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World’s Largest Spruce Tree

August 27, 2013 By Talya Tate Boerner

Near Lake Quinault on Washington’s Olympic Peninsula lives the world’s largest spruce tree. Estimated to be around 1,000 years old and with a 58+ foot circumference, he’s a beast.

Following one of the must-do rules of vacation (always stop when in close proximity to the largest anything), we paid him a visit during our drive along the Oregon Coast.

The pictures do not do him justice…

talya

Listen to the trees as they sway in the wind. Their leaves are telling secrets. Their bark sings songs of olden days as it grows around the trunks. And their roots give names to all things. –― Vera Nazarian

Filed Under: Gardening, Travel Tagged With: Oregon, Vacation

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Comments

  1. Michelle Liew says

    August 27, 2013 at 6:58 am

    Whoa! That is one big tree!

  2. Gary Henderson says

    August 27, 2013 at 7:35 am

    You’re making me want to visit!

    • Talya Tate Boerner says

      August 27, 2013 at 9:37 am

      Oh and guess what else we did…we went to the Science Fiction Museum! Knew you’d love that:)

  3. Dorothy Latimer Johnson says

    August 28, 2013 at 6:52 am

    The rain forest amazes me! It was a surprise to find it in NW.

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Hi! I'm Talya Tate Boerner. Writer, Reader, Arkansas Master Naturalist / Master Gardener, Author of

THE ACCIDENTAL SALVATION OF GRACIE LEE (2016)

GENE, EVERYWHERE: a life-changing visit from my father-in-law (2020)

BERNICE RUNS AWAY (2022)

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