There's no disputing that this is a very tall totem pole. Carved by Ernest Pierson and John Nelson from a single 500-year-old redwood tree in 1961, it's 160 feet tall, weighs 57,000 pounds, and sits on a base that weighs over two tons. Even so, at least four other poles have laid claim to beating it. The tallest ever documented, which has been dismantled for reasons that remain unclear, once rose to 185 feet in Victoria, British Columbia.
If you go:
This is found behind the Safeway Store on Central Avenue
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1503 City Center Road
McKinleyville, California 95519 USA