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Olympic National Forest

U.S. Forest Service- Pacific Northwest Region · Public domain

96% trees around it and 237 species recorded.

86Forestyas Score

ForestNational forestDense canopyWildMountain forest

  • trees within 3 km96%
  • wild within 10 km100%
  • species recorded237
  • Altitude1,492 m

The forest around

96% 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 100%Grassland 0%Trees 96%Grassland 4%Moss and lichen 0%Trees 80%Grassland 13%Moss and lichen 1%Water 0%Bare ground 6%Snow and ice 0%Trees 89%Grassland 5%Moss and lichen 0%Bare ground 5%96%trees · 3 km

Trees, ring by ring

  • 0–1 km100%
  • 1–3 km96%
  • 3–6 km80%
  • 6–10 km89%

What covers the land (1–3 km)

  • Trees96%
  • Grassland4%
  • Moss and lichen0%
  • 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

237 species recorded.

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

Rock violet
Rock violetViola flettii13 recordsWalter Siegmund · CC BY-SA 3.0
Moss campion
Moss campionSilene acaulis13 recordsMichael Haferkamp, aka Mikesegeln at en.wikipedia · CC BY-SA 3.0
Purple mountain saxifrage
Purple mountain saxifrageSaxifraga oppositifolia10 recordsUnknown author · CC BY-SA 3.0
Flett's fleabane
Flett's fleabaneErigeron flettii9 recordsKENPEI · CC BY-SA 3.0
Treacle-berry
Treacle-berryMaianthemum racemosum8 recordsWalter Siegmund · CC BY-SA 3.0
Olympic onion
Olympic onionAllium crenulatum8 recordsWalter Siegmund · CC BY-SA 3.0
Yellowdot saxifrage
Yellowdot saxifrageSaxifraga bronchialis8 recordsRG Johnsson · Public domain
Harsh Indian paintbrush
Harsh Indian paintbrushCastilleja hispida8 recordsWalter Siegmund · CC BY-SA 3.0
Mountain owl's-clover
Mountain owl's-cloverOrthocarpus imbricatus8 recordstomhilton · CC BY 2.0
Androsace laevigata
Androsace laevigataAndrosace laevigata8 recordsbrewbooks from near Seattle, USA · CC BY-SA 2.0
Western cordilleran bunchberry
Western cordilleran bunchberryCornus unalaschkensis7 recordsWalter Siegmund · CC BY-SA 3.0
Bride's bonnet
Bride's bonnetClintonia uniflora6 recordsWalter Siegmund · 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.

86out of 100

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

  • 96%Treesof the land within 3 km
  • 100%Wildno towns or farmland within 10 km
  • 237Speciesrecorded more than once within 5 km
  • 1,492 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. Jan5°0°188 mm
  2. Feb5°0°111 mm
  3. Mar7°1°150 mm
  4. Apr10°3°94 mm
  5. May15°6°64 mm
  6. Jun18°9°45 mm
  7. Jul22°11°19 mm
  8. Aug22°12°28 mm
  9. Sep18°9°57 mm
  10. Oct12°5°132 mm
  11. Nov7°2°200 mm
  12. Dec4°0°188 mm
  • Bar: walking comfort; the number on top is the average maximum.
  • Below: average minimum (NASA, 1991–2020).
  • Rain: monthly total.

The place

Olympic National Forest.

National forest on the Olympic Peninsula in Washington state, United States of America

Olympic National Forest is a national forest in United States, 1,492 m above the sea.

Seen from space, 96% of the land within 3 km is trees, and 100% of the land within 10 km has no towns or farmland.

237 species have been recorded around it: 153 plants, 15 fungi, 62 birds and 7 mammals.

The most recorded plants are: Rock violet, Moss campion and Purple mountain saxifrage.

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

Clouds over Valley, Olympic National Forest (35681707033)
U.S. Forest Service- Pacific Northwest Region · Public domain

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.

Olympic 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

  • 4marked trails within 5 kmPacific Northwest Trail 03 Washington, Tunnel Creek Trail #841, Big Quilcene Trail #833 and 1 more
  • 1shelters and huts within 6 kmBoulder Shelter
  • 1car parks within 3 km
  • 14campsites within 10 kmShelter Rock Camp, Camp Mystery, Camp Windy and 11 more
  • named and notable trees within 6 km
  • picnic sites within 4 km
  • viewpoints within 5 km
  • visitor centres within 6 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 Olympic 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.

Peakyas79 mountains within 25 km
Mount Constance2,364 m · 6.1 kmInner Constance2,341 m · 7.4 kmMount Mystery2,328 m · 12 kmMount Deception2,374 m · 12 kmMount Clark2,295 m · 13 kmMount Johnson2,341 m · 13 kmThe Brothers2,085 m · 18 kmMount Anderson2,231 m · 22 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.

Cliff face and Forest, Olympic National Forest (36321778782)
U.S. Forest Service- Pacific Northwest Region · Public domain

Other forests nearby.

Olympic National Forest

United States

  • 86Forestyas Score
  • 96%Trees
  • 100%Wild
  • 237Species

Hoh Rainforest

United States · 64 km

  • 90Forestyas Score
  • 97%Trees
  • 100%Wild
  • 328Species

See the guide

Mount Baker-Snoqualmie National Forest

United States · 126 km

  • 85Forestyas Score
  • 91%Trees
  • 100%Wild
  • 174Species

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Wenatchee National Forest

United States · 172 km

  • 86Forestyas Score
  • 90%Trees
  • 100%Wild
  • 196Species

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Where these figures come from

Name and typeWikidata (Q931881) · CC0
Land coverESA WorldCover 10 m 2021 v200 · © ESA WorldCover project / Copernicus Sentinel data · CC BY 4.0
Species1,989 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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