This story appears in the December 2012 issue of National Geographic magazine. On a gentle slope above a trail junction in Sequoia National Park, about 7,000 feet above sea level in the southern ...

Nestled just a few miles north of Arnold, along Highway 4, Calaveras Big Trees State Park invites visitors to witness the ...

The Big Tree was nominated separately by Kirkwall and ... Passed by thousands of people completing the Greenock Cut Trail every year, it stands covered in ferns, mosses and lichens.