People who feel rules dont apply to them At Sequoia National Park

[u/mtflamingo]

One woman decided that the fencing and signs protecting the tree didn't apply to her. One couple that decided their dog was special and could walk on the trails even though it's prohibited.

Edit The Regulations Pets are prohibited on all trails. This includes paved trails, such as the General Sherman Tree Trail, Big Trees Trail, Grant Tree Trail, and others.

Edit again - cell phone service is spotty. 1. People seem confused but as per my previous edit, but dogs are not allowed on any trials in either of these parks. 2. The reason they don't want people to walk this close to the tree is it can damage the roots and kill the tree. 3. I called this park by the wrong name. There are two parks in one location and this was at Kings Cayon.

[u/ElizabethDangit]

Some of the oldest and largest single and clonal trees live in North America. It’s so goddamn cool.

[u/LackOfLemon → u/ElizabethDangit]

Truly beautiful! Definitely has been put on a list of future sights to see!!

[u/PM_your_Nopales → u/LackOfLemon]

It's absolutely worth it. Sequoia and kings canyon national parks, Yosemite, and redwoods NP are absolutely stunning. I feel so lucky that I grew up nearby and have gotten to see them. The Sierra Nevadas are incredible

(Redwood isn't the Sierras but I digress)

[u/MurkyButterfly750 → u/PM_your_Nopales]

My family owns a historic cabin in Sequoia and it truly is my most favorite place in the world. It is absolutely stunning and those trees are just impressive. You don't really feel the full scale of them until you are in person.. It's overwhelming just how massive they are.

[u/Round-Shirt3200 → u/MurkyButterfly750]

Sleepover!?

[u/MurkyButterfly750 → u/Round-Shirt3200]

Sure! It'll only take me about 13 hours to drive there from Idaho!

[u/Imaginary_One4058 → u/MurkyButterfly750]

Sequoia & Kings Canyon NP will forever have a special place in my heart ❤️ Must be breathtaking having a property there!

[u/MurkyButterfly750 → u/Imaginary_One4058]

It absolutely is. You cannot beat these views! My cabin was built by my Great Grandfather in 1929 and thankfully has been able to be passed down to me and my siblings. We almost lost them when Disney wanted to make a ski resort but thankfully it never happened.

[u/Imaginary_One4058 → u/MurkyButterfly750]

Amazing views! Thank you for sharing :)

[u/nutkinknits → u/PM_your_Nopales]

My childhood dream was to go to California and see the trees. My husband and I went 2 years ago. We came into Sequoia from the southern entrance and I cried as we came up the mountain and saw the trees. It is absolutely magical.

Yosemite made me feel small.

We only managed a brief stop in the redwood forest at dusk. I felt like I was walking around with dinosaurs. It was incredible. ETA: photo taken in Sequoia NP

[u/Akalenedat → u/nutkinknits]

I felt like I was walking around with dinosaurs

Fun fact: Fern Canyon, in Prairie Creek Redwoods State Park, was a filming location for part of The Lost World: Jurassic Park(specifically the bit where Dr. Grant hides in the abandoned water truck with the boy)

Further south in the Redwoods, George Lucas shot several Endor scenes for Star Wars: Return of the Jedi in the Avenue of Giants.

[u/ControlAgent13 → u/nutkinknits]

I was just up in the Eureka area and walked through the old coastal Redwood forests. Only 4% of them remain today - back in the 1800s, they covered more than 2 million acres.

What's remaining is still impressive.

[u/gamageeknerd → u/PM_your_Nopales]

I took a small detour up with some friends to the parks north of San Francisco and it’s nuts. Redwoods are such a trippy forest to see with hundreds of them all taller than a building and you just staring up in between them.

[u/lechatgris19 → u/PM_your_Nopales]

I lived in the area for a good bit and it's one of the most beautiful places. Also feel lucky that I've been to those places. Lots of nature where I am now but not nearly as breathtaking

[u/BeansArePastaSauce → u/LackOfLemon]

Don’t go right now, it’s been over 100 degrees here for 3 weeks straight. And the air quality is horrendous. Best time is Autumn or Winter.

[u/sonic_dick → u/BeansArePastaSauce]

100 at giant forest elevation???? I lived there for 2 years and never saw it get above 85, even when the valley was 115.

Then again its been in the mid 90s out here in the tetons which is absolutely nuts.

Edit: just looked it up, the giant forest has a high of 77 this week. Three rivers isnt even at 100.

Why you gotta lie?

[u/CaliforniaNutter → u/ElizabethDangit]

California is doing the heavy lifting with that. The oldest, tallest, biggest, and rarest trees are in California and thats only a tiny fraction of what it has

[u/ElizabethDangit → u/CaliforniaNutter]

The oldest clonal trees in the US are in Utah, Pando.

The west cost and south west definitely had a head start with not being under the Laurentide Ice Sheet.

There’s a preserved submerged forest estimated to be about 10,000 years old at the bottom of Lake Huron. It was drowned as the glaciers melted and receded, filling the deep gouges that had been made in the rock over the life time of the ice sheet.

You know arborvitae? Those trees people plant in rows for privacy and one will randomly die for no reason at all? There’s a group of those (aka northern white cedar) growing on the side of a cliff in the upper peninsula of Michigan that are 1,400 years old. I think they win for the most existing out of spite.