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Tonto National Forest

Janet Ward, NOAA · Public domain

2% trees around it and 219 species recorded.

47Forestyas Score

ForestNational forestWildBirds

  • trees within 3 km2%
  • wild within 10 km99%
  • species recorded219
  • Altitude715 m

The forest around

2% 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 0%Shrubland 84%Grassland 13%Bare ground 2%Trees 2%Shrubland 75%Grassland 10%Bare ground 8%Cropland 0%Built-up 5%Trees 2%Shrubland 75%Grassland 18%Bare ground 4%Built-up 1%Trees 7%Shrubland 66%Grassland 25%Water 0%Bare ground 1%2%trees · 3 km

Trees, ring by ring

  • 0–1 km0%
  • 1–3 km2%
  • 3–6 km2%
  • 6–10 km7%

What covers the land (1–3 km)

  • Trees2%
  • Shrubland75%
  • Grassland10%
  • Water0%
  • Bare ground8%
  • Built-up5%

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

219 species recorded.

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

Tapertip flatsedge
Tapertip flatsedgeCyperus acuminatus5 recordsStephen Laymon, Bureau of Land Management · Public domain
Cockspur
CockspurEchinochloa crus-galli4 recordsRobert H. Mohlenbrock. USDA SCS. 1989. Midwest wetland flora: Field office illustrated gui · Public domain
Weeping lovegrass
Weeping lovegrassEragrostis curvula4 recordsForest & Kim Starr · CC BY 3.0
Plains lovegrass
Plains lovegrassEragrostis intermedia4 recordsUSDA · Public domain
False nutsedge
False nutsedgeCyperus strigosus4 recordsRobert H. Mohlenbrock · Public domain
Little deserttrumpet
Little deserttrumpetEriogonum trichopes4 recordsDean Wm. Taylor · CC BY 2.0
Charlock
CharlockSinapis arvensis4 recordsNo machine-readable author provided. TeunSpaans assumed (based on copyright claims). · CC BY 2.5
Arizona cottontop
Arizona cottontopDigitaria californica4 recordsPatrick Alexander from Las Cruces, NM · CC0
Red brome
Red bromeBromus rubens3 recordsAdrian198cm · Public domain
Sacred thorn-apple
Sacred thorn-appleDatura wrightii3 recordsDlarsen · Public domain
Brook Pimpernel
Brook PimpernelVeronica anagallis-aquatica3 recordsStan Shebs · CC BY-SA 3.0
Jointed rush
Jointed rushJuncus articulatus2 recordsChristian Fischer · CC BY-SA 3.0

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

In numbers

The forest, measured.

47out of 100

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

  • 2%Treesof the land within 3 km
  • 99%Wildno towns or farmland within 10 km
  • 219Speciesrecorded more than once within 5 km
  • 715 mAltitudeabove the sea

When to walk

Best for walking in March and in November.

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

  1. Jan13°-1°48 mm
  2. Feb14°0°46 mm
  3. Mar18°3°29 mm
  4. Apr22°6°13 mm
  5. May28°11°10 mm
  6. Jun34°18°5 mm
  7. Jul34°20°58 mm
  8. Aug33°19°53 mm
  9. Sep31°16°33 mm
  10. Oct25°10°22 mm
  11. Nov18°4°29 mm
  12. Dec12°-1°51 mm
  • Bar: walking comfort; the number on top is the average maximum.
  • Below: average minimum (NASA, 1991–2020).
  • Rain: monthly total.

The place

Tonto National Forest.

National forest in Arizona, United States

Tonto National Forest is a national forest in United States, 715 m above the sea.

Seen from space, 2% of the land within 3 km is trees, and 99% of the land within 10 km has no towns or farmland.

219 species have been recorded around it: 40 plants, 4 fungi, 174 birds and 1 mammals.

The most recorded plants are: Tapertip flatsedge, Cockspur and Weeping lovegrass.

The best time to walk is in March and in November.

A pool of water, a remnant of the last rains, in a dry wash in Tonto National Forest
Janet Ward, NOAA · 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.

Tonto 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

  • 5campsites within 10 kmIndian Point, Little Pine Flat and 3 more
  • 1restaurants and cafés within 3 km
  • marked trails within 5 km
  • 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
  • car parks within 3 km
  • places to stay within 10 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 Tonto 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.

Peakyas70 mountains within 25 km
Blue Hills10 kmBlue Peak12 kmMistake Peak1,807 m · 14 kmBaker Mountain15 kmArrowhead Mountain17 kmBear Head Mountain17 kmFour Peaks2,334 m · 18 kmBlack Mesa19 km
Darkskyas1 dark-sky places within 30 km
Tonto National MonumentBortle 3 · 27 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.

A pine-oak woodland grove near the intersection of the Gold Ridge Trail and Forest Road 201 in Tonto National Forest
Matthew.kowal · CC BY-SA 4.0
Desert Foliage And Canyon In Arizona
Janet Ward, NOAA. · Public domain
Arizona State Highway 260 winding its way through the Tonto Forest just below the Mogollon Rim
Richard N Horne · CC BY-SA 4.0

Other forests nearby.

Tonto National Forest

United States

  • 47Forestyas Score
  • 2%Trees
  • 99%Wild
  • 219Species

Coconino National Forest

United States · 111 km

  • 60Forestyas Score
  • 24%Trees
  • 97%Wild
  • 429Species

See the guide

Apache–Sitgreaves National Forests

United States · 186 km

  • 78Forestyas Score
  • 67%Trees
  • 100%Wild
  • 253Species

See the guide

Prescott National Forest

United States · 139 km

  • 44Forestyas Score
  • 0%Trees
  • 93%Wild
  • 207Species

See the guide

Where these figures come from

Name and typeWikidata (Q3079162) · CC0
Land coverESA WorldCover 10 m 2021 v200 · © ESA WorldCover project / Copernicus Sentinel data · CC BY 4.0
Species15,670 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, Darkskyas

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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