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Prometheus

Didier Descouens · Public domain

47% trees around it and 176 species recorded.

63Forestyas Score

Notable treeWildMountain forest

  • trees within 3 km47%
  • wild within 10 km100%
  • species recorded176
  • Altitude3,296 m

The forest around

47% 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 28%Shrubland 14%Grassland 1%Bare ground 58%Snow and ice 0%Trees 49%Shrubland 13%Grassland 5%Water 0%Bare ground 33%Trees 62%Shrubland 24%Grassland 8%Bare ground 6%Trees 54%Shrubland 27%Grassland 17%Bare ground 2%47%trees · 3 km

Trees, ring by ring

  • 0–1 km28%
  • 1–3 km49%
  • 3–6 km62%
  • 6–10 km54%

What covers the land (1–3 km)

  • Trees49%
  • Shrubland13%
  • Grassland5%
  • Bare ground33%
  • Snow and ice0%

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

176 species recorded.

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

Great Basin bristlecone pine
Great Basin bristlecone pinePinus longaeva56 recordsDcrjsr · CC BY-SA 3.0
Sticky polemonium
Sticky polemoniumPolemonium viscosum30 recordsJ Brew · CC BY-SA 2.0
Parry's primrose
Parry's primrosePrimula parryi16 recordsTom Taylor · CC BY-SA 3.0
Common Juniper
Common JuniperJuniperus communis14 recordsIvar Leidus · CC BY-SA 4.0
Watson's spikemoss
Watson's spikemossSelaginella watsonii10 recordsJim Morefield from Nevada, USA · CC BY-SA 2.0
Cushion phlox
Cushion phloxPhlox pulvinata10 recordsJR Douglass · Public domain
Smoothleaf beardtongue
Smoothleaf beardtonguePenstemon leiophyllus10 recordsStan Shebs · CC BY-SA 3.0
Spiny milkvetch
Spiny milkvetchAstragalus kentrophyta10 recordsJW Stockert · Public domain
Engelmann Spruce
Engelmann SprucePicea engelmannii9 recordsJsayre64 · CC BY-SA 3.0
Limber Pine
Limber PinePinus flexilis9 recordsdoug · CC BY 2.0
Quaking aspen
Quaking aspenPopulus tremuloides7 recordsScott Catron · CC BY 2.5
Moss campion
Moss campionSilene acaulis7 recordsMichael Haferkamp, aka Mikesegeln at en.wikipedia · CC BY-SA 3.0

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

In numbers

The forest, measured.

63out of 100

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

  • 47%Treesof the land within 3 km
  • 100%Wildno towns or farmland within 10 km
  • 176Speciesrecorded more than once within 2 km
  • 3,296 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. Jan2°-8°25 mm
  2. Feb4°-7°28 mm
  3. Mar9°-3°28 mm
  4. Apr13°-1°33 mm
  5. May19°5°28 mm
  6. Jun27°10°12 mm
  7. Jul31°16°24 mm
  8. Aug29°14°21 mm
  9. Sep24°9°21 mm
  10. Oct16°2°26 mm
  11. Nov8°-4°17 mm
  12. Dec2°-8°26 mm
  • Bar: walking comfort; the number on top is the average maximum.
  • Below: average minimum (NASA, 1991–2020).
  • Rain: monthly total.

The place

Prometheus.

Deceased bristlecone pine tree in Great Basin National Park, Nevada; oldest known non-clonal organism

Prometheus is a notable tree in United States, 3,296 m above the sea.

Seen from space, 47% of the land within 3 km is trees, and 100% of the land within 10 km has no towns or farmland.

176 species have been recorded around it: 65 plants, 8 fungi, 93 birds and 10 mammals.

The most recorded plants are: Great Basin bristlecone pine, Sticky polemonium and Parry's primrose.

The best time to walk is in May.

(Venice) Prometheus Freed by Francesco Maffei
Didier Descouens · 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.

Prometheus 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

  • 2picnic sites within 4 km
  • 1shelters and huts within 6 km
  • 5viewpoints within 5 kmMather Overlook, Wheeler Peak Overlook, Meadow Views and 2 more
  • 2car parks within 3 km
  • 11campsites within 10 kmWheeler Peak Campground, Upper Lehman Creek, Baker Creek Campground and 8 more
  • marked trails within 5 km
  • named and notable trees within 6 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 Prometheus.

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.

Peakyas10 mountains within 25 km
Doso Doyabi3,894 m · 1.3 kmWheeler Peak3,982 m · 1.5 kmBald Mountain2.9 kmBuck Mountain3.4 kmMount Washington3,553 m · 9.2 kmLincoln Peak13 kmCastle Butte16 kmGranite Peak18 km
Darkskyas2 dark-sky places within 30 km
Wheeler PeakBortle 1 · 1.4 kmGreat Basin National ParkBortle 2 · 7.5 km
Cavernyas1 caves within 20 km
Lehman Caves7.5 km
Cascadyas1 waterfalls within 15 km
Lehman Creek Cascades5.6 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.

Prometheus by Frans Huygelen
El Grafo · Public domain
(Venice) Prometheus with the Mirror and the Eagle by Francesco Maffei
Didier Descouens · Public domain
Prometheus Adam Louvre MR1745
Marie-Lan Nguyen · Public domain

Other forests nearby.

Prometheus

United States

  • 63Forestyas Score
  • 47%Trees
  • 100%Wild
  • 176Species

Dixie National Forest

United States · 257 km

  • 83Forestyas Score
  • 93%Trees
  • 100%Wild
  • 110Species

See the guide

Fishlake National Forest

United States · 206 km

  • 63Forestyas Score
  • 45%Trees
  • 98%Wild
  • 78Species

See the guide

Humboldt–Toiyabe National Forest

United States · 245 km

  • 68Forestyas Score
  • 46%Trees
  • 100%Wild
  • 221Species

See the guide

Where these figures come from

Name and typeWikidata (Q590010) · CC0
Land coverESA WorldCover 10 m 2021 v200 · © ESA WorldCover project / Copernicus Sentinel data · CC BY 4.0
Species4,891 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, Darkskyas, Cavernyas, Cascadyas

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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