But there was no scientific name for the Big Trees - the coast redwoods had a name, Sequoia sempervirens, but the magnificent trees of the Sierra Nevada couldn't be called Sequoia, they were just too ...

This story appears in the December 2012 issue of National Geographic magazine. On a gentle slope above a trail junction in Sequoia National Park, about 7,000 feet above sea level in the southern ...

General Sherman, a giant sequoia (Sequoiadendron ... consider these remarkable facts : ・Its trunk weighs an estimated 1,385 tons ・The tree’s largest branch has a diameter of nearly 7 feet ...

I recommend going before the crack of dawn, because these free days are popular and you’ll find lots of people on the most visited trails.