United Kingdom forest
Caledonian Forest
David Parker · CC BY 3.0
50% trees around it and 769 species recorded.
- trees within 3 km50%
- wild within 10 km100%
- species recorded769
- Altitude94 m
The forest around
50% 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, ring by ring
- 0–1 km59%
- 1–3 km49%
- 3–6 km26%
- 6–10 km21%
What covers the land (1–3 km)
- Trees49%
- Grassland48%
- Water2%
- 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
769 species recorded.
The plants, fungi, birds and mammals people have recorded here most often.
Open records within 5 km (GBIF, licensed for any use). Busy places are better recorded than remote ones.
In numbers
The forest, measured.
Our own rating, from open data only: tree cover (40 points), wildness (20), species recorded (30) and protection or heritage (10).
- 50%Treesof the land within 3 km
- 100%Wildno towns or farmland within 10 km
- 769Speciesrecorded more than once within 5 km
- 94 mAltitudeabove the sea
When to walk
Best for walking from June to August.
How good each month is for a walk: mild days and little rain make the bar taller.
- Jan0°191 mm
- Feb-1°140 mm
- Mar0°134 mm
- Apr2°100 mm
- May5°125 mm
- Jun8°131 mm
- Jul9°148 mm
- Aug9°166 mm
- Sep7°152 mm
- Oct5°177 mm
- Nov2°167 mm
- Dec0°184 mm
- Bar: walking comfort; the number on top is the average maximum.
- Below: average minimum (NASA, 1991–2020).
- Rain: monthly total.
The place
Caledonian Forest.
Scottish rainforest
Caledonian Forest is a forest in United Kingdom.
Seen from space, 50% of the land within 3 km is trees, and 100% of the land within 10 km has no towns or farmland.
769 species have been recorded around it: 475 plants, 173 fungi, 101 birds and 20 mammals.
The most recorded plants are: Hard Fern, Gorse and Queen of the meadow.
The best time to walk is from June to August.
Get there and walk
- Kytra Lockcampsite · 0.8 km · 9 within 10 km
- Fort Augustus Chalet Parkplace to stay · 2.8 km · 62 within 10 km
- Inverness Airport (INV)nearest airport with scheduled flights · 62 km in a straight lineCar hire at INV airport (Inverness)Discover Cars · sponsored link↗
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.
Around, in OpenStreetMap
- 4marked trails within 5 kmGreat Glen Way, South Loch Ness Trail, Great Glen Way High Route and 1 more
- 5picnic sites within 4 kmTorr Dhùin and 4 more
- 1shelters and huts within 6 kmBlackburn of Corrieyairack
- 4viewpoints within 5 kmLoch Ness South Viewpoint and 3 more
- 1visitor centres within 6 kmCaledonian Canal Centre
- 17car parks within 3 km
- 9campsites within 10 kmKytra Lock, Kytra Lock Trailblazer Rest Site, Loch Ness Highland Resort and 6 more
- 62places to stay within 10 kmFort Augustus Chalet Park, Lundie View B&B, Strathoich B&B and 59 more
- 12restaurants and cafés within 3 km
- named and notable trees 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 Caledonian 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.
Peakyas125 mountains within 25 km
Lakeyas6 lakes within 15 km
Darkskyas2 dark-sky places within 30 km
Birdyas1 birding sites within 25 km
Cascadyas5 waterfalls within 15 km
Riveryasthe river nearbyFigures from the sister sites' databases (Wikidata, HydroATLAS, GeoNames, OpenStreetMap). Links open when each site is online.
Photographs
The forest, as people saw it.
Other forests nearby.
Caledonian Forest
United Kingdom
- 71Forestyas Score
- 50%Trees
- 100%Wild
- 769Species
Queen Elizabeth Forest Park
United Kingdom · 108 km
- 87Forestyas Score
- 90%Trees
- 100%Wild
- 709Species
Where these figures come from
| Name and type | Wikidata (Q2663355) · CC0 |
|---|---|
| Land cover | ESA WorldCover 10 m 2021 v200 · © ESA WorldCover project / Copernicus Sentinel data · CC BY 4.0 |
| Species | 9,343 open records within 5 km (GBIF, CC0 and CC BY 4.0 only) |
| See these records | gbif.org |
| Names and photos | Wikidata (CC0); GBIF Backbone Taxonomy · CC BY 4.0; Wikimedia Commons |
| Altitude | Copernicus DEM GLO-30 · © DLR e.V., © Airbus Defence and Space GmbH, Copernicus/ESA |
| Temperature and rain | NASA POWER (CERES SYN1deg, 2001–2020; MERRA-2) |
| What is around | © OpenStreetMap contributors · ODbL |
| Images | EOX Sentinel-2 cloudless 2016 · CC BY 4.0; Wikimedia Commons |
| Sister atlases | Peakyas, Islandyas, Lakeyas, Darkskyas, Birdyas, Cascadyas, Riveryas |
Every figure is an average, an estimate or a count from a public dataset. Licences and methods: data sources.
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