So, there's this juniper tree(more like a large bush) in the median of I-17 just north of the sunset point rest area. Every year, for the past 30 years, the tree has been decorated for the Christmas season. I remember when I was younger, I would always look forward to seeing it on trips to flagstaff.
http://www.kpho.com/story/24236780/decorator-of-i-17-christmas-tree-still-a-mystery (http://www.kpho.com/story/24236780/decorator-of-i-17-christmas-tree-still-a-mystery)
I had always assumed that the tree was decorated by the DOT or members of the adopt a highway program, so I was very interested when I found out that it is a total mystery as to who has been decorating it all these years.
Anyway, I was curious if anyone else knew of, and would like to share any other examples of things similar to this along other highways around the country.
It doesn't have to be an X-mas tree, just anything else. :colorful:
There was a tree in the median of I-64 between US 258 and VA 134 in the early 1990s when I lived in the Hampton Roads area that was decorated for multiple holidays throughout the year.
Here is an article about the tree and its ultimate demise...
http://articles.dailypress.com/2002-12-25/news/0212250071_1_christmas-tree-new-tree-charlie-brown
Mapmikey
There was a fairly small tree on I-49 just south of the Stonewall exit around mm 189 or 190 that was decorated around Christmas. I remember seeing it if we drove to Natchitiches for the Christmas festival of lights.
Not on a road but.... I was riding the PATH subway out of NYC back to NJ about a year ago and was surprised to see a Christmas tree lit up in the tunnel somewhere under Jersey City or Hoboken. I wasn't sure that I saw what I saw at first, but the web tells me this has been a PATH tradition for a number of years...
Quote from: Roadrunner75 on December 04, 2014, 11:27:01 PM
Not on a road but.... I was riding the PATH subway out of NYC back to NJ about a year ago and was surprised to see a Christmas tree lit up in the tunnel somewhere under Jersey City or Hoboken. I wasn't sure that I saw what I saw at first, but the web tells me this has been a PATH tradition for a number of years...
Ha! They're still doing that, huh? I haven't thought of that in twenty years. It was pointed out to me (or I was told about it in advance) but it was such a great treat to stumble upon from time to time.
Back in 1993 a weed sprung up from the pavement where U.S. 13 Business and Delaware 3 (Marsh Road) intersect. Someone decided to decorate it like a Christmas tree. It was later taken down, then replaced, then stolen, then replaced repeatedly. It made the local news, and ended up becoming a local tradition:
Saga of the Christmas Weed -- it's become a Claymont tradition indeed (http://archive.delawareonline.com/article/20071127/NEWS12/711270343/Saga-Christmas-Weed-s-become-Claymont-tradition-indeed)
A Delaware tradition: the Christmas Weed (http://www.skyscrapercity.com/showthread.php?t=287767)
There's a tradition for people in the Huntsville, AL area to decorate small trees along Cecil Ashburn Drive every year. A few years ago, environmentalists complained about it because people would leave their decorations up on the trees and never take them down after Christmas, so the city tried to stop people from doing that (all that it did was reduce the number of people doing it). How ever, the year afterwards, the city passed a new law that allows people to decorate trees along Cecil Ashburn Drive as long as the decorations are bio-degradable. I'm pretty sure you can use non-bio-degradable decorations as well as long as you clean them up after Christmas is over.
Saga of the Christmas weed
That was like, the most awesome poem I've ever read!
Seriously, now I wish all news stories were turned into poems. Wow. :clap:
Quote from: Alex on December 05, 2014, 09:41:13 AM
Back in 1993 a weed sprung up from the pavement where U.S. 13 Business and Delaware 3 (Marsh Road) intersect. Someone decided to decorate it like a Christmas tree. It was later taken down, then replaced, then stolen, then replaced repeatedly. It made the local news, and ended up becoming a local tradition:
Saga of the Christmas Weed -- it's become a Claymont tradition indeed (http://archive.delawareonline.com/article/20071127/NEWS12/711270343/Saga-Christmas-Weed-s-become-Claymont-tradition-indeed)
A Delaware tradition: the Christmas Weed (http://www.skyscrapercity.com/showthread.php?t=287767)
How have I never heard about this? :-D
That's very interesting, a Christmas tree in the middle of an Interstate highway! And in the desert Southwest, of all places! I'd expect something like that to exist in the Midwest or Northeast, and even the Rocky Mountain and Appalachian regions would be an even more appropriate place for things like that to exist.