Drader told WTOP that it is also a National Champion tree, meaning it is also the largest Chestnut Oak in the U.S. It was nominated in 2012.

Fun fact: The largest chestnut oak on record is 144 feet tall and is in Tennessee in Great Smoky Mountains National Park. Christy Belardo is Citizen Science Education Coordinator at Mohonk Preserve.

One of the largest chestnut oak trees in the state lives in the Cleveland Heights section of Lake View Cemetery, where the oak is a giant among the graves of giant achievers like John D ...

One of the oak trunks has grown around the remnants of a barbed wire fence that would have kept cows from straying. The largest of the swamp chestnut oaks is 89 feet tall, with a circumference of ...

HEBRON — A contest to find the largest trees in Oxford County may have uncovered the tallest American Chestnut tree in the state and perhaps the country. “We’re really excited about all of ...