The Peninsula Crossing Coast Redwood

The thickest coast redwood in Portland's heritage register does not stand in a park. It stands on a strip of public right-of-way beside a trail, at N Carey Boulevard in University Park, between N Princeton and N Syracuse Streets. The register gives its trunk as 69 inches through and 18.6 feet round, about 5.67 metres, which is more than half a metre fatter than the redwood by the gym door at Hillside Park. It is 106 feet tall, about 32 metres, with a crown 57 feet across. The city designated it in 2016, recently enough that the listing is fresher than most in the register, which counts for something on a tree we have not been able to see for ourselves. Coast redwoods are native to a narrow strip of the Pacific coast from California into southern Oregon. This one has grown to a girth worth listing in the far north of Portland, on the peninsula between the Willamette and the Columbia. That is also the honest limit of this page. It stands about eight kilometres from the centre and well away from the city's other heritage trees, so it is a trip of its own, easiest by bike or car along the Peninsula Crossing Trail. Nobody has published its age, and we found no recent photograph from the spot. If you ride past, tell us it is still there.