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Tuchola Forest

Adam k86 · CC BY 3.0

58% trees around it and 15 species recorded.

  • trees within 3 km58%
  • wild within 10 km81%
  • species recorded15
  • Altitude152 m

The forest around

58% 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 96%Grassland 3%Cropland 0%Trees 54%Grassland 28%Cropland 17%Built-up 1%Trees 55%Grassland 26%Cropland 16%Built-up 3%Trees 59%Grassland 21%Water 0%Cropland 18%Built-up 1%58%trees · 3 km

Trees, ring by ring

  • 0–1 km96%
  • 1–3 km54%
  • 3–6 km55%
  • 6–10 km59%

What covers the land (1–3 km)

  • Trees54%
  • Grassland28%
  • Cropland17%
  • Built-up1%

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

15 species recorded.

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

Timothy
TimothyPhleum pratense11 recordsBlokenearexeter · CC0
Stiff clubmoss
Stiff clubmossLycopodium annotinum4 recordsBernd Haynold · CC BY 2.5
Rusty Labrador-Tea
Rusty Labrador-TeaRhododendron groenlandicum3 recordsUnknown author · CC BY-SA 3.0
Tall fescue
Tall fescueLolium arundinaceum2 recordsKrzysztof Ziarnek, Kenraiz · CC BY-SA 4.0
Floating water-plantain
Floating water-plantainLuronium natans2 recordsChristian Fischer · CC BY-SA 3.0
Bloody Crane's-bill
Bloody Crane's-billGeranium sanguineum2 recordsDidier Descouens · CC BY-SA 4.0
Ground-ivy
Ground-ivyGlechoma hederacea2 recordsAnRo0002 · CC0
White Dead-nettle
White Dead-nettleLamium album2 recordsJohann Georg Sturm (Painter: Jacob Sturm ) · Public domain
European dewberry
European dewberryRubus caesius2 recordsIvar Leidus · CC BY-SA 4.0
Hawkweed
HawkweedHieracium umbellatum2 recordsD. Gordon E. Robertson · CC BY-SA 3.0
Norway maple
Norway mapleAcer platanoides2 recordsMartin Bobka (= Martin120 ) · CC BY-SA 2.5
Marsh Fern
Marsh FernThelypteris palustris2 recordsAgnieszka Kwiecień, Nova · 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.

52out of 100

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

  • 58%Treesof the land within 3 km
  • 81%Wildno towns or farmland within 10 km
  • 15Speciesrecorded more than once within 5 km
  • 152 mAltitudeabove the sea

When to walk

Best for walking in May and in September.

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

  1. Jan-1°-6°50 mm
  2. Feb1°-5°37 mm
  3. Mar6°-2°42 mm
  4. Apr12°2°36 mm
  5. May18°7°63 mm
  6. Jun21°11°63 mm
  7. Jul24°14°90 mm
  8. Aug24°13°72 mm
  9. Sep19°9°57 mm
  10. Oct12°4°56 mm
  11. Nov6°1°55 mm
  12. Dec1°-3°55 mm
  • Bar: walking comfort; the number on top is the average maximum.
  • Below: average minimum (NASA, 1991–2020).
  • Rain: monthly total.

The place

Tuchola Forest.

Forest complex located in northern Poland

Tuchola Forest is a forest in Poland.

Seen from space, 58% of the land within 3 km is trees, and 81% of the land within 10 km has no towns or farmland.

15 species have been recorded around it: 15 plants, 0 fungi, 0 birds and 0 mammals.

The most recorded plants are: Timothy, Stiff clubmoss and Rusty Labrador-Tea.

The best time to walk is in May and in September.

Bory Tucholskie 3
Adam k86 · CC BY 3.0

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.

Tuchola 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

  • 16shelters and huts within 6 km
  • 1visitor centres within 6 km
  • 4car parks within 3 km
  • 2campsites within 10 kmPole Namiotowe "RYTEL"
  • 2places to stay within 10 kmKavka, Pensjonat "Willa Bór"
  • marked trails within 5 km
  • named and notable trees within 6 km
  • picnic sites within 4 km
  • 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 Tuchola 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.

Peakyas3 mountains within 25 km
Białe Góry12 kmWzgórze nad Górkami12 kmChełmice15 km
Lakeyas7 lakes within 15 km
Jezioro Skąpe1.2 km² · 9.6 kmJezioro Ostrowite0.4 km² · 11 kmJezioro Wielewskie w Wielu1.5 km² · 12 kmWieck0.3 km² · 12 kmŚlepe Jezioro1.0 km² · 13 kmTrzemeszno1.7 km² · 13 kmJezioro Długie0.5 km² · 14 km
Viewyas1 viewpoints within 15 kmComing soon
View tower in Fojutowo11 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 person in Tuchola Forest in Poland
Katarzyna Makowska (WMPL) · CC BY-SA 4.0
Bachorze, cycling trail
MOs810 · CC BY-SA 4.0
Bory Tucholskie - panoramio
Wanda Cyculeńko · CC BY 3.0

Other forests nearby.

Tuchola Forest

Poland

  • 52Forestyas Score
  • 58%Trees
  • 81%Wild
  • 15Species

Puszcza Piska Forest

Poland · 244 km

  • 80Forestyas Score
  • 93%Trees
  • 99%Wild
  • 116Species

See the guide

Ueckermünde Heath

Poland · 233 km

  • 75Forestyas Score
  • 89%Trees
  • 98%Wild
  • 35Species

See the guide

Kampinos Forest

Poland · 245 km

  • 68Forestyas Score
  • 68%Trees
  • 88%Wild
  • 136Species

See the guide

Where these figures come from

Name and typeWikidata (Q372495) · CC0
Land coverESA WorldCover 10 m 2021 v200 · © ESA WorldCover project / Copernicus Sentinel data · CC BY 4.0
Species178 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, Viewyas

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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