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Darß Forest

Vodimivado · CC BY-SA 3.0

92% trees around it and 841 species recorded.

88Forestyas Score

ForestDense canopyWildFungiBirdsWildlife

  • trees within 3 km92%
  • wild within 10 km99%
  • species recorded841

The forest around

92% 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 87%Grassland 10%Wetland 3%Trees 92%Grassland 3%Wetland 1%Water 3%Bare ground 0%Built-up 0%Trees 29%Grassland 18%Wetland 2%Water 48%Bare ground 1%Cropland 1%Built-up 1%Trees 4%Grassland 9%Wetland 2%Water 85%Cropland 0%Built-up 0%92%trees · 3 km

Trees, ring by ring

  • 0–1 km87%
  • 1–3 km92%
  • 3–6 km29%
  • 6–10 km4%

What covers the land (1–3 km)

  • Trees92%
  • Grassland3%
  • Wetland1%
  • Water3%
  • Bare ground0%
  • 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

841 species recorded.

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

Common Reed
Common ReedPhragmites australis89 recordsEpgrande · CC BY 4.0
Sea Rocket
Sea RocketCakile maritima65 recordsJackyM59 · CC BY-SA 4.0
Japanese rose
Japanese roseRosa rugosa51 recordsVihljun · Public domain
European Beech
European BeechFagus sylvatica48 recordsMalene Thyssen · CC BY-SA 3.0
Whortleberry
WhortleberryVaccinium myrtillus48 recordsUnknown author · CC BY-SA 3.0
Scots Pine
Scots PinePinus sylvestris43 recordsHello, I am Bruce on Flickr · CC BY-SA 2.0
Sheepbit
SheepbitJasione montana42 recordsAlun Williams333 · CC BY-SA 4.0
Rowan
RowanSorbus aucuparia38 recordsGiallopolenta · Public domain
Common Toadflax
Common ToadflaxLinaria vulgaris38 recordsIvar Leidus · CC BY-SA 4.0
Common Juniper
Common JuniperJuniperus communis37 recordsIvar Leidus · CC BY-SA 4.0
English holly
English hollyIlex aquifolium34 recordsUnknown author · Public domain
Strawflower
StrawflowerHelichrysum arenarium31 recordsUnknown author · 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.

88out of 100

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

  • 92%Treesof the land within 3 km
  • 99%Wildno towns or farmland within 10 km
  • 841Speciesrecorded more than once within 5 km

When to walk

Best for walking from June to September.

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

  1. Jan3°0°60 mm
  2. Feb3°0°46 mm
  3. Mar5°2°42 mm
  4. Apr9°5°34 mm
  5. May14°9°46 mm
  6. Jun18°13°58 mm
  7. Jul20°16°73 mm
  8. Aug20°16°74 mm
  9. Sep17°13°56 mm
  10. Oct12°9°63 mm
  11. Nov8°6°58 mm
  12. Dec4°2°62 mm
  • Bar: walking comfort; the number on top is the average maximum.
  • Below: average minimum (NASA, 1991–2020).
  • Rain: monthly total.

The place

Darß Forest.

Forest in Germany

Darß Forest is a forest in Germany.

Seen from space, 92% of the land within 3 km is trees, and 99% of the land within 10 km has no towns or farmland.

841 species have been recorded around it: 516 plants, 90 fungi, 216 birds and 19 mammals.

The most recorded plants are: Common Reed, Sea Rocket and Japanese rose.

The best time to walk is from June to September.

Darss Küste
Vodimivado · 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.

Darß 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

  • 3marked trails within 5 kmEuropäischer Fernwanderweg E9, Deutschland, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Ostseeküstenweg, Rundwanderweg Darßer Ort
  • 1named and notable trees within 6 km
  • 4picnic sites within 4 km
  • 10shelters and huts within 6 km
  • 6viewpoints within 5 kmHohe Düne, Darßer Ort and 4 more
  • 6visitor centres within 6 kmFerienservice Prerow, Touristinfo, Zimmerbörse Prerow and 3 more
  • 37car parks within 3 km
  • 10campsites within 10 kmRegenbogencamp Prerow Wohnmobilplatz 1, Ahoi Camp Darss, Meißner's Sonnen-Camp and 7 more
  • 218places to stay within 10 kmSchwarzdorn, Haus Wiesenau, Refugium and 215 more
  • 14restaurants 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 Darß 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.

Peakyas17 mountains within 25 km
Schifferberg15 m · 8.1 kmBakelberg18 m · 11 kmGlöwitzer Berg18 kmHöwt-Berg20 kmWilkens-Berg21 kmHasenhörn22 kmGalgen-Berg24 kmHaschen Berg25 km
Coastya1 beaches within 10 km
Redensee9.0 km
Birdyas1 birding sites within 25 km
Ostseeboddengewässer Westrügen-Hiddensee-Zingst17 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.

Darss Waldweg
AnBaba · CC BY-SA 4.0
Darsswald adlerfarn
Patrice77 · CC BY-SA 3.0
20170717 Versunkener Baum des Darßwalds am Weststrand, Born am Darß (08988)
Günter Seggebäing, Coesfeld · CC BY-SA 3.0

Other forests nearby.

Darß Forest

Germany

  • 88Forestyas Score
  • 92%Trees
  • 99%Wild
  • 841Species

Rostock Heath

Germany · 30 km

  • 83Forestyas Score
  • 94%Trees
  • 81%Wild
  • 1,357Species

See the guide

Corselitze Forest

Denmark · 51 km

  • 51Forestyas Score
  • 31%Trees
  • 72%Wild
  • 763Species

See the guide

Frejlev Skov

Denmark · 53 km

  • 43Forestyas Score
  • 26%Trees
  • 56%Wild
  • 979Species

See the guide

Where these figures come from

Name and typeWikidata (Q127512) · CC0
Land coverESA WorldCover 10 m 2021 v200 · © ESA WorldCover project / Copernicus Sentinel data · CC BY 4.0
Species23,489 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, Coastya, Birdyas

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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