This oak is held together with hardware rated to 54,000 pounds. A windstorm in March 2016 cracked its trunk, and instead of taking it down, Seattle's street-tree crews cabled and braced it, promised to inspect it every year, and estimated the work could buy ten years or more for what they called an otherwise healthy and vigorous tree. That effort tells you its standing. It is a scarlet oak growing in the street right-of-way at a Wedgwood corner, which puts it in the city's own care, and it is one of the few such trees named a Seattle Heritage Tree and classed Best in City. It received its Heritage plaque at a ceremony in 2008. Arthur Lee Jacobson's Trees of Seattle counts it among the most outstanding of its kind in the city, and the local history blog that has followed it for years gives its height as 95 feet. Who planted it is a neighbourhood argument rather than a record. The same blog thinks it likely went in during the 1920s, probably by the family who ran a plant nursery here, while an earlier post floated another family entirely. So call it roughly a century, give or take. It has seen the corner change around it, most recently a new house going up beside it in 2020. Admire it from the pavement; the lots on either side are private. The pin marks the intersection, and the tree is on its northeast corner.
Northeast corner of NE 77th St and 38th Ave NE, Seattle You can recognise it by the cables and bracing in the crown, fitted after a 2016 storm cracked the trunk, on a tree about 95 feet tall. It stands on the northeast corner of NE 77th St and 38th Ave NE.
Free; stands in the public street right-of-way at the corner, viewable from the pavement. Do not enter adjoining private lots.
Neighbourhood street in Wedgwood; bus service on 35th Ave NE about 3 blocks west, stop and walk time not verified
