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Willamette National Forest

Unknown author · CC BY 2.5

99% trees around it and 173 species recorded.

85Forestyas Score

ForestNational forestDense canopyWild

  • trees within 3 km99%
  • wild within 10 km100%
  • species recorded173
  • Altitude798 m

The forest around

99% 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%Grassland 0%Trees 99%Grassland 1%Water 0%Trees 94%Grassland 2%Water 4%Trees 97%Grassland 3%99%trees · 3 km

Trees, ring by ring

  • 0–1 km100%
  • 1–3 km99%
  • 3–6 km94%
  • 6–10 km97%

What covers the land (1–3 km)

  • Trees99%
  • Grassland1%
  • 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

173 species recorded.

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

Rocky Mountain maple
Rocky Mountain mapleAcer glabrum13 recordsWalter Siegmund · CC BY-SA 3.0
Vine Maple
Vine MapleAcer circinatum12 recordsTony Perodeau · CC BY-SA 3.0
Red huckleberry
Red huckleberryVaccinium parvifolium7 recordsMeggar at English Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 3.0
Post Oak
Post OakQuercus garryana6 recordsDavid Stanley from Nanaimo, Canada · CC BY 2.0
Farewell to spring
Farewell to springClarkia amoena6 recordsUnknown author · CC BY-SA 3.0
Indian's dream
Indian's dreamAspidotis densa5 recordsWalter Siegmund · CC BY-SA 3.0
Cascade Mariposa Lily
Cascade Mariposa LilyCalochortus subalpinus4 recordsWalter Siegmund · CC BY-SA 3.0
Bracken
BrackenPteridium aquilinum4 recordsStefan.lefnaer · CC BY-SA 4.0
Salal
SalalGaultheria shallon3 recordsWalter Siegmund · CC BY-SA 3.0
Red Flowering Currant
Red Flowering CurrantRibes sanguineum3 recordsWalter Siegmund · CC BY-SA 3.0
Harsh Indian paintbrush
Harsh Indian paintbrushCastilleja hispida3 recordsWalter Siegmund · CC BY-SA 3.0
Bigleaf Maple
Bigleaf MapleAcer macrophyllum3 recordsAngilbas at English Wikipedia · Public domain

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).

  • 99%Treesof the land within 3 km
  • 100%Wildno towns or farmland within 10 km
  • 173Speciesrecorded more than once within 5 km
  • 798 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. Jan2°-4°156 mm
  2. Feb3°-4°115 mm
  3. Mar6°-3°140 mm
  4. Apr9°-1°103 mm
  5. May14°2°74 mm
  6. Jun18°5°47 mm
  7. Jul23°9°9 mm
  8. Aug23°8°14 mm
  9. Sep19°5°40 mm
  10. Oct12°1°88 mm
  11. Nov6°-2°155 mm
  12. Dec2°-5°201 mm
  • Bar: walking comfort; the number on top is the average maximum.
  • Below: average minimum (NASA, 1991–2020).
  • Rain: monthly total.

The place

Willamette National Forest.

United States national forest in Oregon

Willamette National Forest is a national forest in United States, 798 m above the sea.

Seen from space, 99% of the land within 3 km is trees, and 100% of the land within 10 km has no towns or farmland.

173 species have been recorded around it: 50 plants, 39 fungi, 80 birds and 4 mammals.

The most recorded plants are: Rocky Mountain maple, Vine Maple and Red huckleberry.

The best time to walk is in September.

Detroit Lake 19818
Unknown author · CC BY 2.5

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.

Willamette 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

  • 1shelters and huts within 6 km
  • 2car parks within 3 km
  • 9campsites within 10 kmHorse Creek Group Campground, Cougar dispersed camping, Patio RV Park and 6 more
  • 3places to stay within 10 kmLog Cabin Inn, Harbick's Country Inn, Loloma Lodge
  • marked trails within 5 km
  • named and notable trees within 6 km
  • picnic sites within 4 km
  • viewpoints within 5 km
  • visitor centres within 6 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 Willamette 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.

Peakyas45 mountains within 25 km
Thors Hammer997 m · 12 kmRebel Rock15 kmLowell Mountain17 kmCarpenter Mountain1,632 m · 19 kmChucksney Mountain21 kmIngram Butte21 kmGrasshopper Mountain22 kmBattle Peak24 km
Lakeyas2 lakes within 15 km
Cougar Reservoir2.8 km² · 4.4 kmBlue River Reservoir2.4 km² · 12 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.

Blue River Reservoir, Willamette National Forest (25037400471)
U.S. Forest Service- Pacific Northwest Region · Public domain
Breitenbush River and Trees, Willamette National Forest (36737276621)
U.S. Forest Service- Pacific Northwest Region · Public domain
Lane Transit District bus 91 passes McKenzie River Ranger Station sign in Willamette National Forest
Mattsjc · CC BY 4.0

Other forests nearby.

Willamette National Forest

United States

  • 85Forestyas Score
  • 99%Trees
  • 100%Wild
  • 173Species

Deschutes National Forest

United States · 56 km

  • 85Forestyas Score
  • 93%Trees
  • 100%Wild
  • 157Species

See the guide

Umpqua National Forest

United States · 99 km

  • 84Forestyas Score
  • 99%Trees
  • 100%Wild
  • 115Species

See the guide

Siuslaw National Forest

United States · 140 km

  • 81Forestyas Score
  • 99%Trees
  • 100%Wild
  • 61Species

See the guide

Where these figures come from

Name and typeWikidata (Q3079173) · CC0
Land coverESA WorldCover 10 m 2021 v200 · © ESA WorldCover project / Copernicus Sentinel data · CC BY 4.0
Species1,374 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.

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