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Mendocino National Forest

USFS Region 5 · CC BY 2.0

97% trees around it and 54 species recorded.

80Forestyas Score

ForestNational forestDense canopyWildMountain forest

  • trees within 3 km97%
  • wild within 10 km100%
  • species recorded54
  • Altitude1,515 m

The forest around

97% 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 4%Bare ground 0%Trees 97%Grassland 3%Trees 95%Grassland 5%Bare ground 0%Trees 93%Grassland 7%Bare ground 1%97%trees · 3 km

Trees, ring by ring

  • 0–1 km96%
  • 1–3 km97%
  • 3–6 km95%
  • 6–10 km93%

What covers the land (1–3 km)

  • Trees97%
  • Grassland3%
  • Bare ground0%

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

54 species recorded.

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

Purdy's fritillary
Purdy's fritillaryFritillaria purdyi2 recordsEric in SF · CC BY-SA 3.0

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

In numbers

The forest, measured.

80out of 100

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

  • 97%Treesof the land within 3 km
  • 100%Wildno towns or farmland within 10 km
  • 54Speciesrecorded more than once within 5 km
  • 1,515 mAltitudeabove the sea

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. Jan10°1°160 mm
  2. Feb10°1°154 mm
  3. Mar12°2°137 mm
  4. Apr15°3°69 mm
  5. May20°6°34 mm
  6. Jun27°10°12 mm
  7. Jul33°14°2 mm
  8. Aug32°13°1 mm
  9. Sep28°11°8 mm
  10. Oct21°7°53 mm
  11. Nov14°3°110 mm
  12. Dec9°1°227 mm
  • Bar: walking comfort; the number on top is the average maximum.
  • Below: average minimum (NASA, 1991–2020).
  • Rain: monthly total.

The place

Mendocino National Forest.

National forest in the United States

Mendocino National Forest is a national forest in United States, 1,515 m above the sea.

Seen from space, 97% of the land within 3 km is trees, and 100% of the land within 10 km has no towns or farmland.

54 species have been recorded around it: 1 plants, 1 fungi, 51 birds and 1 mammals.

The best time to walk is in May.

Howard Lake and Anthony Peak
USFS Region 5 · CC BY 2.0

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.

Mendocino 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 kmBrownell Camp
  • 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 Mendocino 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.

Peakyas62 mountains within 25 km
Dicks Butte1,918 m · 14 kmSaint John Mountain2,057 m · 18 kmBlack Butte2,272 m · 19 kmSnow Mountain East2,150 m · 21 kmChimney Rock22 kmLittle Signal23 kmHaynes Hill23 kmBig Signal Peak25 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.

180815-Mendocino-CMR-0082 (42349610180)
Forest Service Photography · Public domain
180815-Mendocino-CMR-0096 (43439659134)
Forest Service Photography · Public domain

Other forests nearby.

Mendocino National Forest

United States

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

Shasta–Trinity National Forest

United States · 131 km

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

See the guide

Tahoe National Forest

United States · 193 km

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

See the guide

Lassen National Forest

United States · 186 km

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

See the guide

Where these figures come from

Name and typeWikidata (Q6816692) · CC0
Land coverESA WorldCover 10 m 2021 v200 · © ESA WorldCover project / Copernicus Sentinel data · CC BY 4.0
Species273 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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