
Ben Shemen Forest
The print
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About the Ben Shemen Forest trail
The Ben Shemen Forest route in Israel measures 9.6 miles and gains 893 feet, with a low point of 262 feet and a high point of 846 feet. The steepest pitch reaches 11 percent, against an average of 93 feet of gain per mile. The 9.6 miles is the one-way distance of the drawn route. On our gain-and-distance scale it falls in the moderately strenuous band. The nearest town is Shoham, about 2.1 miles away.
The trail
Ben Shemen Forest (Hebrew: יער בן שמן) is the largest forest in central Israel and one of the largest in the entire country (the eastern and southern sections of the forest are also known as the Modiin Forest), covering an area of 22,000 dunams (22 Km²). In the forest there are picnic spots, hiking and bicycle routes.
Text: Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0
Questions about the Ben Shemen Forest print
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How hard is Ben Shemen Forest?
Trail geometry for this print: Map data © OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL. Elevation: AWS Terrain Tiles. The derived trail dataset is published at /open-data. Best months are an estimate from NASA POWER climate data (CC BY 4.0), 2001 to 2020 monthly averages adjusted to the trail's elevation, not an official season; check current conditions and closures.













