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Uwharrie National Forest

Wasrts · CC BY-SA 4.0

90% trees around it and 212 species recorded.

86Forestyas Score

ForestNational forestDense canopyWildBirds

  • trees within 3 km90%
  • wild within 10 km99%
  • species recorded212
  • Altitude146 m

The forest around

90% 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 94%Grassland 4%Cropland 1%Built-up 1%Trees 90%Grassland 10%Cropland 0%Built-up 0%Trees 95%Grassland 3%Water 2%Trees 81%Grassland 8%Water 10%Cropland 0%Built-up 0%90%trees · 3 km

Trees, ring by ring

  • 0–1 km94%
  • 1–3 km90%
  • 3–6 km95%
  • 6–10 km81%

What covers the land (1–3 km)

  • Trees90%
  • Grassland10%
  • Water0%
  • 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

212 species recorded.

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

Little sweet Betsy
Little sweet BetsyTrillium cuneatum10 recordsKaldari · Public domain
Christmas fern
Christmas fernPolystichum acrostichoides7 recordsPhoto2006 Derek Ramsey ( Ram-Man ) · CC BY-SA 2.5
Dwarf larkspur
Dwarf larkspurDelphinium tricorne6 recordsMason Brock ( Masebrock ) · Public domain
New Jersey tea
New Jersey teaCeanothus americanus6 recordsunknown author, USFWS · Public domain
Diphasiastrum digitatum
Diphasiastrum digitatumDiphasiastrum digitatum4 recordsJaknouse · CC BY 3.0
Wild Potato-vine
Wild Potato-vineIpomoea pandurata4 recordsCody Hough · CC BY-SA 3.0
Littlebrownjug
LittlebrownjugHexastylis arifolia4 recordsHalpaugh ( talk ) ( Uploads ) [email protected] · Public domain
Helmet flower
Helmet flowerScutellaria integrifolia4 recordsMason Brock ( Masebrock ) · Public domain
Mountain-laurel
Mountain-laurelKalmia latifolia3 recordsQwert1234 · CC BY-SA 3.0
Shortleaf Pine
Shortleaf PinePinus echinata3 recordsChris M · CC BY 2.0
Florida Pine
Florida PinePinus palustris3 recordsChuck Bargeron, University of Georgia · CC BY 3.0 us
Crippled cranefly
Crippled craneflyTipularia discolor3 recordsTheAlphaWolf · 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.

86out of 100

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

  • 90%Treesof the land within 3 km
  • 99%Wildno towns or farmland within 10 km
  • 212Speciesrecorded more than once within 5 km
  • 146 mAltitudeabove the sea

When to walk

Best for walking from March to April and from October to November.

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

  1. Jan9°-2°72 mm
  2. Feb11°0°75 mm
  3. Mar16°4°88 mm
  4. Apr22°9°86 mm
  5. May27°14°100 mm
  6. Jun31°19°108 mm
  7. Jul33°21°116 mm
  8. Aug32°20°114 mm
  9. Sep29°16°106 mm
  10. Oct22°10°82 mm
  11. Nov16°4°86 mm
  12. Dec11°0°96 mm
  • Bar: walking comfort; the number on top is the average maximum.
  • Below: average minimum (NASA, 1991–2020).
  • Rain: monthly total.

The place

Uwharrie National Forest.

National forest located primarily in Montgomery County, North Carolina.

Uwharrie National Forest is a national forest in United States.

Seen from space, 90% of the land within 3 km is trees, and 99% of the land within 10 km has no towns or farmland.

212 species have been recorded around it: 70 plants, 6 fungi, 132 birds and 4 mammals.

The most recorded plants are: Little sweet Betsy, Christmas fern and Dwarf larkspur.

The best time to walk is from March to April and from October to November.

Badin Lake viewed from Uwharrie National Forest
Wasrts · 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.

Uwharrie 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

  • 1marked trails within 5 kmUwharrie Trail
  • 5car parks within 3 km
  • 24campsites within 10 kmUwharrie Hunt Camp, Horse Camp, West Morris Mountain Campground and 21 more
  • 1places to stay within 10 kmRoadway Inn Troy
  • 1restaurants and cafés within 3 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

Counted in OpenStreetMap, the map anyone can edit. A low number may just mean nobody has mapped it yet.

In our other atlases

Around Uwharrie 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.

Peakyas43 mountains within 25 km
Cole Mountain3.3 kmFalls Mountain5.0 kmFall Mountain7.5 kmHattaway Mountain8.6 kmDennis Mountain9.7 kmMorrow Mountain11 kmBuzzard Mountain14 kmBald Mountain20 km
Lakeyas1 lakes within 15 km
Badin Lake22 km² · 9.0 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.

Dwarf Crested Iris Uwaharrie Trail Uwahrrie Nat Forest NC Uwaharrie Trail Uwahrrie Nat Forest NC 1236
bobistraveling · CC BY 2.0
Dwarf Crested Iris Uwaharrie Trail Uwahrrie Nat Forest NC Uwaharrie Trail Uwahrrie Nat Forest NC 1237
bobistraveling · CC BY 2.0
Needle ice patch in Uwharrie National Forest
Wasrts · CC BY-SA 4.0

Other forests nearby.

Uwharrie National Forest

United States

  • 86Forestyas Score
  • 90%Trees
  • 99%Wild
  • 212Species

Sumter National Forest

United States · 173 km

  • 84Forestyas Score
  • 89%Trees
  • 100%Wild
  • 127Species

See the guide

Pisgah National Forest

United States · 251 km

  • 89Forestyas Score
  • 100%Trees
  • 100%Wild
  • 452Species

See the guide

Cherokee National Forest

United States · 279 km

  • 81Forestyas Score
  • 98%Trees
  • 100%Wild
  • 59Species

See the guide

Where these figures come from

Name and typeWikidata (Q844413) · CC0
Land coverESA WorldCover 10 m 2021 v200 · © ESA WorldCover project / Copernicus Sentinel data · CC BY 4.0
Species5,352 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

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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