The White Bear Lake tree is not the biggest cottonwood tree in Minnesota. The largest one on record is over 32 feet in circumference in Chippewa County. This one is roughly 24 feet all the way around.

“This tree here is about 12 feet bigger around than Canada’s biggest eastern cottonwood tree, so to me that means we have the largest eastern cottonwood tree on earth,” Alan Bartels said.

The buzz of chainsaws provided the exit music for a large eastern cottonwood that once towered over Howard Street in Burlington, as the life of the tree came to an end. The eastern cottonwood ...

An eastern cottonwood growing in the Byron Forest Preserve District’s new Bald Hill Prairie Preserve is the new Illinois Big Tree Champion.

As a child, Fred Wheeler used to play on the large Eastern cottonwood tree on his family’s farm just off Russellville Road. But Wheeler, now 73, didn’t know he was playing on one of the ...

This is not the biggest cottonwood tree in Minnesota. The largest one on record is over 32 feet in circumference in Chippewa County. This one is roughly 24 feet all the way around.

I’m hoping much of the cottonwood is being repurposed (“The rise and fall of the ‘biggest tree in Burlington’”). In California, for the Christmas Tree Lane Association of Altadena, when ...

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Kansas City’s historic Kessler Park holds bragging rights. A tree in the park now holds the honor of being Missouri’s largest eastern cottonwood tree. According to the ...

An Eastern Cottonwood tree that Fred and Erin Breglia think is the largest tree in New York state on Wednesday, Dec. 7, 2022. The tree has a circumference of about 34 feet and is located along the ...

Illinois’ biggest tree, an eastern cottonwood in Bald Hill Prairie Preserve on April 27, 2018, in Mt. Morris. Regardless of its ranking, the cottonwood’s endurance is noteworthy.

There's no way to get your arms around this one. Friends of the San Pedro River are leading a hike Saturday morning that starts with what many believe is the state's largest cottonwood tree. So ...

WHEELER COUNTY, Neb. (KOLN) - Pibel Lake Recreation Area is home to the Lower Loup Natural Resource District, geese and as of February 2025, the largest known cottonwood tree in Wheeler County.