SEQUOIA NATIONAL PARK

DEQUOIA NATIONAL PARK

This park is located in central California. And this really is a sight to see. The redwoods are really huge. You can drive through some of them.

This park was founded after the Yellowstone Park. They found this one in 1890. This park is about 13,000 feet above sea level. Some parts are higher, and some parts are lower. This park has a highest elevation of 14,505 feet in the lower forty-eight states. And this is called Mount Whitney.

This park is actually two parks together:

A. Seequoia National Park
B. Kings Canyon

The combined names is called Sequoia and King Canyon.

The Sequoia is famous for its large trees. The General Sherman is one of the largest trees also. The General Sherman is still growing. And this is one of the five out of ten that is the largest trees in the world, by wood volume. The Giant Forest if connected to the General’s Highway which is connected to (Kings Canyon), national park. Along with other trees. The total acreage of the parks between Sequoia and Kings Canyon is 202, 340.

You enter there near the town of Ash Mountain which has the highest elevation point of anywhere from to 5,500 to 9,000 feet.

Most of the Sequoia Park and King’s Canyon Park is accessible by foot, or by horse.

There are many different kinds of plants and tress there, some are:
A. Blue Oak
B. Chaparell
C. Yucca Plants

This region also has an abundant of animals also:

A. Bobcats
B. Foxes
C. Mountain Lions
D. Ground squirrels and many others

This used to be the home of the (Monachee Indian Tribe). They found out that this tribe would travel to the east to do some traveling with different tribes.

When the Eastern Europeans had settled into this region, there was a case of small pox and that had wiped out most of this Indian Tribe.

Cutting down trees (or logging) is not allowed in this forest or any other National Park.

This Park has expanded over the years. The most recent expansion was that of the WALT DISNEY CORP., they had made this expansion to a ski resort.

This has over 240 caves and possibly more. The longest cave is called (LILBURN CAVE) and is over 20 miles long. But, there is only one cave that is open to the public. And this one is called (CRYSTAL CAVE) and this one is 3.4 miles long.

Most caves are found in the lower elevations. Although, some of the caves are found at higher levels. Some of these caves have streams in them some of what are sinking streams. There are some caves that have been discovered each year. The most recent cave was found in 2006.

This park offers a variety of different attractions and they are:

A. Backpackers
B. Hikers
C. Camping with permit only
D. A tree that you can drive through
E. And many more