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Trnovo Forest Plateau

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97% trees around it and 163 species recorded.

  • trees within 3 km97%
  • wild within 10 km96%
  • species recorded163
  • Altitude1,136 m

The forest around

97% 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 99%Grassland 1%Trees 96%Grassland 4%Trees 92%Grassland 7%Cropland 0%Built-up 1%Trees 77%Grassland 17%Cropland 4%Built-up 2%97%trees · 3 km

Trees, ring by ring

  • 0–1 km99%
  • 1–3 km96%
  • 3–6 km92%
  • 6–10 km77%

What covers the land (1–3 km)

  • Trees96%
  • Grassland4%
  • Cropland0%
  • 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

163 species recorded.

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

Eastern daisy fleabane
Eastern daisy fleabaneErigeron annuus14 recordsW. Bulach · CC BY-SA 4.0
Indian Corn
Indian CornZea mays10 recordsAkwugo · CC BY-SA 4.0
European Cyclamen
European CyclamenCyclamen purpurascens7 recordsOrchi · CC BY-SA 3.0
Orange lily
Orange lilyLilium bulbiferum6 recordsJean-Pol GRANDMONT · CC BY-SA 3.0
Great Yellow Gentian
Great Yellow GentianGentiana lutea6 recordsBernd Haynold · CC BY-SA 2.5
European Hop-hornbeam
European Hop-hornbeamOstrya carpinifolia6 recordsFranz Xaver · CC BY-SA 3.0
Bride's feathers
Bride's feathersAruncus dioicus6 recordsUser:Tigerente · CC BY 2.5
Snowy Mespilus
Snowy MespilusAmelanchier ovalis5 recordsUser:Tigerente · CC BY-SA 3.0
Tree of heaven
Tree of heavenAilanthus altissima5 recordsDarkone ( talk · contribs ) · CC BY-SA 2.5
European Beech
European BeechFagus sylvatica4 recordsMalene Thyssen · CC BY-SA 3.0
Phyteuma spicatum
Phyteuma spicatumPhyteuma spicatum4 recordsUnknown author · CC BY-SA 3.0
Iris graminea
Iris gramineaIris graminea4 recordsHectonichus · 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.

80out of 100

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

  • 97%Treesof the land within 3 km
  • 96%Wildno towns or farmland within 10 km
  • 163Speciesrecorded more than once within 5 km
  • 1,136 mAltitudeabove the sea

When to walk

Best for walking in May.

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

  1. Jan3°-3°65 mm
  2. Feb5°-2°76 mm
  3. Mar9°1°77 mm
  4. Apr15°5°75 mm
  5. May19°10°96 mm
  6. Jun24°14°86 mm
  7. Jul26°16°81 mm
  8. Aug26°16°95 mm
  9. Sep21°11°116 mm
  10. Oct15°7°111 mm
  11. Nov9°3°121 mm
  12. Dec4°-2°96 mm
  • Bar: walking comfort; the number on top is the average maximum.
  • Below: average minimum (NASA, 1991–2020).
  • Rain: monthly total.

The place

Trnovo Forest Plateau.

Mountain range

Trnovo Forest Plateau is a forest in Slovenia, 1,136 m above the sea.

Seen from space, 97% of the land within 3 km is trees, and 96% of the land within 10 km has no towns or farmland.

163 species have been recorded around it: 126 plants, 11 fungi, 26 birds and 0 mammals.

The most recorded plants are: Eastern daisy fleabane, Indian Corn and European Cyclamen.

The best time to walk is in May.

View of Trnovski gozd from Otliski maj
Ajznponar · CC0

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.

Trnovo Forest Plateau 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

  • 25marked trails within 5 kmSlovenska planinska pot, 140 ~ Pot kurirjev in vezistov NOV Slovenije, 141 ~ Pot kurirjev in vezistov NOV Slovenije and 22 more
  • 2named and notable trees within 6 kmJavor nad mojsko drago
  • 24picnic sites within 4 km
  • 15shelters and huts within 6 kmKoča Edmunda Čibeja, Koča na Mali gori, Iztokova koča pod Golaki and 12 more
  • 16viewpoints within 5 kmKopitnik and 15 more
  • 10campsites within 10 kmMini kamp, Lepa Vida Camper Stop, David and 7 more
  • 22places to stay within 10 kmGlamping Vipavska Dolina, Hotel Winkler, Pri Rebkovih and 19 more
  • visitor centres within 6 km
  • car parks within 3 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 Trnovo Forest Plateau.

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.

Peakyas43 mountains within 25 km
Veliki Rob1,237 m · 2.3 kmPetrov hrib1,227 m · 2.8 kmKališče1,184 m · 4.1 kmMali Golak1,495 m · 4.8 kmMošančarski hrib1,356 m · 4.9 kmVeliki Golak1,480 m · 5.3 kmStreliški Vrh1,265 m · 23 kmKojca1,303 m · 24 km
Lakeyas1 lakes within 15 km
Lake Vogrsko0.5 km² · 7.6 km
Darkskyas2 dark-sky places within 30 km
Črni Vrh ObservatoryBortle 3 · 20 kmAstronomical Observatory of Farra d'IsonzoBortle 5 · 23 km
Birdyas2 birding sites within 25 km
Trnovski gozd26 species · 5.4 kmAree Carsiche della Venezia Giulia115 species · 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.

View of Trnovski gozd from Sinji vrh 01
Ajznponar · CC0
Poldanovec 1299m iz Matanovš v Gorenji Trebuši. - panoramio
Milan Rejec · CC BY 3.0
Rhagium mordax 1
Franz Xaver · CC BY-SA 3.0

Other forests nearby.

Trnovo Forest Plateau

Slovenia

  • 80Forestyas Score
  • 97%Trees
  • 96%Wild
  • 163Species

Ljubljana Botanical Garden

Slovenia · 55 km

  • 54Forestyas Score
  • 39%Trees
  • 71%Wild
  • 354Species

See the guide

Maksimir Park

Croatia · 171 km

  • 52Forestyas Score
  • 39%Trees
  • 68%Wild
  • 538Species

See the guide

Stara trta

Slovenia · 156 km

  • 47Forestyas Score
  • 32%Trees
  • 78%Wild
  • 131Species

See the guide

Where these figures come from

Name and typeWikidata (Q587474) · CC0
Land coverESA WorldCover 10 m 2021 v200 · © ESA WorldCover project / Copernicus Sentinel data · CC BY 4.0
Species828 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, Lakeyas, Darkskyas, Birdyas, Cavernyas

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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