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King Clone

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0% of the land around it is trees.

20Forestyas Score

Notable treeWild

  • trees within 3 km0%
  • wild within 10 km100%
  • Altitude922 m

The forest around

0% 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.

Shrubland 0%Bare ground 100%Shrubland 1%Grassland 1%Bare ground 98%Built-up 0%Shrubland 1%Grassland 2%Bare ground 96%Shrubland 3%Grassland 4%Bare ground 92%0%trees · 3 km

Trees, ring by ring

  • 0–1 km0%
  • 1–3 km0%
  • 3–6 km0%
  • 6–10 km0%

What covers the land (1–3 km)

  • Shrubland1%
  • Grassland1%
  • Bare ground98%

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.

20out of 100

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

  • 0%Treesof the land within 3 km
  • 100%Wildno towns or farmland within 10 km
  • 922 mAltitudeabove the sea

When to walk

Best for walking in March and in November.

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

  1. Jan12°1°28 mm
  2. Feb14°1°29 mm
  3. Mar18°4°15 mm
  4. Apr22°6°10 mm
  5. May27°10°3 mm
  6. Jun34°14°0 mm
  7. Jul36°19°10 mm
  8. Aug36°19°9 mm
  9. Sep31°16°5 mm
  10. Oct24°10°10 mm
  11. Nov17°4°14 mm
  12. Dec12°0°29 mm
  • Bar: walking comfort; the number on top is the average maximum.
  • Below: average minimum (NASA, 1991–2020).
  • Rain: monthly total.

The place

King Clone.

11,700 year old creosote bush in the Mojave Desert of California

King Clone is a notable tree in United States, 922 m above the sea.

Seen from space, 0% 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 in March and in November.

King Clone
Klokeid · 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.

King Clone 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 King Clone.

    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.

    Peakyas12 mountains within 25 km
    Fry Mountain9.1 kmRound Mountain11 kmGranite Peaks14 kmGold Mountain19 kmRed Hill20 kmMineral Mountain21 kmBertha Peak24 kmBlack Mountain24 km
    Darkskyas1 dark-sky places within 30 km
    Big Bear Solar ObservatoryBortle 4 · 27 km

    Figures from the sister sites' databases (Wikidata, HydroATLAS, GeoNames, OpenStreetMap). Links open when each site is online.

    Other forests nearby.

    King Clone

    United States

    • 20Forestyas Score
    • 0%Trees
    • 100%Wild
    • —Species

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    United States · 125 km

    • 82Forestyas Score
    • 76%Trees
    • 100%Wild
    • 205Species

    See the guide

    San Bernardino National Forest

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    • 62Forestyas Score
    • 34%Trees
    • 100%Wild
    • 202Species

    See the guide

    Angeles National Forest

    United States · 131 km

    • 53Forestyas Score
    • 15%Trees
    • 100%Wild
    • 228Species

    See the guide

    Where these figures come from

    Name and typeWikidata (Q1108826) · 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, Darkskyas

    Every figure is an average, an estimate or a count from a public dataset. Licences and methods: data sources.

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