Roughly 400 to 500 years old.
Oldest trees in Oregon
The oldest tree we map in Oregon is Doerner Fir in Coos Bay, at roughly 450 years. We map 22 trees across 3 places in Oregon, each one researched and verified.
Oregon's giants grow in two very different places. On the coast stand the conifers the loggers missed: the Doerner Fir in the Coos Bay backcountry, which survived a fire in its own crown in 2025, and the Octopus Tree at Cape Meares, a Sitka spruce with no trunk at all, only limbs rising from the ground like a candelabra. In Portland the old trees are street trees, and the city keeps a Heritage Tree list that protects them one address at a time: an elm an architect once blocked with his own car, a pine a florist planted before there was a street, a sequoia forty-five metres tall on a residential verge.
Every place we map in Oregon
18 species grow in Oregon
Beeches Copper Beech 1 · European Beech 1
Elms and zelkovas Dutch Elm 1 · English Elm 1 · Field Elm 1
Planes London Plane 3 · American Sycamore 1
Chestnuts, walnuts and hazels Black Walnut 1 · Caucasian Wingnut 1 · Horse Chestnut 1
Conifers Douglas Fir 2 · Giant Sequoia 2 · Austrian Pine 1 · Dawn Redwood 1 · Sitka Spruce 1
More broadleaf trees Lavalle Hawthorn 1 · Lombardy Poplar 1 · Northern Catalpa 1
The 10 oldest trees we map in Oregon
Photo: Rizka (CC BY-SA 4.0)
Roughly 250 to 300 years old.
Roughly 175 to 350 years old.
Roughly 150 to 300 years old.
Roughly 145 to 155 years old.
Roughly 140 to 155 years old.
Roughly 140 to 150 years old.
Roughly 125 to 145 years old.
Roughly 120 to 130 years old.
Roughly 120 to 125 years old.
Trees from Oregon also appear in Autumn Worth the Trip · The Autumn Harvest · The Tallest Trees We Have Measured. See every place we map in the United States, or open the map to find what is near you.