Iowa: Polulus Deltoides
So it turns out that when you start stopping at places most people drive by that you meet people and/or you find other places to visit. I was at Fort Severson and saw a sign for Iowa’s Largest Tree. It was close by and why not?
Iowa's undisputed largest tree (still according to the internet) is a massive Eastern Cottonwood (Populus deltoides) located in Mitchell County, near the village of Otranto.
The state champion boasts these impressive dimensions:
Height: 102 feet
Trunk Circumference: 29 feet and 10 inches
Canopy Spread: 120 by 109 feet
How to find it: It sits in the county road right-of-way on Balsam Avenue (between 485th and 470th streets), about seven miles south of the Minnesota border. It is disappointingly not marked.
Also I was surprised that in the middle of no where there were so many power lines. No drone shots.
