General Grant Grove - Noteworthy Trees

Noteworthy Trees

Some of the trees found in Grant Grove that are worthy of special note are:

  • General Grant: The Grant is very imposing. The eastern side has a huge burn, leaving the lower trunk very flattened and giving the tree a maximum base diameter on the ground of 40.3 feet (12.3 m). The Grant tree has a volume of 46,608 cubic feet (1,320 cubic meters).
  • Robert E. Lee: This seemingly ignored tree is the second largest tree in the grove and twelfth largest giant sequoia in the world. This may be because the Grant is very close by and simply dwarfs the Lee.
  • California: A Large tree close to the trail. It was once taller, but a 1967 fire reduced the tree by about 25 feet (7.6 m).
  • Oregon: Another large tree.
  • Lincoln: The Lincoln tree has a large base, but the trunk tapers too much to make it one of the world's largest. Giant Forest is home to another, more famous tree also named Lincoln, which is the fourth largest tree in the world.
  • Fallen Monarch: A large fallen tree that can be walked through as part of the trail.

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    “Let us have a good many maples and hickories and scarlet oaks, then, I say. Blaze away! Shall that dirty roll of bunting in the gun-house be all the colors a village can display? A village is not complete, unless it have these trees to mark the season in it. They are important, like the town clock. A village that has them not will not be found to work well. It has a screw loose, an essential part is wanting.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)