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San Juan National Forest

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51% trees around it and 94 species recorded.

67Forestyas Score

ForestNational forestWildMountain forest

  • trees within 3 km51%
  • wild within 10 km100%
  • species recorded94
  • Altitude3,619 m

The forest around

51% 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 33%Grassland 28%Moss and lichen 31%Bare ground 8%Trees 53%Grassland 19%Moss and lichen 26%Bare ground 2%Trees 64%Grassland 14%Moss and lichen 18%Bare ground 4%Trees 63%Grassland 14%Moss and lichen 14%Water 0%Bare ground 10%51%trees · 3 km

Trees, ring by ring

  • 0–1 km33%
  • 1–3 km53%
  • 3–6 km64%
  • 6–10 km63%

What covers the land (1–3 km)

  • Trees53%
  • Grassland19%
  • Moss and lichen26%
  • Water0%
  • Bare ground2%

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

94 species recorded.

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

Silver twinpod
Silver twinpodPhysaria scrotiformis23 recordsPatrick Alexander from Las Cruces, NM · CC0
Russet sedge
Russet sedgeCarex saxatilis4 recordsRobert H. Mohlenbrock. USDA NRCS. · Public domain
California false hellebore
California false helleboreVeratrum californicum4 recordsJerryFriedman · CC BY-SA 3.0
Geyer's onion
Geyer's onionAllium geyeri3 recordsScott Zona · CC BY 2.0
Spear Thistle
Spear ThistleCirsium vulgare3 recordsSciadopitys from UK · CC BY-SA 2.0
Dieteria bigelovii
Dieteria bigeloviiDieteria bigelovii3 recordsClements, Edith Gertrude (Schwartz); Clements, Frederic E. · Public domain
Spreading wheatgrass
Spreading wheatgrassElymus scribneri3 recordsHitchcock, A.S. (rev. A. Chase). · Public domain
Potentilla gordonii
Potentilla gordoniiPotentilla gordonii3 recordsJW Stockert · Public domain
White marsh marigold
White marsh marigoldCaltha leptosepala3 recordsWalter Siegmund · CC BY-SA 3.0
Rocky Mountain rush
Rocky Mountain rushJuncus saximontanus2 recordsAndrey Zharkikh from Salt Lake City, USA · CC BY 2.0
Nodding bluegrass
Nodding bluegrassPoa reflexa2 recordsMatt Lavin from Bozeman, Montana, USA · CC BY-SA 2.0
Creeping Thistle
Creeping ThistleCirsium arvense2 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.

67out of 100

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

  • 51%Treesof the land within 3 km
  • 100%Wildno towns or farmland within 10 km
  • 94Speciesrecorded more than once within 5 km
  • 3,619 mAltitudeabove the sea

When to walk

Best for walking in June and in September.

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

  1. Jan-3°-15°48 mm
  2. Feb-2°-15°48 mm
  3. Mar2°-11°38 mm
  4. Apr8°-6°40 mm
  5. May14°-1°38 mm
  6. Jun21°5°19 mm
  7. Jul23°8°57 mm
  8. Aug22°7°56 mm
  9. Sep18°2°59 mm
  10. Oct10°-3°46 mm
  11. Nov4°-9°44 mm
  12. Dec-2°-15°55 mm
  • Bar: walking comfort; the number on top is the average maximum.
  • Below: average minimum (NASA, 1991–2020).
  • Rain: monthly total.

The place

San Juan National Forest.

National forest in Colorado, United States

San Juan National Forest is a national forest in United States, 3,619 m above the sea.

Seen from space, 51% of the land within 3 km is trees, and 100% of the land within 10 km has no towns or farmland.

94 species have been recorded around it: 24 plants, 1 fungi, 68 birds and 1 mammals.

The most recorded plants are: Silver twinpod, Russet sedge and California false hellebore.

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

GreatDivideNationalForests
WhisperToMe · 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.

San Juan 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

  • 2car parks within 3 km
  • 3campsites 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
  • 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 San Juan 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.

Peakyas101 mountains within 25 km
Turret Peak4,219 m · 8.5 kmMount Eolus4,295 m · 8.6 kmPigeon Peak4,260 m · 8.9 kmJupiter Mountain4,217 m · 9.5 kmWindom Peak4,294 m · 10 kmSunlight Peak4,287 m · 10 kmTwilight Peak4,012 m · 13 kmArrow Peak4,209 m · 16 km
Lakeyas2 lakes within 15 km
Electra Lake2.7 km² · 12 kmHaviland Lake0.2 km² · 12 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.

Hiking to the Ice Lakes. San Juan National Forest, Colorado
Paxson Woelber · CC BY-SA 4.0
Emerald Lake (San Juan National Forest), CO
Penguin314 · CC BY-SA 4.0
Johnson Creek San Juan Park Colorado - panoramio
SFC H · CC BY 3.0

Other forests nearby.

San Juan National Forest

United States

  • 67Forestyas Score
  • 51%Trees
  • 100%Wild
  • 94Species

Rio Grande National Forest

United States · 76 km

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

See the guide

Uncompahgre National Forest

United States · 49 km

  • 53Forestyas Score
  • 12%Trees
  • 100%Wild
  • 267Species

See the guide

Carson National Forest

United States · 183 km

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

See the guide

Where these figures come from

Name and typeWikidata (Q643618) · CC0
Land coverESA WorldCover 10 m 2021 v200 · © ESA WorldCover project / Copernicus Sentinel data · CC BY 4.0
Species1,159 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, Lakeyas

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

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