Quel est l'arbre le plus vieux de Olympic National Park ?
Olympic National Park holds trees nobody has ever dated, but the oldest one with a name, a trail and a sign is the Kalaloch cedar, a western red cedar of roughly a thousand years, off Highway 101 between Ruby Beach and Kalaloch. Estimates for it run from 800 to 1,200 years. Half of it came down in a storm in March 2014; the standing half is alive, in slow decline, and reached by a flat trail of a few hundred feet from a signed roadside pull-off. Three more trees are mapped alongside it: a Sitka spruce at Kalaloch suspended over an eroding creek bank, the record-holding Quinault Big Spruce near Lake Quinault, and the vast Duncan Cedar, which actually stands on state land a few miles outside the park boundary.
Olympic National Park comes in three parts: mountains, rainforest and a long coastal strip. This tree is on the coastal strip, on Highway 101 between Ruby Beach and Kalaloch, and reaching it costs nothing. The Big Cedar trail leaves a signed roadside pull-off and runs a few hundred feet, flat, to the tree. The access road has potholes and is passable in any car. The nearest services are at Kalaloch Lodge a few miles south, and there is no public transport on this coast. Go knowing what is there. The Kalaloch cedar's famous dimensions, close to six metres through and about fifty three metres tall, date from before the 2014 storm; nobody has remeasured it since. Three more trees are mapped elsewhere in the park: the Tree of Life, a Sitka spruce near Kalaloch Campground whose roots have been undercut by an eroding creek; the record Quinault Big Spruce near Lake Quinault; and the Duncan Cedar, the largest known western redcedar by volume, which actually stands on Washington State land just outside the park boundary, off Highway 101 south of Forks.
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