Big trees
Do you have a favorite big tree in your neighborhood or in a Minnetonka park? Minnetonka has some beautiful wooded areas with pre-settlement trees, and some private properties have big trees that were planted many years ago.
Minnetonka’s natural resources division is starting a “big tree register.” We need your help finding the city’s big trees. Tell us the location of a really big tree you’ve found, and we will measure and identify it. Our big tree register has just begun, so there are only a few species and diameters recorded so far.
Minnetonka’s largest cottonwood tree found to date measures 82 inches in diameter. The largest oak measures 37 inches, but we know we have larger.
There are many trees we have no records for yet, like red maple, sugar maple, bitternut hickory, ironwood, butternut, black walnut, green ash, black ash, American elm, red elm, and all conifer species.
To nominate a really big tree, fill out the form available online as a PDF or Word document and then email it with the subject line “Minnetonka Big Tree” to jrlarson@eminnetonka.com or eball@eminnetonka.com. If you have questions, please contact Janet Larson at 952.988.8423 jrlarson@eminnetonka.com or Emily Ball at 952.988.8421 at eball@eminnetonka.com.
