The NW 62nd Street Bigleaf Maple

Seattle's tree records give this bigleaf maple a trunk 92 inches across, about 24 feet round. That is nearly half as wide again as the Ross Playground maple in Fremont, which the same records already place among the city's biggest Heritage maples. The rest comes from the same entry: a height of 86 feet, about 26 metres, and a crown roughly 72 feet wide. Bigleaf maple is the native maple of this coast, and the city lists this one as a Heritage Tree. It grows on the private frontage of 1707 NW 62nd Street in Ballard, so this is a tree to see from the sidewalk, and a trunk that size does not need you any closer. Everything here comes from one place, the city's tree inventory, which also supplies our pin. Nobody has checked that point against the crown, so treat it as the right block rather than the exact trunk, and let the address do the rest. A naturalist logged a plant within range in January 2023, but nobody has confirmed it was this maple, so the city's register is the firm word that it still stands. It also starts a short Ballard walk. A Heritage giant sequoia stands about 300 metres away on NW 59th Street, a pair of Heritage Lombardy poplars a little further along that street, and the twin planes of Ballard Playground about 800 metres to the west. Nobody has published its age. If you know when it went in, tell us.