The London Plane of Summit Place Triangle
Approximate location.
This is a park where the tree is most of the park. Summit Place Triangle is the scrap of ground left where Belmont Avenue East, Bellevue Place East and Summit Avenue East meet, and a London plane fills it. In 2015 a Capitol Hill reporter described the effect rather than the trunk: it shades the entire space in summer, spreading 100 feet from side to side. The city takes it seriously. It is an official Seattle Heritage Tree, one of the trees named by the programme the city runs with the group PlantAmnesty, and it is the closing stop on the city's own North Capitol Hill tree walk, which finishes at this triangle. What nobody has written down is how old it is. There is no planting date, no girth and no height on record. It would be easy to borrow a date from the Olmsted plantings in Volunteer Park, a short walk away, and it would be wrong: that is a different story about different trees, and no source connects this one to it. A blank is more honest than a borrowed number. So the page asks instead. If you live on Capitol Hill and know when this tree went in, or you pass with a tape measure, tell us and the figure goes here. It stands on public ground, open at all hours, about ten to twelve minutes' walk north of the Capitol Hill light rail station.
Triangle of Belmont Ave E, Bellevue Pl E and Summit Ave E (nearest address 906 Summit Ave E), Seattle You can recognise it by the crown, about 100 feet across, which shades the whole triangle. It stands where Belmont Ave E, Bellevue Pl E and Summit Ave E meet, near 906 Summit Ave E.
Free; the tree stands in a small public street triangle (Summit Place Triangle), open at all times, on the pavement edge
Roughly 10 to 12 minutes on foot from Capitol Hill Link station (about 1 km north-northwest along Broadway/E Roy St, walk time not measured precisely)