Shoe trees help keep shoes in their correct shape and prevent shrinkage, especially if they’ve gotten wet or damp. They can also stop your shoes getting squashed in your luggage when traveling. But ...

Pausing before the West Bank Shoe Tree on a lazy summer day, one might imagine a future in which trees are bio-engineered to grow, for example, human feet. If you can imagine a tree that sprouts ...

For 12 years, the old tree on 59th Avenue has stood like a shrine to footwear for people in Greeley and Weld County. They’ve come from local towns to nail their shoes to the tree, from other states, ...