The Giant Forest is also home to the famous General Sherman Tree ... the National Park Service lists a few on its website. Visitors recommend longer hikes, such as the 13.4-mile Alta Trail ...

With an elevation that ranges from 7,600 feet to 14,259 feet above sea level, Rocky Mountain National Park is one of the ...

Another redwood rock-star, this totemic tree cannot quite match its big brother ... 1869-77). Sequoia National Park provides a less strenuous hiking option in the 1.7-mile trail which meanders ...

This includes Grove Road, Washburn Trail, or anywhere in Mariposa Grove ... In 1890, the ground around Mariposa Grove and Yosemite Valley became Yosemite National Park. In 1901, naturalist John Muir ...

SEQUOIA NATIONAL PARK ... groves throughout the 404,063-acre park – and according to biologists, each grove contains up to tens of thousands of trees. Standing out among its peers is the ...

True to the original mission of Sequoia National Park, the two parks today contain about a third of all naturally growing sequoia trees.

Sequoia National Park was explicitly created to protect a living organism: Sequoiadendron giganteum, or the "giant sequoia" tree. On This Day In History, September 24, 1934, Babe Ruth Plays His ...