Tioga Road/Big Oak Flat Road
Mariposa Grove, CA

The mighty sequoia is the largest living thing on earth, and has survived more than 2,000 years despite forest fires and human pressure. Yosemite is one of the few locations where the sequoias can be found, growing in any of three sequoia groves.

Mariposa Grove is the largest of the groves. The grove is home to 'Grizzly Giant', thought to be the oldest of all the sequoias, at 2,700 years old. The greatest of the trees have trunk diameters of over 30 feet! Though the more slender redwood along California's coast surpass the sequoia in height, the much more robust sequoia is no shorty, with the highest measuring in at over 300 feet. If a resource had to be chosen for being the most photographed by the park's visitors, it would probably be the giant sequoia.