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Mark Twain National Forest

Kbh3rd · CC BY-SA 3.0

93% trees around it and 110 species recorded.

83Forestyas Score

ForestNational forestDense canopyWild

  • trees within 3 km93%
  • wild within 10 km100%
  • species recorded110
  • Altitude401 m

The forest around

93% 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 96%Grassland 2%Water 1%Trees 92%Grassland 7%Water 1%Trees 93%Grassland 4%Water 1%Bare ground 2%Built-up 0%Trees 90%Grassland 9%Water 1%Bare ground 0%Cropland 0%Built-up 0%93%trees · 3 km

Trees, ring by ring

  • 0–1 km96%
  • 1–3 km92%
  • 3–6 km93%
  • 6–10 km90%

What covers the land (1–3 km)

  • Trees92%
  • Grassland7%
  • Water1%
  • Bare ground0%
  • 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

110 species recorded.

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

Dudley's rush
Dudley's rushJuncus dudleyi4 recordsBritton, N.L., and A. Brown. 1913. An illustrated flora of the northern United States, Can · Public domain
Calico aster
Calico asterSymphyotrichum lateriflorum4 recordsCathie Bird · CC BY-SA 2.0
Slender Wood Sedge
Slender Wood SedgeCarex digitalis3 recordsBritton, N.L., and A. Brown. 1913. An illustrated flora of the northern United States, Can · Public domain
Upright sedge
Upright sedgeCarex stricta3 recordsgmayfield10 · CC BY-SA 2.0
Brown fox sedge
Brown fox sedgeCarex vulpinoidea3 recordsRobert H. Mohlenbrock · Public domain
Smooth horsetail
Smooth horsetailEquisetum laevigatum2 recordsJim Pisarowicz · Public domain
Bald spikerush
Bald spikerushEleocharis erythropoda2 recordsDavid Eickhoff from Pearl City, Hawaii, USA · CC BY 2.0
Needle beaksedge
Needle beaksedgeRhynchospora capillacea2 recordsBritton, N.L., and A. Brown. 1913. An illustrated flora of the northern United States, Can · Public domain
Whitetinge sedge
Whitetinge sedgeCarex albicans2 recordsBritton, N.L., and A. Brown. 1913. An illustrated flora of the northern United States, Can · Public domain
White oak
White oakQuercus alba2 recordsMarty Aligata · CC BY-SA 3.0
Scouringrush Horsetail
Scouringrush HorsetailEquisetum praealtum2 recordsCaromallo · CC BY-SA 3.0
Lolium pratenseLolium pratense2 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).

  • 93%Treesof the land within 3 km
  • 100%Wildno towns or farmland within 10 km
  • 110Speciesrecorded more than once within 5 km
  • 401 mAltitudeabove the sea

When to walk

Best for walking in April and in October.

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

  1. Jan5°-5°65 mm
  2. Feb7°-4°78 mm
  3. Mar13°1°114 mm
  4. Apr19°7°133 mm
  5. May24°13°147 mm
  6. Jun29°18°95 mm
  7. Jul32°20°103 mm
  8. Aug31°18°111 mm
  9. Sep27°14°88 mm
  10. Oct20°7°97 mm
  11. Nov13°1°98 mm
  12. Dec6°-3°78 mm
  • Bar: walking comfort; the number on top is the average maximum.
  • Below: average minimum (NASA, 1991–2020).
  • Rain: monthly total.

The place

Mark Twain National Forest.

National forest in Missouri, United States

Mark Twain National Forest is a national forest in United States, 401 m above the sea.

Seen from space, 93% of the land within 3 km is trees, and 100% of the land within 10 km has no towns or farmland.

110 species have been recorded around it: 25 plants, 1 fungi, 84 birds and 0 mammals.

The most recorded plants are: Dudley's rush, Calico aster and Slender Wood Sedge.

The best time to walk is in April and in October.

St. Francis River at Silver Mines Recreation Area 2
Kbh3rd · CC BY-SA 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.

Mark Twain 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

  • 1marked trails within 5 kmOzark Trail
  • 1car parks within 3 km
  • 1campsites within 10 kmOzark Trail Gunstock Hollow
  • 1restaurants and cafés within 3 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
  • places to stay 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 Mark Twain 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.

Peakyas15 mountains within 25 km
Dillard Hill16 kmBald Knob18 kmMurry Hill18 kmCrooked Hill18 kmHedley Knob19 kmGoggins Mountain21 kmGreen Hill22 kmCamels Hump23 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.

2016 - Mark Twain National Forest - ACW - Glade Top Trail Citizen Science Event (27) (42963328164)
usfs_Eastern_Region · Public domain
2016 - Mark Twain National Forest - ACW - Glade Top Trail Citizen Science Event (30) (43633130422)
usfs_Eastern_Region · Public domain

Other forests nearby.

Mark Twain National Forest

United States

  • 83Forestyas Score
  • 93%Trees
  • 100%Wild
  • 110Species

Shawnee National Forest

United States · 214 km

  • 84Forestyas Score
  • 93%Trees
  • 93%Wild
  • 230Species

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Missouri Botanical Garden

United States · 131 km

  • 41Forestyas Score
  • 18%Trees
  • 48%Wild
  • 1,215Species

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Holly Springs National Forest

United States · 368 km

  • 66Forestyas Score
  • 78%Trees
  • 90%Wild
  • 6Species

See the guide

Where these figures come from

Name and typeWikidata (Q6770091) · CC0
Land coverESA WorldCover 10 m 2021 v200 · © ESA WorldCover project / Copernicus Sentinel data · CC BY 4.0
Species970 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.

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