Denmark forest
Vestskoven
Henrik Hansen · Public domain
42% trees around it and 1,317 species recorded.
- trees within 3 km42%
- wild within 10 km57%
- species recorded1,317
The forest around
42% 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, ring by ring
- 0–1 km63%
- 1–3 km40%
- 3–6 km25%
- 6–10 km27%
What covers the land (1–3 km)
- Trees40%
- Grassland31%
- Wetland0%
- Water0%
- Cropland2%
- Built-up27%
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
1,317 species recorded.
The plants, fungi, birds and mammals people have recorded here most often.
NT
Open records within 5 km (GBIF, licensed for any use). Busy places are better recorded than remote ones.
In numbers
The forest, measured.
Our own rating, from open data only: tree cover (40 points), wildness (20), species recorded (30) and protection or heritage (10).
- 42%Treesof the land within 3 km
- 57%Wildno towns or farmland within 10 km
- 1,317Speciesrecorded more than once within 5 km
When to walk
Best for walking from June to July and in September.
How good each month is for a walk: mild days and little rain make the bar taller.
- Jan0°61 mm
- Feb-1°48 mm
- Mar0°42 mm
- Apr4°34 mm
- May8°46 mm
- Jun12°64 mm
- Jul15°69 mm
- Aug15°83 mm
- Sep12°54 mm
- Oct8°70 mm
- Nov5°62 mm
- Dec1°63 mm
- Bar: walking comfort; the number on top is the average maximum.
- Below: average minimum (NASA, 1991–2020).
- Rain: monthly total.
The place
Vestskoven.
Forest in Denmark
Vestskoven is a forest in Denmark.
Seen from space, 42% of the land within 3 km is trees, and 57% of the land within 10 km has no towns or farmland.
1,317 species have been recorded around it: 989 plants, 129 fungi, 170 birds and 29 mammals.
The most recorded plants are: Great Willowherb, Broadleaf cattail and Common Reed.
The best time to walk is from June to July and in September.
Get there and walk
- Gederygsmosecampsite · 6.8 km · 44 within 10 km
- Four Points Flex by Sheraton Ballerupplace to stay · 2.9 km · 32 within 10 km
- Skovlundenearest town · 2.9 km in a straight line
- Copenhagen Roskilde Airport (RKE)nearest airport with scheduled flights · 19 km in a straight lineCar hire at CPH airport (Copenhagen)Discover Cars · sponsored link↗
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.
Around, in OpenStreetMap
- 23marked trails within 5 kmSort Kløversti, Brøndby, Rød Kløversti, Brøndby, Blå Kløversti, Brøndby and 20 more
- 5named and notable trees within 6 kmTræet ved Lygtemandens hus, Suttetræ, Tusindeårs Egen and 2 more
- 223picnic sites within 4 kmRisby Gadekær and 222 more
- 315shelters and huts within 6 km
- 7viewpoints within 5 kmOxbjerget, Risby Vandværkshøj, Herstedhøje and 4 more
- 606car parks within 3 km
- 44campsites within 10 kmGederygsmose, Jonstrup Vang, Bålpladsen and 41 more
- 32places to stay within 10 kmFour Points Flex by Sheraton Ballerup, A Hotels Glostrup, Pilgrimshuset Albergue Ballerup and 29 more
- 9restaurants and cafés within 3 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 Vestskoven.
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.
Peakyas11 mountains within 25 km
Lakeyas8 lakes within 15 km
Darkskyas2 dark-sky places within 30 km
Viewyas3 viewpoints within 15 kmComing soonFigures from the sister sites' databases (Wikidata, HydroATLAS, GeoNames, OpenStreetMap). Links open when each site is online.
Photographs
The forest, as people saw it.
Other forests nearby.
Vestskoven
Denmark
- 52Forestyas Score
- 42%Trees
- 57%Wild
- 1,317Species
Where these figures come from
| Name and type | Wikidata (Q12009562) · CC0 |
|---|---|
| Land cover | ESA WorldCover 10 m 2021 v200 · © ESA WorldCover project / Copernicus Sentinel data · CC BY 4.0 |
| Species | 48,034 open records within 5 km (GBIF, CC0 and CC BY 4.0 only) |
| See these records | gbif.org |
| Names and photos | Wikidata (CC0); GBIF Backbone Taxonomy · CC BY 4.0; Wikimedia Commons |
| Altitude | Copernicus DEM GLO-30 · © DLR e.V., © Airbus Defence and Space GmbH, Copernicus/ESA |
| Temperature and rain | NASA POWER (CERES SYN1deg, 2001–2020; MERRA-2) |
| What is around | © OpenStreetMap contributors · ODbL |
| Images | EOX Sentinel-2 cloudless 2016 · CC BY 4.0; Wikimedia Commons |
| Sister atlases | Peakyas, Islandyas, Lakeyas, Darkskyas, Viewyas |
Every figure is an average, an estimate or a count from a public dataset. Licences and methods: data sources.
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