| Trail of 100 Giants Long Meadow Grove |
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| Dad posing next to a big one |
| Fallen leaves |
| Kristine and Joe by the Quintet |
| The Trail of 100 Giants is a 1.3 mile fully accessible interpretive trail through majestic towering sequoias in the Long Meadow Grove. It is fairly easy to get to by car on the Western Divide Highway about 1/2 hour from Camp Nelson or California Hot Springs in the Giant Sequoia National Monument. Hiking along the trail through the grove, you'll find many old sequoias growing amongst incense cedar, sugar and ponderosa pine, and red and white fir. It is estimated that these trees are from 1,500 to 2,000 years old. |
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| Sometimes it's hard to tell the difference between incense cedars and young sequoias... Which is this? |
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| Many of the sequoias have burn scars. Most giant sequoias can survive low to moderate intensity wildfires and the heat from a fire actually helps their cones dry out and releases their seeds |
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| This is the Fallen Giant, a huge giant sequoia that fell over at least 100 years ago |
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| This fallen giant sequoia isn't quite as big as the Fallen Giant but still has an impressively large rootball that got uprooted. Look at the large white fir tree growing out of there now! |
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| These twin sequoias have an area between them that was burned out and you can squeeze into this "room" and it can probably fit 10 people in there |
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| Unlike many sequoia groves that are in the National Parks, the trees in the Long Meadow Grove are not fenced off so people can walk up to them and touch them |
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