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San Isabel National Forest

Zereshk · CC BY-SA 3.0

94% trees around it and 178 species recorded.

85Forestyas Score

ForestNational forestDense canopyWildMountain forest

  • trees within 3 km94%
  • wild within 10 km100%
  • species recorded178
  • Altitude2,966 m

The forest around

94% 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 99%Grassland 1%Trees 93%Grassland 7%Trees 93%Grassland 7%Trees 80%Grassland 20%94%trees · 3 km

Trees, ring by ring

  • 0–1 km99%
  • 1–3 km93%
  • 3–6 km93%
  • 6–10 km80%

What covers the land (1–3 km)

  • Trees93%
  • Grassland7%

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

178 species recorded.

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

Whortleberry
WhortleberryVaccinium myrtillus6 recordsUnknown author · CC BY-SA 3.0
Twinberry honeysuckle
Twinberry honeysuckleLonicera involucrata6 recordsJerryFriedman · CC BY-SA 3.0
Western red baneberry
Western red baneberryActaea rubra4 recordsKurt Stüber [1] · CC BY-SA 3.0
Fendler's waterleaf
Fendler's waterleafHydrophyllum fendleri3 recordsThayne Tuason · CC BY-SA 4.0
Western red columbine
Western red columbineAquilegia elegantula3 recordsDave Powell, USDA Forest Service, Bugwood.org · Public domain
Colorado blue columbine
Colorado blue columbineAquilegia coerulea3 recordsEjohnsonboulder · Public domain
Few-flowered shooting star
Few-flowered shooting starDodecatheon pulchellum3 recordsStan Shebs · CC BY-SA 3.0
Blue Spruce
Blue SprucePicea pungens3 recordsQuinn Dombrowski from Chicago, USA · CC BY-SA 2.0
Heart-leaf Arnica
Heart-leaf ArnicaArnica cordifolia3 recordsWalter Siegmund · CC BY-SA 3.0
Red Clover
Red CloverTrifolium pratense3 recordsIvar Leidus · CC BY-SA 4.0
Bladder fern
Bladder fernCystopteris fragilis2 recordsStan Shebs · CC BY-SA 3.0
Common Juniper
Common JuniperJuniperus communis2 recordsIvar Leidus · CC BY-SA 4.0

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

In numbers

The forest, measured.

85out of 100

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

  • 94%Treesof the land within 3 km
  • 100%Wildno towns or farmland within 10 km
  • 178Speciesrecorded more than once within 5 km
  • 2,966 mAltitudeabove the sea

When to walk

Best for walking in October.

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

  1. Jan5°-8°18 mm
  2. Feb6°-7°21 mm
  3. Mar11°-3°30 mm
  4. Apr16°0°42 mm
  5. May22°5°43 mm
  6. Jun29°11°27 mm
  7. Jul30°15°67 mm
  8. Aug28°13°54 mm
  9. Sep24°9°32 mm
  10. Oct17°2°25 mm
  11. Nov10°-4°16 mm
  12. Dec4°-8°21 mm
  • Bar: walking comfort; the number on top is the average maximum.
  • Below: average minimum (NASA, 1991–2020).
  • Rain: monthly total.

The place

San Isabel National Forest.

National Forest in Colorado, United States, administratively combined with the Pike National Forest in 1973

San Isabel National Forest is a national forest in United States, 2,966 m above the sea.

Seen from space, 94% of the land within 3 km is trees, and 100% of the land within 10 km has no towns or farmland.

178 species have been recorded around it: 54 plants, 1 fungi, 117 birds and 6 mammals.

The most recorded plants are: Whortleberry, Twinberry honeysuckle and Western red baneberry.

The best time to walk is in October.

San Isabel Natl Forest Nima
Zereshk · CC BY-SA 3.0

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.

San Isabel 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

  • 1shelters and huts within 6 km
  • 4car parks within 3 km
  • 7campsites within 10 kmOphir Creek Campground, Davenport Campground, Aspen Acres Campground and 4 more
  • 1places to stay within 10 kmThe Lodge at San Isabel
  • marked trails within 5 km
  • named and notable trees within 6 km
  • picnic sites within 4 km
  • viewpoints within 5 km
  • visitor centres within 6 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 Isabel 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.

Peakyas55 mountains within 25 km
Huckleberry Hills2,321 m · 17 kmNorth Peak17 kmLead Mountain18 kmHardscrabble Mountain18 kmAdobe Peak20 kmGreenhorn Mountain3,765 m · 20 kmTable Mountain22 kmPromontory Divide23 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.

Fairley Overlook - tps
Theperfectstorm · CC BY-SA 4.0
North Mount Elbert Trail
Fredlyfish4 · CC BY-SA 3.0
Dike Trail no. 1389
Jeffrey Beall · CC BY 4.0

Other forests nearby.

San Isabel National Forest

United States

  • 85Forestyas Score
  • 94%Trees
  • 100%Wild
  • 178Species

Carson National Forest

United States · 191 km

  • 80Forestyas Score
  • 92%Trees
  • 100%Wild
  • 50Species

See the guide

Rio Grande National Forest

United States · 155 km

  • 67Forestyas Score
  • 48%Trees
  • 100%Wild
  • 139Species

See the guide

Pike National Forest

United States · 128 km

  • 46Forestyas Score
  • 6%Trees
  • 100%Wild
  • 118Species

See the guide

Where these figures come from

Name and typeWikidata (Q1741263) · CC0
Land coverESA WorldCover 10 m 2021 v200 · © ESA WorldCover project / Copernicus Sentinel data · CC BY 4.0
Species10,127 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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