Day 290 of a Year Long Road Trip Along America’s Scenic Byways
Over the past year, I heard that Kings Canyon and Sequoia National Parks are as pretty as Yosemite, but without the crowds. Before returning to Texas, I thought I would see about that and drove 50 miles east from Fresno to the Northwest entrance of Kings Canyon National Park.
My first stop was to see the General Grant Tree, a giant sequoia. In fact, it is the widest known sequoia, forty feet across, and the third largest tree in the world in terms of volume. It stands 268 feet high, weighs 1,254 tons, and its circumference is 107 feet around. Its largest branch is 4.5 feet in diameter and its first branch is 129 feet from the ground. A few interesting facts about the tree:
ON THE ROAD AGAIN!