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Storkeegen

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46% trees around it and 566 species recorded.

60Forestyas Score

Notable treeFungi

  • trees within 3 km46%
  • wild within 10 km81%
  • species recorded566

The forest around

46% 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 65%Grassland 10%Wetland 4%Water 22%Trees 43%Grassland 12%Wetland 2%Water 35%Cropland 8%Trees 15%Grassland 17%Wetland 1%Water 56%Cropland 9%Built-up 2%Trees 14%Grassland 20%Wetland 1%Water 41%Cropland 19%Built-up 6%46%trees · 3 km

Trees, ring by ring

  • 0–1 km65%
  • 1–3 km43%
  • 3–6 km15%
  • 6–10 km14%

What covers the land (1–3 km)

  • Trees43%
  • Grassland12%
  • Wetland2%
  • Water35%
  • 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

566 species recorded.

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

AshNT
AshFraxinus excelsior260 recordsWillow · CC BY 2.5
European Beech
European BeechFagus sylvatica255 recordsMalene Thyssen · CC BY-SA 3.0
Pedunculate Oak
Pedunculate OakQuercus robur237 recordsAlgirdas at Lithuanian Wikipedia · Public domain
Tufted Hair-grass
Tufted Hair-grassDeschampsia cespitosa227 recordsChristian Fischer · CC BY-SA 3.0
Sycamore
SycamoreAcer pseudoplatanus214 recordsChristian Pirkl · CC BY-SA 3.0 at
Compact Rush
Compact RushJuncus conglomeratus187 recordsDaderot · Public domain
Yorkshire-fog
Yorkshire-fogHolcus lanatus182 recordsRasbak · CC BY-SA 3.0
Common Sedge
Common SedgeCarex nigra179 recordsNo machine-readable author provided. Thommybe assumed (based on copyright claims). · CC BY-SA 3.0
Marsh thistle
Marsh thistleCirsium palustre175 recordsEpgrande · CC BY 4.0
Common Reed
Common ReedPhragmites australis175 recordsEpgrande · CC BY 4.0
Purple moor-grass
Purple moor-grassMolinia caerulea170 recordsElke Freese · CC BY-SA 3.0
Red fescue
Red fescueFestuca rubra166 recordsKristian Peters -- Fabelfroh 12:31, 9 September 2006 (UTC) · CC BY-SA 3.0

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

In numbers

The forest, measured.

60out of 100

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

  • 46%Treesof the land within 3 km
  • 81%Wildno towns or farmland within 10 km
  • 566Speciesrecorded 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

Storkeegen.

Storkeegen is a notable tree in Denmark.

Seen from space, 46% of the land within 3 km is trees, and 81% of the land within 10 km has no towns or farmland.

566 species have been recorded around it: 376 plants, 89 fungi, 95 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.

Storkeegen i Jægerspris Nordskov - Mapillary (VxJoQZbhNNR2kFQtD0VSjw)
neogeografen @ Mapillary.com · CC BY-SA 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.

Storkeegen 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

  • 7marked trails within 5 kmFjordstien Vandresti, Frederiksværk - Hundested, Jægerspris Hjertesti and 4 more
  • 5named and notable trees within 6 kmKongeegen, Storkeegen, Snoegen and 2 more
  • 8picnic sites within 4 km
  • 13shelters and huts within 6 kmHavhytten - Hvide Klint, Store Havelse Shelter, Rørhøgen shelter and 10 more
  • 5car parks within 3 km
  • 27campsites within 10 kmKignæs Havn, Sølager Strand Camping, Kirsten Culmsee and 24 more
  • 18places to stay within 10 kmBautahøj, Bed and Breakfast Nordensbjerg, Munkenes B&B and 15 more
  • 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 Storkeegen.

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
Thyrahøj6.9 kmStrø Bjerg9.8 kmStrø Bjerge11 kmVittenbjerg14 kmSkyhøj16 kmKongsøre Høj19 kmSvolsbjerg20 kmStore Orebjerg23 m · 25 km
Islandyasthe island
Zealand7,031 km²
Coastya1 beaches within 10 km
Kulhus Strand5.4 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.

Storkeegen i Studehaven
Orf3us · CC BY-SA 4.0

Other forests nearby.

Storkeegen

Denmark

  • 60Forestyas Score
  • 46%Trees
  • 81%Wild
  • 566Species

Gribskov

Denmark · 24 km

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

See the guide

Store Dyrehave

Denmark · 23 km

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

See the guide

Rude Skov

Denmark · 31 km

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

See the guide

Where these figures come from

Name and typeWikidata (Q12337382) · CC0
Land coverESA WorldCover 10 m 2021 v200 · © ESA WorldCover project / Copernicus Sentinel data · CC BY 4.0
Species12,382 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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