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By: Jenni D.
Location:
First Addition Forest Hills
I sat with my back on this tree for a few minutes in the middle of a 10-mile run on a hot day. I appreciated its shade and the back support! :)
By: Jenni D.
Location:
Multnomah
I enjoy walking and running under this tree and its smaller neighbors. They provide welcome shade on an otherwise sunny and exposed path.
By: Abigail R.
Location:
Buckman
This tree sits right outside my bedroom window. I love when the sun sets and the light glistens through the trees into my bedroom. A branch of this tree sticks out into the road a bit, and I carelessly knocked my passenger side mirror off. I blame my...
By: Joan P.
Location:
Downtown
The copper beech (Fagus sylvatica f. purpurea) tree in front of Portland State University Library was planted around 1890. This tree even has its own urban legend: PSU students tell a story that originally the tree was going to be removed for a libra...
By: Cynthia G.
Location:
Powellhurst Gilbert East
I live in the woods of Copperfield Condominiums, near SE 138th and Clinton St. The 110 units were built about 1973 as well as many trees planted and they have grown well. Everywhere I walk, I am under a canopy of trees. It was the reason I bought a...
By: Carolee H.
Location:
Downtown
This tree and its mates lining the east side of SW Broadway at Harrison were planted in the early 1980s with the completion of the first phase of the Professional Schools Building, now renovated as the Karl Miller Center. Their predecessors, shown in...
By: Jeff R.
Location:
Eliot
The roots of this and the two other cottonwoods were cut in 2015, about 5 feet away from the base of the trees. Glad they survived getting half of their root mass severed, afraid they'll fall, since there's nothing holding them up on their west side.
By: Vicki B.
Location:
South Tabor
The property where this tree is located was owned by my family from the time it was built in the 1920s until my mother sold it in 1964. As a child, in the 1950s, I loved to play in the backyard under that tree, making mud pies and just digging. One...
By: Jack M.
Location:
Sullivans Gulch
In the courtyard of Holladay Park Plaza, our retirement home, stands a magnificent London Plane Tree. It is over 100 years old, and first sat behind a beautiful old home on Wasco Street, which was removed to build our structure. We have always ca...
By: Stephen F.
Location:
Overlook
This lovely tree has been the centerpiece of a view to the West Hills for decades. It has been a rookery for red tail hawks and peregrine falcons. It has sheltered deer and coyote, porcupine and other small animals. It has been viewed and hugged b...
By: Kelly M.
Location:
Woodstock
Sitting here are two gorgeous cedars (Red or Western?). Planted in 1954 at the same time our house was built, these trees flank the south side providing cooling shade in the heat of summer. When the wind blows, the sound rushing through these trees i...
By: Kelly M.
Location:
Woodstock
This cedar (Western?) was planted in 1954 at the same time our house was built. Majestic and perfectly shaped, we always use it as the landmark to find our house. "Look for the really tall cedar tree just past the stop sign on SE Glenwood...." Home t...
By: Sue B.
Location:
Multnomah
There are actually two trees here, in the grounds of what used to be Multnomah Grade School. I started at Multnomah in '52 (Kindergarten) and they were fully grown then. I remember sitting on the wall, under their shade, while waiting for the friends...
By: Sue B.
Location:
Multnomah
Located on SW 42nd between Carson and Hume Streets, this is one of two trees that are in the front yard of the house where a good friend lived, back in the 50s and 60s. There was a wooden beam nailed high up between them from which hung a long rope s...
By: Sue B.
Location:
Multnomah
This tree, near the corner of SW 41st and Carson St. was always there and always this tall, even back in the 1950s when we lived on Carson Street. It is outside the house where one of my best friends lived. When we were kids, we used to climb it and...
By: David H.
Location:
Kerns
Most of the Douglas firs in Oregon Park date to the 1910s and were planted on the property of Rachel Hawthorne. She donated her two square block parcel to The Boys and Girls Aid Society. A large receiving house stood to the west. The trees provided s...
By: Madelyn M.
Location:
Downtown
If you're ever looking for a shady and quiet place to sit on the PSU campus, these trees between the Harrison Street Building and Hoffman Hall are perfect. The ground is flat and comfortable, the trees provide good shade, the area is less trafficked...
By: Madelyn M.
Location:
Downtown
Millar Library's east addition was constructed around the Copper Beech after students, faculty and tree lovers protested against its removal. The building curves around the tree and every year the library celebrates its birthday with cake and ice cre...