We show that the Brownian continuum random tree is the Gromov–Hausdorff–Prohorov scaling limit of the uniform spanning tree on high-dimensional graphs including the d-dimensional torus $${\mathbb {Z}}_n^d$$
Z
n
d
with $$d>4$$
d
>
4
, the hypercube $$\{0,1\}^n$$
{
0
,
1
}
n
, and transitive expander graphs. Several corollaries for associated quantities are then deduced: convergence in distribution of the rescaled diameter, height and simple random walk on these uniform spanning trees to their continuum analogues on the continuum random tree.