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Pike National Forest

DrunkDriver · CC BY-SA 3.0

6% trees around it and 118 species recorded.

46Forestyas Score

ForestNational forestWildMountain forest

  • trees within 3 km6%
  • wild within 10 km100%
  • species recorded118
  • Altitude2,419 m

The forest around

6% 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 0%Grassland 96%Bare ground 3%Trees 7%Grassland 86%Water 5%Bare ground 2%Trees 13%Grassland 85%Water 2%Bare ground 0%Trees 42%Grassland 57%Bare ground 1%6%trees · 3 km

Trees, ring by ring

  • 0–1 km0%
  • 1–3 km7%
  • 3–6 km13%
  • 6–10 km42%

What covers the land (1–3 km)

  • Trees7%
  • Grassland86%
  • Water5%
  • Bare ground2%

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

118 species recorded.

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

Garden asparagus
Garden asparagusAsparagus officinalis3 recordsEvelyn Simak · CC BY-SA 2.0
Missouri goldenrod
Missouri goldenrodSolidago missouriensis3 recordsMatt Lavin · CC BY 2.0
Porter brome
Porter bromeBromus porteri2 recordsMatt Lavin from Bozeman, Montana, USA · CC BY-SA 2.0
Mountain muhly
Mountain muhlyMuhlenbergia montana2 recordsDave Powell, USDA Forest Service, Bugwood.org · Public domain
Common starlily
Common starlilyLeucocrinum montanum2 recordsJpkole at English Wikipedia · Public domain
Oceanspray
OceansprayHolodiscus discolor2 recordsWalter Siegmund · CC BY-SA 3.0
Chokecherry
ChokecherryPrunus virginiana2 recordsNadiatalent · Public domain
Common Cowparsnip
Common CowparsnipHeracleum maximum2 recordsmiketilley · CC BY 4.0
Largeleaf Avens
Largeleaf AvensGeum macrophyllum2 recordsWalter Siegmund · CC BY 2.5
Nuttall's oxytropeOxytropis multiceps3 records
Grey AlderAlnus incana3 records
Cymopterus lemmoniiCymopterus lemmonii2 records

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

In numbers

The forest, measured.

46out of 100

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

  • 6%Treesof the land within 3 km
  • 100%Wildno towns or farmland within 10 km
  • 118Speciesrecorded more than once within 5 km
  • 2,419 mAltitudeabove the sea

When to walk

Best for walking in September.

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

  1. Jan0°-14°21 mm
  2. Feb0°-13°24 mm
  3. Mar5°-8°31 mm
  4. Apr10°-5°42 mm
  5. May16°0°46 mm
  6. Jun24°6°30 mm
  7. Jul26°9°65 mm
  8. Aug24°8°53 mm
  9. Sep20°3°35 mm
  10. Oct12°-3°27 mm
  11. Nov5°-8°20 mm
  12. Dec0°-13°22 mm
  • Bar: walking comfort; the number on top is the average maximum.
  • Below: average minimum (NASA, 1991–2020).
  • Rain: monthly total.

The place

Pike National Forest.

National Forest in Colorado, USA administratively combined with the San Isabel National Forest in 1973

Pike National Forest is a national forest in United States, 2,419 m above the sea.

Seen from space, 6% of the land within 3 km is trees, and 100% of the land within 10 km has no towns or farmland.

118 species have been recorded around it: 17 plants, 0 fungi, 99 birds and 2 mammals.

The most recorded plants are: Garden asparagus, Missouri goldenrod and Porter brome.

The best time to walk is in September.

FallColorsInPikeNationalForest
DrunkDriver · CC BY-SA 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.

Pike 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

  • 1viewpoints within 5 kmSheep Rock Overlook
  • 16campsites within 10 kmYMCA Camo Shady Brook, Lone Rock Campground and 14 more
  • marked trails within 5 km
  • named and notable trees within 6 km
  • picnic sites within 4 km
  • shelters and huts within 6 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 Pike 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.

Peakyas37 mountains within 25 km
Buffalo Peak3,534 m · 11 kmMcCurdy Mountain3,710 m · 14 kmGreen Mountain3,178 m · 14 kmBison Peak3,789 m · 17 kmWindy Peak17 kmDevils Head2,972 m · 20 kmLong Scraggy Peak2,681 m · 21 kmBadger Mountain3,443 m · 23 km
Lakeyas1 lakes within 15 km
Cheesman Reservoir2.7 km² · 4.0 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.

Pike National Forest (1)
Chris Short from Raleigh, NC, United States · CC BY-SA 2.0
Pike National Forest
Glennfcowan · CC BY 3.0
Lower Reservoir (Pike National Forest)
Jeffrey Beall · CC BY 4.0

Other forests nearby.

Pike National Forest

United States

  • 46Forestyas Score
  • 6%Trees
  • 100%Wild
  • 118Species

San Isabel National Forest

United States · 128 km

  • 85Forestyas Score
  • 94%Trees
  • 100%Wild
  • 178Species

See the guide

Arapaho National Forest

United States · 53 km

  • 50Forestyas Score
  • 5%Trees
  • 100%Wild
  • 322Species

See the guide

White River National Forest

United States · 142 km

  • 76Forestyas Score
  • 71%Trees
  • 98%Wild
  • 91Species

See the guide

Where these figures come from

Name and typeWikidata (Q7193594) · CC0
Land coverESA WorldCover 10 m 2021 v200 · © ESA WorldCover project / Copernicus Sentinel data · CC BY 4.0
Species1,794 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, Lakeyas

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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