Cross Town Loop: Tree 2747

Tree 2747, a big spreading multi-trunk oak, is located on the edge of the woodland between the tennis courts and the Haldeman Pool.

In some way Smokin' Joe Frazier owed his victory over Muhammad Ali in 1971's Fight of the Century to an oak tree: "I got a burlap sack, put a brick in the middle, and filled it with rags, corncobs, some Spanish moss, and sand. I hung that sack off the branch of an oak tree. I'd wrap my hands with a necktie of my daddy's and punch at it. My mom gave me an hour a day. My brothers and sisters said, Nah. I said, You'll see."