Native Sycamore Tree (Riverside)
United StatesRiversideLa Paz Lane, Riverside
Approximate location.
Riverside has listed a sycamore growing in the middle of a road as one of its official landmarks. It is City of Riverside Landmark number 65, and it stands on the median island where La Paz Lane meets Bubbling Well Road, on the edge of Fairmount Park. That listing is almost all anyone has written down about it, and we would rather say so than dress it up. The landmark list names it the Native Sycamore and gives no species, no age, no measurement and no story of how it came to be honoured. The word native points towards the California sycamore, Platanus racemosa, but nothing we could find confirms it, so we list it as a sycamore of unknown species. If you know it, or know why the city picked this tree, tell us. What we can say is that it was standing in July 2026, when a photographer recorded it on the island. The tree is best seen from the pavement rather than from the island itself, because crossing to it means stepping into traffic. It is on public land and free to look at, about six kilometres north of the Parent Navel Orange Tree.
The line is our estimate of how much there is to see, not a measurement. Typical for this species where this tree stands; exact weeks shift with the year.
Median island on La Paz Lane at Bubbling Well Road, Riverside, CaliforniaYou can recognise it as the sycamore on the median island in the road, not in the park beside it. It stands where La Paz Lane meets Bubbling Well Road, by Fairmount Park.
Free; a tree in a street median island, seen from the road; crossing the street is a safety issue. Public land.
Riverside city streets, near Fairmount Park; public transport not checked.
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