Douglas Fir, Coos County, Oregon ~ 327 ft.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n Sitka Spruce, Prairie Creek Redwoods State Park ~ 317 ft.<\/strong><\/p>\n Giant Sequoia, Sequoia National Park, CA ~ 314 ft.<\/strong><\/p>\n Noble Fir, Mount Saint\u00a0Helens Volcanic Monument, WA ~ 295 ft.<\/strong><\/p>\n Western Hemlock, Prairie Creek Redwoods State Park, CA ~ 273 ft.<\/strong><\/p>\n Ponderosa Pine, Rogue River Siskiyou National Forest ~ 268 ft.<\/strong><\/p>\n Grand Fir, Glacier Peak Wilderness, WA ~ 267 ft.<\/strong><\/p>\n Port Orford Cedar, Jedediah Smith Redwoods State Park, CA ~ 266 ft.<\/strong><\/p>\n Sugar Pine, Yosemite National Park, CA ~ 264 ft.<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Aside from the west coast’s known height records, there are literally thousands of trees on thousands of acres \u00a0that reach or breach 200 ft.<\/p>\n Maybe in the same way 10 ft. to 28 ft. diameter west coast species make anything in the east USA seem puny … the soaring heights of west coast trees simply dwarf virtually everything to the east in the entire USA.<\/p>\n So if you really want to see some tall trees, look to the forests of the west coast.<\/p>\n PS …<\/p>\n I find it interesting that tree hunters from the east often refer to trees there … their “monsters” … by \u00a0circumference, rather than diameter. Maybe its because 13.8′ sounds bigger than 4.3′ when writing circumference with the larger number.<\/p>\n Man … out here on the west coast, there are trees with branches bigger than that. Some west coast trees have limbs larger than 5 feet diameter .. that’s branches thicker than some “monster” tree trunks of the east.<\/p>\n Image: shows wind-shaped lichen-coated top of one of the west coast’s tallest Douglas Fir.<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n
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