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Sierra National Forest

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79% trees around it and 134 species recorded.

81Forestyas Score

ForestNational forestWildMountain forestFungi

  • trees within 3 km79%
  • wild within 10 km100%
  • species recorded134
  • Altitude2,066 m

The forest around

79% 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 72%Grassland 28%Trees 80%Shrubland 0%Grassland 19%Bare ground 0%Trees 76%Shrubland 0%Grassland 23%Bare ground 1%Trees 71%Shrubland 0%Grassland 26%Bare ground 2%79%trees · 3 km

Trees, ring by ring

  • 0–1 km72%
  • 1–3 km80%
  • 3–6 km76%
  • 6–10 km71%

What covers the land (1–3 km)

  • Trees80%
  • Shrubland0%
  • Grassland19%
  • 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

134 species recorded.

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

Shortleaf alpinegold
Shortleaf alpinegoldHulsea brevifolia2 recordsDean Wm. Taylor · CC BY 2.0

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

In numbers

The forest, measured.

81out of 100

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

  • 79%Treesof the land within 3 km
  • 100%Wildno towns or farmland within 10 km
  • 134Speciesrecorded more than once within 5 km
  • 2,066 mAltitudeabove the sea

When to walk

Best for walking from May to June and from September to October.

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

  1. Jan4°-7°116 mm
  2. Feb4°-7°111 mm
  3. Mar6°-5°98 mm
  4. Apr10°-2°62 mm
  5. May16°2°35 mm
  6. Jun22°7°8 mm
  7. Jul27°11°8 mm
  8. Aug26°10°6 mm
  9. Sep22°6°6 mm
  10. Oct16°1°39 mm
  11. Nov9°-3°61 mm
  12. Dec3°-7°125 mm
  • Bar: walking comfort; the number on top is the average maximum.
  • Below: average minimum (NASA, 1991–2020).
  • Rain: monthly total.

The place

Sierra National Forest.

National forest in California, United States

Sierra National Forest is a national forest in United States, 2,066 m above the sea.

Seen from space, 79% of the land within 3 km is trees, and 100% of the land within 10 km has no towns or farmland.

134 species have been recorded around it: 1 plants, 72 fungi, 61 birds and 0 mammals.

The best time to walk is from May to June and from September to October.

Lake of the Lone Indian JMW
Smack ( talk · contribs ) · 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.

Sierra 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

  • 3marked trails within 5 kmTheodore Solomons Trail, Rock Creek Trail, String Meadow Trail
  • 1car parks within 3 km
  • 5campsites within 10 kmSample Meadow Campground, West Kaiser Campground and 3 more
  • 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 Sierra 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.

Peakyas49 mountains within 25 km
Saddle Mountain3,402 m · 11 kmCockscomb3,258 m · 12 kmSharktooth Peak3,551 m · 14 kmDouble Peak3,250 m · 16 kmGraveyard Peak3,503 m · 16 kmIron Mountain3,376 m · 22 kmMadera Peak3,203 m · 23 kmVolcanic Knob3,395 m · 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.

170209-FS-Sierra-KE-AC-002 (32071817563)
US Forest Service Pacific Southwest Region 5 · Public domain
170209-FS-Sierra-KE-AC-006 (32071809573)
Ken English and Andre Charton of US Forest Service Pacific Southwest Region 5 · Public domain
20200910-FS-Sierra-tls-121 (50333277938)
Pacific Southwest Forest Service, USDA from USA · CC BY 2.0

Other forests nearby.

Sierra National Forest

United States

  • 81Forestyas Score
  • 79%Trees
  • 100%Wild
  • 134Species

Mariposa Grove

United States · 40 km

  • 90Forestyas Score
  • 99%Trees
  • 100%Wild
  • 353Species

See the guide

Wawona Tree

United States · 39 km

  • 88Forestyas Score
  • 95%Trees
  • 100%Wild
  • 187Species

See the guide

Grizzly Giant

United States · 40 km

  • 88Forestyas Score
  • 98%Trees
  • 100%Wild
  • 190Species

See the guide

Where these figures come from

Name and typeWikidata (Q1332987) · CC0
Land coverESA WorldCover 10 m 2021 v200 · © ESA WorldCover project / Copernicus Sentinel data · CC BY 4.0
Species1,207 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

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

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