Plus, three exceptional honorable mentions
Cold Spring residents nominated 19 trees as part of the Tree Advisory Board’s recent Grand Tree of 2024 contest.
The American sycamore on Marion Avenue behind the home of Joe and Kathy Curto was deemed grandest, in part because of its 23-foot circumference and 7-foot diameter. The Curto’s platanus occidentalis also took the top spot in The Current’s Best Trees in Philipstown: The Sequel in 2016.
Honorable mention for grandest siting went to the Carano family’s bifurcated northern red oak on Constitution Drive, which is estimated to be 400 years old and sits on a promontory overlooking Foundry Cove.
Marie Early’s oak on Grandview Terrace picked up the honorable mention for best branch structure and features a circumference of 14 feet.
The honorable mention for sentimental favorite went to Roger and Linda Hoffmann’s European beech on Main Street which is thought to be more than a century old. (Children’s carvings made when a school was located on the property are visible on its trunk.)
Information about all 19 nominated trees is posted at the Tree Advisory Board website.
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