Forests are an integral part of the world’s landscape and are often characterized as regions with considerable potential on wind power. In order to take into account the existence of the forest for wind energy assessment, most of previous researches have implemented the drag force or roughness length approaches. However, the goal of this study is to model the forest with porous medium approach and investigate the mean wind and turbulence around porous-like forest by means of Large Eddy Simulation (LES). Consequently, the model is compared with in situ measurements, obtained at Skinnarila forest, near the campus of Lappeenranta University of Technology, Finland.