Corridor forest · The Valley
The River Gallery
The trees follow the water north and south, leaning over it. You can walk the whole length without leaving the shade.
The River Gallery is a walkable stand of 63 rivergall trees in The Valley, 196 m along its long axis, with the lowest crown 9.9 m overhead.
Measured
- Centre — x 50, z -1620
- Ground height — 8.7 m
- Band — The Valley
- Species — rivergall
- Trees — 63
- Solid pieces — 353
- Footprint — 196 m by 68 m
- Outer radius — 93.8 m
- Trunk height — 18 m to 23 m
- Lowest crown — 9.9 m
- Narrowest gap between trunks — 5.0 m
- Crown cover — 6.0× the ground beneath
- Nearest named place — Tideharrow, 915 m away
- From Landfall — 1770 m north
The trees
Rounded crowns, stacked, closing overhead into a roof rather than a ceiling.
63 trunks stand on a triangular lattice 10.0 m apart, each jittered up to 1.5 m off its cell so no two rows line up. Trunks run 18 m to 23 m, and the lowest 55% of one is bare — which is the whole reason you can see down a lane here instead of standing in a bush. The first crown starts 9.9 m above your head.
The narrowest passage this species can produce between two trunk colliders is 5.0 m, which is the floor for the entire stand: everything else in it is further apart than that.
Walking it
The footprint is 196 m by 68 m, turned on its own axis so it follows the land rather than the compass. A lane 6.4 m wide is kept clear along the long axis and a glade 11 m across sits at the heart of it — the two places in a closed forest where you can see the sky.
353 solid pieces in total: trunks, and the fallen logs you can stand on. Ground litter, light shafts and drifts are drawn but carry no collider.