This is a web photo of this incredible monster, the largest tree in CT. My photos of it aren't much better because the light was all wrong at that time of day when I was there.
Connecticut's Largest Tree, a sycamore (Platanus occidentalis) is named in memory of Gifford Pinchot. The tree is located on the east bank of the Farmington River in the Weatogue section of Simsbury. The late William Linke of New London, who began the Notable Trees Project, provides scale in this 1985 photograph by G. Dreyer.
A marker at the site reads:
THE PINCHOT SYCAMORE
CIRCUMFERENCE 23 FEET 7 INCHES
DEDICATED MAY 1 1965
IN MEMORY OF
GIFFORD PINCHOT
1865 - 1946
BORN IN SIMSBURY, CONNECTICUT, CO-FOUNDER OF
THE YALE SCHOOL OF FORESTRY, FIRST CHIEF OF
THE US FORESTRY SERVICE, CONSERVATION
ADVISOR TO PRESIDENT THEODORE ROOSEVELT,
GOVERNOR OF PENNSYLVANIA
RE-DEDICATED IN 1978
AS A GIFT TO THE TOWN OF SIMSBURY
BY CHARLES SCHNIER
THIS MARKER GIVEN BY SIMSBURY RESIDENTS
INTERESTED IN CONSERVATION
