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Liberty Tree

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7% trees around it and 400 species recorded.

30Forestyas Score

Notable treeFungiBirds

  • trees within 3 km7%
  • wild within 10 km56%
  • species recorded400

The forest around

7% 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 12%Grassland 0%Water 4%Built-up 83%Trees 6%Grassland 2%Water 21%Bare ground 1%Built-up 69%Trees 15%Grassland 5%Wetland 0%Water 24%Bare ground 1%Built-up 55%Trees 29%Grassland 6%Wetland 2%Water 27%Bare ground 0%Built-up 36%7%trees · 3 km

Trees, ring by ring

  • 0–1 km12%
  • 1–3 km6%
  • 3–6 km15%
  • 6–10 km29%

What covers the land (1–3 km)

  • Trees6%
  • Grassland2%
  • Wetland0%
  • Water21%
  • Bare ground1%
  • Built-up69%

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

400 species recorded.

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

Japanese rose
Japanese roseRosa rugosa12 recordsVihljun · Public domain
Lesser pond sedge
Lesser pond sedgeCarex acutiformis7 recordsThis photography was created by Artem Topchiy (user Art-top ). Other photos see here This · CC BY-SA 3.0
Chinese dogwood
Chinese dogwoodCornus kousa7 recordsHarvey Barrison from Massapequa, NY, USA · CC BY-SA 2.0
Verdolaga
VerdolagaPortulaca oleracea7 recordsZooFari · CC BY-SA 3.0
Purple-loosestrife
Purple-loosestrifeLythrum salicaria6 recordsGeorge Chernilevsky · CC BY 4.0
Tree of heaven
Tree of heavenAilanthus altissima4 recordsDarkone ( talk · contribs ) · CC BY-SA 2.5
Wild bergamot
Wild bergamotMonarda fistulosa4 recordsHardyplants at English Wikipedia · Public domain
Common dayflower
Common dayflowerCommelina communis3 recordsErmell · CC BY-SA 4.0
Climbing Nightshade
Climbing NightshadeSolanum dulcamara3 recordsDavid Eickhoff from Pearl City, Hawaii, USA · CC BY 2.0
Honey shuck
Honey shuckGleditsia triacanthos3 recordsKevmin · CC BY-SA 3.0
Hairy bittercress
Hairy bittercressCardamine hirsuta3 recordsKevin Thiele from Perth, Australia · CC BY 2.0
Spear Thistle
Spear ThistleCirsium vulgare3 recordsSciadopitys from UK · CC BY-SA 2.0

Open records within 2 km (GBIF, licensed for any use). Busy places are better recorded than remote ones.

In numbers

The forest, measured.

30out of 100

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

  • 7%Treesof the land within 3 km
  • 56%Wildno towns or farmland within 10 km
  • 400Speciesrecorded more than once within 2 km

When to walk

Best for walking in May.

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

  1. Jan0°-8°80 mm
  2. Feb2°-7°86 mm
  3. Mar6°-3°110 mm
  4. Apr13°2°106 mm
  5. May19°8°95 mm
  6. Jun24°14°113 mm
  7. Jul28°17°94 mm
  8. Aug27°17°93 mm
  9. Sep24°13°92 mm
  10. Oct16°7°123 mm
  11. Nov10°1°98 mm
  12. Dec4°-4°116 mm
  • Bar: walking comfort; the number on top is the average maximum.
  • Below: average minimum (NASA, 1991–2020).
  • Rain: monthly total.

The place

Liberty Tree.

Historical elm tree

Liberty Tree is a notable tree in United States.

Seen from space, 7% of the land within 3 km is trees, and 56% of the land within 10 km has no towns or farmland.

400 species have been recorded around it: 60 plants, 71 fungi, 266 birds and 3 mammals.

The most recorded plants are: Japanese rose, Lesser pond sedge and Chinese dogwood.

The best time to walk is in May.

The Accolade Elm commemorating Liberty Tree, 2022
PoetishBookwormus · CC BY-SA 4.0

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.

Liberty 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

  • 11marked trails within 5 kmFreedom Trail, Harborwalk Charlestown, Boston HarborWalk and 8 more
  • 7named and notable trees within 6 kmWashington Elm, Cedar of Lebanon, Dawn Redwood and 4 more
  • 320picnic sites within 4 km
  • 184shelters and huts within 6 kmHarvard Sq @ Garden St - Dawes Island and 183 more
  • 23viewpoints within 5 kmSkywalk Observatory, North End Parks, Harborwalk Lookout and 20 more
  • 11visitor centres within 6 kmStart Boston Freedom Trail, Visitor Information Center at Boston Common, Passenger Service Center and 8 more
  • 951car parks within 3 km
  • 191places to stay within 10 kmThe Ritz-Carlton, Boston, HI Boston, Hyatt Regency Boston and 188 more
  • 861restaurants and cafés within 3 km
  • campsites within 10 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 Liberty 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.

Peakyas177 mountains within 25 km
Breed's Hill2.7 kmWaitt's Mountain66 m · 9.0 kmPine Banks10 kmBellevue Hill, Boston100 m · 11 kmGreat Blue Hill183 m · 16 kmHuckleberry Hill54 m · 19 kmSignal Hill20 kmMount Misery24 km
Coastya12 beaches within 10 km
Carson Beach3.3 kmL Street Beach3.4 kmMagazine Beach4.1 kmSavin Hill Beach5.1 kmOrient Heights Beach5.5 kmYirrell Beach7.7 kmWinthrop Beach8.0 kmWollaston Beach9.0 km
Lakeyas8 lakes within 15 km
Jamaica Pond0.2 km² · 6.2 kmChestnut Hill Reservoir0.3 km² · 8.0 kmFresh Pond (Cambridge, Massachusetts)0.6 km² · 8.1 kmSpy Pond0.3 km² · 9.7 kmSouth Reservoir0.4 km² · 11 kmMystic Lakes0.8 km² · 12 kmSpot Pond1.1 km² · 12 kmPrankers Pond0.3 km² · 15 km
Darkskyas4 dark-sky places within 30 km
Judson B. Coit ObservatoryBortle 9 · 3.5 kmHarvard College ObservatoryBortle 9 · 6.3 kmMIT Lincoln LaboratoryBortle 8 · 21 kmWhitin ObservatoryBortle 8 · 21 km
Viewyas1 viewpoints within 15 kmComing soon
Chickatawbut Observation Tower14 km
Riveryasthe river nearby
Charles River129 km · 9.0 m³/sChelsea Creek

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

Photographs

The forest, as people saw it.

Houghton AC8 Sn612 825h - Liberty Tree
Caleb H. Snow (author), artist unidentified · Public domain
LibertyTreeSidewalkMarker
Rosekelleher · CC BY-SA 4.0
Philip Dawe (attributed), The Bostonians Paying the Excise-man, or Tarring and Feathering (1774) - 02
Philip Dawe · Public domain

Other forests nearby.

Liberty Tree

United States

  • 30Forestyas Score
  • 7%Trees
  • 56%Wild
  • 400Species

Arnold Arboretum

United States · 8 km

  • 62Forestyas Score
  • 58%Trees
  • 65%Wild
  • 501Species

See the guide

Boston Public Garden

United States · 1 km

  • 33Forestyas Score
  • 8%Trees
  • 54%Wild
  • 409Species

See the guide

White Mountain National Forest

United States · 196 km

  • 85Forestyas Score
  • 100%Trees
  • 100%Wild
  • 168Species

See the guide

Where these figures come from

Name and typeWikidata (Q1454303) · CC0
Land coverESA WorldCover 10 m 2021 v200 · © ESA WorldCover project / Copernicus Sentinel data · CC BY 4.0
Species173,266 open records within 2 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, Coastya, Lakeyas, Darkskyas, Viewyas, Riveryas

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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Same idea, other landscapes: field atlases built on open data, in seven languages.

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viewpointsViewyasEvery viewpoint with its real 360° panorama: the peaks you can name, how far you see and where the sun sets.Coming soonVisit
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