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Sawtooth National Forest

Acroterion · CC BY-SA 4.0

59% trees around it and 205 species recorded.

73Forestyas Score

ForestNational forestWildMountain forest

  • trees within 3 km59%
  • wild within 10 km100%
  • species recorded205
  • Altitude2,835 m

The forest around

59% 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 48%Grassland 2%Moss and lichen 19%Bare ground 31%Trees 60%Grassland 2%Moss and lichen 16%Water 1%Bare ground 22%Snow and ice 0%Trees 60%Grassland 8%Moss and lichen 17%Bare ground 15%Trees 56%Grassland 17%Moss and lichen 16%Bare ground 11%59%trees · 3 km

Trees, ring by ring

  • 0–1 km48%
  • 1–3 km60%
  • 3–6 km60%
  • 6–10 km56%

What covers the land (1–3 km)

  • Trees60%
  • Grassland2%
  • Moss and lichen16%
  • Water1%
  • Bare ground22%

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

205 species recorded.

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

Cushion buckwheat
Cushion buckwheatEriogonum ovalifolium9 recordsUnknown author · CC BY-SA 3.0
Silky lupine
Silky lupineLupinus sericeus9 recordsUnknown author Unknown author · Public domain
Cordroot beardtongue
Cordroot beardtonguePenstemon montanus9 recordsAndrey Zharkikh from Salt Lake City, USA · CC BY 2.0
Gooseberryleaf alumroot
Gooseberryleaf alumrootHeuchera grossulariifolia8 recordsUnknown author · CC BY-SA 3.0
Rocky Mountain aster
Rocky Mountain asterIonactis stenomeres7 recordsMatt Lavin, some rights reserved (CC BY-SA) · CC BY-SA 4.0
Cutleaf daisy
Cutleaf daisyErigeron compositus7 recordsMatt Lavin from Bozeman, Montana, USA · CC BY-SA 2.0
Sandberg bluegrass
Sandberg bluegrassPoa secunda6 recordsMatt Lavin from Bozeman, Montana, USA · CC BY-SA 2.0
Mountain sedge
Mountain sedgeCarex scopulorum6 recordsMatt Lavin · CC BY-SA 2.0
Silky phacelia
Silky phaceliaPhacelia sericea6 recordsWalter Siegmund · CC BY-SA 3.0
Prairie Junegrass
Prairie JunegrassKoeleria macrantha5 recordsDon Pedro28 · CC BY-SA 3.0
Nestotus lanuginosusNestotus lanuginosus6 records
Yellow Indian paintbrushCastilleja flava6 records

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

In numbers

The forest, measured.

73out of 100

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

  • 59%Treesof the land within 3 km
  • 100%Wildno towns or farmland within 10 km
  • 205Speciesrecorded more than once within 5 km
  • 2,835 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-2°-13°55 mm
  2. Feb-1°-12°44 mm
  3. Mar4°-7°55 mm
  4. Apr9°-3°43 mm
  5. May16°2°45 mm
  6. Jun22°7°28 mm
  7. Jul28°12°13 mm
  8. Aug27°11°15 mm
  9. Sep21°6°23 mm
  10. Oct12°-1°37 mm
  11. Nov3°-6°44 mm
  12. Dec-2°-13°73 mm
  • Bar: walking comfort; the number on top is the average maximum.
  • Below: average minimum (NASA, 1991–2020).
  • Rain: monthly total.

The place

Sawtooth National Forest.

National forest located in Idaho and Utah in the United States

Sawtooth National Forest is a national forest in United States, 2,835 m above the sea.

Seen from space, 59% of the land within 3 km is trees, and 100% of the land within 10 km has no towns or farmland.

205 species have been recorded around it: 142 plants, 1 fungi, 62 birds and 0 mammals.

The most recorded plants are: Cushion buckwheat, Silky lupine and Cordroot beardtongue.

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

Sawtooth Range ID1
Acroterion · CC BY-SA 4.0

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.

Sawtooth 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

  • 1car parks within 3 km
  • 5campsites within 10 kmEast Fork Baker Creek Campground, Baker Creek Camping Area, Billy's Bridge Camping Area and 2 more
  • 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 Sawtooth 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.

Peakyas32 mountains within 25 km
Norton Peak3,150 m · 3.4 kmBaker Peak3,101 m · 7.1 kmCamas County Highpoint3,151 m · 10 kmSaviers Peak3,182 m · 10 kmBromaghin Peak3,117 m · 12 kmCerro Ciento3,400 m · 16 kmGlassford Peak3,536 m · 25 kmTwo Point Mountain3,086 m · 25 km
Darkskyas1 dark-sky places within 30 km
KetchumBortle 2 · 25 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.

Fisher Creek Trail
Fredlyfish4 · CC BY-SA 4.0
SawtoothsUtahRidgedrive
Scott Catron · CC BY 2.5
Fall colors on the Raft River Range (11877336754)
Intermountain Forest Service, USDA Region 4 Photography · Public domain

Other forests nearby.

Sawtooth National Forest

United States

  • 73Forestyas Score
  • 59%Trees
  • 100%Wild
  • 205Species

Boise National Forest

United States · 72 km

  • 74Forestyas Score
  • 68%Trees
  • 100%Wild
  • 89Species

See the guide

Salmon–Challis National Forest

United States · 176 km

  • 71Forestyas Score
  • 96%Trees
  • 100%Wild
  • 5Species

See the guide

Bitterroot National Forest

United States · 283 km

  • 81Forestyas Score
  • 90%Trees
  • 98%Wild
  • 67Species

See the guide

Where these figures come from

Name and typeWikidata (Q3609437) · CC0
Land coverESA WorldCover 10 m 2021 v200 · © ESA WorldCover project / Copernicus Sentinel data · CC BY 4.0
Species1,517 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

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

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