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Daniel Boone National Forest

US Forest Service - Southern Region · Public domain

90% trees around it and 20 species recorded.

76Forestyas Score

ForestNational forestDense canopyWild

  • trees within 3 km90%
  • wild within 10 km99%
  • species recorded20
  • Altitude352 m

The forest around

90% 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 86%Grassland 14%Trees 90%Grassland 10%Trees 85%Grassland 14%Cropland 0%Trees 79%Grassland 21%Cropland 0%Built-up 0%90%trees · 3 km

Trees, ring by ring

  • 0–1 km86%
  • 1–3 km90%
  • 3–6 km85%
  • 6–10 km79%

What covers the land (1–3 km)

  • Trees90%
  • Grassland10%
  • Cropland0%
  • 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

20 species recorded.

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

American Crow
American CrowCorvus brachyrhynchos5 recordsUnknown author · CC BY-SA 3.0
Northern Cardinal
Northern CardinalCardinalis cardinalis5 recordspatricia pierce · CC BY 2.0
Eastern Towhee
Eastern TowheePipilo erythrophthalmus5 recordsBill Thompson of U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Northeast Region · CC BY 2.0
Wood Thrush
Wood ThrushHylocichla mustelina4 recordsHylocichla mustelina.jpg : Steve Maslowski, US Fish and Wildlife Service derivative work: · Public domain
Gray Catbird
Gray CatbirdDumetella carolinensis4 recordsAMMuench · CC BY 4.0
American Robin
American RobinTurdus migratorius4 recordsRhododendrites · CC BY-SA 4.0
Blue Jay
Blue JayCyanocitta cristata3 recordsRhododendrites · CC BY-SA 4.0
Carolina Chickadee
Carolina ChickadeePoecile carolinensis3 recordsDickDaniels ( http://carolinabirds.org ) · CC BY-SA 3.0
Tufted Titmouse
Tufted TitmouseBaeolophus bicolor3 recordsRhododendrites · CC BY-SA 4.0
Common Yellowthroat
Common YellowthroatGeothlypis trichas3 recordsRhododendrites · CC BY-SA 4.0
American Goldfinch
American GoldfinchSpinus tristis3 recordsOmaksimenko · CC BY-SA 4.0
Zebra woodpecker
Zebra woodpeckerMelanerpes carolinus2 recordshttp://www.birdphotos.com · CC BY 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.

76out of 100

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

  • 90%Treesof the land within 3 km
  • 99%Wildno towns or farmland within 10 km
  • 20Speciesrecorded more than once within 5 km
  • 352 mAltitudeabove the sea

When to walk

Best for walking in April and in October.

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

  1. Jan5°-4°89 mm
  2. Feb7°-3°101 mm
  3. Mar13°2°102 mm
  4. Apr19°7°117 mm
  5. May24°13°122 mm
  6. Jun28°17°112 mm
  7. Jul30°19°133 mm
  8. Aug30°18°94 mm
  9. Sep28°14°88 mm
  10. Oct20°8°90 mm
  11. Nov13°2°86 mm
  12. Dec8°-2°110 mm
  • Bar: walking comfort; the number on top is the average maximum.
  • Below: average minimum (NASA, 1991–2020).
  • Rain: monthly total.

The place

Daniel Boone National Forest.

National forest in Kentucky

Daniel Boone National Forest is a national forest in United States, 352 m above the sea.

Seen from space, 90% of the land within 3 km is trees, and 99% of the land within 10 km has no towns or farmland.

20 species have been recorded around it: 0 plants, 0 fungi, 20 birds and 0 mammals.

The best time to walk is in April and in October.

20080325-FS-DanielBoone-002 (17256487125)
US Forest Service - Southern Region · Public domain

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.

Daniel Boone 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

    • 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
    • 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 Daniel Boone 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.

    Peakyas18 mountains within 25 km
    High Knob4.8 kmHunters Knob14 kmCutoff Mountain18 kmCutoff Knob18 kmCut Off Knob20 kmLaurel Hill21 kmRocky Knob25 kmFrazier Knob25 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.

    20080509-FS-DanielBoone-003 (17068521028)
    US Forest Service - Southern Region · Public domain

    Other forests nearby.

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    United States

    • 76Forestyas Score
    • 90%Trees
    • 99%Wild
    • 20Species

    Cherokee National Forest

    United States · 174 km

    • 81Forestyas Score
    • 98%Trees
    • 100%Wild
    • 59Species

    See the guide

    Wayne National Forest

    United States · 197 km

    • 84Forestyas Score
    • 87%Trees
    • 99%Wild
    • 136Species

    See the guide

    Pisgah National Forest

    United States · 235 km

    • 89Forestyas Score
    • 100%Trees
    • 100%Wild
    • 452Species

    See the guide

    Where these figures come from

    Name and typeWikidata (Q1160129) · CC0
    Land coverESA WorldCover 10 m 2021 v200 · © ESA WorldCover project / Copernicus Sentinel data · CC BY 4.0
    Species97 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.

    The family

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