Sequoia National Park - this was taken nearby Hospital Rock
Sequoia National Park - Named in 1875 by explorer and conservationist John Muir, The Giant Forest, the park's most famous attraction, is a giant sequoia grove and is also celebrated for its beautiful meadows. The cinnamon-colored Big Trees, members of the redwood family, may be seen today as Muir found them.
Sequoia National Park
Sequoia National Park - Giant Forest Museum
Sequoia National Park- Tunnel Log
Sequoia National Park - The group of Sequoia trees dubbed The Senate
Sequoia National Park - Crescent Meadow
Sequoia National Park
Sequoia National Park
View from the Moro Rock. Moro Rock is a large granite dome also found in the Giant Forest area. Common in the Sierra Nevada, the dome was formed by exfoliation, or the casting off in sheets of rock layers on otherwise disjointed granite. Outward expansion of the granite results in exfoliation. Taking a quarter-mile trail, you can climb nearly 400 steep steps to the top of the barren rock (6,725-foot elevation). Moro Rock parking area is 3 miles south of the General Sherman Tree at General's Highway. RVs and trailers are prohibited on this road.
At the Lodgepole campground.
General Sherman Tree - This gargantuan sequoia, while neither the tallest nor the widest tree, is considered the largest living tree in the world because of its volume. It weighs approximately 2.7 million pounds, and it is believed to be around 2,100 years old. Its height is 274.9 feet, and its circumference at ground level is 102.6 feet. The diameter of its largest branch is 6.8 feet.
General Sherman Tree, the largest living creature on Earth
Sequoia National Park
Sequoia National Park
Sequoia National Park
Sequoia National Park
Hale Tharp Summer Cabin
Hale Tharp, the first non-Native American settler in what John Muir named the "Giant Forest" in 1875, established a cattle ranch among the Big Trees. He built a simple summer cabin from a fallen, fire-hollowed sequoia log in the 1860s. It is the oldest pioneer cabin remaining in Sequoia National Park.
Hale Tharp, the first non-Native American settler in what John Muir named the "Giant Forest" in 1875, established a cattle ranch among the Big Trees. He built a simple summer cabin from a fallen, fire-hollowed sequoia log in the 1860s. It is the oldest pioneer cabin remaining in Sequoia National Park.