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Mount Hood National Forest

Andy Barrett ( User:Big Smooth ) · CC BY 2.5

51% trees around it and 453 species recorded.

73Forestyas Score

ForestNational forestWildMountain forestFungiBirds

  • trees within 3 km51%
  • wild within 10 km100%
  • species recorded453
  • Altitude1,791 m

The forest around

51% 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 35%Grassland 15%Bare ground 47%Snow and ice 1%Built-up 1%Trees 53%Grassland 9%Bare ground 29%Snow and ice 10%Trees 66%Grassland 8%Bare ground 13%Snow and ice 12%Built-up 0%Trees 84%Grassland 9%Moss and lichen 0%Bare ground 4%Snow and ice 2%51%trees · 3 km

Trees, ring by ring

  • 0–1 km35%
  • 1–3 km53%
  • 3–6 km66%
  • 6–10 km84%

What covers the land (1–3 km)

  • Trees53%
  • Grassland9%
  • Bare ground29%
  • Snow and ice10%
  • 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

453 species recorded.

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

Calyptridium umbellatum
Calyptridium umbellatumCalyptridium umbellatum65 recordsJason Hollinger · CC BY 2.0
Partridgefoot
PartridgefootLuetkea pectinata56 recordsWalter Siegmund · CC BY-SA 3.0
Cascade Mariposa Lily
Cascade Mariposa LilyCalochortus subalpinus52 recordsWalter Siegmund · CC BY-SA 3.0
Mountain hemlock
Mountain hemlockTsuga mertensiana41 recordsWalter Siegmund · CC BY-SA 3.0
Sulphur-flower buckwheat
Sulphur-flower buckwheatEriogonum umbellatum38 recordsWalter Siegmund · CC BY-SA 3.0
Western Turkeybeard
Western TurkeybeardXerophyllum tenax35 recordsNPS Photo · Public domain
Cascade aster
Cascade asterEucephalus ledophyllus32 recordsbrewbooks from near Seattle, USA · CC BY-SA 2.0
Davidson's penstemon
Davidson's penstemonPenstemon davidsonii29 recordsWalter Siegmund · CC BY-SA 3.0
Pearly Everlasting
Pearly EverlastingAnaphalis margaritacea25 recordsPendragon39 · Public domain
Common Juniper
Common JuniperJuniperus communis24 recordsIvar Leidus · CC BY-SA 4.0
American skunkcabbage
American skunkcabbageLysichiton americanus22 recordsMartin Bravenboer · Public domain
Whitebark Pine
Whitebark PinePinus albicaulis19 recordsMatt Lavin from Bozeman, Montana, USA · CC BY-SA 2.0

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

In numbers

The forest, measured.

73out of 100

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

  • 51%Treesof the land within 3 km
  • 100%Wildno towns or farmland within 10 km
  • 453Speciesrecorded more than once within 5 km
  • 1,791 mAltitudeabove the sea

When to walk

Best for walking in June and in September.

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

  1. Jan4°-2°200 mm
  2. Feb5°-2°137 mm
  3. Mar8°0°166 mm
  4. Apr11°2°114 mm
  5. May16°6°81 mm
  6. Jun19°8°57 mm
  7. Jul24°11°11 mm
  8. Aug25°11°19 mm
  9. Sep20°8°52 mm
  10. Oct13°4°128 mm
  11. Nov7°1°196 mm
  12. Dec3°-2°233 mm
  • Bar: walking comfort; the number on top is the average maximum.
  • Below: average minimum (NASA, 1991–2020).
  • Rain: monthly total.

The place

Mount Hood National Forest.

United States national forest in Oregon

Mount Hood National Forest is a national forest in United States, 1,791 m above the sea.

Seen from space, 51% of the land within 3 km is trees, and 100% of the land within 10 km has no towns or farmland.

453 species have been recorded around it: 248 plants, 60 fungi, 136 birds and 9 mammals.

The most recorded plants are: Calyptridium umbellatum, Partridgefoot and Cascade Mariposa Lily.

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

Mt Hood Natl Forest
Andy Barrett ( User:Big Smooth ) · CC BY 2.5

Get there and walk

  • Official informationAccess, hours and rules from those who manage the place.Official site
  • Alpinecampsite · 1.1 km · 80 within 10 km
  • Timberline Lodgeplace to stay · 0.2 km · 5 within 10 km
  • Mount Hood Villagenearest town · 21 km in a straight line
  • Portland International Airport (PDX)nearest airport with scheduled flights · 75 km in a straight lineCar hire at PDX airport (Portland)Discover Cars · sponsored link

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.

Mount Hood 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

  • 2marked trails within 5 kmPCT - Oregon Section G, Mt. Hood Timberline Trail
  • 2picnic sites within 4 km
  • 9shelters and huts within 6 kmSnow Bunny Lodge, Trillium Lake Basin Cabin, Historic Warming Hut and 6 more
  • 10viewpoints within 5 kmZigzag Canyon Rim and 9 more
  • 1visitor centres within 6 kmGovernment Camp Rest Area
  • 6car parks within 3 km
  • 80campsites within 10 kmAlpine, Devil's Half Acre Campground, Elk Cove Camp and 77 more
  • 5places to stay within 10 kmTimberline Lodge, Palmer Lodge, Collins Lake Resort and 2 more
  • 2restaurants and cafés within 3 km
  • named and notable trees within 6 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 Mount Hood 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.

Peakyas80 mountains within 25 km
Mount Hood3,425 m · volcano · 4.9 kmTom Dick and Harry Mountain7.8 kmLaurel Hill8.9 kmZigzag Mountain10 kmBadger Butte13 kmLookout Mountain1,992 m · 14 kmHuckleberry Mountain23 kmAschoff Buttes24 km
Darkskyas1 dark-sky places within 30 km
Mount HoodBortle 2 · 5.0 km
Viewyas1 viewpoints within 15 kmComing soon
Mount Hood5.0 km
Cavernyas1 caves within 20 km
Sandy Glacier Caves6.2 km
Cascadyas4 waterfalls within 15 km
Yocum Falls7.1 kmRamona Falls7.6 kmWallalute Falls9.9 kmTamanawas Falls12 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 National Trails Day 3, 2016 National Trails Day 1, Mt Hood National Forest (27935824236)
U.S. Forest Service- Pacific Northwest Region · Public domain
2016 White River Flood Closure 1, Mt Hood National Forest (27935819376)
U.S. Forest Service- Pacific Northwest Region · Public domain
170321-FS-TD-TimberLakeMtHoodZigZagFisheriesCrew-001 (32574796707)
Forest Service Photography · Public domain

Other forests nearby.

Mount Hood National Forest

United States

  • 73Forestyas Score
  • 51%Trees
  • 100%Wild
  • 453Species

Gifford Pinchot National Forest

United States · 96 km

  • 74Forestyas Score
  • 99%Trees
  • 100%Wild
  • 11Species

See the guide

Willamette National Forest

United States · 141 km

  • 85Forestyas Score
  • 99%Trees
  • 100%Wild
  • 173Species

See the guide

Deschutes National Forest

United States · 149 km

  • 85Forestyas Score
  • 93%Trees
  • 100%Wild
  • 157Species

See the guide

Where these figures come from

Name and typeWikidata (Q1427290) · CC0
Land coverESA WorldCover 10 m 2021 v200 · © ESA WorldCover project / Copernicus Sentinel data · CC BY 4.0
Species22,691 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, Darkskyas, Viewyas, Cavernyas, Cascadyas

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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