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Shoshone National Forest

Forest Service Photography · Public domain

39% trees around it and 180 species recorded.

64Forestyas Score

ForestNational forestWildMountain forest

  • trees within 3 km39%
  • wild within 10 km100%
  • species recorded180
  • Altitude1,807 m

The forest around

39% 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 38%Grassland 45%Water 4%Bare ground 12%Built-up 2%Trees 39%Grassland 56%Water 1%Bare ground 4%Built-up 0%Trees 54%Grassland 41%Water 0%Bare ground 4%Trees 48%Grassland 39%Moss and lichen 1%Water 0%Bare ground 11%Built-up 0%39%trees · 3 km

Trees, ring by ring

  • 0–1 km38%
  • 1–3 km39%
  • 3–6 km54%
  • 6–10 km48%

What covers the land (1–3 km)

  • Trees39%
  • Grassland56%
  • Moss and lichen0%
  • Water1%
  • Bare ground4%
  • Built-up0%

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

180 species recorded.

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

Plains pricklypear
Plains pricklypearOpuntia polyacantha24 recordsFrank Vincentz · CC BY-SA 3.0
Sandberg bluegrass
Sandberg bluegrassPoa secunda20 recordsMatt Lavin from Bozeman, Montana, USA · CC BY-SA 2.0
Needle and thread
Needle and threadHesperostipa comata15 recordsCharles Sauer · CC BY-SA 4.0
Squirreltail
SquirreltailElymus elymoides15 recordsJim Pisarowicz · Public domain
Bluebunch wheatgrass
Bluebunch wheatgrassPseudoroegneria spicata12 recordsMatt Lavin from Bozeman, Montana, USA · CC BY-SA 2.0
Saltlover
SaltloverHalogeton glomeratus12 recordsMatt Lavin from Bozeman, Montana, USA · CC BY-SA 2.0
Yellow rabbitbrush
Yellow rabbitbrushChrysothamnus viscidiflorus9 recordsWallace Keck · Public domain
Drooping Brome
Drooping BromeBromus tectorum7 recordsAnRo0002 · CC0
Bastard toadflax
Bastard toadflaxComandra umbellata6 recordsUnknown author Unknown author · Public domain
Prairie sagewort
Prairie sagewortArtemisia frigida5 recordsFranz Xaver · CC BY-SA 3.0
Thread-leaved sedge
Thread-leaved sedgeCarex filifolia4 recordsMatt Lavin · CC BY-SA 2.0
Eriocoma hymenoidesEriocoma hymenoides20 records

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

In numbers

The forest, measured.

64out of 100

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

  • 39%Treesof the land within 3 km
  • 100%Wildno towns or farmland within 10 km
  • 180Speciesrecorded more than once within 5 km
  • 1,807 mAltitudeabove the sea

When to walk

Best for walking in September.

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

  1. Jan-3°-13°34 mm
  2. Feb-3°-13°37 mm
  3. Mar2°-9°43 mm
  4. Apr7°-5°56 mm
  5. May13°0°78 mm
  6. Jun20°5°55 mm
  7. Jul26°10°33 mm
  8. Aug25°8°34 mm
  9. Sep19°3°42 mm
  10. Oct9°-3°46 mm
  11. Nov2°-8°39 mm
  12. Dec-4°-13°38 mm
  • Bar: walking comfort; the number on top is the average maximum.
  • Below: average minimum (NASA, 1991–2020).
  • Rain: monthly total.

The place

Shoshone National Forest.

Protected area in Wyoming, United States

Shoshone National Forest is a national forest in United States, 1,807 m above the sea.

Seen from space, 39% of the land within 3 km is trees, and 100% of the land within 10 km has no towns or farmland.

180 species have been recorded around it: 61 plants, 0 fungi, 111 birds and 8 mammals.

The most recorded plants are: Plains pricklypear, Sandberg bluegrass and Needle and thread.

The best time to walk is in September.

Fire (20160730-FS-Shoshone-KH-057)
Forest Service Photography · 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.

Shoshone 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 kmHorse Creek Picnic Area
  • 1shelters and huts within 6 km
  • 5car parks within 3 km
  • 10campsites within 10 kmBig Game Campground, Wapiti Campground, Elk Fork Campground and 7 more
  • 3places to stay within 10 kmBill Cody Ranch, Rimrock Ranch, Green Creek Inn
  • marked trails within 5 km
  • named and notable trees within 6 km
  • viewpoints within 5 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 Shoshone 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.

Peakyas31 mountains within 25 km
Signal Peak2,133 m · 6.6 kmFlag Peak2,104 m · 7.0 kmClayton Mountain3,115 m · 11 kmJim Mountain13 kmTable Mountain2,586 m · 14 kmFortress Mountain3,685 m · 20 kmSheep Mesa3,533 m · 20 kmSunlight Peak21 km
Riveryasthe river nearby
Shoshone River161 kmNorth Fork Shoshone River103 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.

Sunlight bridge
U.S. Forest Service · Public domain
Andesite dike in volcanic debris flow conglomerates (Absaroka Volcanics Supergroup, Eocene, 48-50 Ma; Rt. 14-Rt. 16-Rt. 20 roadcut, Shoshone National Forest, Absaroka Range, Wyoming, USA) 1 (8359833530)
James St. John · CC BY 2.0
Clouds of Shoshone
Johnna Leroi Casey · CC BY-SA 4.0

Other forests nearby.

Shoshone National Forest

United States

  • 64Forestyas Score
  • 39%Trees
  • 100%Wild
  • 180Species

Custer National Forest

United States · 86 km

  • 69Forestyas Score
  • 56%Trees
  • 100%Wild
  • 96Species

See the guide

Bridger–Teton National Forest

United States · 145 km

  • 76Forestyas Score
  • 61%Trees
  • 96%Wild
  • 344Species

See the guide

Gallatin National Forest

United States · 108 km

  • 59Forestyas Score
  • 49%Trees
  • 100%Wild
  • 19Species

See the guide

Where these figures come from

Name and typeWikidata (Q427858) · CC0
Land coverESA WorldCover 10 m 2021 v200 · © ESA WorldCover project / Copernicus Sentinel data · CC BY 4.0
Species2,581 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, Riveryas

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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