In August of this year, three researchers made a stunning discovery: The world’s largest sugar pine, by volume, was in Yosemite National Park. The discovery marked the end of a four-decade ...

There is another reason they named it Sugarpine. “Being an ice cream shop, sugar pine trees have the largest pine cones. We’re doing ice cream cones, so we thought it was fitting,” he said.

Co-owner Emily Cafazzo at Sugarpine Drive-In on the banks of the Sandy River in Troutdale, March 2025 (KOIN “Being an ice cream shop, sugar pine trees have the largest pine cones. We’re doing ...