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Great Bear Rainforest

Roy Luck · CC BY 2.0

29% of the land around it is trees.

34Forestyas Score

ForestWild

  • trees within 3 km29%
  • wild within 10 km100%
  • Altitude209 m

The forest around

29% 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 77%Grassland 13%Moss and lichen 10%Bare ground 0%Trees 22%Grassland 11%Moss and lichen 38%Water 7%Bare ground 19%Snow and ice 3%Trees 45%Grassland 10%Moss and lichen 24%Water 6%Bare ground 11%Snow and ice 4%Trees 39%Grassland 11%Moss and lichen 24%Water 3%Bare ground 14%Snow and ice 9%29%trees · 3 km

Trees, ring by ring

  • 0–1 km77%
  • 1–3 km22%
  • 3–6 km45%
  • 6–10 km39%

What covers the land (1–3 km)

  • Trees22%
  • Grassland11%
  • Moss and lichen38%
  • Water7%
  • Bare ground19%
  • Snow and ice3%

ESA WorldCover 2021 (10 m, from Sentinel satellites), sampled every 120 m. A clearing, a road or a lake counts as what it is.

In numbers

The forest, measured.

34out of 100

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

  • 29%Treesof the land within 3 km
  • 100%Wildno towns or farmland within 10 km
  • 209 mAltitudeabove the sea

When to walk

Best for walking from July to August.

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

  1. Jan0°-5°357 mm
  2. Feb0°-6°216 mm
  3. Mar2°-4°275 mm
  4. Apr5°-1°203 mm
  5. May10°3°149 mm
  6. Jun14°6°158 mm
  7. Jul17°9°158 mm
  8. Aug17°9°172 mm
  9. Sep13°6°259 mm
  10. Oct8°2°365 mm
  11. Nov2°-2°394 mm
  12. Dec-1°-6°325 mm
  • Bar: walking comfort; the number on top is the average maximum.
  • Below: average minimum (NASA, 1991–2020).
  • Rain: monthly total.

The place

Great Bear Rainforest.

Temperate rainforest on the Pacific coast of British Columbia, Canada

Great Bear Rainforest is a forest in Canada, 209 m above the sea.

Seen from space, 29% of the land within 3 km is trees, and 100% of the land within 10 km has no towns or farmland.

The best time to walk is from July to August.

Coast Mountains along Grenville Channel
Roy Luck · CC BY 2.0

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.

Great Bear Rainforest 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 Great Bear Rainforest.

    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
    Marmor Peak21 kmMount Blane1,675 m · 23 km
    Lakeyas1 lakes within 15 km
    Lizette Lake2.0 km² · 13 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.

    Cedar cabin in the Great Bear Rainforest
    RupertRay · CC BY-SA 4.0
    Day 6 - Bears - Poison Cove, Mussel Inlet - panoramio
    Jack Borno · CC BY-SA 3.0
    Day 6 Bears - panoramio - Jack Borno
    Jack Borno · CC BY-SA 3.0

    Other forests nearby.

    Great Bear Rainforest

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    • 34Forestyas Score
    • 29%Trees
    • 100%Wild
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    • 61Forestyas Score
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    See the guide

    Where these figures come from

    Name and typeWikidata (Q2920600) · CC0
    Land coverESA WorldCover 10 m 2021 v200 · © ESA WorldCover project / Copernicus Sentinel data · CC BY 4.0
    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, Lakeyas

    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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