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Qilan National Forest Recreation Area

林高志 · CC BY-SA 4.0

88% trees around it and 257 species recorded.

83Forestyas Score

ForestDense canopyWildBirds

  • trees within 3 km88%
  • wild within 10 km99%
  • species recorded257
  • Altitude406 m

The forest around

88% 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 79%Grassland 11%Water 3%Bare ground 4%Cropland 3%Built-up 0%Trees 89%Grassland 6%Water 1%Bare ground 1%Cropland 2%Trees 93%Grassland 3%Water 1%Bare ground 1%Cropland 2%Trees 97%Grassland 2%Water 0%Bare ground 1%Cropland 1%88%trees · 3 km

Trees, ring by ring

  • 0–1 km79%
  • 1–3 km89%
  • 3–6 km93%
  • 6–10 km97%

What covers the land (1–3 km)

  • Trees89%
  • Grassland6%
  • Water1%
  • Bare ground1%
  • Cropland2%
  • 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

257 species recorded.

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

Oreocnide pedunculata
Oreocnide pedunculataOreocnide pedunculata12 recordsKeisotyo · CC BY-SA 4.0
Urtica thunbergiana
Urtica thunbergianaUrtica thunbergiana10 recordsLoasa · Public domain
Green Maple
Green MapleAcer serrulatum9 recordsPhilippe Giabbanelli · CC BY 3.0
Bird's nest fern
Bird's nest fernAsplenium nidus5 recordsForest and Kim Starr · CC BY 3.0 us
Java waterdropwort
Java waterdropwortOenanthe javanica5 recordsKENPEI · CC BY-SA 3.0
Alsophila spinulosa
Alsophila spinulosaAlsophila spinulosa5 recordsBaynes, C. E. · Public domain
Ficus erecta
Ficus erectaFicus erecta5 recordsKENPEI · CC BY-SA 3.0
Creeping Fig
Creeping FigFicus pumila4 recordsIxitixel · CC BY-SA 3.0
Velvet Leaf
Velvet LeafCallicarpa pedunculata4 recordsTatiana Gerus · CC BY 2.0
Slender wild basil
Slender wild basilClinopodium gracile3 recordsFranz Xaver · CC BY-SA 3.0
Polystichum parvipinnulumPolystichum parvipinnulum10 records
Dennstaedtia scandensDennstaedtia scandens6 records

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

In numbers

The forest, measured.

83out of 100

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

  • 88%Treesof the land within 3 km
  • 99%Wildno towns or farmland within 10 km
  • 257Speciesrecorded more than once within 5 km
  • 406 mAltitudeabove the sea

When to walk

Best for walking from February to April and in November.

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

  1. Jan14°6°94 mm
  2. Feb16°7°89 mm
  3. Mar18°9°130 mm
  4. Apr21°12°129 mm
  5. May24°16°270 mm
  6. Jun25°18°303 mm
  7. Jul26°19°183 mm
  8. Aug25°19°311 mm
  9. Sep24°17°307 mm
  10. Oct21°14°151 mm
  11. Nov18°12°139 mm
  12. Dec14°8°104 mm
  • Bar: walking comfort; the number on top is the average maximum.
  • Below: average minimum (NASA, 1991–2020).
  • Rain: monthly total.

The place

Qilan National Forest Recreation Area.

Park in Taiwan

Qilan National Forest Recreation Area is a forest in Taiwan, 406 m above the sea.

Seen from space, 88% of the land within 3 km is trees, and 99% of the land within 10 km has no towns or farmland.

257 species have been recorded around it: 79 plants, 0 fungi, 172 birds and 6 mammals.

The most recorded plants are: Oreocnide pedunculata, Urtica thunbergiana and Green Maple.

The best time to walk is from February to April and in November.

宜蘭棲蘭山檜木林20
林高志 · CC BY-SA 4.0

Get there and walk

  • 暑假露營地campsite · 4.9 km · 4 within 10 km
  • 棲蘭山莊place to stay · 0.1 km · 15 within 10 km
  • Taipei Songshan International Airport (TSA)nearest airport with scheduled flights · 55 km in a straight lineCar hire in TaipeiDiscover 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.

Qilan National Forest Recreation Area 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

  • 2marked trails within 5 km鳩之澤自然步道, 大同國中登烏帽子山路線
  • 41named and notable trees within 6 km受難巨木, 白嶺巨木, 4號神木 歐陽修 and 38 more
  • 23shelters and huts within 6 km逸仙亭, 志清亭, 建豐亭 and 20 more
  • 6viewpoints within 5 km百年綠色隧道(樟樹), 休憩平台, 觀景平台 and 3 more
  • 2visitor centres within 6 km中間服務站, 棲蘭神木園服務中心
  • 3car parks within 3 km
  • 4campsites within 10 km暑假露營地, 牛鬥一坑露營區, 柚園優質渡假小木屋 and 1 more
  • 15places to stay within 10 km棲蘭山莊, 英仕山莊, 明池山莊 and 12 more
  • 3restaurants and cafés within 3 km
  • picnic sites within 4 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 Qilan National Forest Recreation Area.

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.

Peakyas145 mountains within 25 km
Nanhu North Mountain3,536 m · 22 kmNanhu Dashan Dongbeifeng3,545 m · 23 kmNanhu North Peak3,592 m · 23 kmNanhu East Peak3,742 m · 24 kmNanhu Dongshan3,535 m · 24 kmTaosai Peak3,519 m · 25 kmNanhu Mountain3,740 m · 25 kmNanhu Central South Peak3,576 m · 25 km
Islandyasthe island
Taiwan Island35,883 km²
Riveryasthe river nearby
Lanyang River73 kmDongshan RiverYilan RiverLuodong RiverQingshui RiverAnnong RiverXincheng River

Figures from the sister sites' databases (Wikidata, HydroATLAS, GeoNames, OpenStreetMap). Links open when each site is online.

Photographs

The forest, as people saw it.

Cilan Major Wildlife Habitat-樹單棵1
Steven Wang · CC BY-SA 4.0
Cilan Major Wildlife Habitat-樹單棵2
Steven Wang · CC BY-SA 4.0
宜蘭棲蘭山檜木林3
林高志 · CC BY-SA 4.0

Other forests nearby.

Qilan National Forest Recreation Area

Taiwan

  • 83Forestyas Score
  • 88%Trees
  • 99%Wild
  • 257Species

Wuling National Forest Recreation Area

Taiwan · 29 km

  • 86Forestyas Score
  • 96%Trees
  • 99%Wild
  • 618Species

See the guide

Basianshan National Forest Recreation Area

Taiwan · 65 km

  • 84Forestyas Score
  • 96%Trees
  • 100%Wild
  • 391Species

See the guide

Huisun Forest Recreation Area

Taiwan · 74 km

  • 87Forestyas Score
  • 96%Trees
  • 98%Wild
  • 677Species

See the guide

Where these figures come from

Name and typeWikidata (Q49547028) · CC0
Land coverESA WorldCover 10 m 2021 v200 · © ESA WorldCover project / Copernicus Sentinel data · CC BY 4.0
Species11,904 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, Islandyas, Riveryas

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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