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Shawnee National Forest

Daniel Schwen · CC BY-SA 4.0

93% trees around it and 230 species recorded.

84Forestyas Score

ForestNational forestDense canopyBirds

  • trees within 3 km93%
  • wild within 10 km93%
  • species recorded230
  • Altitude181 m

The forest around

93% 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 91%Grassland 9%Trees 93%Grassland 6%Water 1%Cropland 0%Trees 86%Grassland 10%Cropland 4%Trees 73%Grassland 18%Water 0%Cropland 9%Built-up 0%93%trees · 3 km

Trees, ring by ring

  • 0–1 km91%
  • 1–3 km93%
  • 3–6 km86%
  • 6–10 km73%

What covers the land (1–3 km)

  • Trees93%
  • Grassland6%
  • Water1%
  • Cropland0%

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

230 species recorded.

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

Marginal woodfern
Marginal woodfernDryopteris marginalis7 recordsChhe ( talk ) · Public domain
Crippled cranefly
Crippled craneflyTipularia discolor6 recordsTheAlphaWolf · CC BY-SA 3.0
Dutchman's breeches
Dutchman's breechesDicentra cucullaria5 recordsUnknown author · Public domain
Orangegrass
OrangegrassHypericum gentianoides5 recordsRobert H. Mohlenbrock. USDA SCS. 1991. Southern wetland flora: Field office guide to plant · Public domain
Appalachian Filmy Fern
Appalachian Filmy FernVandenboschia boschiana5 recordsNathaniel Lord Britton & Addison Brown · Public domain
Yellow passionflower
Yellow passionflowerPassiflora lutea4 recordsTheAlphaWolf · CC BY-SA 3.0
Cutleaf toothwort
Cutleaf toothwortCardamine concatenata4 recordsRyan Kaldari · Public domain
Widowscross
WidowscrossSedum pulchellum4 recordsMason Brock ( Masebrock ) · Public domain
Lobed spleenwort
Lobed spleenwortAsplenium pinnatifidum3 recordsChoess · CC BY-SA 3.0
Northern selaginella
Northern selaginellaSelaginella rupestris3 recordsSatheesan.vn at Malayalam Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 3.0
Indian woodoats
Indian woodoatsChasmanthium latifolium3 recordsEric in SF · CC BY-SA 3.0
Mayapple
MayapplePodophyllum peltatum3 recordsVelocicaptor · Public domain

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

In numbers

The forest, measured.

84out of 100

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

  • 93%Treesof the land within 3 km
  • 93%Wildno towns or farmland within 10 km
  • 230Speciesrecorded more than once within 5 km
  • 181 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. Jan5°-4°78 mm
  2. Feb7°-3°92 mm
  3. Mar14°2°121 mm
  4. Apr20°8°131 mm
  5. May24°14°130 mm
  6. Jun29°19°100 mm
  7. Jul31°21°110 mm
  8. Aug31°20°84 mm
  9. Sep28°16°78 mm
  10. Oct21°8°102 mm
  11. Nov13°2°100 mm
  12. Dec7°-2°104 mm
  • Bar: walking comfort; the number on top is the average maximum.
  • Below: average minimum (NASA, 1991–2020).
  • Rain: monthly total.

The place

Shawnee National Forest.

United States National Forest located in Southern Illinois

Shawnee National Forest is a national forest in United States.

Seen from space, 93% of the land within 3 km is trees, and 93% of the land within 10 km has no towns or farmland.

230 species have been recorded around it: 61 plants, 25 fungi, 144 birds and 0 mammals.

The most recorded plants are: Marginal woodfern, Crippled cranefly and Dutchman's breeches.

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

Garden of the Gods Sunset
Daniel Schwen · CC BY-SA 4.0

Get there and walk

  • Official informationAccess, hours and rules from those who manage the place.Official site
  • Red Bud Campgroundcampsite · 2.7 km · 26 within 10 km
  • Upper Dormplace to stay · 8.0 km · 5 within 10 km
  • Carrier Millsnearest town · 21 km in a straight line
  • Veterans Airport of Southern Illinois (MWA)nearest airport with scheduled flights · 42 km in a straight lineCar hire in EvansvilleDiscover Cars · sponsored link

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.

Shawnee 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

  • 2marked trails within 5 kmRiver to River Segment 3 - Eddyville to U.S. 45, ADT - Illinois (South) - J - Seg 2
  • 2viewpoints within 5 km
  • 5car parks within 3 km
  • 26campsites within 10 kmRed Bud Campground, Teal Pond Campground, Lalamont and 23 more
  • 5places to stay within 10 kmUpper Dorm, Lower Dorm, DG Lodge and 2 more
  • named and notable trees within 6 km
  • picnic sites within 4 km
  • shelters and huts within 6 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 Shawnee 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.

Peakyas19 mountains within 25 km
Millstone Bluff4.0 kmIsland Hill13 kmBlue Knob16 kmBenham Hill17 kmDeputy Hill19 kmHerman Hill23 kmBald Knob24 kmHorton Hill24 km
Lakeyas1 lakes within 15 km
Lake Glendale0.2 km² · 9.6 km
Viewyas1 viewpoints within 15 kmComing soon
Raum Lookout Tower761 m · 15 km
Canyonyas1 canyons within 20 km
Lusk Creek Canyon11 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.

Inspiration Point Trail
InspirationPoint · CC BY-SA 3.0
Larue-Pine Hills, Shawnee National Forest - Flickr - GregTheBusker
Greg Schechter from San Francisco, USA · CC BY 2.0
170918-FS-Shawnee-KP-002 (37217728012)
usfs_Eastern_Region · Public domain

Other forests nearby.

Shawnee National Forest

United States

  • 84Forestyas Score
  • 93%Trees
  • 93%Wild
  • 230Species

Mark Twain National Forest

United States · 214 km

  • 83Forestyas Score
  • 93%Trees
  • 100%Wild
  • 110Species

See the guide

Hoosier National Forest

United States · 217 km

  • 84Forestyas Score
  • 90%Trees
  • 94%Wild
  • 175Species

See the guide

Missouri Botanical Garden

United States · 186 km

  • 41Forestyas Score
  • 18%Trees
  • 48%Wild
  • 1,215Species

See the guide

Where these figures come from

Name and typeWikidata (Q591413) · CC0
Land coverESA WorldCover 10 m 2021 v200 · © ESA WorldCover project / Copernicus Sentinel data · CC BY 4.0
Species6,426 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, Viewyas, Canyonyas

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

The family

Do you prefer beaches, lakes, mountains, waterfalls, islands, rivers, canyons, caves, dark skies, viewpoints, birdwatching or forests?

Same idea, other landscapes: field atlases built on open data, in seven languages.

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viewpointsViewyasEvery viewpoint with its real 360° panorama: the peaks you can name, how far you see and where the sun sets.Coming soonVisit
birdwatchingBirdyasEvery bird sanctuary and wetland with the species recorded month by month: who is resident, who comes for the summer, who only passes through.Visit
forestsForestyasEvery forest with its land-cover rings, what grows and lives in it, and the best months to walk it.You are here