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Kings Canyon National Park

Kings Canyon National Park Kings Canyon National Park protects some of the most dramatic landscapes in California’s Sierra Nevada, from enormous giant sequoia groves to a glacial canyon deeper than many of the better-known canyons of the American West. Located immediately north of Sequoia National Park, Kings Canyon combines towering granite walls, rushing rivers, alpine …

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General Sherman Tree: The World’s Largest Tree by Volume

The General Sherman Tree is not the tallest tree on Earth, nor is it the widest. Its claim to fame is even more remarkable: General Sherman is the largest known living single-stem tree in the world when measured by trunk volume. Standing in the Giant Forest of Sequoia National Park, General Sherman rises nearly 275 …

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