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Arapaho National Forest

Idawriter · CC BY-SA 3.0

5% trees around it and 322 species recorded.

50Forestyas Score

ForestNational forestWildMountain forest

  • trees within 3 km5%
  • wild within 10 km100%
  • species recorded322
  • Altitude4,330 m

The forest around

5% 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.

Grassland 24%Moss and lichen 18%Water 2%Bare ground 57%Trees 6%Grassland 37%Moss and lichen 34%Water 1%Bare ground 21%Trees 37%Grassland 36%Moss and lichen 21%Water 0%Bare ground 5%Trees 76%Grassland 13%Moss and lichen 8%Water 0%Bare ground 3%5%trees · 3 km

Trees, ring by ring

  • 0–1 km0%
  • 1–3 km6%
  • 3–6 km37%
  • 6–10 km76%

What covers the land (1–3 km)

  • Trees6%
  • Grassland37%
  • Moss and lichen34%
  • Water1%
  • Bare ground21%

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

322 species recorded.

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

Alpine springbeauty
Alpine springbeautyClaytonia megarhiza79 recordsWalter Siegmund · CC BY-SA 3.0
Ross' avens
Ross' avensGeum rossii73 recordsDenali National Park and Preserve · Public domain
Ledge stonecrop
Ledge stonecropRhodiola integrifolia48 recordsJerryFriedman · CC BY-SA 3.0
Cherleria obtusiloba
Cherleria obtusilobaCherleria obtusiloba40 recordsAndrey Zharkikh from Salt Lake City, USA · CC BY 2.0
Snakeweed
SnakeweedBistorta bistortoides39 recordsWalter Siegmund · CC BY-SA 3.0
Whitish gentian
Whitish gentianGentiana algida38 recordsJane Richardson ( talk · contribs ) · CC BY 3.0
Hymenoxys grandiflora
Hymenoxys grandifloraHymenoxys grandiflora34 recordsClements, Edith Gertrude (Schwartz); Clements, Frederic E. · Public domain
Moss campion
Moss campionSilene acaulis33 recordsMichael Haferkamp, aka Mikesegeln at en.wikipedia · CC BY-SA 3.0
Alpine primrose
Alpine primrosePrimula angustifolia33 recordsPatrick Alexander · CC0
Dwarf clover
Dwarf cloverTrifolium nanum32 recordsZjason13 · CC BY-SA 4.0
Mountain sedge
Mountain sedgeCarex scopulorum29 recordsMatt Lavin · CC BY-SA 2.0
White marsh marigold
White marsh marigoldCaltha leptosepala28 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.

50out of 100

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

  • 5%Treesof the land within 3 km
  • 100%Wildno towns or farmland within 10 km
  • 322Speciesrecorded more than once within 5 km
  • 4,330 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°-14°31 mm
  2. Feb-3°-14°36 mm
  3. Mar2°-10°46 mm
  4. Apr7°-6°59 mm
  5. May13°-2°59 mm
  6. Jun22°4°37 mm
  7. Jul24°7°62 mm
  8. Aug22°6°53 mm
  9. Sep18°2°40 mm
  10. Oct10°-4°38 mm
  11. Nov3°-9°31 mm
  12. Dec-3°-14°34 mm
  • Bar: walking comfort; the number on top is the average maximum.
  • Below: average minimum (NASA, 1991–2020).
  • Rain: monthly total.

The place

Arapaho National Forest.

National forest in north-central Colorado, United States

Arapaho National Forest is a national forest in United States, 4,330 m above the sea.

Seen from space, 5% of the land within 3 km is trees, and 100% of the land within 10 km has no towns or farmland.

322 species have been recorded around it: 170 plants, 21 fungi, 118 birds and 13 mammals.

The most recorded plants are: Alpine springbeauty, Ross' avens and Ledge stonecrop.

The best time to walk is in September.

Arapaho National Forest - panoramio (1)
Idawriter · 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.

Arapaho 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 kmChicago Lakes Lookout
  • 3car parks within 3 km
  • 43campsites within 10 kmClear Lake Campground, Site 8, Site 10 and 40 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
  • 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 Arapaho 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.

Peakyas133 mountains within 25 km
Mount Blue Sky4,350 m · 0.1 kmThe Sawtooth4,202 m · 1.8 kmMount Bierstadt4,286 m · 2.3 kmArgentine Peak4,189 m · 12 kmMount Edwards4,223 m · 14 kmGrays Peak4,350 m · 16 kmTorreys Peak4,349 m · 16 kmBard Peak4,160 m · 20 km
Darkskyas2 dark-sky places within 30 km
Mount Blue SkyBortle 2 · 0.1 kmMeyer–Womble ObservatoryBortle 3 · 0.2 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.

Arapaho National Forest - panoramio
Idawriter · CC BY-SA 3.0
Greys Peak trailhead
Tyler Lahti · CC BY-SA 2.0
East Troublesome Fire burn scar in Arapaho National Forest 2024-06-29
Trellbailey · CC BY-SA 4.0

Other forests nearby.

Arapaho National Forest

United States

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

White River National Forest

United States · 107 km

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

See the guide

Pike National Forest

United States · 53 km

  • 46Forestyas Score
  • 6%Trees
  • 100%Wild
  • 118Species

See the guide

Roosevelt National Forest

United States · 125 km

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

See the guide

Where these figures come from

Name and typeWikidata (Q3079100) · CC0
Land coverESA WorldCover 10 m 2021 v200 · © ESA WorldCover project / Copernicus Sentinel data · CC BY 4.0
Species14,028 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, Darkskyas

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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