Drury Redwood ~ 12th Largest

This page is an off-shoot of Largest Coast Redwoods

Copyright 2009 by Mario Vaden ~ Image: Michael Vaden 2009

The Drury redwood is located in Prairie Creek Redwoods State Park. For reference, 2009 data for the Drury redwood is 275' or 83.8 m high, 19.2' diameter, and 29,774 cubic feet wood volume. Making the Drury Tree the 12th largest redwood, at least in 2009.

Photos add more taper to the view than the trunk really has. But there is nowhere to take a photo other than about 20' away. Its a bulldog of a specimen, like a fortress wall of wood. The trunk has features with some resemblance to a half skull.

Redwoods like the Drury redwoods make me wonder why some folks focus energy exclusively on Del Norte Titan, Iluvatar or Hyperion. A few specimens like Drury redwood or Arco Giant are not too hard to find. No clues will be listed here, but I will offer a thumbs up that those two are worth searching for. Arco Giant can be photographed, most of it. But the Drury redwood is best seen standing in front of it.

There are marks on the bark from fire. I find it hard to imagine the flammable material, because there is hardly enough for a smoulder these days. The evidence on and around these redwoods seems to denoted that forest fires were centuries apart.