
United States national forest
Stanislaus National Forest
Steffen Schmitz ( more photos ) · CC BY-SA 4.0
98% trees around it and 139 species recorded.
- trees within 3 km98%
- wild within 10 km100%
- species recorded139
- Altitude1,759 m
The forest around
98% 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, ring by ring
- 0–1 km96%
- 1–3 km98%
- 3–6 km94%
- 6–10 km88%
What covers the land (1–3 km)
- Trees98%
- Grassland2%
- Water0%
- 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
139 species recorded.
The plants, fungi, birds and mammals people have recorded here most often.

































Open records within 5 km (GBIF, licensed for any use). Busy places are better recorded than remote ones.
In numbers
The forest, measured.
Our own rating, from open data only: tree cover (40 points), wildness (20), species recorded (30) and protection or heritage (10).
- 98%Treesof the land within 3 km
- 100%Wildno towns or farmland within 10 km
- 139Speciesrecorded more than once within 5 km
- 1,759 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.
- Jan-6°104 mm
- Feb-6°108 mm
- Mar-4°104 mm
- Apr-2°62 mm
- May2°40 mm
- Jun7°12 mm
- Jul11°10 mm
- Aug10°7 mm
- Sep7°9 mm
- Oct2°41 mm
- Nov-3°72 mm
- Dec-6°132 mm
- Bar: walking comfort; the number on top is the average maximum.
- Below: average minimum (NASA, 1991–2020).
- Rain: monthly total.
The place
Stanislaus National Forest.
U.S. National Forest designated in 1976
Stanislaus National Forest is a national forest in United States, 1,759 m above the sea.
Seen from space, 98% of the land within 3 km is trees, and 100% of the land within 10 km has no towns or farmland.
139 species have been recorded around it: 15 plants, 21 fungi, 100 birds and 3 mammals.
The most recorded plants are: Snowplant, California Incense-cedar and Greenleaf manzanita.
The best time to walk is from May to June and from September to October.

Get there and walk
- Official informationAccess, hours and rules from those who manage the place.Official site↗
- Herring Creek Reservoir Campgroundcampsite · 5.7 km · 20 within 10 km
- Strawberry Innplace to stay · 5.6 km · 1 within 10 km
- Stockton Metropolitan Airport (SCK)nearest airport with scheduled flights · 115 km in a straight lineCar hire at RNO airport (Reno)Discover Cars · sponsored link↗
Plan the visit
A guided walk, a bed nearby, a car.
Some links above are affiliate links: if you book through them we may earn a commission, at no extra cost to you. It never changes what the data on this page says.
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.

Around, in OpenStreetMap
- 2viewpoints within 5 kmTrail of the Gargoyles, Gargoyles
- 3car parks within 3 km
- 20campsites within 10 kmHerring Creek Reservoir Campground, Herring Creek Campground, Mill Creek Campground and 17 more
- 1places to stay within 10 kmStrawberry Inn
- marked trails within 5 km
- 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 Stanislaus 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.
Figures from the sister sites' databases (Wikidata, HydroATLAS, GeoNames, OpenStreetMap). Links open when each site is online.
Photographs
The forest, as people saw it.



Where these figures come from
| Name and type | Wikidata (Q2898163) · CC0 |
|---|---|
| Land cover | ESA WorldCover 10 m 2021 v200 · © ESA WorldCover project / Copernicus Sentinel data · CC BY 4.0 |
| Species | 4,498 open records within 5 km (GBIF, CC0 and CC BY 4.0 only) |
| See these records | gbif.org |
| Names and photos | Wikidata (CC0); GBIF Backbone Taxonomy · CC BY 4.0; Wikimedia Commons |
| Altitude | Copernicus DEM GLO-30 · © DLR e.V., © Airbus Defence and Space GmbH, Copernicus/ESA |
| Temperature and rain | NASA POWER (CERES SYN1deg, 2001–2020; MERRA-2) |
| What is around | © OpenStreetMap contributors · ODbL |
| Images | EOX Sentinel-2 cloudless 2016 · CC BY 4.0; Wikimedia Commons |
| Sister atlases | Peakyas, 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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