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Parc Jean-Jacques Rousseau

No machine-readable author provided. Patrick.charpiat assumed (based on copyright claims). · CC BY-SA 2.5

55% trees around it and 1,151 species recorded.

  • trees within 3 km55%
  • wild within 10 km43%
  • species recorded1,151
  • Altitude84 m

The forest around

55% 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 59%Grassland 7%Wetland 0%Water 1%Cropland 27%Built-up 5%Trees 54%Grassland 3%Water 1%Bare ground 0%Cropland 40%Built-up 1%Trees 41%Grassland 5%Water 0%Cropland 49%Built-up 5%Trees 32%Grassland 7%Water 0%Cropland 56%Built-up 5%55%trees · 3 km

Trees, ring by ring

  • 0–1 km59%
  • 1–3 km54%
  • 3–6 km41%
  • 6–10 km32%

What covers the land (1–3 km)

  • Trees54%
  • Grassland3%
  • Wetland0%
  • Water1%
  • Bare ground0%
  • Cropland40%
  • Built-up1%

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

1,151 species recorded.

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

Heather-bell
Heather-bellErica cinerea339 recordsGwen and James Anderson · CC BY-SA 2.0
Pearlwort spurrey
Pearlwort spurreySpergula morisonii195 recordsKristian Peters -- Fabelfroh 07:28, 23 June 2007 (UTC) · CC BY-SA 3.0
Hairy greenweed
Hairy greenweedGenista pilosa174 recordsUnknown author · CC BY-SA 3.0
European Beech
European BeechFagus sylvatica159 recordsMalene Thyssen · CC BY-SA 3.0
Woodland germander
Woodland germanderTeucrium scorodonia158 recordsFrank Vincentz · CC BY-SA 3.0
Heather
HeatherCalluna vulgaris152 recordsUnknown author · Public domain
Bracken
BrackenPteridium aquilinum145 recordsStefan.lefnaer · CC BY-SA 4.0
Silver Birch
Silver BirchBetula pendula140 recordsUnknown author · Public domain
Wavy hair-grass
Wavy hair-grassAvenella flexuosa136 recordsBotaurus · Public domain
Spiked Speedwell
Spiked SpeedwellVeronica spicata128 recordsStefan.lefnaer · CC BY-SA 4.0
European honeysuckle
European honeysuckleLonicera periclymenum126 recordsLuc Viatour · CC BY-SA 3.0
Pedunculate Oak
Pedunculate OakQuercus robur125 recordsAlgirdas at Lithuanian Wikipedia · Public domain

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

In numbers

The forest, measured.

59out of 100

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

  • 55%Treesof the land within 3 km
  • 43%Wildno towns or farmland within 10 km
  • 1,151Speciesrecorded more than once within 5 km
  • 84 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. Jan6°0°54 mm
  2. Feb7°0°50 mm
  3. Mar12°2°52 mm
  4. Apr16°5°39 mm
  5. May19°8°64 mm
  6. Jun23°12°60 mm
  7. Jul25°14°55 mm
  8. Aug25°13°59 mm
  9. Sep21°10°42 mm
  10. Oct16°7°57 mm
  11. Nov10°4°61 mm
  12. Dec6°1°69 mm
  • Bar: walking comfort; the number on top is the average maximum.
  • Below: average minimum (NASA, 1991–2020).
  • Rain: monthly total.

The place

Parc Jean-Jacques Rousseau.

English garden in Ermenonville, France

Parc Jean-Jacques Rousseau is a protected forest in France.

Seen from space, 55% of the land within 3 km is trees, and 43% of the land within 10 km has no towns or farmland.

1,151 species have been recorded around it: 914 plants, 40 fungi, 157 birds and 40 mammals.

The most recorded plants are: Heather-bell, Pearlwort spurrey and Hairy greenweed.

The best time to walk is in May.

Temple philosophie
No machine-readable author provided. Patrick.charpiat assumed (based on copyright claims). · CC BY-SA 2.5

Get there and walk

  • Aire de camping-cars Moussy Le Neufcampsite · 8.9 km · 1 within 10 km
  • Les rêveries dans la théièreplace to stay · 0.5 km · 29 within 10 km
  • Ver-sur-Launettenearest town · 1.9 km in a straight line
  • Charles de Gaulle International Airport (CDG)nearest airport with scheduled flights · 16 km in a straight lineCar hire at CDG airport (Paris)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.

Parc Jean-Jacques Rousseau 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

  • 8marked trails within 5 kmGrand Tour de Paris, Montagny-Prouvaire - La Ferté-Milon, Ermenonville - Une atmosphère de lande, En Forêt des Abbayes and 5 more
  • 16named and notable trees within 6 km
  • 12picnic sites within 4 kmAire de Pique-Nique de la Croix Neuve, Aire de Pique-Nique de Boisdhyver and 10 more
  • 7shelters and huts within 6 kmRelais de Chasse de la Baraque Chaalis and 6 more
  • 1viewpoints within 5 km
  • 10car parks within 3 km
  • 1campsites within 10 kmAire de camping-cars Moussy Le Neuf
  • 29places to stay within 10 kmLes rêveries dans la théière, Domaine Château Ermenonville, La Maison de Chaalis and 26 more
  • 7restaurants 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 Parc Jean-Jacques Rousseau.

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.

Peakyas2 mountains within 25 km
Mont Cornon16 kmMont Pagnotte18 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.

Allan Ramsay - Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Allan Ramsay · Public domain
Ermenonville (60), château d'eau, gargouille 1
Pierre Poschadel · CC BY-SA 4.0
Ermenonville (60), château d'eau, gargouille 2
Pierre Poschadel · CC BY-SA 4.0

Other forests nearby.

Parc Jean-Jacques Rousseau

France

  • 59Forestyas Score
  • 55%Trees
  • 43%Wild
  • 1,151Species

Chantilly Forest

France · 14 km

  • 80Forestyas Score
  • 83%Trees
  • 77%Wild
  • 1,387Species

See the guide

Forest of Halatte

France · 16 km

  • 76Forestyas Score
  • 82%Trees
  • 68%Wild
  • 1,559Species

See the guide

Forest of Compiègne

France · 32 km

  • 80Forestyas Score
  • 99%Trees
  • 75%Wild
  • 1,320Species

See the guide

Where these figures come from

Name and typeWikidata (Q2052611) · CC0
Land coverESA WorldCover 10 m 2021 v200 · © ESA WorldCover project / Copernicus Sentinel data · CC BY 4.0
Species29,129 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.

The family

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