Guidebook
NO. 313 HOOKER OAK - In 1887 Annie E. K. Bidwell named this huge oak after English botanist Sir Joseph Hooker. When it fell during a windstorm in 1977, it was estimated to be over a thousand years old - it was nearly a hundred feet tall and 29 feet in circumference eight feet from the ground. The largest branch measured 111 feet from trunk to tip - circumference of outside branches was nearly five hundred feet.
Location
1928 Manzanita Avenue, Bidwell Park, Hooker Oak Recreation Area, Manzanita Ave between Vallombrosa and Hooker Oak Ave, Chico
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NO. 313 HOOKER OAK - Marker
NO. 313 HOOKER OAK - Private Plaque
NO. 313 HOOKER OAK - Plaque at base of the tree
After vandals burned the stump, everything was removed and paved with cement.