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The Giant Spruce of Cape Perpetua

The Oregon Travel Information Council
Cape Perpetua

The Oregon Travel Information Council
The story of the Giant Spruce of Cape Perpetua (Picea sitchensis) began long ago. Half a century before Christopher Columbus sailed to the America’s, a tiny Sitka spruce began its life nourished by a nurse log on the Oregon coast. Today, it is the largest and oldest tree in the [...]

The Sitka Spruce at Klootchy Creek

The Oregon Travel Information Council 
The Sitka Spruce at Klootchy Creek (Picea sitchensis) was the first tree to be designated an official Oregon Heritage Tree and was once the biggest tree in Oregon and the National Co-Champion Sitka Spruce.  It germinated from a seed on the forest floor around the time of the signing of the Magna Carta in [...]