Don’t take our word for it: You’re not going to find us scaling trees across the Garden State to determine just how tall they are. Happily, at least for us, this sort climbing and measuring girth falls within the purview of New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection. Height, circumference, botanical and common names are all available online on the aptly named Big Tree Map and Registry. If you’d like to peer up into the crown of some of these towering exemplars, the site also includes latitude, longitude and street address.

Thus, you can see at a glance that one of the 132-foot trees is a sweetgum (Liquidambar styraciflua) located at 370 Fort Dix Road in Pemberton in Burlington County. The other is a white oak (Quercus alba) throwing shade in Hamilton in Mercer County. (The site’s interactive map can help get you closer, but be warned, it’s very cranky.)

How tall is 132 feet, comparatively? About 11 stories; the average height of a single story in an apartment or office building is 10 feet.

Those among our readers who’ve started compiling bucket lists should consider an item for visiting the 10 tallest trees in New Jersey. Or the 100 tallest; the only bounds are your ambition and obsession.

As long as we’re on the subject of tall, the tallest building in New Jersey is 99 Hudson, a 79-story condominium in Jersey City that tops out at 900 feet. It’s also the 46th tallest building in the United States. Hudson Street is also home to the 781-foot Goldman Sachs Tower. The 42-story building is the second tallest in New Jersey.

At this point we can neither confirm nor deny rumors that the NJ Spotlight News tower will reach at least 1,000 feet and will be able to project the site’s logo against the clouds, much like the bat signal used to summon the Caped Crusader.