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Sequoia National Park
- Location & Contact Information
- Address: 47050 Generals Highway Three Rivers CA 93271-9651
- Telephone Number: +1-559-565-3341
- Official Website: [1]
- Overview
Sequoia National Park is a national park in the southern Sierra Nevada , east of 404051|acrekm2. Encompassing a vertical relief of nearly 13000 ft|sigfig=4, the park contains among its natural resources the highest point in the contiguous 48 United States, Mount Whitney, at 14505 ft above sea level. The park is south of and contiguous with Kings Canyon National Park; the two are administered by the National Park Service as one unit, called Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Parks.The park is most famous for its Giant Sequoia trees, including the General Sherman tree, the largest tree on Earth. The General Sherman tree grows in the Giant Forest, which contains five out of the ten largest trees in the world, in terms of wood volume. The Giant Forest is connected by the parks Generals Highway to Kings Canyon National Parks Grant Grove, home to the General Grant tree among other sequoias. The parks Giant Sequoia forests are part of 202430 acreha of old-growth forest s shared by Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Parks.ref name = 1993OldGrowthEstimates>Template:Citation Indeed, the parks preserve a landscape that still resembles the southern Sierra Nevada before Euro-American settlement.ref name = snepLateSuccessional>Template:Citation[1]
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