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Ashley National Forest

Unknown author · CC BY-SA 2.0

12% trees around it and 33 species recorded.

42Forestyas Score

ForestNational forestMountain forest

  • trees within 3 km12%
  • wild within 10 km94%
  • species recorded33
  • Altitude1,946 m

The forest around

12% 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 14%Shrubland 10%Grassland 72%Water 0%Bare ground 1%Cropland 2%Trees 12%Shrubland 25%Grassland 57%Bare ground 4%Cropland 1%Built-up 0%Trees 11%Shrubland 25%Grassland 51%Bare ground 4%Cropland 9%Built-up 1%Trees 9%Shrubland 28%Grassland 48%Water 1%Bare ground 8%Cropland 5%Built-up 0%12%trees · 3 km

Trees, ring by ring

  • 0–1 km14%
  • 1–3 km12%
  • 3–6 km11%
  • 6–10 km9%

What covers the land (1–3 km)

  • Trees12%
  • Shrubland25%
  • Grassland57%
  • Water0%
  • Bare ground4%
  • Cropland1%
  • 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

33 species recorded.

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

Northern Raven
Northern RavenCorvus corax14 recordsDidier Descouens · CC BY-SA 3.0
Eurasian Collared Dove
Eurasian Collared DoveStreptopelia decaocto12 recordsxulescu_g · CC BY-SA 2.0
Red-tailed Hawk
Red-tailed HawkButeo jamaicensis10 recordsRhododendrites · CC BY-SA 4.0
Black-billed Magpie
Black-billed MagpiePica hudsonia10 recordswatts_photos · CC BY 2.0
Common Starling
Common StarlingSturnus vulgaris10 recordsmarsupium photography · CC BY-SA 2.0
House Sparrow
House SparrowPasser domesticus6 recordsDiliff · CC BY-SA 3.0
Canada Goose
Canada GooseBranta canadensis6 recordsPierre5018 · CC BY-SA 4.0
Golden Eagle
Golden EagleAquila chrysaetos5 recordsJarkko Järvinen · CC BY-SA 2.0
Turkey Vulture
Turkey VultureCathartes aura5 recordsJairmoreirafotografia · CC BY-SA 4.0
KilldeerNT
KilldeerCharadrius vociferus4 recordsAlan D. Wilson · CC BY-SA 3.0
American Crow
American CrowCorvus brachyrhynchos4 recordsUnknown author · CC BY-SA 3.0
Say's phoebe
Say's phoebeSayornis saya4 recordsWolfgang Wander · 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.

42out of 100

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

  • 12%Treesof the land within 3 km
  • 94%Wildno towns or farmland within 10 km
  • 33Speciesrecorded more than once within 5 km
  • 1,946 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°-15°50 mm
  2. Feb-3°-15°42 mm
  3. Mar2°-10°46 mm
  4. Apr7°-6°53 mm
  5. May13°-1°47 mm
  6. Jun21°4°26 mm
  7. Jul26°10°23 mm
  8. Aug24°8°30 mm
  9. Sep19°3°41 mm
  10. Oct10°-3°43 mm
  11. Nov3°-9°42 mm
  12. Dec-3°-15°61 mm
  • Bar: walking comfort; the number on top is the average maximum.
  • Below: average minimum (NASA, 1991–2020).
  • Rain: monthly total.

The place

Ashley National Forest.

National forest in Utah and Wyoming, United States

Ashley National Forest is a national forest in United States, 1,946 m above the sea.

Seen from space, 12% of the land within 3 km is trees, and 94% of the land within 10 km has no towns or farmland.

33 species have been recorded around it: 0 plants, 0 fungi, 30 birds and 3 mammals.

The best time to walk is in September.

Naturalist Basin
Unknown author · CC BY-SA 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.

Ashley 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

  • 2places to stay within 10 kmAltamont Motel, Rock Creek Store, Bed and breakfast
  • marked trails within 5 km
  • 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
  • car parks within 3 km
  • campsites 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 Ashley 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.

Peakyas10 mountains within 25 km
Todd Hill10 kmSteamboat Mountain12 kmFlat Top14 kmButcher Knife15 kmThe Nipple15 kmBald Knoll16 kmBlacktail Mountain22 kmFlattop Butte23 km
Lakeyas1 lakes within 15 km
Big Sand Wash Reservoir1.3 km² · 9.6 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.

20170927-FS-ASF NF-FG-Sunrise Flaming Gorge DSC 0019 (37637316511)
Intermountain Region US Forest Service · Public domain
20180704-FS-AshleyNF-DB-Flaming Gorge NRA-01 IMG 01 (45651680501)
Intermountain Region US Forest Service · Public domain
2015 6 23 FS Ashley NF LH IMG 5487 (32979367404)
Intermountain Forest Service, USDA Region 4 Photography · Public domain

Other forests nearby.

Ashley National Forest

United States

  • 42Forestyas Score
  • 12%Trees
  • 94%Wild
  • 33Species

Manti–La Sal National Forest

United States · 149 km

  • 57Forestyas Score
  • 24%Trees
  • 100%Wild
  • 196Species

See the guide

Wasatch–Cache National Forest

United States · 203 km

  • 66Forestyas Score
  • 64%Trees
  • 75%Wild
  • 180Species

See the guide

Dixie National Forest

United States · 281 km

  • 83Forestyas Score
  • 93%Trees
  • 100%Wild
  • 110Species

See the guide

Where these figures come from

Name and typeWikidata (Q4805539) · CC0
Land coverESA WorldCover 10 m 2021 v200 · © ESA WorldCover project / Copernicus Sentinel data · CC BY 4.0
Species231 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

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

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