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After the 2002 death of the famous Wye Oak in Wye Mills, Maryland, the 275-year-old Linden Oak in North Bethesda, Maryland, has, by some reckonings, become the largest white oak tree in the United States.
Located beside the junction of Rockville Pike and Rock Creek Park's Beach Drive, the tree has variously been described as the largest in Montgomery County; the 4th largest in Maryland; and the largest in the United States. According to the National Registry of Big Trees[1], a tree in Virginia with a height of 86 feet and a crown spread of 116 feet, is the largest white oak in the country. But at a height of 95 feet and a crown spread of 132 feet --when measured in 1976 -- it seems the Linden Oak could replace the national champion.
Through the efforts of Montgomery County Council member Idamae Garrott, a local politician and champion of the environment, the Washington Metro track arcs around the tree in order to preserve the site.
Located beside the junction of Rockville Pike and Rock Creek Park's Beach Drive, the tree has variously been described as the largest in Montgomery County; the 4th largest in Maryland; and the largest in the United States. According to the National Registry of Big Trees[1], a tree in Virginia with a height of 86 feet and a crown spread of 116 feet, is the largest white oak in the country. But at a height of 95 feet and a crown spread of 132 feet --when measured in 1976 -- it seems the Linden Oak could replace the national champion.
Through the efforts of Montgomery County Council member Idamae Garrott, a local politician and champion of the environment, the Washington Metro track arcs around the tree in order to preserve the site.
Wikipedia article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linden_Oak
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Coordinates: 39°1'20"N 77°6'8"W
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- Mather Gorge 13 km
- DC "Pentagram" 13 km
- Former route of Washington-Virginia Railway 20 km
- Crippen Stump Dump and Animal Farm (former) 20 km
- Holmes Run Acres 21 km
- Intermediate Field 57B / Beltsville Airport (abandoned) 23 km
- Clark's Elioak Farm 31 km
- Belmont Conference Center 38 km
- Mason Dixon Line 129 km
- Wildwood Manor neighborhood 1.2 km
- National Institutes of Health (NIH) 2.5 km
- Walter Reed National Military Medical Center (WRNMMC) 2.5 km
- North Bethesda, Maryland 2.9 km
- Columbia Country Club 3.6 km
- Downtown Bethesda 4.2 km
- Bethesda, Maryland 5 km
- Wheaton-Glenmont, Maryland 5.4 km
- Montgomery County, Maryland 16 km
- Fairfax County, Virginia 26 km
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