Peninsula State Park in Fish Creek in Door County, Wisconsin — The American Midwest (Great Lakes)

The Candelabra Tree

Balsam Fir

Photographed by Sean Flynn, August 8, 2024

1. The Candelabra Tree Marker

Inscription. Gently rub a needled branch of the balsam fir and enjoy the spicy smell of the northwoods. Flat, one-inch needles grow singly on the branches. In fall, cones cling upright like a spiky candelabra. Red squirrels help create colonies of balsam firs by burying piles of seeds. Algonquian Indians used sticky resin from the balsam as a protective, healing covering on burns.

One-hundred feet to your right is an old tree plantation. Look for scant rows of spindly white pines on each side of the trail. The original plantation grew poorly (drought? disease?) but see how nature has filled the gaps with a mixture of native tree species.

Topics. This historical marker is listed in these topic lists: Animals • Horticulture & Forestry • Indigenous Peoples and Communities • Science & Medicine.

Location. 45° 9.368′ N, 87° 12.327′ W. Marker is in Fish Creek, Wisconsin, in Door County. It is in Peninsula State Park. It is on Highland Road 1½ miles north of Water Street (Wisconsin Highway 42). The marker is in Peninsula State Park, along the Sentinel Trail about ¾ of a mile from the trail head at the Eagle Tower and a little bit west of its crossing at Highland Road. Touch for map. Marker is at or near this postal address: 9462 Shore Road, Fish Creek WI 54212, United States of America. Touch for directions.

Regionally, this marker is on Wisconsin’s Door Peninsula.

It is also in the American Midwest,

on the Great Lakes,

and in the Corn Belt.

Globally, it is in North America,

the Western Hemisphere,

the Western World,

and the Anglosphere.

Historically, it finds itself in what was once the territory of the Mississippian Culture

and also the Northwest Territory.

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At least 8 other markers are within walking distance of this marker: Growing a Forest (about 600 feet away, measured in a direct line); Triple Trunk (about 600 feet away); Rock Pavement (about 700 feet away); Cold Cure (approx. 0.2 miles away); A Worldly Pine (approx. 0.2 miles away); Late Bloomer (approx. ¼ mile away); Past Life (approx. ¼ mile away); Forest Nursery (approx. 0.3 miles away). Touch for a list and map of all markers in Fish Creek.

More about this marker. The marker is one of roughly two dozen interpretive signs that have been erected along the Sentinel Trail in Peninsula Park, all pertaining to the park's ecology (and many of them also referencing history).

Photographed by Sean Flynn, August 8, 2024

2. The Candelabra Tree Marker

Credits. This page was last revised on August 12, 2024. It was originally submitted on August 12, 2024, by Sean P. Flynn of Oak Park, Illinois. This page has been viewed 162 times since then and 13 times this year. Photos: 1, 2. submitted on August 12, 2024, by Sean P. Flynn of Oak Park, Illinois.