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San Bernardino National Forest

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34% trees around it and 202 species recorded.

62Forestyas Score

ForestNational forestWildMountain forest

  • trees within 3 km34%
  • wild within 10 km100%
  • species recorded202
  • Altitude2,638 m

The forest around

34% 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 29%Shrubland 70%Bare ground 0%Trees 35%Shrubland 65%Trees 18%Shrubland 80%Grassland 1%Bare ground 1%Trees 6%Shrubland 82%Grassland 4%Bare ground 8%34%trees · 3 km

Trees, ring by ring

  • 0–1 km29%
  • 1–3 km35%
  • 3–6 km18%
  • 6–10 km6%

What covers the land (1–3 km)

  • Trees35%
  • Shrubland65%
  • Grassland0%
  • 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

202 species recorded.

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

White Fir
White FirAbies concolor37 recordsPuncsos · CC BY-SA 3.0
One-leaved Nut Pine
One-leaved Nut PinePinus monophylla15 recordsFamartin · CC BY-SA 3.0
California Incense-cedar
California Incense-cedarCalocedrus decurrens14 recordsThe original uploader was Geographer at English Wikipedia . · CC BY 1.0
Wax currant
Wax currantRibes cereum14 recordsStan Shebs · CC BY-SA 3.0
Cleveland's beardtongue
Cleveland's beardtonguePenstemon clevelandii12 records°Florian · CC BY-SA 2.0
Blue sage
Blue sageSalvia pachyphylla10 recordsDick Culbert from Gibsons, B.C., Canada · CC BY 2.0
Sanddune wallflower
Sanddune wallflowerErysimum capitatum10 recordsEric in SF · CC BY-SA 3.0
Golden-yarrow
Golden-yarrowEriophyllum confertiflorum10 recordsCopyright by Curtis Clark, licensed as noted · CC BY-SA 2.5
Grape soda lupine
Grape soda lupineLupinus excubitus9 recordsWalter Siegmund · CC BY-SA 4.0
Sugar Pine
Sugar PinePinus lambertiana9 recordsMitch from Costa Mesa, CA, USA · CC BY-SA 2.0
Hairy yerba santa
Hairy yerba santaEriodictyon trichocalyx8 recordsjoedecruyenaere · CC BY-SA 2.0
Drooping Brome
Drooping BromeBromus tectorum7 recordsAnRo0002 · CC0

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

In numbers

The forest, measured.

62out of 100

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

  • 34%Treesof the land within 3 km
  • 100%Wildno towns or farmland within 10 km
  • 202Speciesrecorded more than once within 5 km
  • 2,638 mAltitudeabove the sea

When to walk

Best for walking in February.

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

  1. Jan17°5°33 mm
  2. Feb19°6°39 mm
  3. Mar23°8°19 mm
  4. Apr26°10°11 mm
  5. May31°14°4 mm
  6. Jun38°19°0 mm
  7. Jul40°24°6 mm
  8. Aug40°24°7 mm
  9. Sep36°21°6 mm
  10. Oct29°15°12 mm
  11. Nov22°10°16 mm
  12. Dec17°5°34 mm
  • Bar: walking comfort; the number on top is the average maximum.
  • Below: average minimum (NASA, 1991–2020).
  • Rain: monthly total.

The place

San Bernardino National Forest.

National forest in California, United States

San Bernardino National Forest is a national forest in United States, 2,638 m above the sea.

Seen from space, 34% of the land within 3 km is trees, and 100% of the land within 10 km has no towns or farmland.

202 species have been recorded around it: 88 plants, 4 fungi, 97 birds and 13 mammals.

The most recorded plants are: White Fir, One-leaved Nut Pine and California Incense-cedar.

The best time to walk is in February.

PineTreesInBigBear
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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.

San Bernardino 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

  • 18campsites within 10 kmSanta Rosa Yellow Post 16, Santa Rosa Yellow Post 12, Santa Rosa Yellow Post 15 and 15 more
  • 1places to stay within 10 km
  • 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
  • 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 San Bernardino 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.

Peakyas30 mountains within 25 km
Toro Peak2,657 m · 0.1 kmSanta Rosa Mountain3.7 kmMartinez Mountain8.2 kmAsbestos Mountain12 kmLookout Mountain14 kmRabbit Peak20 kmCoyote Mountain973 m · 22 kmBucksnort Mountain22 km
Darkskyas1 dark-sky places within 30 km
Anza-Borrego Desert State ParkBortle 4 · 30 km
Canyonyas1 canyons within 20 km
Tahquitz Canyon14 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.

03 Mormon Rocks Viewpoint Parking Lot Near Cajon Junction, San Bernardino County
The Fun Chronicles · CC0
04 Mormon Rocks Viewpoint Parking Lot Views (1) - Cleghorn Mountain (C)
The Fun Chronicles · CC0
San Bernardino National Forest After Fire in 2016
Marcello Curto · CC BY 4.0

Other forests nearby.

San Bernardino National Forest

United States

  • 62Forestyas Score
  • 34%Trees
  • 100%Wild
  • 202Species

Cleveland National Forest

United States · 43 km

  • 82Forestyas Score
  • 76%Trees
  • 100%Wild
  • 205Species

See the guide

SeaWorld San Diego

United States · 113 km

  • 33Forestyas Score
  • 4%Trees
  • 58%Wild
  • 425Species

See the guide

Angeles National Forest

United States · 182 km

  • 53Forestyas Score
  • 15%Trees
  • 100%Wild
  • 228Species

See the guide

Where these figures come from

Name and typeWikidata (Q7413436) · CC0
Land coverESA WorldCover 10 m 2021 v200 · © ESA WorldCover project / Copernicus Sentinel data · CC BY 4.0
Species2,624 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, Darkskyas, Canyonyas

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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