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Larose Forest

User:P199 · CC BY-SA 4.0

98% trees around it and 405 species recorded.

74Forestyas Score

ForestDense canopyFungiBirds

  • trees within 3 km98%
  • wild within 10 km73%
  • species recorded405
  • Altitude73 m

The forest around

98% 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 99%Grassland 1%Trees 98%Grassland 1%Wetland 1%Trees 81%Grassland 6%Wetland 0%Water 1%Cropland 12%Built-up 0%Trees 49%Grassland 13%Wetland 0%Water 1%Cropland 36%Built-up 2%98%trees · 3 km

Trees, ring by ring

  • 0–1 km99%
  • 1–3 km98%
  • 3–6 km81%
  • 6–10 km49%

What covers the land (1–3 km)

  • Trees98%
  • Grassland1%
  • Wetland1%
  • Water0%
  • Cropland0%
  • Built-up0%

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

405 species recorded.

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

Bluebead
BluebeadClintonia borealis17 recordsChoess · CC BY-SA 4.0
Canadian Bunchberry
Canadian BunchberryCornus canadensis17 recordsJohnHarvey · CC BY-SA 3.0
Canada mayflower
Canada mayflowerMaianthemum canadense16 recordsBlueCanoe · CC BY-SA 3.0
Swamp milkweed
Swamp milkweedAsclepias incarnata16 recordsRyan Hodnett · CC BY-SA 4.0
Painted trillium
Painted trilliumTrillium undulatum15 recordsD. Gordon E. Robertson · CC BY-SA 3.0
Greater fringed gentian
Greater fringed gentianGentianopsis crinita14 recordsThe original uploader was Athene cunicularia at English Wikipedia . Photo by Tristan Loper · CC BY-SA 2.5
Purple iris
Purple irisIris versicolor14 recordsUnknown author Unknown author · Public domain
Red trillium
Red trilliumTrillium erectum13 recordsThe Cosmonaut · CC BY-SA 2.5 ca
Eutrochium maculatum
Eutrochium maculatumEutrochium maculatum13 recordsCody Hough · CC BY-SA 3.0
Shuttlecock fern
Shuttlecock fernMatteuccia struthiopteris12 recordsBorealis55 · CC0
Blackeyed Susan
Blackeyed SusanRudbeckia hirta12 recordsG. Edward Johnson · CC BY-SA 3.0
New England aster
New England asterSymphyotrichum novae-angliae12 recordsAndrew Sebastian · CC BY 4.0

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

In numbers

The forest, measured.

74out of 100

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

  • 98%Treesof the land within 3 km
  • 73%Wildno towns or farmland within 10 km
  • 405Speciesrecorded more than once within 5 km
  • 73 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. Jan-6°-16°67 mm
  2. Feb-5°-15°60 mm
  3. Mar1°-9°70 mm
  4. Apr10°-1°88 mm
  5. May18°7°89 mm
  6. Jun23°12°107 mm
  7. Jul26°15°99 mm
  8. Aug25°14°89 mm
  9. Sep21°10°91 mm
  10. Oct13°3°107 mm
  11. Nov5°-3°77 mm
  12. Dec-3°-11°86 mm
  • Bar: walking comfort; the number on top is the average maximum.
  • Below: average minimum (NASA, 1991–2020).
  • Rain: monthly total.

The place

Larose Forest.

Forest in eastern Ontario, Canada

Larose Forest is a forest in Canada.

Seen from space, 98% of the land within 3 km is trees, and 73% of the land within 10 km has no towns or farmland.

405 species have been recorded around it: 180 plants, 53 fungi, 160 birds and 12 mammals.

The most recorded plants are: Bluebead, Canadian Bunchberry and Canada mayflower.

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

Larose Forest 1
User:P199 · CC BY-SA 4.0

Get there and walk

  • Official informationAccess, hours and rules from those who manage the place.Official site
  • Camping Paradiscampsite · 4.7 km · 5 within 10 km
  • The Bourget Inn and Spaplace to stay · 4.8 km · 4 within 10 km
  • Bourgetnearest town · 6.6 km in a straight line
  • Ottawa / Gatineau Airport (YND)nearest airport with scheduled flights · 35 km in a straight lineCar hire at YOW airport (Ottawa)Discover Cars · sponsored link

Plan the visit

A guided walk, a bed nearby, a car.

Car hire at YOW airport (Ottawa)Discover CarsSee prices 

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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.

Larose 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

  • 3picnic sites within 4 km
  • 1shelters and huts within 6 kmSouvientoît
  • 2car parks within 3 km
  • 5campsites within 10 kmCamping Paradis, East Haven Sun Club RV Resort, Kittiwa RV Resort and 2 more
  • 4places to stay within 10 kmThe Bourget Inn and Spa, Casselodge B&B, Microtel by Wyndham and 1 more
  • marked trails within 5 km
  • named and notable trees within 6 km
  • viewpoints within 5 km
  • 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 Larose 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.

Peakyas3 mountains within 25 km
Canaan Hill13 kmBonnie Hill24 kmQuigley Hill25 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.

Larose Forest 2
User:P199 · CC BY-SA 4.0
Northern Pearly-eye, dorsal, Larose Forest
D. Gordon E. Robertson · CC BY-SA 3.0
Red Squirrel (24536942979)
Dave Doe from Ottawa, Ontario, Canada · CC BY 2.0

Other forests nearby.

Larose Forest

Canada

  • 74Forestyas Score
  • 98%Trees
  • 73%Wild
  • 405Species

Green Mountain National Forest

United States · 229 km

  • 87Forestyas Score
  • 99%Trees
  • 92%Wild
  • 460Species

See the guide

Eastern forest-boreal transition

Canada · 231 km

  • 83Forestyas Score
  • 94%Trees
  • 100%Wild
  • 294Species

See the guide

Montreal Botanical Garden

Canada · 127 km

  • 35Forestyas Score
  • 14%Trees
  • 40%Wild
  • 533Species

See the guide

Where these figures come from

Name and typeWikidata (Q25388451) · CC0
Land coverESA WorldCover 10 m 2021 v200 · © ESA WorldCover project / Copernicus Sentinel data · CC BY 4.0
Species18,422 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.

The family

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