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White Mountain National Forest

Ken Gallager at en.wikipedia · Public domain

100% trees around it and 168 species recorded.

85Forestyas Score

ForestNational forestDense canopyWildBirds

  • trees within 3 km100%
  • wild within 10 km100%
  • species recorded168
  • Altitude780 m

The forest around

100% 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 100%Water 0%Trees 100%Water 0%Trees 99%Grassland 0%100%trees · 3 km

Trees, ring by ring

  • 0–1 km100%
  • 1–3 km100%
  • 3–6 km100%
  • 6–10 km99%

What covers the land (1–3 km)

  • Trees100%
  • Grassland0%
  • Water0%

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

168 species recorded.

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

Northern singlespike sedge
Northern singlespike sedgeCarex scirpoidea8 recordsBritton, N.L., and A. Brown. 1913. An illustrated flora of the northern United States, Can · Public domain
White meadowsweet
White meadowsweetSpiraea alba7 recordsJames K. Lindsey · CC BY-SA 3.0
Spiked muhly
Spiked muhlyMuhlenbergia glomerata6 recordsMatt Lavin · CC BY-SA 2.0
Canadian Bunchberry
Canadian BunchberryCornus canadensis4 recordsJohnHarvey · CC BY-SA 3.0
Painted trillium
Painted trilliumTrillium undulatum3 recordsD. Gordon E. Robertson · CC BY-SA 3.0
Bluebead
BluebeadClintonia borealis3 recordsChoess · CC BY-SA 4.0
American Beech
American BeechFagus grandifolia3 recordsBruce Marlin · CC BY-SA 2.5
Sheep laurel
Sheep laurelKalmia angustifolia2 recordsA. Barra · CC BY 3.0
Toothed wintergreen
Toothed wintergreenOrthilia secunda2 recordsBernd Haynold · CC BY 2.5
Northern ReedgrassCalamagrostis inexpansa4 records
Silvery nailwortParonychia argyrocoma4 records
Solidago randiiSolidago randii4 records

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

In numbers

The forest, measured.

85out of 100

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

  • 100%Treesof the land within 3 km
  • 100%Wildno towns or farmland within 10 km
  • 168Speciesrecorded more than once within 5 km
  • 780 mAltitudeabove the sea

When to walk

Best for walking in September.

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

  1. Jan-5°-14°72 mm
  2. Feb-4°-13°82 mm
  3. Mar1°-8°90 mm
  4. Apr9°-1°111 mm
  5. May16°5°106 mm
  6. Jun21°11°134 mm
  7. Jul24°14°114 mm
  8. Aug23°13°107 mm
  9. Sep20°9°95 mm
  10. Oct12°3°136 mm
  11. Nov5°-3°109 mm
  12. Dec-2°-9°118 mm
  • Bar: walking comfort; the number on top is the average maximum.
  • Below: average minimum (NASA, 1991–2020).
  • Rain: monthly total.

The place

White Mountain National Forest.

Federally managed forest contained within the White Mountains in the northeastern United States

White Mountain National Forest is a national forest in United States, 780 m above the sea.

Seen from space, 100% of the land within 3 km is trees, and 100% of the land within 10 km has no towns or farmland.

168 species have been recorded around it: 32 plants, 9 fungi, 126 birds and 1 mammals.

The most recorded plants are: Northern singlespike sedge, White meadowsweet and Spiked muhly.

The best time to walk is in September.

Sandwich Range
Ken Gallager at en.wikipedia · 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.

White Mountain 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

  • 8marked trails within 5 kmDavis Path, Mount Tremont Trail, Nancy Pond Trail and 5 more
  • 3picnic sites within 4 km
  • 3campsites within 10 kmFourth Iron Campground, Crawford Notch Campground, Dry River Campground
  • named and notable trees within 6 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
  • 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 White Mountain 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.

Peakyas180 mountains within 25 km
Mount Franklin1,524 m · 18 kmMount Monroe1,637 m · 18 kmBoott Spur1,674 m · 19 kmMount Lincoln1,551 m · 20 kmMount Washington1,917 m · 20 kmMount Lafayette1,600 m · 21 kmMount Clay1,686 m · 22 kmMount Jefferson1,741 m · 24 km
Viewyas1 viewpoints within 15 kmComing soon
Frankenstein Cliff6.7 km
Cascadyas3 waterfalls within 15 km
Arethusa Falls5.5 kmSabbaday Falls12 kmRocky Gorge14 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.

Bridge over Rattle River - panoramio
Jon Platek · CC BY-SA 3.0
North Branch Gale River August 2018
Ken Gallager · CC BY-SA 4.0
Owls Head
Ken Gallager at English Wikipedia · Public domain

Other forests nearby.

White Mountain National Forest

United States

  • 85Forestyas Score
  • 100%Trees
  • 100%Wild
  • 168Species

Green Mountain National Forest

United States · 134 km

  • 87Forestyas Score
  • 99%Trees
  • 92%Wild
  • 460Species

See the guide

Arnold Arboretum

United States · 202 km

  • 62Forestyas Score
  • 58%Trees
  • 65%Wild
  • 501Species

See the guide

Boston Public Garden

United States · 196 km

  • 33Forestyas Score
  • 8%Trees
  • 54%Wild
  • 409Species

See the guide

Where these figures come from

Name and typeWikidata (Q2566939) · CC0
Land coverESA WorldCover 10 m 2021 v200 · © ESA WorldCover project / Copernicus Sentinel data · CC BY 4.0
Species3,577 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, Viewyas, Cascadyas

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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