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Snoegen

Orf3us · CC BY 4.0

35% trees around it and 539 species recorded.

54Forestyas Score

Notable treeFungi

  • trees within 3 km35%
  • wild within 10 km78%
  • species recorded539

The forest around

35% 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 89%Grassland 9%Wetland 0%Water 1%Cropland 0%Trees 28%Grassland 8%Wetland 3%Water 53%Cropland 8%Trees 21%Grassland 21%Wetland 0%Water 42%Cropland 13%Built-up 2%Trees 13%Grassland 20%Wetland 1%Water 40%Cropland 21%Built-up 5%35%trees · 3 km

Trees, ring by ring

  • 0–1 km89%
  • 1–3 km28%
  • 3–6 km21%
  • 6–10 km13%

What covers the land (1–3 km)

  • Trees28%
  • Grassland8%
  • Wetland3%
  • Water53%
  • Cropland8%
  • 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

539 species recorded.

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

AshNT
AshFraxinus excelsior267 recordsWillow · CC BY 2.5
European Beech
European BeechFagus sylvatica240 recordsMalene Thyssen · CC BY-SA 3.0
Pedunculate Oak
Pedunculate OakQuercus robur237 recordsAlgirdas at Lithuanian Wikipedia · Public domain
Sycamore
SycamoreAcer pseudoplatanus221 recordsChristian Pirkl · CC BY-SA 3.0 at
Tufted Hair-grass
Tufted Hair-grassDeschampsia cespitosa219 recordsChristian Fischer · CC BY-SA 3.0
Common Reed
Common ReedPhragmites australis213 recordsEpgrande · CC BY 4.0
Compact Rush
Compact RushJuncus conglomeratus192 recordsDaderot · Public domain
Purple moor-grass
Purple moor-grassMolinia caerulea185 recordsElke Freese · CC BY-SA 3.0
Yorkshire-fog
Yorkshire-fogHolcus lanatus184 recordsRasbak · CC BY-SA 3.0
Red fescue
Red fescueFestuca rubra181 recordsKristian Peters -- Fabelfroh 12:31, 9 September 2006 (UTC) · CC BY-SA 3.0
Common Sedge
Common SedgeCarex nigra180 recordsNo machine-readable author provided. Thommybe assumed (based on copyright claims). · CC BY-SA 3.0
Marsh thistle
Marsh thistleCirsium palustre169 recordsEpgrande · CC BY 4.0

Open records within 2 km (GBIF, licensed for any use). Busy places are better recorded than remote ones.

In numbers

The forest, measured.

54out of 100

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

  • 35%Treesof the land within 3 km
  • 78%Wildno towns or farmland within 10 km
  • 539Speciesrecorded more than once within 2 km

When to walk

Best for walking from June to September.

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

  1. Jan3°0°68 mm
  2. Feb2°0°54 mm
  3. Mar5°1°45 mm
  4. Apr9°4°38 mm
  5. May14°9°52 mm
  6. Jun18°13°74 mm
  7. Jul20°16°79 mm
  8. Aug20°16°89 mm
  9. Sep17°13°64 mm
  10. Oct12°9°81 mm
  11. Nov8°5°71 mm
  12. Dec4°2°72 mm
  • Bar: walking comfort; the number on top is the average maximum.
  • Below: average minimum (NASA, 1991–2020).
  • Rain: monthly total.

The place

Snoegen.

Snoegen is a notable tree in Denmark.

Seen from space, 35% of the land within 3 km is trees, and 78% of the land within 10 km has no towns or farmland.

539 species have been recorded around it: 379 plants, 60 fungi, 94 birds and 6 mammals.

The most recorded plants are: Ash, European Beech and Pedunculate Oak.

The best time to walk is from June to September.

Snoegen, Jægerspris
Orf3us · CC BY 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.

Snoegen 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

  • 5marked trails within 5 kmFjordstien Vandresti, Jægerspris Hjertesti, Kulhuse Nordskoven and 2 more
  • 10named and notable trees within 6 kmJægerspris Slotsparks suttetræ, Kongeegen, Storkeegen and 7 more
  • 7picnic sites within 4 km
  • 16shelters and huts within 6 kmHavhytten - Hvide Klint, Store Havelse Shelter, Rørhøgen shelter and 13 more
  • 1visitor centres within 6 kmTuristinformationen Rejsestalden
  • 5car parks within 3 km
  • 26campsites within 10 kmKignæs Havn, Kulhuse Camping, Frederiksværk Camping og Vandrehjem and 23 more
  • 18places to stay within 10 kmBed and Breakfast Nordensbjerg, Bautahøj, Munkenes B&B and 15 more
  • viewpoints within 5 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 Snoegen.

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.

Peakyas13 mountains within 25 km
Thyrahøj6.0 kmStrø Bjerg8.5 kmStrø Bjerge9.6 kmVittenbjerg13 kmSkyhøj14 kmKongsøre Høj19 kmSvolsbjerg21 kmStore Orebjerg23 m · 25 km
Islandyasthe island
Zealand7,031 km²
Coastya1 beaches within 10 km
Kulhus Strand6.7 km
Lakeyas1 lakes within 15 km
Arresø38 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.

Snoegen i Jægerspris Nordskov - Mapillary (y83SIYcdddnCO8p6w98xNw)
neogeografen @ Mapillary.com · CC BY-SA 4.0

Other forests nearby.

Snoegen

Denmark

  • 54Forestyas Score
  • 35%Trees
  • 78%Wild
  • 539Species

Gribskov

Denmark · 23 km

  • 83Forestyas Score
  • 74%Trees
  • 79%Wild
  • 1,880Species

See the guide

Store Dyrehave

Denmark · 22 km

  • 79Forestyas Score
  • 70%Trees
  • 74%Wild
  • 1,559Species

See the guide

Rude Skov

Denmark · 30 km

  • 72Forestyas Score
  • 60%Trees
  • 82%Wild
  • 1,811Species

See the guide

Where these figures come from

Name and typeWikidata (Q12336222) · CC0
Land coverESA WorldCover 10 m 2021 v200 · © ESA WorldCover project / Copernicus Sentinel data · CC BY 4.0
Species12,070 open records within 2 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, Islandyas, Coastya, 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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