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Roughly 800 to 1,200 years old.
Oldest trees in Washington
The oldest tree we map in Washington is The Kalaloch Redcedar in Olympic National Park, at roughly 1,000 years. We map 20 trees across 3 places in Washington, each one researched and verified.
Washington's oldest trees are the Douglas firs and cedars the saws never reached. In Seattle's Seward Park stands a fir that carries the scars of fires from 1508 and 1701, and elsewhere in the city stands Sylvia, a fir that lost her top to the inauguration-day storm of 1993 and is still growing. On the Olympic coast the Kalaloch Redcedar is roughly a thousand years old and half of it lies on the ground beside the half still standing. East of the mountains the country changes and so do the trees: Spokane keeps a Heritage Tree Register of park and street trees, from ancient firs in Indian Canyon that were not worth cutting to an apricot that started in somebody's kitchen garden.
Every place we map in Washington
18 species grow in Washington
Elms and zelkovas Saw-leaf Zelkova 1
Limes Hungarian Linden 1 · Linden 1
Maples Miyabe Maple 1 · Sycamore 1
Chestnuts, walnuts and hazels Horse Chestnut 1
Conifers Douglas Fir 3 · Bigcone Douglas Fir 1 · Dawn Redwood 1 · Giant Sequoia 1 · Grand Fir 1 · Mexican Pinyon Pine 1 · Norway Spruce 1 · Western Red Cedar 1
Fruit and blossom Apricot 1
More broadleaf trees Elm 1 · Lombardy Poplar 1 · White Willow 1
The 10 oldest trees we map in Washington
Photo: Bri (CC BY-SA 4.0)
Roughly 500 to 600 years old.
Roughly 400 to 500 years old.
Roughly 300 to 450 years old.
Roughly 150 to 250 years old.
Roughly 110 to 125 years old.
Roughly 105 to 125 years old.
Roughly 100 to 120 years old.
Roughly 90 to 110 years old.
Roughly 90 to 105 years old.
Trees from Washington 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.