WHERE are the TREES!!! (best city, price, yard)

[hbtxgal]

TREEs, TREEs I need Trees... tired of concrete! Where is the best city pop @ least 15k that has nice weather (4 seasons & SUN,snow), mountains, rivers and LOTS OF TREES!!! I want to see them in my yard, on the way to store, everywhere!!! Mostly any type of pine, redwood, cedar etc. I visited my family in Oregon and love the trees in their front yard..but not the weather. ANY Suggestions???? Side note I can't afford most Cali cities...too pricey.

[Or3g0n]

southern Oregon. Oregon has many different weathers within the same state.

[dweebo2220]

US Cities with the nickname "City of Trees"

Ann Arbor
Atlanta
Boise
Buffalo
Burlingame
Charlotte
Claremont, CA (The City of Trees and Ph.D's)
Minneapolis
Pleasant Grove, Utah
Royal Oak, MI
Sacramento
South Pasadena
Tustin, CA
Woodland, CA

But you're looking for pines, right? Most places with an abundance of them aren't going to have good weather year-round. What about Redding, CA?

[Or3g0n]

Evergreen firs triumps pines. "Places with pines/firs will have bad weather" is worst thing you could assume. Thats would be very incorrect. Redding, California is 60 miles south of Oregon border and southern Oregon is surrounded by lots of evergreens, and these locations has long summers and also gets extremely sunny. Temps is 50s in winter while it is 90 to 100 daily in summers. Record highs runs at 115 to 120.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roseburg,_Oregon#Climate

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medford,_Oregon#Climate

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Redding...fornia#Climate

[UKUKUK]

Not pines, particularly, but Ann Arbor has that tree tunnel effect. As does Berkley, MI. Try Marquette, MI and northern MN/WI for pines.

[ckhthankgod]

Maybe a place like Glens Falls or Saratoga Springs in NY. Both get about as much snow as Denver on average, are more affordable than much of the NE and is very close to the Adirondack Mountains.

[skippercollector]

Greater Cincinnati is well-known for its higher-than-average numbers of trees. I've heard people from California tell me they are amazed at how green the area is during the summer.
However, I know that Cincinnati is the wrong answer. Most of its trees are deciduous (maple, ash, elm, Bradford pear, crabapple, etc.) They are bare from November through mid-April. They are just now starting to show their leaves.
There are some spruce trees but they are scattered. All the pines have died or are dying because of the weather, temperature and rainfall extremes we've had in the past few years.
There are numerous other City-Data-related reasons that I know make it the wrong answer, but that's another story.......

[danielj72]

Michigan, Wisconsin and Minnesota, escpecially the northern parts. There are no mountains, but much of the upper midwest is covered in woodland. Needless to say water is everywhere in those states. Traverse city Michigan is a very nice place to look if you like small places.

[AuburnAL]

In the woods.

[Blackbeauty212]

for big cities that are Very Lush and Green:

Seattle
Portland
Pittsburgh
Atlanta