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Calaveras Big Trees State Park is a state park of California, United States, preserving two groves of giant sequoia trees. Located 4 miles (6.4 km) northeast of Arnold, California in the middle elevations of the Sierra Nevada, it has been a major tourist attraction since 1852, when the existence of the trees was first widely reported.
Placer County Big Trees Grove is a small, isolated giant sequoia grove located along Mosquito Ridge Road in the American River watershed of Tahoe National Forest, California. It is known for being the northernmost and furthest removed of all giant sequoia groves.
The northernmost grove, with only six trees, the largest being 3.66 m (12.0 ft) in diameter. The grove is also the furthest removed from all other giant sequoia groves. Part of the American River watershed. North Calaveras Grove: Calaveras Big Trees State Park Calaveras County
Map showing location of Giant Forest. Giant Forest is close to Crystal Cave, Moro Rock and Crescent Meadow. The western trailhead of the High Sierra Trail which crosses the Sierra Nevada to Mount Whitney is at the Crescent Meadow parking area. Ponderosa, Jeffrey, Sugar, and Lodgepole pine trees are common here, as well as white and red fir.
The Giant Sequoias of California. Washington, D.C.: United States Government Printing Office. Dilsaver, LM; Tweed, WC (1990). Challenge of the big trees:a resource history of Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Parks (1st ed.). Three Rivers, California: Sequoia Natural History Association. ISBN 978-1-878441-00-3.
The Giant Sequoia National Monument is a 328,000-acre (512 sq mi) U.S. National Monument located in the southern Sierra Nevada in eastern central California.It is administered by the U.S. Forest Service as part of the Sequoia National Forest and includes 38 of the 39 Giant Sequoia (Sequoiadendron giganteum) groves that are located in the Sequoia National Forest, about half of the sequoia ...
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Calaveras Big Tree National Forest, in the Sierra Nevada, was established in California on May 11, 1954, with 390 acres (1.6 km 2) to protect a grove of Giant Sequoias, although it had been authorized since February 18, 1909.