Calaveras Big Trees State Park

About Calaveras Big Trees State Park

Also part of the grove is the Discovery Tree, the first redwood in the Sierra, which was mentioned in 1852 by Augustus T. Dowd as the "Discovery Tree" (the first redwood in the Sierra) and also as the oldest redwood in California. In 1953, the area was declared a national park to preserve the North Grove with the huge Sequoias. Since then, the area has become a major tourist attraction and is considered one of the longest continuously operated tourist facilities in California, with more than 1,000 acres of land.

Over the years, other plots of mixed and coniferous forest have been added to the park, and activities include hiking, cycling, camping, interpreting and other activities. The park also houses several established paths and trails as well as a number of hiking trails and bike paths.

Dogs are welcome in developed areas, but not on designated trails or in the forest. Dogs are not welcome on any of the park's other routes, except in areas developed by the California Department of Fish and Wildlife and the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department.

A group of professionals removed the bark from the mother forest and displayed the reassembled trees in front of the Los Angeles County Museum of Natural History and California State Parks.

Scientists believed the redwood in North Grove was the only one on Earth at the time, and the site simply fascinated them. That made them celebrities and thousands of people who often stayed at the Mammoth Grove Hotel, which was built around the large tree. Fortunately for the trees, most of the really curious ones were already redwoods from the Sierra, so they were visited and visited. The large trees of Calaveras were lost to California State Parks, the Los Angeles County Museum of Natural History and California State Parks.

Some of the big trees were really big, like the one in North Grove, with a diameter of about 1,000 feet, and some of them were really bigger than that.

When the dinosaurs roamed the earth, these trees were still living in their natural habitat, and some of the larger trees survived.

That's how the great naturalist John Muir described the redwoods, pines and cedars that now stand in California's Big Trees State Park in the San Joaquin Valley. There are some great places to rest and unwind, but the park needs to behave because there are too many of them.

Most visitors come to see the big trees, especially the Nordhain, but the more remote Südhain - which offers a chance to be alone among the giants - is much, much less visited. This gentle 1.5-mile trail leads to a small forest of sequoias, pines and cedars in the middle of California's Big Trees State Park.

The grove is protected by the state park system, which provides the highest category of environmental protection. A saddled horse stands on a fallen sequoia tree in Calaveras Big Trees State Park. Human response to nature and the experience is universal, and more information about the park and its natural resources is available on the California State Park website and on its Facebook page.

It is the immense size of a plant that initially evokes emotions and is normally strongly imprinted in our memory. When we explore the secrets of these giants "complex life histories, the stories revealed are impressive - inspiring.

It is impossible to know for sure how the first person to see a redwood in the Sierra reacted, but if we imagine the geological processes that shaped the Earth before we observed the process that is underway today, we can imagine our first human encounter with a large tree by observing our own reaction.

It is common to see groups of park visitors chatting as they stroll through the redwood groves, but in between it seems to be quiet.

When a group of walkers realized that the tree they were approaching was indeed a tree, they stopped walking and shouted sharp words. Had the person who saw the sequoia been one of the first visitors to Big Trees State Park, the reaction would undoubtedly have been similar. The first sight of a Sequaia might be a huge trunk, but if you look at the trunk of the Sierra Sequeia, you might mistake it for several trees growing close together.

In the first moments of this first encounter, my thoughts were more spiritual, emotional, philosophical and religious. Language was soon restored, but thoughts turned more to the natural beauty of the Sierra Sequeia, its beauty as a symbol of life and the beauty of life.