Access the map below, to search and view the majestic trees collected thus far in our community initiative.

The campaign to find and document Seattle’s last 6000 majestic trees with trunk diameters of 30 inches and greater has reached an important milestone with today’s release of the first digital tree map. This searchable map shows the nearly 1400 majestic trees thus far submitted by hundreds of volunteers from every neighborhood. Take a moment to check out the map and search by species and zip code. When searching for species, less is more in the search field. If searching for a Douglas Fir, for example, type “dou” and watch the map populate with all the Doug Firs!

You might run a search for Giant Sequoias…When we first launched the Last 6000 Campaign, one of the first trees submitted was a Giant Sequoia. We were all a bit taken aback since we associated Giant Sequoias with California, not Seattle. Then volunteers continued to submit them. In March of 2021, we decided to organize a Seattle Giant Sequoia search and took this opportunity to also provide education about all redwoods and how to identify them. (Learn more in our Winter 2021 Newsletter.)

Perhaps you want to see the majestic trees submitted in your neighborhood. (To see all trees just leave the species blank.) You can zoom in on the map and find your street. Click on tree icons you find there for information and photos of each tree. Then you might decide to visit them!

As mentioned, the map reflects information submitted by volunteers. We hope that volunteers will continue to add to the number of majestic trees in our census.

If you have questions about our tree map or campaign that aren’t addressed in our site, get in touch. We’ll get back to you as soon as we’re able!

Acknowledgements

We’d like to thank the hundreds of volunteers across every neighborhood who have submitted information on Seattle’s majestic trees thus far. We’d also like to acknowledge the following programmers who donated expertise and time sorting out how to present the beauty of Seattle’s identified majestic trees in a digital format to the public: Jim Walseth, Robert Olson and Thomas Donn. This was no easy task.