Sequoia: Really big trees

Sequoia was a park that I was really looking forward to seeing on my trip to California. I was as excited about this park as I was about Yosemite. Something about trees that big just boggled my mind when I saw them in photos. I knew I wanted to see them in person, stand next to them, and be blown away by their size. So I did.

We only stopped at a few different destinations in this park, because they were so captivating to me. I could have spent even more time at the places we did stop. And we didn't even see close to the whole park.

Our first stop was not a tree stop, but a rock stop. Hospital Rock was a short trail that led to a rock that had some petroglyphs, which were definitely cool to see, but the trail itself was anticlimactic. The fun part, for me, came on the trail that led down from hospital rock to the river. It was a very short path, but the end of it was somewhere I probably could have spent hours playing around on the rocks and watching the river run.

The Giant Forest is the real show. Yes, there is a whole park to explore, but I had too much fun in Giant Forest to explore much else. The trees are huge. I know I already said that, but it's hard to explain how big they are and feel like you're doing these giant sequoias any justice.

There was a stop along the trail, that had an outline on the pavement that was a to-size replica of the base of General Sherman, but at the time I went, the path was so muddy I couldn't really see it that well. I can tell you, though, that probably at least twenty people could have stood in that circle. And had enough room to do a little dance, if they so desired. General Sherman is nearly 103 feet around at its base. And it was among its peers in this forest.

I could rattle off facts about all the trees I saw in this forest in an attempt to impress you as much as these trees impressed me, but I think I would fail at that task. They're that impressive. I recommend going to this park yourself and standing next to one (or several) of these giants. Something about them just made me want to walk around this forest for hours. Hopefully these photos will make you want to go see them too.