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Santa Fe National Forest

Zereshk · CC BY-SA 3.0

49% trees around it and 88 species recorded.

66Forestyas Score

ForestNational forestWildMountain forest

  • trees within 3 km49%
  • wild within 10 km100%
  • species recorded88
  • Altitude2,091 m

The forest around

49% 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 59%Shrubland 16%Grassland 25%Trees 48%Shrubland 17%Grassland 35%Trees 51%Shrubland 20%Grassland 29%Trees 33%Shrubland 16%Grassland 45%Water 1%Bare ground 5%49%trees · 3 km

Trees, ring by ring

  • 0–1 km59%
  • 1–3 km48%
  • 3–6 km51%
  • 6–10 km33%

What covers the land (1–3 km)

  • Trees48%
  • Shrubland17%
  • Grassland35%
  • Water0%
  • 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

88 species recorded.

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

Green Pitaya
Green PitayaEchinocereus viridiflorus7 recordsMichael Wolf · CC BY 2.5
Fendler's desertdandelion
Fendler's desertdandelionMalacothrix fendleri3 recordsPatrick Alexander from Las Cruces, NM · CC0
Needle and thread
Needle and threadHesperostipa comata2 recordsCharles Sauer · CC BY-SA 4.0
Wax currant
Wax currantRibes cereum2 recordsStan Shebs · CC BY-SA 3.0
Green prairie coneflower
Green prairie coneflowerRatibida tagetes2 recordsNathaniel Lord Britton (1859-1934), and A. Brown · Public domain
Squawbush
SquawbushRhus trilobata2 recordsStan Shebs · CC BY-SA 3.0
Painted milkvetch
Painted milkvetchAstragalus ceramicus2 recordsMatt Lavin from Bozeman, Montana, USA · CC BY-SA 2.0
Snowball sand verbena
Snowball sand verbenaAbronia fragrans2 recordsUnknown author Unknown author · Public domain
Cercocarpus pallidusCercocarpus pallidus3 records
Cryptantha multicaulisCryptantha multicaulis3 records
Oreocarya suffruticosaOreocarya suffruticosa2 records

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

In numbers

The forest, measured.

66out of 100

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

  • 49%Treesof the land within 3 km
  • 100%Wildno towns or farmland within 10 km
  • 88Speciesrecorded more than once within 5 km
  • 2,091 mAltitudeabove the sea

When to walk

Best for walking in April and in October.

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

  1. Jan6°-6°19 mm
  2. Feb8°-5°17 mm
  3. Mar14°-2°18 mm
  4. Apr19°2°19 mm
  5. May25°7°20 mm
  6. Jun32°14°19 mm
  7. Jul32°16°62 mm
  8. Aug30°15°50 mm
  9. Sep26°11°41 mm
  10. Oct19°4°30 mm
  11. Nov12°-2°19 mm
  12. Dec6°-6°24 mm
  • Bar: walking comfort; the number on top is the average maximum.
  • Below: average minimum (NASA, 1991–2020).
  • Rain: monthly total.

The place

Santa Fe National Forest.

National Forest in New Mexico, United States of America

Santa Fe National Forest is a national forest in United States, 2,091 m above the sea.

Seen from space, 49% of the land within 3 km is trees, and 100% of the land within 10 km has no towns or farmland.

88 species have been recorded around it: 11 plants, 4 fungi, 72 birds and 1 mammals.

The most recorded plants are: Green Pitaya, Fendler's desertdandelion and Needle and thread.

The best time to walk is in April and in October.

Santa Fe NF (3)
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.

Santa Fe 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

  • 2campsites within 10 kmTetilla Peak Campground
  • 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
  • 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 Santa Fe 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.

Peakyas47 mountains within 25 km
Caja del Rio Plateau2.2 kmCerrita Portillo6.7 kmCerrito Pelado6.9 kmBoundary Peak16 kmBurnt Mesa16 kmCerro Balitas19 kmBonanza Hill20 kmBarranca Mesa24 km
Lakeyas1 lakes within 15 km
Cochiti Reservoir4.3 km² · 13 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.

A trail trace runs through the Santa Fe National Forest near Santa Fe, NM (2087b87c-2cb6-42b6-affd-4cf2cb12c0cc)
National Trails Office ( US National Park Service ) · Public domain
An expansive view of the high desert landscape at the Santa Fe National Forest near Santa Fe, NM (3731ddd0-f6f4-4252-994f-bb29b9b2a1b8)
National Trails Office ( US National Park Service ) · Public domain
Looking down Caja del Rio Canyon (known locally as Diablo Canyon) in Santa Fe National Forest, New Mexico
Matthew.kowal · CC BY-SA 4.0

Other forests nearby.

Santa Fe National Forest

United States

  • 66Forestyas Score
  • 49%Trees
  • 100%Wild
  • 88Species

Carson National Forest

United States · 91 km

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

See the guide

San Isabel National Forest

United States · 278 km

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

See the guide

Rio Grande National Forest

United States · 234 km

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

See the guide

Where these figures come from

Name and typeWikidata (Q7419545) · CC0
Land coverESA WorldCover 10 m 2021 v200 · © ESA WorldCover project / Copernicus Sentinel data · CC BY 4.0
Species1,190 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.

The family

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