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Old Tjikko

Karl Brodowsky · CC BY 3.0

35% trees around it and 311 species recorded.

60Forestyas Score

Notable treeWildFungiBirds

  • trees within 3 km35%
  • wild within 10 km100%
  • species recorded311
  • Altitude910 m

The forest around

35% 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 13%Grassland 46%Moss and lichen 39%Water 0%Bare ground 2%Trees 38%Grassland 40%Wetland 0%Moss and lichen 13%Water 8%Bare ground 0%Trees 42%Grassland 38%Wetland 1%Moss and lichen 14%Water 4%Bare ground 0%Trees 48%Shrubland 0%Grassland 36%Wetland 1%Moss and lichen 12%Water 2%Bare ground 1%35%trees · 3 km

Trees, ring by ring

  • 0–1 km13%
  • 1–3 km38%
  • 3–6 km42%
  • 6–10 km48%

What covers the land (1–3 km)

  • Trees38%
  • Grassland40%
  • Wetland0%
  • Moss and lichen13%
  • Water8%
  • 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

311 species recorded.

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

Cicerbita alpina
Cicerbita alpinaCicerbita alpina55 recordsJohann Georg Sturm (Painter: Jacob Sturm ) · Public domain
Blue mountainheath
Blue mountainheathPhyllodoce caerulea27 recordsE-190 · CC BY-SA 3.0
Baked apple berry
Baked apple berryRubus chamaemorus26 recordsPhilipum · Public domain
Wood stitchwort
Wood stitchwortStellaria nemorum24 recordsUnknown author · Public domain
Alpine sorrel
Alpine sorrelOxyria digyna17 recordsVictor M. Vicente Selvas · CC BY-SA 3.0
Dwarf Birch
Dwarf BirchBetula nana17 recordsUSDA photo, uploader user:MPF · Public domain
Twinflower
TwinflowerLinnaea borealis16 recordsStatskog SF · CC BY-SA 2.0
Bog-rosemary
Bog-rosemaryAndromeda polifolia14 recordsDidier Descouens · CC BY-SA 4.0
Wood Crane's-bill
Wood Crane's-billGeranium sylvaticum13 recordsPhilipp Weigell · CC BY 3.0
Norway Spruce
Norway SprucePicea abies13 recordsIvar Leidus · CC BY-SA 3.0 ee
Whortleberry
WhortleberryVaccinium myrtillus12 recordsUnknown author · CC BY-SA 3.0
Wood Horsetail
Wood HorsetailEquisetum sylvaticum10 recordsUnknown author · CC BY-SA 3.0

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

In numbers

The forest, measured.

60out of 100

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

  • 35%Treesof the land within 3 km
  • 100%Wildno towns or farmland within 10 km
  • 311Speciesrecorded more than once within 2 km
  • 910 mAltitudeabove the sea

When to walk

Best for walking from June to July.

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

  1. Jan-6°-12°66 mm
  2. Feb-5°-12°49 mm
  3. Mar-2°-9°50 mm
  4. Apr3°-4°55 mm
  5. May11°2°104 mm
  6. Jun16°6°106 mm
  7. Jul18°10°136 mm
  8. Aug16°8°135 mm
  9. Sep11°4°96 mm
  10. Oct4°-1°91 mm
  11. Nov-2°-6°79 mm
  12. Dec-5°-10°66 mm
  • Bar: walking comfort; the number on top is the average maximum.
  • Below: average minimum (NASA, 1991–2020).
  • Rain: monthly total.

The place

Old Tjikko.

Swedish tree

Old Tjikko is a notable tree in Sweden, 910 m above the sea.

Seen from space, 35% of the land within 3 km is trees, and 100% of the land within 10 km has no towns or farmland.

311 species have been recorded around it: 68 plants, 100 fungi, 135 birds and 8 mammals.

The most recorded plants are: Cicerbita alpina, Blue mountainheath and Baked apple berry.

The best time to walk is from June to July.

Old-Tjikko-2011-07-19-001
Karl Brodowsky · 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.

Old Tjikko 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

  • 5marked trails within 5 kmJaktfalksleden, Njupeskärsslingan, Connector Norwegian/Swedish border - Vasaloppsleden and 2 more
  • 1named and notable trees within 6 kmOld Tjikko
  • 5picnic sites within 4 km
  • 15shelters and huts within 6 kmRörsjöarna, Särnmanskojan, Njupeskärstuga and 12 more
  • 8viewpoints within 5 kmNjupeskär and 7 more
  • 4car parks within 3 km
  • 2campsites within 10 kmMörkrets Camping, Gördalens camping
  • 3places to stay within 10 kmFulufjällsgården, Skräddarns B&B
  • 1restaurants and cafés within 3 km
  • visitor centres 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 Old Tjikko.

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.

Peakyas105 mountains within 25 km
Slottet901 m · 16 kmFulufjellet16 kmFregn18 kmDrevfjellet1,025 m · 20 kmSkjeggemurfjellet963 m · 20 kmSkarda890 m · 23 kmSmolfjellet911 m · 24 kmØstrefjellet24 km
Lakeyas25 lakes within 15 km
Stora Rörsjön1.0 km² · 2.1 kmLilla Getsjön0.3 km² · 3.2 kmStora Harrsjön0.8 km² · 4.0 kmLilla Harrsjön0.8 km² · 4.5 kmNördre Lemmsjön1.1 km² · 12 kmÖresjön1.7 km² · 13 kmSyndre Lemmsjön0.9 km² · 13 kmVeksjön0.8 km² · 15 km
Cascadyas1 waterfalls within 15 km
Njupeskär93 m · 0.7 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.

20150819 155611-old-tjikko-complete
Karl Brodowsky · CC BY-SA 3.0
Old Tjikko - Information in English
Kigsz · CC BY-SA 4.0

Other forests nearby.

Old Tjikko

Sweden

  • 60Forestyas Score
  • 35%Trees
  • 100%Wild
  • 311Species

Finnskogen

Norway · 127 km

  • 80Forestyas Score
  • 89%Trees
  • 100%Wild
  • 130Species

See the guide

Krokskogen

Norway · 208 km

  • 84Forestyas Score
  • 78%Trees
  • 99%Wild
  • 650Species

See the guide

Østmarka

Norway · 219 km

  • 86Forestyas Score
  • 91%Trees
  • 90%Wild
  • 1,402Species

See the guide

Where these figures come from

Name and typeWikidata (Q1301863) · CC0
Land coverESA WorldCover 10 m 2021 v200 · © ESA WorldCover project / Copernicus Sentinel data · CC BY 4.0
Species14,705 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, Lakeyas, 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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