January 4, 2011

Vandals chop down famous Nevada shoe tree

Read about this in the news today: 

U.S. Highway 50, billed as the “Loneliest Road in America,” lost one of its landmarks last week because of vandals.

The 70-foot cottonwood tree known as the “Shoe Tree” one mile east of Middlegate was cut down sometime late Thursday night or early Friday morning.

I passed the Shoe Tree during my cross-country road trip several years ago.  It was by far one of the coolest things I saw on that trip.  Such a shame that someone apparently didn't feel the same way and chose to destroy it rather than let it be.  





4 comments:

  1. That makes me so sad! I will never understand some people.

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  2. that is so sad, it just hurts. what a thing to do. jerks.

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  3. They are cutting down trees by the dozen in my city too. I mourn that, some day it may no longer be called the garden city.

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  4. Storyteller, why are they removing so many? For new development? Even that doesn't seem to make sense. I don't understand why trees can't be built around.

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