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Shasta–Trinity National Forest

Pacific Southwest Region 5 · Public domain

84% trees around it and 213 species recorded.

86Forestyas Score

ForestNational forestWildBirds

  • trees within 3 km84%
  • wild within 10 km99%
  • species recorded213
  • Altitude625 m

The forest around

84% 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 63%Grassland 13%Bare ground 1%Built-up 23%Trees 87%Grassland 8%Bare ground 1%Built-up 4%Trees 94%Grassland 6%Bare ground 0%Trees 93%Grassland 6%Water 0%Bare ground 0%Built-up 0%84%trees · 3 km

Trees, ring by ring

  • 0–1 km63%
  • 1–3 km87%
  • 3–6 km94%
  • 6–10 km93%

What covers the land (1–3 km)

  • Trees87%
  • Grassland8%
  • Bare ground1%
  • Built-up4%

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

213 species recorded.

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

Sticky whiteleaf manzanita
Sticky whiteleaf manzanitaArctostaphylos viscida7 recordsWalter Siegmund · CC BY 2.5
Whiteleaf manzanita
Whiteleaf manzanitaArctostaphylos manzanita5 recordsUnknown author · CC BY-SA 3.0
Gray Pine
Gray PinePinus sabiniana5 recordsEric in SF · CC BY-SA 3.0
Arroyo willow
Arroyo willowSalix lasiolepis5 recordsWilliam & Wilma Follette @ USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / USDA NRCS. Western wetland flora: F · Public domain
California brome
California bromeBromus carinatus4 recordsLockeford Plant Materials Center (CAPMC) · Public domain
Rhinotropis cornuta
Rhinotropis cornutaRhinotropis cornuta4 recordsUnknown author Unknown author · Public domain
California Incense-cedar
California Incense-cedarCalocedrus decurrens3 recordsThe original uploader was Geographer at English Wikipedia . · CC BY 1.0
Soft brome
Soft bromeBromus hordeaceus3 recordsRasbak · CC BY-SA 3.0
Deerbrush
DeerbrushCeanothus integerrimus3 recordsDawn Endico , Menlo Park, California · CC BY-SA 2.0
Purdy's fritillary
Purdy's fritillaryFritillaria purdyi3 recordsEric in SF · CC BY-SA 3.0
Western Redcedar
Western RedcedarThuja plicata2 recordsabdallahh from Montréal, Canada · CC BY 2.0
Cock's-foot
Cock's-footDactylis glomerata2 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.

86out of 100

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

  • 84%Treesof the land within 3 km
  • 99%Wildno towns or farmland within 10 km
  • 213Speciesrecorded more than once within 5 km
  • 625 mAltitudeabove the sea

When to walk

Best for walking in May.

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

  1. Jan6°-1°176 mm
  2. Feb8°-1°166 mm
  3. Mar10°0°161 mm
  4. Apr13°2°86 mm
  5. May19°5°49 mm
  6. Jun26°9°19 mm
  7. Jul33°13°3 mm
  8. Aug32°13°3 mm
  9. Sep28°10°13 mm
  10. Oct20°5°67 mm
  11. Nov11°1°125 mm
  12. Dec6°-1°241 mm
  • Bar: walking comfort; the number on top is the average maximum.
  • Below: average minimum (NASA, 1991–2020).
  • Rain: monthly total.

The place

Shasta–Trinity National Forest.

Largest National Forest in California

Shasta–Trinity National Forest is a national forest in United States, 625 m above the sea.

Seen from space, 84% of the land within 3 km is trees, and 99% of the land within 10 km has no towns or farmland.

213 species have been recorded around it: 33 plants, 14 fungi, 162 birds and 4 mammals.

The most recorded plants are: Sticky whiteleaf manzanita, Whiteleaf manzanita and Gray Pine.

The best time to walk is in May.

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Pacific Southwest Region 5 · 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.

Shasta–Trinity 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

  • 1picnic sites within 4 km
  • 1shelters and huts within 6 km
  • 1viewpoints within 5 kmApples Overlook Vista Point
  • 2visitor centres within 6 kmTrinity County Visitor Center
  • 27car parks within 3 km
  • 3campsites within 10 kmSydney Gulch RV Park, East Weaver Group Campground, Rush Creek Campground
  • 4places to stay within 10 kmRed Hill Motel and Cabins, Weaverville Hotel & Emporium, 49er Gold Country Inn and 1 more
  • 9restaurants and cafés within 3 km
  • marked trails within 5 km
  • named and notable trees within 6 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 Shasta–Trinity 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.

Peakyas34 mountains within 25 km
Little Bally8.7 kmRed Hill13 kmDedrick Point16 kmBarker Mountain17 kmHoosimbim Mountain1,635 m · 20 kmGranite Peak2,467 m · 20 kmDuncan Hill24 kmHayfork Bally25 km
Lakeyas1 lakes within 15 km
Lewiston Lake2.4 km² · 11 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.

Autumn scene near Sacramento River (23994348947)
Pacific Southwest Region 5 · Public domain
Shasta Lake Bailey Cove
Bobjgalindo · CC BY-SA 4.0
140000-FS-ShastaTrinity-MM-001 (41236250730)
Region 5 Photography · Public domain

Other forests nearby.

Shasta–Trinity National Forest

United States

  • 86Forestyas Score
  • 84%Trees
  • 99%Wild
  • 213Species

Klamath National Forest

United States · 91 km

  • 81Forestyas Score
  • 89%Trees
  • 100%Wild
  • 57Species

See the guide

Hyperion

United States · 104 km

  • 80Forestyas Score
  • 100%Trees
  • 100%Wild
  • 120Species

See the guide

Six Rivers National Forest

United States · 133 km

  • 83Forestyas Score
  • 100%Trees
  • 100%Wild
  • 100Species

See the guide

Where these figures come from

Name and typeWikidata (Q3079148) · CC0
Land coverESA WorldCover 10 m 2021 v200 · © ESA WorldCover project / Copernicus Sentinel data · CC BY 4.0
Species31,008 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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