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Lassen National Forest

User:Marcia Wright · CC BY 3.0

84% trees around it and 114 species recorded.

  • trees within 3 km84%
  • wild within 10 km100%
  • species recorded114
  • Altitude1,783 m

The forest around

84% 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 92%Grassland 8%Trees 82%Grassland 16%Water 1%Trees 80%Grassland 20%Water 0%Trees 83%Grassland 16%Water 0%84%trees · 3 km

Trees, ring by ring

  • 0–1 km92%
  • 1–3 km82%
  • 3–6 km80%
  • 6–10 km83%

What covers the land (1–3 km)

  • Trees82%
  • Grassland16%
  • Water1%

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

114 species recorded.

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

Taraxia tanacetifolia
Taraxia tanacetifoliaTaraxia tanacetifolia7 recordsCheryl Beyer · Public domain
Tufted Hair-grass
Tufted Hair-grassDeschampsia cespitosa5 recordsChristian Fischer · CC BY-SA 3.0
Blister sedge
Blister sedgeCarex vesicaria4 recordsFranz Xaver · CC BY-SA 3.0
Slenderbeak sedge
Slenderbeak sedgeCarex athrostachya4 recordsHurd, E.G., N.L. Shaw, J. Mastrogiuseppe, L.C. Smithman, and S. Goodrich. · Public domain
Idaho fescue
Idaho fescueFestuca idahoensis3 recordsChris Wagner · Public domain
Thread-leaved sedge
Thread-leaved sedgeCarex filifolia3 recordsMatt Lavin · CC BY-SA 2.0
Common starlily
Common starlilyLeucocrinum montanum3 recordsJpkole at English Wikipedia · Public domain
Cushion buckwheat
Cushion buckwheatEriogonum ovalifolium3 recordsUnknown author · CC BY-SA 3.0
Whitestem frasera
Whitestem fraseraFrasera albicaulis3 recordsCheryl Beyer · Public domain
Spotted fritillary
Spotted fritillaryFritillaria atropurpurea2 recordsC. Webber · Public domain
Modoc eryngoEryngium alismifolium6 records
Milk kelloggiaKelloggia galioides3 records

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

In numbers

The forest, measured.

83out of 100

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

  • 84%Treesof the land within 3 km
  • 100%Wildno towns or farmland within 10 km
  • 114Speciesrecorded more than once within 5 km
  • 1,783 mAltitudeabove the sea

When to walk

Best for walking from May to June and from September to October.

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

  1. Jan3°-5°129 mm
  2. Feb4°-5°139 mm
  3. Mar7°-3°136 mm
  4. Apr10°-1°77 mm
  5. May16°3°53 mm
  6. Jun23°7°19 mm
  7. Jul29°12°5 mm
  8. Aug28°11°5 mm
  9. Sep24°7°11 mm
  10. Oct16°2°52 mm
  11. Nov8°-2°97 mm
  12. Dec2°-5°183 mm
  • Bar: walking comfort; the number on top is the average maximum.
  • Below: average minimum (NASA, 1991–2020).
  • Rain: monthly total.

The place

Lassen National Forest.

United States national forest

Lassen National Forest is a national forest in United States, 1,783 m above the sea.

Seen from space, 84% of the land within 3 km is trees, and 100% of the land within 10 km has no towns or farmland.

114 species have been recorded around it: 26 plants, 1 fungi, 85 birds and 2 mammals.

The most recorded plants are: Taraxia tanacetifolia, Tufted Hair-grass and Blister sedge.

The best time to walk is from May to June and from September to October.

Echo Lake
User:Marcia Wright · CC BY 3.0

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.

Lassen 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

  • 1campsites within 10 kmBogard Campground
  • 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
  • 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 Lassen 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.

Peakyas44 mountains within 25 km
Bennett Knoll4.5 kmBrush Hill15 kmCaribou Peak16 kmBogard Buttes16 kmBlack Butte20 kmAsh Butte23 kmBonte Peak23 kmCal Mountain23 km
Lakeyas6 lakes within 15 km
Mud Lake0.2 km² · 1.6 kmLong Lake1.2 km² · 2.1 kmFeather Lake0.7 km² · 3.9 kmMcCoy Flat Reservoir6.8 km² · 5.6 kmHog Flat Reservoir4.0 km² · 12 kmLittle Tule Lake0.3 km² · 14 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.

BigtreeLassen
User:Marcia Wright · CC BY 3.0
Anticipating Chief's arrival to visit with Lassen NF employees 05.04.11 (5734533047)
Pacific Southwest Region 5 · Public domain
Badger Mountain in Lassen National Forest, California, US
Clyde Charles Brown · CC BY-SA 4.0

Other forests nearby.

Lassen National Forest

United States

  • 83Forestyas Score
  • 84%Trees
  • 100%Wild
  • 114Species

Tahoe National Forest

United States · 111 km

  • 86Forestyas Score
  • 98%Trees
  • 100%Wild
  • 223Species

See the guide

Shasta–Trinity National Forest

United States · 166 km

  • 86Forestyas Score
  • 84%Trees
  • 99%Wild
  • 213Species

See the guide

Mendocino National Forest

United States · 186 km

  • 80Forestyas Score
  • 97%Trees
  • 100%Wild
  • 54Species

See the guide

Where these figures come from

Name and typeWikidata (Q3079135) · CC0
Land coverESA WorldCover 10 m 2021 v200 · © ESA WorldCover project / Copernicus Sentinel data · CC BY 4.0
Species1,867 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, Lakeyas

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

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