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Prescott National Forest

Zereshk · CC BY-SA 3.0

0% trees around it and 207 species recorded.

44Forestyas Score

ForestNational forestMountain forestBirds

  • trees within 3 km0%
  • wild within 10 km93%
  • species recorded207
  • Altitude1,505 m

The forest around

0% 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.

Grassland 99%Built-up 1%Grassland 90%Water 1%Bare ground 3%Cropland 0%Built-up 5%Trees 0%Shrubland 1%Grassland 92%Bare ground 4%Built-up 3%Trees 3%Shrubland 10%Grassland 73%Water 1%Bare ground 4%Built-up 10%0%trees · 3 km

Trees, ring by ring

  • 0–1 km0%
  • 1–3 km0%
  • 3–6 km0%
  • 6–10 km3%

What covers the land (1–3 km)

  • Trees0%
  • Shrubland0%
  • Grassland90%
  • Water1%
  • Bare ground3%
  • Cropland0%
  • Built-up5%

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

207 species recorded.

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

One-leaved Nut Pine
One-leaved Nut PinePinus monophylla4 recordsFamartin · CC BY-SA 3.0
Soaptree yucca
Soaptree yuccaYucca elata2 recordsBernard Gagnon · CC BY-SA 3.0
Southwestern pricklypoppy
Southwestern pricklypoppyArgemone pleiacantha2 recordsPetrified Forest Ranger (Hallie Larsen/NPS) · CC BY 2.0
Mousetail
MousetailMyosurus minimus2 recordsKristian Peters -- Fabelfroh 07:02, 16 June 2007 (UTC) · CC BY-SA 3.0
Rocky Mountain zinnia
Rocky Mountain zinniaZinnia grandiflora2 recordsStan Shebs · 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.

44out of 100

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

  • 0%Treesof the land within 3 km
  • 93%Wildno towns or farmland within 10 km
  • 207Speciesrecorded more than once within 5 km
  • 1,505 mAltitudeabove the sea

When to walk

Best for walking from March to April.

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

  1. Jan11°-2°40 mm
  2. Feb12°-1°41 mm
  3. Mar17°2°27 mm
  4. Apr21°5°12 mm
  5. May26°10°8 mm
  6. Jun33°16°4 mm
  7. Jul33°19°54 mm
  8. Aug32°18°54 mm
  9. Sep29°14°31 mm
  10. Oct23°8°25 mm
  11. Nov16°2°27 mm
  12. Dec10°-2°38 mm
  • Bar: walking comfort; the number on top is the average maximum.
  • Below: average minimum (NASA, 1991–2020).
  • Rain: monthly total.

The place

Prescott National Forest.

Protected area in north central Arizona

Prescott National Forest is a national forest in United States, 1,505 m above the sea.

Seen from space, 0% of the land within 3 km is trees, and 93% of the land within 10 km has no towns or farmland.

207 species have been recorded around it: 5 plants, 0 fungi, 201 birds and 1 mammals.

The most recorded plants are: One-leaved Nut Pine, Soaptree yucca and Southwestern pricklypoppy.

The best time to walk is from March to April.

Prescott Natl Forest Nima5
Zereshk · 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.

Prescott 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

  • 13car parks within 3 km
  • 1campsites within 10 km
  • 6places to stay within 10 kmAntelope Hills Inn, Days Inn by Wyndham Chino Valley, TownePlace Suites;TownePlace Suites Prescott Valley and 3 more
  • 2restaurants and cafés within 3 km
  • marked trails within 5 km
  • named and notable trees within 6 km
  • picnic sites within 4 km
  • shelters and huts within 6 km
  • viewpoints within 5 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 Prescott 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.

Peakyas36 mountains within 25 km
Black Hill3.7 kmGlassford Hill9.9 kmBadger Mountain15 kmGranite Mountain2,325 m · 15 kmCity Hill17 kmBigelow Peak21 kmBean Peaks22 kmBald Mountain23 km
Lakeyas2 lakes within 15 km
Willow Creek Reservoir0.5 km² · 8.0 kmWatson Lake0.4 km² · 9.9 km
Darkskyas1 dark-sky places within 30 km
Prescott ObservatoryBortle 4 · 19 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.

Prescott National Forest region 2015 002
Photograph by Mike Peel ( www.mikepeel.net ). · CC BY-SA 4.0
Prescott National Forest region 2015 003
Photograph by Mike Peel ( www.mikepeel.net ). · CC BY-SA 4.0
Prescott National Forest
Qwert üpoiuz · CC BY-SA 4.0

Other forests nearby.

Prescott National Forest

United States

  • 44Forestyas Score
  • 0%Trees
  • 93%Wild
  • 207Species

Coconino National Forest

United States · 60 km

  • 60Forestyas Score
  • 24%Trees
  • 97%Wild
  • 429Species

See the guide

Kaibab National Forest

United States · 195 km

  • 89Forestyas Score
  • 85%Trees
  • 100%Wild
  • 432Species

See the guide

Tonto National Forest

United States · 139 km

  • 47Forestyas Score
  • 2%Trees
  • 99%Wild
  • 219Species

See the guide

Where these figures come from

Name and typeWikidata (Q3079141) · CC0
Land coverESA WorldCover 10 m 2021 v200 · © ESA WorldCover project / Copernicus Sentinel data · CC BY 4.0
Species13,305 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, Darkskyas

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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Same idea, other landscapes: field atlases built on open data, in seven languages.

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