Guide
On 11 October 1995 the Directorate General of Nature Conservation and National Parks declared eight individual trees in the Örümcek Forest natural monuments on the same day: four firs and four Oriental spruces, numbered rather than named. Spruce II is the tallest of the eight, and by some margin: 61.5 metres, against 58.5 for the tallest fir. Its trunk is 1.54 metres across with a girth of 4.85 metres, and the directorate gives its age as 400 years.
The register entry for each of the eight is measurements only. The province is Gümüşhane; the fields for district, access road, opening hours and visitor capacity are all empty. These trees stand in working forest, not in a laid-out visitor area, and nothing in the listing tells you where the trail or the parking is — ask the provincial branch of the directorate before setting out to find a particular numbered tree.
- Designated
- 11.10.1995