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Oct 04, On Friday, two giant sequoia trees fell over side by side, blocking a portion of the short, but popular, Trail of the Giants in the southern Sierra-Nevada Mountains. No one was hurt, but a visitor happened to capture the last few seconds of the fall on video (two more videos below shows the above video in a vertical frame/slow motion and the tree right after it hit the ground).Estimated Reading Time: 1 min.

“Big Tree mania” set in, William Tweed writes in a history of the giant sequoia. Pieces of Dowd’s tree went on tour to San Francisco and to New York City. Bya hotel had been Estimated Reading Time: 6 mins. Jan 12, A Sequoia Tree Fell In The Storm But Not In A National Park. A giant sequoia, one that you could drive through, was toppled this week by the potent winter storm that swept through California, but it was not a tree within a national park.

Rather, it was the Pioneer Cabin tree located in Calaveras Big Trees State Park. Jun 07, This giant sequoia fell across the Crescent Meadow Road in late The following summer, a 17 feet wide and 8 feet high tunnel was cut through the fallen log as a visitor attraction. A bypass was added for those vehicles that didn’t fit. When the giant sequoia fell, the tree stood feet high and was 21 feet in diameter at the stumplopping.barted Reading Time: 7 mins. Nov 10, A post shared by @ scottinkc on Nov 5, at pm PDT If you’re looking for a place to see giant sequoias in Yosemite, Tuolumne Grove is a great choice.

While you can’t drive to this grove. a mile round trip hike will take you through the grove and past many giant sequoias.