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Gallatin National Forest

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49% trees around it and 19 species recorded.

59Forestyas Score

ForestNational forestWildMountain forest

  • trees within 3 km49%
  • wild within 10 km100%
  • species recorded19
  • Altitude2,712 m

The forest around

49% 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 85%Grassland 4%Moss and lichen 10%Bare ground 2%Trees 45%Grassland 14%Moss and lichen 29%Water 0%Bare ground 12%Trees 60%Grassland 15%Moss and lichen 18%Bare ground 7%Trees 65%Grassland 20%Moss and lichen 12%Bare ground 3%49%trees · 3 km

Trees, ring by ring

  • 0–1 km85%
  • 1–3 km45%
  • 3–6 km60%
  • 6–10 km65%

What covers the land (1–3 km)

  • Trees45%
  • Grassland14%
  • Moss and lichen29%
  • Bare ground12%

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

19 species recorded.

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

Nodding bluegrass
Nodding bluegrassPoa reflexa2 recordsMatt Lavin from Bozeman, Montana, USA · CC BY-SA 2.0
Alpine bluegrass
Alpine bluegrassPoa alpina2 recordsDaderot · Public domain
Alpine laurel
Alpine laurelKalmia microphylla2 recordsWalter Siegmund · CC BY-SA 3.0
Whitish gentian
Whitish gentianGentiana algida2 recordsJane Richardson ( talk · contribs ) · CC BY 3.0
Spreading wheatgrass
Spreading wheatgrassElymus scribneri2 recordsHitchcock, A.S. (rev. A. Chase). · Public domain
Arctic hairgrassVahlodea atropurpurea2 records
Hayden's cloverTrifolium haydenii2 records
Dwarf red whortleberryVaccinium scoparium2 records
Montana huckleberryVaccinium membranaceum2 records

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

In numbers

The forest, measured.

59out of 100

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

  • 49%Treesof the land within 3 km
  • 100%Wildno towns or farmland within 10 km
  • 19Speciesrecorded more than once within 5 km
  • 2,712 mAltitudeabove the sea

When to walk

Best for walking in June and in September.

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

  1. Jan-4°-14°42 mm
  2. Feb-3°-14°49 mm
  3. Mar2°-8°54 mm
  4. Apr7°-5°76 mm
  5. May14°0°89 mm
  6. Jun20°5°79 mm
  7. Jul26°10°42 mm
  8. Aug24°8°37 mm
  9. Sep18°3°45 mm
  10. Oct9°-3°60 mm
  11. Nov2°-8°49 mm
  12. Dec-4°-14°47 mm
  • Bar: walking comfort; the number on top is the average maximum.
  • Below: average minimum (NASA, 1991–2020).
  • Rain: monthly total.

The place

Gallatin National Forest.

National forest in Montana, United States

Gallatin National Forest is a national forest in United States, 2,712 m above the sea.

Seen from space, 49% of the land within 3 km is trees, and 100% of the land within 10 km has no towns or farmland.

19 species have been recorded around it: 9 plants, 0 fungi, 10 birds and 0 mammals.

The most recorded plants are: Nodding bluegrass, Alpine bluegrass and Alpine laurel.

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

Gallatin National Forest
Unknown author · 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.

Gallatin 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 Gallatin 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.

    Peakyas40 mountains within 25 km
    Boulder Mountain11 kmBaboon Mountain12 kmMount Cowen16 kmArrow Peak16 kmMount Douglas3,440 m · 18 kmBreakneck Mountain18 kmBlack Mountain23 kmAsh Mountain3,124 m · 24 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.

    Bridger Ridgeline
    Rperry99 ( talk ) ( Uploads ) · CC BY-SA 3.0
    Buck Creek Road overlooking the Crazies Custer Gallatin NF NRB Image 2 (53283012930)
    Forest Service - Northern Region · Public domain
    Bridge from Gallatin River Custer Gallatin National Forest (52379386269)
    Forest Service - Northern Region · Public domain

    Other forests nearby.

    Gallatin National Forest

    United States

    • 59Forestyas Score
    • 49%Trees
    • 100%Wild
    • 19Species

    Custer National Forest

    United States · 50 km

    • 69Forestyas Score
    • 56%Trees
    • 100%Wild
    • 96Species

    See the guide

    Shoshone National Forest

    United States · 108 km

    • 64Forestyas Score
    • 39%Trees
    • 100%Wild
    • 180Species

    See the guide

    Lewis and Clark National Forest

    United States · 180 km

    • 85Forestyas Score
    • 94%Trees
    • 100%Wild
    • 164Species

    See the guide

    Where these figures come from

    Name and typeWikidata (Q1751739) · CC0
    Land coverESA WorldCover 10 m 2021 v200 · © ESA WorldCover project / Copernicus Sentinel data · CC BY 4.0
    Species92 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.

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