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Jeongipumsong Pine Tree

Ashy Minivet · CC0

92% of the land around it is trees.

54Forestyas Score

Notable treeDense canopy

  • trees within 3 km92%
  • wild within 10 km84%
  • Altitude324 m

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 86%Grassland 4%Bare ground 0%Cropland 4%Built-up 4%Trees 93%Grassland 2%Bare ground 0%Cropland 3%Built-up 2%Trees 88%Grassland 3%Water 1%Cropland 7%Built-up 1%Trees 73%Grassland 5%Cropland 16%Built-up 5%92%trees · 3 km

Trees, ring by ring

  • 0–1 km86%
  • 1–3 km93%
  • 3–6 km88%
  • 6–10 km73%

What covers the land (1–3 km)

  • Trees93%
  • Grassland2%
  • Water0%
  • Bare ground0%
  • Cropland3%
  • Built-up2%

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.

54out 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
  • 84%Wildno towns or farmland within 10 km
  • 324 mAltitudeabove the sea

When to walk

Best for walking in October.

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

  1. Jan1°-9°23 mm
  2. Feb4°-7°31 mm
  3. Mar10°-2°46 mm
  4. Apr17°4°81 mm
  5. May24°10°78 mm
  6. Jun28°16°125 mm
  7. Jul29°20°271 mm
  8. Aug29°20°237 mm
  9. Sep24°14°134 mm
  10. Oct18°7°57 mm
  11. Nov10°0°36 mm
  12. Dec2°-7°22 mm
  • Bar: walking comfort; the number on top is the average maximum.
  • Below: average minimum (NASA, 1991–2020).
  • Rain: monthly total.

The place

Jeongipumsong Pine Tree.

Tree in North Chungcheong, South Korea

Jeongipumsong Pine Tree is a notable tree in South Korea, 324 m above the sea.

Seen from space, 92% of the land within 3 km is trees, and 84% of the land within 10 km has no towns or farmland.

The best time to walk is in October.

Songni Jeongipumsong Pine Tree
Ashy Minivet · CC0

Get there and walk

  • 속리산 사내리야영장campsite · 1.7 km · 9 within 10 km
  • 만궁장민박 Mangungjang Minbakplace to stay · 0.8 km · 23 within 10 km
  • Hwanamnearest town · 11 km in a straight line
  • Cheongju International Airport/Cheongju Air Base (K-59/G-513) (CJJ)nearest airport with scheduled flights · 36 km in a straight lineCar hire at GMP airport (Seoul)Discover Cars · sponsored link

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.

Jeongipumsong Pine Tree 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

  • 2marked trails within 5 km백두대간, 한남금북정맥
  • 2named and notable trees within 6 km정이품송, 정부인송
  • 1picnic sites within 4 km속리산말티재자연휴양림 Songnisanmaltijae Forest
  • 1viewpoints within 5 km말티재전망대
  • 11car parks within 3 km
  • 9campsites within 10 km속리산 사내리야영장, 충북알프스자연휴양림, 산외글램핑 and 6 more
  • 23places to stay within 10 km만궁장민박 Mangungjang Minbak, 낙원펜션 Nakwon Pension, 낙원산장 Nakwon Mountain Villa and 20 more
  • 2restaurants and cafés within 3 km
  • shelters and huts within 6 km
  • visitor centres within 6 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 Jeongipumsong Pine Tree.

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.

Peakyas86 mountains within 25 km
Gubyeongsan876 m · 6.7 kmMunjangdae1,054 m · 7.0 kmSongnisan1,058 m · 7.8 kmCheonghwasan984 m · 15 kmBaegaksan858 m · 16 kmJohangsan951 m · 17 kmDundeoksan969 m · 20 kmDaeyasan931 m · 20 km
Lakeyas1 lakes within 15 km
Samga-jŏsuji0.4 km² · 4.1 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.

정이품송
WBjw · CC BY-SA 3.0
Jeongipumsong Pine, holding the post of government minister since 1464. - panoramio
gary4now · CC BY 3.0
Songni Jeongipumsong Pine Tree (2)
Ashy Minivet · CC0

Other forests nearby.

Jeongipumsong Pine Tree

South Korea

  • 54Forestyas Score
  • 92%Trees
  • 84%Wild
  • —Species

Korea National Arboretum

South Korea · 149 km

  • 77Forestyas Score
  • 92%Trees
  • 73%Wild
  • 363Species

See the guide

Gyerim

South Korea · 146 km

  • 46Forestyas Score
  • 40%Trees
  • 69%Wild
  • 113Species

See the guide

Yeomiji Botanical Garden

South Korea · 385 km

  • 71Forestyas Score
  • 57%Trees
  • 89%Wild
  • 422Species

See the guide

Where these figures come from

Name and typeWikidata (Q625553) · 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.

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