Basking Ridge, New Jersey
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Basking Ridge is an unincorporated community and census-designated place (CDP) located within Bernards Township in the Somerset Hills region of Somerset County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey.
Street scene in Basking Ridge
Downtown area with Presbyterian church in distance
600 year-old historic oak tree in Basking Ridge, June 2016
Warren Kinney Oak
Basking Ridge white oak
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The Basking Ridge white oak was a white oak tree that stood in the churchyard of the Presbyterian Church in Basking Ridge, New Jersey. The tree was over 600 years old and died in 2016, before being cut down in 2017. It stood at 97 feet tall, and may have been the oldest white oak in the world.
Basking Ridge white oak in May 2013
Tree in April 2017, days before it was cut down
Stump after being cut down