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Rogue River–Siskiyou National Forest

U.S. Forest Service- Pacific Northwest Region · Public domain

85% trees around it and 6 species recorded.

72Forestyas Score

ForestNational forestWild

  • trees within 3 km85%
  • wild within 10 km100%
  • species recorded6
  • Altitude982 m

The forest around

85% 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 58%Grassland 42%Trees 88%Grassland 11%Bare ground 0%Trees 87%Grassland 13%Trees 82%Grassland 18%85%trees · 3 km

Trees, ring by ring

  • 0–1 km58%
  • 1–3 km88%
  • 3–6 km87%
  • 6–10 km82%

What covers the land (1–3 km)

  • Trees88%
  • Grassland11%
  • Bare ground0%

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

6 species recorded.

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

Douglas-fir
Douglas-firPseudotsuga menziesii2 recordsWalter Siegmund · CC BY-SA 3.0
Red huckleberry
Red huckleberryVaccinium parvifolium2 recordsMeggar at English Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 3.0
California pitcherplant
California pitcherplantDarlingtonia californica2 recordsIan Poellet · CC BY-SA 4.0
Hooker's sileneSilene hookeri3 records

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

In numbers

The forest, measured.

72out of 100

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

  • 85%Treesof the land within 3 km
  • 100%Wildno towns or farmland within 10 km
  • 6Speciesrecorded more than once within 5 km
  • 982 mAltitudeabove the sea

When to walk

Best for walking from May to June and in October.

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

  1. Jan8°1°215 mm
  2. Feb8°0°174 mm
  3. Mar10°1°201 mm
  4. Apr12°3°115 mm
  5. May17°6°58 mm
  6. Jun22°8°30 mm
  7. Jul29°12°5 mm
  8. Aug29°12°7 mm
  9. Sep25°9°31 mm
  10. Oct18°6°102 mm
  11. Nov11°2°193 mm
  12. Dec7°0°298 mm
  • Bar: walking comfort; the number on top is the average maximum.
  • Below: average minimum (NASA, 1991–2020).
  • Rain: monthly total.

The place

Rogue River–Siskiyou National Forest.

United States national forest in Oregon

Rogue River–Siskiyou National Forest is a national forest in United States, 982 m above the sea.

Seen from space, 85% of the land within 3 km is trees, and 100% of the land within 10 km has no towns or farmland.

6 species have been recorded around it: 4 plants, 2 fungi, 0 birds and 0 mammals.

The most recorded plants are: Douglas-fir, Red huckleberry and California pitcherplant.

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

Rabbit Ears, Rogue River Siskiyou National Forest (23305701224)
U.S. Forest Service- Pacific Northwest Region · 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.

Rogue River–Siskiyou 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

    • 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
    • car parks within 3 km
    • campsites within 10 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 Rogue River–Siskiyou 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.

    Peakyas45 mountains within 25 km
    Chetco Peak1,424 m · 8.2 kmMount Emily892 m · 14 kmLow Divide19 kmCold Spring Mountain19 kmHazel View Summit20 kmHigh Divide20 kmGasquet Mountain21 kmRound Knob24 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.

    180602-FS-MNUC-TMH-003 (27805014377)
    usfs_Eastern_Region · Public domain
    180808-Rouge-CMR-1003 (43253844575)
    Forest Service Photography · Public domain
    180808-Rouge-CMR-1018 (43253843995)
    Forest Service Photography · Public domain

    Other forests nearby.

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    United States

    • 72Forestyas Score
    • 85%Trees
    • 100%Wild
    • 6Species

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    United States · 38 km

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

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    Klamath National Forest

    United States · 80 km

    • 81Forestyas Score
    • 89%Trees
    • 100%Wild
    • 57Species

    See the guide

    Hyperion

    United States · 96 km

    • 80Forestyas Score
    • 100%Trees
    • 100%Wild
    • 120Species

    See the guide

    Where these figures come from

    Name and typeWikidata (Q3079138) · CC0
    Land coverESA WorldCover 10 m 2021 v200 · © ESA WorldCover project / Copernicus Sentinel data · CC BY 4.0
    Species41 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

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

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