So I've been seeing more of these really cool cat trees that look less like carpeted monstrosities (no offense intended I have one too) and more like well, cool trees. Like how this Redditor did it: https://imgur.com/a/L91Em or here's an example video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dau7fdetYo4

Problem is I'm in an apartment so I don't exactly have a large backyard and forest to go picking out trees from and when I tried to do it at Public Gardens I got "banned for life". Rude.

It would have to be a pretty shapely/interesting/compact tree. For instance just walking through Point Pleasant Park the trees are pretty but very straight up or don't branch out much until they're like 60 feet wide.

If you were in my shoes how would you go about acquiring a tree that you could use for one of these DIY COVID projects?