY-SA 3.0

81% trees around it and 14 species recorded.

69Forestyas Score

Arboretum

  • trees within 3 km81%
  • wild within 10 km91%
  • species recorded14
  • Altitude88 m

The forest around

81% 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 75%Grassland 6%Water 19%Trees 81%Grassland 4%Water 12%Bare ground 1%Cropland 1%Built-up 1%Trees 70%Grassland 4%Wetland 0%Water 18%Cropland 5%Built-up 2%Trees 70%Grassland 4%Water 15%Cropland 6%Built-up 5%81%trees · 3 km

Trees, ring by ring

  • 0–1 km75%
  • 1–3 km81%
  • 3–6 km70%
  • 6–10 km70%

What covers the land (1–3 km)

  • Trees81%
  • Grassland4%
  • Water12%
  • Bare ground1%
  • Cropland1%
  • Built-up1%

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

14 species recorded.

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

Norway Spruce
Norway SprucePicea abies3 recordsIvar Leidus · CC BY-SA 3.0 ee
Scots Pine
Scots PinePinus sylvestris3 recordsHello, I am Bruce on Flickr · CC BY-SA 2.0
Bigleaf lupine
Bigleaf lupineLupinus polyphyllus2 recordsJoe Mabel (on Flickr as Joe Mabel from Seattle, US) · CC BY-SA 3.0
Clustered lady's mantle
Clustered lady's mantleAlchemilla glomerulans2 recordsLen Worthington · CC BY-SA 2.0
Bracken
BrackenPteridium aquilinum2 recordsStefan.lefnaer · CC BY-SA 4.0
FireweedChamaenerion angustifolium2 records

Open records within 2 km (GBIF, licensed for any use). Busy places are better recorded than remote ones.

In numbers

The forest, measured.

69out of 100

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

  • 81%Treesof the land within 3 km
  • 91%Wildno towns or farmland within 10 km
  • 14Speciesrecorded more than once within 2 km
  • 88 mAltitudeabove the sea

When to walk

Best for walking in June and in August.

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

  1. Jan-7°-13°51 mm
  2. Feb-6°-12°40 mm
  3. Mar-1°-7°41 mm
  4. Apr7°0°46 mm
  5. May15°6°67 mm
  6. Jun19°11°91 mm
  7. Jul22°14°97 mm
  8. Aug20°13°85 mm
  9. Sep14°8°70 mm
  10. Oct6°2°72 mm
  11. Nov0°-4°66 mm
  12. Dec-4°-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

Anja's Park.

Private park or arboretum in Mikkeli, Finland

Anja's Park is an arboretum in Finland.

Seen from space, 81% of the land within 3 km is trees, and 91% of the land within 10 km has no towns or farmland.

14 species have been recorded around it: 6 plants, 0 fungi, 6 birds and 2 mammals.

The most recorded plants are: Norway Spruce, Scots Pine and Bigleaf lupine.

The best time to walk is in June and in August.

Maisema Anjan Puistosta copyright Anjan Puisto
Anja Laaksonen · CC BY-SA 3.0

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.

Anja's Park 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

  • 4named and notable trees within 6 km
  • 20shelters and huts within 6 kmRitvalan uimarannan pukukopit, Säynätin kota, Lasikorven laavu and 17 more
  • 3car parks within 3 km
  • 1campsites within 10 kmVisulahti
  • 8places to stay within 10 kmAnnilan kartano, Sokos Hotel Vaakuna, Scandic Mikkeli and 5 more
  • 1restaurants and cafés within 3 km
  • marked trails within 5 km
  • picnic sites within 4 km
  • viewpoints within 5 km
  • visitor centres within 6 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 Anja's Park.

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.

Peakyas1 mountains within 25 km
Mount Kedykverpakhk21 km
Lakeyas45 lakes within 15 km
Pitkäjärvi1.2 km² · 7.3 kmSaarijärvi2.6 km² · 7.7 kmToplanen2.2 km² · 9.9 kmKallajärvi1.5 km² · 10 kmTarsalanjärvi1.1 km² · 11 kmAlajärvi1.6 km² · 12 kmIso-Vuolinko1.6 km² · 12 kmSyysjärvi11 km² · 13 km
Viewyas1 viewpoints within 15 kmComing soon
Mikkeli Naisvuori water tower7.0 km

Figures from the sister sites' databases (Wikidata, HydroATLAS, GeoNames, OpenStreetMap). Links open when each site is online.

Other forests nearby.

Anja's Park

Finland

  • 69Forestyas Score
  • 81%Trees
  • 91%Wild
  • 14Species

Kovalevsky Forest

Russia · 252 km

  • 72Forestyas Score
  • 89%Trees
  • 76%Wild
  • 173Species

See the guide

University of Helsinki Botanical Garden

Finland · 211 km

  • 52Forestyas Score
  • 14%Trees
  • 79%Wild
  • 1,923Species

See the guide

Shuvalovsky Park

Russia · 236 km

  • 52Forestyas Score
  • 40%Trees
  • 62%Wild
  • 343Species

See the guide

Where these figures come from

Name and typeWikidata (Q11851493) · CC0
Land coverESA WorldCover 10 m 2021 v200 · © ESA WorldCover project / Copernicus Sentinel data · CC BY 4.0
Species74 open records within 2 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, Viewyas

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

The family

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