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Puszcza Piska Forest

Mateusz Giełczyński · CC BY-SA 4.0

93% trees around it and 116 species recorded.

80Forestyas Score

ForestDense canopyWild

  • trees within 3 km93%
  • wild within 10 km99%
  • species recorded116
  • Altitude147 m

The forest around

93% 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 91%Grassland 8%Wetland 0%Water 1%Trees 93%Grassland 7%Wetland 0%Trees 76%Grassland 6%Wetland 0%Water 17%Built-up 1%Trees 78%Grassland 13%Water 7%Cropland 1%Built-up 0%93%trees · 3 km

Trees, ring by ring

  • 0–1 km91%
  • 1–3 km93%
  • 3–6 km76%
  • 6–10 km78%

What covers the land (1–3 km)

  • Trees93%
  • Grassland7%
  • Wetland0%
  • Water0%
  • Cropland0%
  • Built-up0%

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

116 species recorded.

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

European Beech
European BeechFagus sylvatica8 recordsMalene Thyssen · CC BY-SA 3.0
Carex ericetorum
Carex ericetorumCarex ericetorum6 recordsUnknown author · CC BY-SA 3.0
Small yellow balsam
Small yellow balsamImpatiens parviflora5 recordsAndré Karwath aka Aka · CC BY-SA 2.5
Stiff clubmoss
Stiff clubmossLycopodium annotinum5 recordsBernd Haynold · CC BY 2.5
True lover's knot
True lover's knotParis quadrifolia5 recordsGeorge Chernilevsky · Public domain
Cowberry
CowberryVaccinium vitis-idaea4 recordsBartosz Cuber · CC BY-SA 3.0
Buckthorn
BuckthornRhamnus cathartica4 recordsFranz Xaver · CC BY-SA 3.0
Wood-sorrel
Wood-sorrelOxalis acetosella4 recordsJörg Hempel · CC BY-SA 3.0 de
Climbing Nightshade
Climbing NightshadeSolanum dulcamara3 recordsDavid Eickhoff from Pearl City, Hawaii, USA · CC BY 2.0
Japanese rose
Japanese roseRosa rugosa3 recordsVihljun · Public domain
Rowan
RowanSorbus aucuparia3 recordsGiallopolenta · Public domain
Lesser meadow-rue
Lesser meadow-rueThalictrum minus3 recordsM. Jaume Saint-Hilaire (1772-1845) · 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.

80out of 100

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

  • 93%Treesof the land within 3 km
  • 99%Wildno towns or farmland within 10 km
  • 116Speciesrecorded more than once within 5 km
  • 147 mAltitudeabove the sea

When to walk

Best for walking in May and in September.

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

  1. Jan-2°-8°45 mm
  2. Feb0°-7°37 mm
  3. Mar6°-3°39 mm
  4. Apr13°2°38 mm
  5. May19°8°69 mm
  6. Jun22°12°72 mm
  7. Jul24°14°82 mm
  8. Aug24°14°75 mm
  9. Sep19°9°54 mm
  10. Oct11°4°56 mm
  11. Nov5°0°49 mm
  12. Dec0°-4°47 mm
  • Bar: walking comfort; the number on top is the average maximum.
  • Below: average minimum (NASA, 1991–2020).
  • Rain: monthly total.

The place

Puszcza Piska Forest.

Forest complex in the southern part of the Great Masurian Lakes Region

Puszcza Piska Forest is a forest in Poland.

Seen from space, 93% of the land within 3 km is trees, and 99% of the land within 10 km has no towns or farmland.

116 species have been recorded around it: 40 plants, 4 fungi, 72 birds and 0 mammals.

The most recorded plants are: European Beech, Carex ericetorum and Small yellow balsam.

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

Meadow, Puszcza Piska
Mateusz Giełczyński · CC BY-SA 4.0

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.

Puszcza Piska 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

  • 3marked trails within 5 kmSzlak Wielkich Jezior Mazurskich, Szlak Puszczą Piską
  • 3named and notable trees within 6 kmSosna Lira
  • 6shelters and huts within 6 km
  • 3viewpoints within 5 kmWieża widokowa Krzyże
  • 3visitor centres within 6 kmReception PTTK campsite
  • 2car parks within 3 km
  • 24campsites within 10 kmBinduga, Stanica wodna Czaple, Binduga Bobrowa and 21 more
  • 187places to stay within 10 kmZajazd Przylasek, Pod Dębem, Ośrodek Wypoczynkowy Wiartel and 184 more
  • picnic sites within 4 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 Puszcza Piska 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.

Lakeyas9 lakes within 15 km
Jezioro Nidzkie14 km² · 4.8 kmGuzianka Wielka0.4 km² · 6.3 kmWiartel Lake1.5 km² · 7.1 kmBrzozolasek1.4 km² · 9.5 kmJegocin0.9 km² · 9.5 kmPogubie Wielkie6.0 km² · 10 kmDuś0.2 km² · 11 kmKierwik Lake0.6 km² · 14 km
Darkskyas1 dark-sky places within 30 km
Jezioro NidzkieBortle 2 · 4.7 km
Birdyas1 birding sites within 25 km
Nature reserve Jezioro Łuknajno149 species · 24 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.

Puszcza Piska - Stare Kiełbonki, 2021 01
Mateusz Giełczyński · CC BY-SA 4.0
Rzeka Krutynia
Smolen01 · CC BY 3.0
Peucedano-pinetum puszcza piska
Panek · CC BY-SA 4.0

Other forests nearby.

Puszcza Piska Forest

Poland

  • 80Forestyas Score
  • 93%Trees
  • 99%Wild
  • 116Species

Puszcza Borecka

Poland · 67 km

  • 77Forestyas Score
  • 97%Trees
  • 90%Wild
  • 138Species

See the guide

Puszcza Biała

Poland · 99 km

  • 78Forestyas Score
  • 88%Trees
  • 92%Wild
  • 136Species

See the guide

Augustów Primeval Forest

Belarus · 119 km

  • 79Forestyas Score
  • 90%Trees
  • 99%Wild
  • 93Species

See the guide

Where these figures come from

Name and typeWikidata (Q7262054) · CC0
Land coverESA WorldCover 10 m 2021 v200 · © ESA WorldCover project / Copernicus Sentinel data · CC BY 4.0
Species570 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 atlasesLakeyas, Darkskyas, Birdyas

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

The family

Do you prefer beaches, lakes, mountains, waterfalls, islands, rivers, canyons, caves, dark skies, viewpoints, birdwatching or forests?

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

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viewpointsViewyasEvery viewpoint with its real 360° panorama: the peaks you can name, how far you see and where the sun sets.Coming soonVisit
birdwatchingBirdyasEvery bird sanctuary and wetland with the species recorded month by month: who is resident, who comes for the summer, who only passes through.Visit
forestsForestyasEvery forest with its land-cover rings, what grows and lives in it, and the best months to walk it.You are here