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Craigieburn Forest Park

Michal Klajban · CC BY-SA 4.0

22% trees around it and 71 species recorded.

48Forestyas Score

ForestWildMountain forest

  • trees within 3 km22%
  • wild within 10 km100%
  • species recorded71
  • Altitude1,485 m

The forest around

22% 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 20%Shrubland 1%Grassland 34%Bare ground 44%Snow and ice 1%Trees 23%Shrubland 1%Grassland 22%Bare ground 53%Snow and ice 1%Trees 29%Shrubland 0%Grassland 38%Water 2%Bare ground 30%Snow and ice 0%Trees 36%Shrubland 0%Grassland 39%Water 1%Bare ground 20%Snow and ice 3%22%trees · 3 km

Trees, ring by ring

  • 0–1 km20%
  • 1–3 km23%
  • 3–6 km29%
  • 6–10 km36%

What covers the land (1–3 km)

  • Trees23%
  • Shrubland1%
  • Grassland22%
  • Water0%
  • Bare ground53%
  • Snow and ice1%

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

71 species recorded.

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

Celmisia angustifolia
Celmisia angustifoliaCelmisia angustifolia8 recordsJohn Barkla · CC BY 4.0
Veronica pinguifolia
Veronica pinguifoliaVeronica pinguifolia5 recordsKurt Stüber [1] · CC BY-SA 3.0
Celmisia spectabilis
Celmisia spectabilisCelmisia spectabilis5 recordsHenry Hart · CC0
Lobelia macrodon
Lobelia macrodonLobelia macrodon4 recordsMatilda Smith · Public domain
Aciphylla monroi
Aciphylla monroiAciphylla monroi4 recordsnaturewatchwidow · CC BY 4.0
Coprosma perpusilla
Coprosma perpusillaCoprosma perpusilla3 recordsP. J. de Lange · CC BY 4.0
Leucogenes grandiceps
Leucogenes grandicepsLeucogenes grandiceps3 recordsMatt Scott · CC BY 4.0
Drosera peltata
Drosera peltataDrosera peltata3 recordsNo machine-readable author provided. Denis Barthel assumed (based on copyright claims). · CC BY-SA 3.0
Common Broom
Common BroomCytisus scoparius3 recordsUnknown author · Public domain
Nothofagus cliffortioides
Nothofagus cliffortioidesNothofagus cliffortioides2 recordsKrzysztof Ziarnek, Kenraiz · CC BY 4.0
Anaphalioides bellidioides
Anaphalioides bellidioidesAnaphalioides bellidioides2 recordsKrzysztof Ziarnek, Kenraiz · CC BY-SA 4.0
Luzula rufaLuzula rufa9 records

Open records within 5 km (GBIF, licensed for any use). Busy places are better recorded than remote ones.

In numbers

The forest, measured.

48out of 100

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

  • 22%Treesof the land within 3 km
  • 100%Wildno towns or farmland within 10 km
  • 71Speciesrecorded more than once within 5 km
  • 1,485 mAltitudeabove the sea

When to walk

Best for walking from January to February.

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

  1. Jan15°8°135 mm
  2. Feb15°8°109 mm
  3. Mar14°7°123 mm
  4. Apr11°4°139 mm
  5. May8°3°154 mm
  6. Jun5°1°153 mm
  7. Jul4°0°130 mm
  8. Aug6°1°134 mm
  9. Sep8°2°131 mm
  10. Oct9°2°159 mm
  11. Nov12°4°139 mm
  12. Dec14°6°160 mm
  • Bar: walking comfort; the number on top is the average maximum.
  • Below: average minimum (NASA, 1991–2020).
  • Rain: monthly total.

The place

Craigieburn Forest Park.

Forest park in New Zealand

Craigieburn Forest Park is a forest in New Zealand, 1,485 m above the sea.

Seen from space, 22% of the land within 3 km is trees, and 100% of the land within 10 km has no towns or farmland.

71 species have been recorded around it: 45 plants, 9 fungi, 15 birds and 2 mammals.

The most recorded plants are: Celmisia angustifolia, Veronica pinguifolia and Celmisia spectabilis.

The best time to walk is from January to February.

View to Black Range from Cass River, Craigieburn Forest Park, New Zealand
Michal Klajban · CC BY-SA 4.0

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.

Craigieburn Forest 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

  • 4shelters and huts within 6 kmLagoon Saddle Hut, Basins Hut, Old Basins Hut and 1 more
  • 1places to stay within 10 kmArthurs Pass Eco Lodge
  • marked trails within 5 km
  • named and notable trees within 6 km
  • picnic sites within 4 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 Craigieburn Forest 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.

Peakyas132 mountains within 25 km
Mount Gizeh2,162 m · 11 kmAvoca Mountain2,131 m · 13 kmMount Greenlaw2,315 m · 13 kmMount Harper2,222 m · 16 kmMount Murchison2,408 m · 17 kmMount Wakeman2,271 m · 17 kmMount Davie2,280 m · 19 kmMount Rolleston2,275 m · 21 km
Islandyasthe island
South Island150,437 km²
Darkskyas1 dark-sky places within 30 km
Ōtira GorgeBortle 2 · 26 km
Cascadyas1 waterfalls within 15 km
Gerard Falls14 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.

Baldy Hill from Snowslide Valley, Craigieburn Range, Canterbury, New Zealand
Michal Klajban · CC BY-SA 4.0
Hamilton Hut 27
Wildman NZ · CC BY-SA 4.0

Other forests nearby.

Craigieburn Forest Park

New Zealand

  • 48Forestyas Score
  • 22%Trees
  • 100%Wild
  • 71Species

Christchurch Botanic Gardens

New Zealand · 100 km

  • 43Forestyas Score
  • 18%Trees
  • 57%Wild
  • 1,056Species

See the guide

Where these figures come from

Name and typeWikidata (Q3251168) · CC0
Land coverESA WorldCover 10 m 2021 v200 · © ESA WorldCover project / Copernicus Sentinel data · CC BY 4.0
Species384 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, Islandyas, Darkskyas, Cascadyas

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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Same idea, other landscapes: field atlases built on open data, in seven languages.

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