Rockport, has been hammered and battered by Mother Nature over the centuries, and still it spreads its gnarly limbs over the coastal prairie.
Most days, a steady stream of visitors stop at the small parking lot at the Big Tree. They don t stay long. It only takes a few minutes to walk around the tree s massive 90-foot canopy and pay your respects to the oldest living thing in Texas.
No one knows for sure the age of the 45-foot-tall
live oak (
Quercus virginiana). Estimates put the 35-foot circumference of the trunk at beginning between 500 and 3,000 years ago, with the best guess to be around 2,000 years. That would put 1969 s state champion coastal live oak at more than 500 years old when Cabeza de Vaca visited in 1528.
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