Sequoia National Park Sequoia National Park is the home of the largest tree in the world (by volume), the General Sherman Tree. It also contains one of the world’s largest groves of the world’s largest trees. Within the park’s boundaries is
Calaveras Big Trees State Park God has cared for these trees, saved them from drought, disease, avalanches, and a thousand tempests and floods. – John Muir Calaveras Big Trees State Park Naturalist John Muir called the Great Sequoias
Coloma, Sacramento & Folsom, California Coming over the Sierra Nevada mountains from Reno is a three hour drive and nearly 5,000 foot descent into the California Central Valley. Nothing too terrible for a Saturday afternoon, despite all the trucks passing us