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Apache–Sitgreaves National Forests

Zereshk · CC BY-SA 3.0

67% trees around it and 253 species recorded.

78Forestyas Score

ForestNational forestWildMountain forestWildlife

  • trees within 3 km67%
  • wild within 10 km100%
  • species recorded253
  • Altitude2,664 m

The forest around

67% 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 73%Shrubland 0%Grassland 27%Trees 67%Shrubland 1%Grassland 32%Trees 75%Shrubland 2%Grassland 24%Trees 63%Shrubland 4%Grassland 34%67%trees · 3 km

Trees, ring by ring

  • 0–1 km73%
  • 1–3 km67%
  • 3–6 km75%
  • 6–10 km63%

What covers the land (1–3 km)

  • Trees67%
  • Shrubland1%
  • Grassland32%

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

253 species recorded.

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

Towering Jacob's-ladder
Towering Jacob's-ladderPolemonium foliosissimum9 recordsJerryFriedman · CC BY-SA 3.0
Sanddune wallflower
Sanddune wallflowerErysimum capitatum8 recordsEric in SF · CC BY-SA 3.0
Franciscan bluebells
Franciscan bluebellsMertensia franciscana8 recordsJerryFriedman · CC BY-SA 3.0
Spreading sandwort
Spreading sandwortArenaria lanuginosa8 recordsDick Culbert from Gibsons, B.C., Canada · CC BY 2.0
Richardson's geranium
Richardson's geraniumGeranium richardsonii7 recordsJohnIngraham · CC BY-SA 3.0
Mt. Graham beardtongue
Mt. Graham beardtonguePenstemon deaveri7 recordsPatrick Alexander from Las Cruces, NM · CC0
Subalpine Fir
Subalpine FirAbies lasiocarpa6 recordsWalter Siegmund · CC BY 2.5
White Fir
White FirAbies concolor6 recordsPuncsos · CC BY-SA 3.0
Greenflowered wintergreen
Greenflowered wintergreenPyrola chlorantha6 recordsBernd Haynold · CC BY 2.5
Quaking aspen
Quaking aspenPopulus tremuloides6 recordsScott Catron · CC BY 2.5
Pygmyflower rockjasmine
Pygmyflower rockjasmineAndrosace septentrionalis6 recordsStan Shebs · CC BY-SA 3.0
Treacle-berry
Treacle-berryMaianthemum racemosum5 recordsWalter Siegmund · 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.

78out of 100

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

  • 67%Treesof the land within 3 km
  • 100%Wildno towns or farmland within 10 km
  • 253Speciesrecorded more than once within 5 km
  • 2,664 mAltitudeabove the sea

When to walk

Best for walking in April.

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

  1. Jan9°-4°36 mm
  2. Feb10°-3°29 mm
  3. Mar15°0°21 mm
  4. Apr19°2°12 mm
  5. May24°7°10 mm
  6. Jun31°13°11 mm
  7. Jul30°16°86 mm
  8. Aug28°15°79 mm
  9. Sep26°11°49 mm
  10. Oct20°6°25 mm
  11. Nov14°0°26 mm
  12. Dec8°-4°35 mm
  • Bar: walking comfort; the number on top is the average maximum.
  • Below: average minimum (NASA, 1991–2020).
  • Rain: monthly total.

The place

Apache–Sitgreaves National Forests.

National Forest in Arizona and New Mexico in the United States

Apache–Sitgreaves National Forests is a national forest in United States, 2,664 m above the sea.

Seen from space, 67% of the land within 3 km is trees, and 100% of the land within 10 km has no towns or farmland.

253 species have been recorded around it: 125 plants, 14 fungi, 98 birds and 16 mammals.

The most recorded plants are: Towering Jacob's-ladder, Sanddune wallflower and Franciscan bluebells.

The best time to walk is in April.

Apache Sitgreaves Nima1
Zereshk · 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.

Apache–Sitgreaves National 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

  • 1picnic sites within 4 km
  • 4campsites within 10 kmHannagan Campground, Josh Ranch RV Park, KP Cienega Campground and 1 more
  • 2places to stay within 10 kmHannagan Meadow Lodge, Josh Ranch
  • marked trails within 5 km
  • named and notable trees within 6 km
  • shelters and huts within 6 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 Apache–Sitgreaves National 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.

Peakyas42 mountains within 25 km
Burke Point6.2 kmBlue Peak8.3 kmCrooks Mesa12 kmBear Mountain18 kmAuger Peak19 kmBrigham Peak22 kmBonanza Bill Point23 kmBonehead Mesa23 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.

Apache Abbas
Nightryder84 · CC BY-SA 3.0
Apache national forest
Geographer at English Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 2.5
20181206-FS-APACHE-SITGREAVES-LSC-1526-180PANO
USDAgov · Public domain

Other forests nearby.

Apache–Sitgreaves National Forests

United States

  • 78Forestyas Score
  • 67%Trees
  • 100%Wild
  • 253Species

Gila National Forest

United States · 72 km

  • 62Forestyas Score
  • 41%Trees
  • 100%Wild
  • 100Species

See the guide

Tonto National Forest

United States · 186 km

  • 47Forestyas Score
  • 2%Trees
  • 99%Wild
  • 219Species

See the guide

Cibola National Forest

United States · 188 km

  • 47Forestyas Score
  • 27%Trees
  • 100%Wild
  • 12Species

See the guide

Where these figures come from

Name and typeWikidata (Q453831) · CC0
Land coverESA WorldCover 10 m 2021 v200 · © ESA WorldCover project / Copernicus Sentinel data · CC BY 4.0
Species5,696 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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