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Forest of Chailluz

myself / moi-même · CC BY-SA 3.0

89% trees around it and 1,397 species recorded.

83Forestyas Score

ForestDense canopyFungiBirdsWildlife

  • trees within 3 km89%
  • wild within 10 km81%
  • species recorded1,397
  • Altitude347 m

The forest around

89% 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 100%Built-up 0%Trees 87%Grassland 8%Cropland 1%Built-up 4%Trees 58%Grassland 19%Water 1%Bare ground 0%Cropland 11%Built-up 11%Trees 58%Grassland 21%Water 1%Cropland 10%Built-up 10%89%trees · 3 km

Trees, ring by ring

  • 0–1 km100%
  • 1–3 km87%
  • 3–6 km58%
  • 6–10 km58%

What covers the land (1–3 km)

  • Trees87%
  • Grassland8%
  • Water0%
  • Cropland1%
  • Built-up4%

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

1,397 species recorded.

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

AshNT
AshFraxinus excelsior256 recordsWillow · CC BY 2.5
European Beech
European BeechFagus sylvatica249 recordsMalene Thyssen · CC BY-SA 3.0
Cobnut
CobnutCorylus avellana190 recordsMPF · CC BY-SA 3.0
Dungwort
DungwortHelleborus foetidus188 recordsWildfeuer · CC BY-SA 3.0
Common Ivy
Common IvyHedera helix188 recordskallerna · CC BY-SA 4.0
Ground-ivy
Ground-ivyGlechoma hederacea180 recordsAnRo0002 · CC0
Sycamore
SycamoreAcer pseudoplatanus174 recordsChristian Pirkl · CC BY-SA 3.0 at
Dogwood
DogwoodCornus sanguinea173 recordsFrank Vincentz · CC BY-SA 3.0
Field Maple
Field MapleAcer campestre164 recordsWillow · CC BY-SA 2.5
Red Clover
Red CloverTrifolium pratense163 recordsIvar Leidus · CC BY-SA 4.0
Hornbeam
HornbeamCarpinus betulus154 recordsBotaurus · Public domain
Creeping buttercup
Creeping buttercupRanunculus repens154 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.

83out of 100

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

  • 89%Treesof the land within 3 km
  • 81%Wildno towns or farmland within 10 km
  • 1,397Speciesrecorded more than once within 5 km
  • 347 mAltitudeabove the sea

When to walk

Best for walking in May and in September.

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

  1. Jan4°-2°85 mm
  2. Feb5°-2°68 mm
  3. Mar10°1°78 mm
  4. Apr15°4°68 mm
  5. May18°8°99 mm
  6. Jun23°12°89 mm
  7. Jul25°14°82 mm
  8. Aug25°14°90 mm
  9. Sep20°10°70 mm
  10. Oct15°6°92 mm
  11. Nov9°2°89 mm
  12. Dec5°-1°97 mm
  • Bar: walking comfort; the number on top is the average maximum.
  • Below: average minimum (NASA, 1991–2020).
  • Rain: monthly total.

The place

Forest of Chailluz.

Forest in France

Forest of Chailluz is a forest in France, 347 m above the sea.

Seen from space, 89% of the land within 3 km is trees, and 81% of the land within 10 km has no towns or farmland.

1,397 species have been recorded around it: 925 plants, 211 fungi, 200 birds and 61 mammals.

The most recorded plants are: Ash, European Beech and Cobnut.

The best time to walk is in May and in September.

Pierre de Chailluz
myself / moi-même · 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.

Forest of Chailluz 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

  • 17marked trails within 5 kmSaulnot - Besançon, La Fontaine des Acacias, Les Fonds de Chailluz and 14 more
  • 1named and notable trees within 6 km
  • 22picnic sites within 4 kmLes Petites Baraques, Les Grandes Baraques and 20 more
  • 46shelters and huts within 6 km
  • 6viewpoints within 5 kmBelvédère du fort de la Dame Blanche, Vue sur la Vallée de L'Ognon and 4 more
  • 33car parks within 3 km
  • 7campsites within 10 kmCamping de Besançon, Camping Verte Rive, Camping L'Esplanade and 4 more
  • 53places to stay within 10 kmIbis Besancon Marchaux, Auberge de Jeunesse Les Oiseaux, Etap Hotel Besançon nord and 50 more
  • visitor centres within 6 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 Forest of Chailluz.

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.

Peakyas2 mountains within 25 km
Jura Mountains7.2 kmMont des Buis9.7 km
Darkskyas1 dark-sky places within 30 km
Besançon Astronomical ObservatoryBortle 7 · 8.3 km
Viewyas1 viewpoints within 15 kmComing soon
Jura Mountains7.2 km
Cavernyas1 caves within 20 km
réserve naturelle régionale de la grotte de Beaumotte18 km
Cascadyas1 waterfalls within 15 km
Cascade du Bout du Monde11 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.

Forêt de Chailluz - Grandes baraques (petite école)
Toufik-de-planoise · CC BY-SA 1.0
A36 Chailluz
Géodigital · CC BY-SA 4.0
Besançon, l'entrée du fort de Chailluz
JGS25 · CC BY-SA 4.0

Other forests nearby.

Forest of Chailluz

France

  • 83Forestyas Score
  • 89%Trees
  • 81%Wild
  • 1,397Species

Forest of Chaux

France · 38 km

  • 83Forestyas Score
  • 96%Trees
  • 82%Wild
  • 1,324Species

See the guide

Risoux

Switzerland · 82 km

  • 89Forestyas Score
  • 86%Trees
  • 98%Wild
  • 1,173Species

See the guide

Cave Birseck hermitage, Palaeolithic residential cave / cult place / neolithic burial

Switzerland · 120 km

  • 74Forestyas Score
  • 65%Trees
  • 73%Wild
  • 1,564Species

See the guide

Where these figures come from

Name and typeWikidata (Q3078848) · CC0
Land coverESA WorldCover 10 m 2021 v200 · © ESA WorldCover project / Copernicus Sentinel data · CC BY 4.0
Species80,479 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, Darkskyas, Viewyas, Cavernyas, 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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