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President

Didier Descouens · CC BY-SA 4.0

  • trees within 3 km95%
  • wild within 10 km100%
  • species recorded219
  • Altitude2,128 m

The forest around

95% 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 94%Grassland 6%Trees 95%Shrubland 0%Grassland 4%Bare ground 1%Trees 95%Shrubland 0%Grassland 4%Bare ground 0%Trees 84%Shrubland 0%Grassland 8%Bare ground 8%95%trees · 3 km

Trees, ring by ring

  • 0–1 km94%
  • 1–3 km95%
  • 3–6 km95%
  • 6–10 km84%

What covers the land (1–3 km)

  • Trees95%
  • Shrubland0%
  • Grassland4%
  • Bare ground1%

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

219 species recorded.

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

Giant Sequoia
Giant SequoiaSequoiadendron giganteum102 recordsMike Murphy ( talk · contribs ) · CC BY-SA 3.0
Bracken
BrackenPteridium aquilinum27 recordsStefan.lefnaer · CC BY-SA 4.0
California false hellebore
California false helleboreVeratrum californicum19 recordsJerryFriedman · CC BY-SA 3.0
Snowplant
SnowplantSarcodes sanguinea17 recordsMelinda · CC BY-SA 2.0
White Fir
White FirAbies concolor13 recordsPuncsos · CC BY-SA 3.0
Violet draperia
Violet draperiaDraperia systyla13 recordsEric in SF · CC BY-SA 3.0
Common Cowparsnip
Common CowparsnipHeracleum maximum13 recordsmiketilley · CC BY 4.0
California Incense-cedar
California Incense-cedarCalocedrus decurrens12 recordsThe original uploader was Geographer at English Wikipedia . · CC BY 1.0
California red fir
California red firAbies magnifica11 recordsTobias from Hamburg, Germany · CC BY-SA 2.0
Pink stickseed
Pink stickseedHackelia mundula11 recordsilya_ktsn · CC BY 2.0
Whiskerbrush
WhiskerbrushLeptosiphon ciliatus11 recordsAnthony Valois and the National Park Service · Public domain
Bush Chinquapin
Bush ChinquapinChrysolepis sempervirens10 recordsJoe Decruyenaere · CC BY-SA 2.0

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

In numbers

The forest, measured.

82out of 100

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

  • 95%Treesof the land within 3 km
  • 100%Wildno towns or farmland within 10 km
  • 219Speciesrecorded more than once within 2 km
  • 2,128 mAltitudeabove the sea

When to walk

Best for walking in May and in October.

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

  1. Jan8°-2°82 mm
  2. Feb8°-2°74 mm
  3. Mar11°-1°68 mm
  4. Apr14°1°46 mm
  5. May19°5°22 mm
  6. Jun26°10°4 mm
  7. Jul30°15°5 mm
  8. Aug29°14°3 mm
  9. Sep26°10°4 mm
  10. Oct19°5°23 mm
  11. Nov13°1°43 mm
  12. Dec8°-3°90 mm
  • Bar: walking comfort; the number on top is the average maximum.
  • Below: average minimum (NASA, 1991–2020).
  • Rain: monthly total.

The place

President.

Giant sequoia in Sequoia National Park in California, United States

President is a notable tree in United States, 2,128 m above the sea.

Seen from space, 95% of the land within 3 km is trees, and 100% of the land within 10 km has no towns or farmland.

219 species have been recorded around it: 75 plants, 13 fungi, 116 birds and 15 mammals.

The most recorded plants are: Giant Sequoia, Bracken and California false hellebore.

The best time to walk is in May and in October.

Immeuble, 8 place du Président Thomas Wilson, Toulouse
Didier Descouens · CC BY-SA 4.0

Get there and walk

  • Buckeye Flats Campgroundcampsite · 4.6 km · 12 within 10 km
  • Wuksachi Lodgeplace to stay · 5.2 km · 6 within 10 km
  • Three Riversnearest town · 19 km in a straight line
  • Fresno Yosemite International Airport (FAT)nearest airport with scheduled flights · 89 km in a straight lineCar hire at FAT airport (Fresno)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.

President 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

  • 12marked trails within 5 kmHigh Sierra Trail, Lakes Trail, Tokopah Falls Trail and 9 more
  • 20named and notable trees within 6 kmGeneral Sherman Tree, Sentinel Tree, Tunnel Log and 17 more
  • 10picnic sites within 4 kmPinewood Picnic Area, Wolverton Picnic Area and 8 more
  • 17viewpoints within 5 kmEagle View, Moro Rock, Crescent Meadow and 14 more
  • 1visitor centres within 6 kmLodgepole Visitor Center
  • 17car parks within 3 km
  • 12campsites within 10 kmBuckeye Flats Campground, Lodgepole Campground, Mehrten Creek and 9 more
  • 6places to stay within 10 kmWuksachi Lodge, Buckeye Tree Lodge, Gateway Lodge and 3 more
  • shelters and huts within 6 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 President.

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.

Peakyas91 mountains within 25 km
Black Kaweah4,151 m · 21 kmLawson Peak3,999 m · 21 kmPyramidal Pinnacle4,116 m · 22 kmKaweah Queen4,081 m · 22 kmKoontz Pinnacle4,145 m · 22 kmRed Kaweah4,185 m · 22 kmCentennial Peak4,026 m · 24 kmMount Kaweah4,208 m · 25 km
Lakeyas1 lakes within 15 km
Moose Lake0.4 km² · 11 km
Darkskyas2 dark-sky places within 30 km
Deadman CanyonBortle 3 · 22 kmKings CanyonBortle 2 · 27 km
Viewyas3 viewpoints within 15 kmComing soon
Sherman Tree Overlook2.2 kmAmphitheater Point4,393 m · 4.0 kmAdmiration Point4.3 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.

The President Sequoia Tree in Sequoia National Park (close up) July 2023
Marty Aligata · CC BY-SA 4.0
The President Tree
David Fulmer · CC BY 2.0
President Tree, Sequoia National Park (July 2023)
Marty Aligata · CC BY-SA 4.0

Other forests nearby.

President

United States

  • 82Forestyas Score
  • 95%Trees
  • 100%Wild
  • 219Species

General Sherman

United States · 2 km

  • 82Forestyas Score
  • 94%Trees
  • 100%Wild
  • 190Species

See the guide

General Grant

United States · 28 km

  • 82Forestyas Score
  • 92%Trees
  • 100%Wild
  • 191Species

See the guide

Sequoia National Forest

United States · 62 km

  • 69Forestyas Score
  • 52%Trees
  • 100%Wild
  • 163Species

See the guide

Where these figures come from

Name and typeWikidata (Q2975247) · CC0
Land coverESA WorldCover 10 m 2021 v200 · © ESA WorldCover project / Copernicus Sentinel data · CC BY 4.0
Species8,393 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, Darkskyas, Viewyas, Cavernyas, Cascadyas

Every figure is an average, an estimate or a count from a public dataset. Licences and methods: data sources.

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