Walking With Giants: Grant Grove’s Historic Sequoia Trail and Village 

Published on July 21, 2024

Nestled in the heart of a historic grove of California giant Sequoia trees, the General Grant tree, in the Sierra Nevada mountains in Kings Canyon National Park—about one hour east of Fresno—stands tall as one of the world’s oldest and largest living things. The tree is estimated to be more than 2,000 years old and towers above the forest at 268 feet. It is the second-largest tree in the world at just over 46,000 cubic feet, according to the National Parks Service. According to the Sequoia-Kings Canyon parks service, the tree was discovered in 1862 by supposed lumberman Joseph Hardin Thomas. It was later named after General Ulysses Grant, who led the Union Army during the Civil War. In 1956, President Dwight D. Eisenhower dedicated the tree as a national living shrine in memory of the men and women of the U.S. Armed Forces....

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