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Great Outdoor Recreation Pages (GORP) GORP Old Growth Forests in the North Cascades Rainforests of the Northwest: River Corridors of the Olympic Peninsula Olympic National Forest Quinault Valley		On-line News Articles Seattle P-I.com Ancient Cedars on Long Island, Willapa Bay Karen Sykes, 6/19/97 Six Hikes Through Old Growth Forests 7/11/96 Seattle Times (need free subscription to view these) Madrona Trees at Seola Park Viewpoint Maria Dolan, 9/30/04 Kalaloch Creek Nature Trail Cathy McDonald, 3/21/02 Maple Glade Rainforest Trail The Olympian Lush Trail Invites Hikers to Rain Forest 6/19/01 Fabled Forests Inspire Awe 9/4/01
National Parks and Forests Mount Rainier NP Grove of the Patriarchs Trail Okanogan NF Big Tree Botanical Area Back to Top		.Miscellaneous. Suite101.com, Jeri Booker Hoh Rain Forest and the Quinault Rain Forest Outdoors Old Growth Treasure Discovery Coast.com Tread Softly Through Ancient Forests
Other Tree Tours in Washington University of Washington Brockman Memorial Tree Tour Back to Top
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Washington Nature Weekends
Champion Trees

Your Own Town or City

Washington Nature Weekends includes a November chapter on visiting Champion Trees on the Olympic Peninsula. Here are some places to take a few hours and enjoy big trees in your own town or city, almost any time of the year.

According to Van Pelt, the largest concentration of champion trees, if you include introduced species too, is in Seattle, which can boast 540 of the state’s largest trees. Not even a close second place is Tacoma, with only 175 of the champions within its borders and the list goes down from there to Mount Vernon’s 17 record-holders.

The “top ten cities” with big trees in them are Seattle, Tacoma, Walla Walla, Puyallup, Spokane, Bellingham, Olympia, Vashon/Maury Island, Lakewood, and Mount Vernon.

An easy way to enjoy simply being in the midst of lots and lots of big trees is to go to one of the top 10 parks named by Van Pelt:

Seattle

Washington Park Arboretum
Volunteer Park
Carl S. English Gardens
University of Washington

Tacoma

Point Defiance Park
Wright Parks

Walla Walla

Pioneer Park

Spokane

USDA Forest Service Arboretum
Finch Arboretum

Olympic Peninsula

Olympic National Park

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