National Park in the Sierra Nevada Bashny.Net

Let's take a trip to Sequoia National Park, located in the Sierra Nevada mountains of California. Today I'll show it to you and tell you about the amazing giant sequoias that grow in it.

Sequoia National Park (Eng. Sequoia National Park) - United States National Park, located in the southern Sierra Nevada, east of Visalia (Eng. Visalia) in California. The park was founded in 1890, the third after Yellowstone National Park and Mackinac subsequently abolished. The park area 1635 km². The park has a mountainous terrain, rising to a height of about 400 meters above sea level in the foothills to the top of the highest in the contiguous 48 states of Mount Whitney in height 4421, 1 meter. The park borders the National Park Kings Canyon. Both parks are managed by the National Park Service as a single unit - Sequoia National Park and Kings Canyon.
The park is best known for its giant sequoias, including an instance named General Sherman - the largest tree in the world, if we assume that the volume of its timber. In 2009, the wood of this tree was a little less than 1,500 cubic meters. General Sherman tree grows in the Giant Forest (Eng. Giant Forest), which contains five of the ten largest trees in the world by volume of wood. Giant Forest is connected to the road Generals (Eng. Generals Highway), the grove Grant (Eng. Grant Grove) in the National Park Kings Canyon, where among other redwoods growing tree General Grant (Eng. General Grant tree).

Location of the

The road to the park runs through mountainous terrain, with a variety of attractions.
Tunel rock - pass under it can not be, but you can be like.

Slow down, around animals!

Mountain, we'll take it a little later.

The entrance to the Giant Forest

First sequoia on our way

Picturesque forest road

Another redwoods!

Still small)

Along the way, found a lump))) (not Redwoods)

On the way to a giant climb the mountain.

View from the mountain.

We go further! Fallen tree and its roots!

Another attraction on the way to the giants.
Tunnel in the trunk!

Jeeps pass without problems.

Were also seen bears which we were warned earlier.

And the deer!

General view of the park.

You're a little bit! Then walk to the generals bow!

Approaching ...

There he is General Sherman!
Wikipedia
General Sherman - a copy of Sequoiadendron giganteum (Sequoiadendron giganteum), growing in the "Giant Forest" National Park "Sequoia" in California, USA. In scope is the biggest tree in the world [1] (although not the highest - the record belongs to the tree Hyperion relating to the type of redwood evergreen).
General Sherman is not also the highest of the sequoias (known specimens height of 95 m, but they are smaller in volume). General Sherman Tree height is 83, 8 meters, the volume of the trunk is estimated in 1487 m³, and age - in the years 2300-2700
Dimensions tree
Height 83, 8 m.
The circumference of the trunk at ground level 31, 3 m.
The maximum diameter of the stem at the base of 11, 1 m.
The diameter of the trunk at a height of 1, 4 7 m 7 m.
Diameter of the trunk at a height of 18 meters above the base of 5, 3 m.
Diameter of the trunk at a height of 55 meters above the base of 4, 3 m.
Diameter of the largest branch 2, 1 m.
The height of the first major branch above the base 39, 6 m.
Average range of the crown 32, 5 m.
The volume of the trunk (estimated 1,487 m³
Total weight (estimated) 1910 m.
The mass of the trunk (estimate) 1121 m.