National Parks
Forests in North America's National Parks
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Dixie National Forest This expansive natural area divided into four non-contiguous swaths covers a total of two million acres. |
Bryce Canyon National Park | |
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Ancient Bristlecone Pine Forest Here you can see some of the oldest living trees on earth, some of which date back more than 40 centuries.[] |
Death Valley National Park | |
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Bridger-Teton National Forest This 3.4-million-acre forest has something for everyone: history, hiking, camping, and wildlife. It encompasses |
Grand Teton National Park | |
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Caribou-Targhee National Forest The Targhee division of this forest includes the region primarily on the west side of the Teton Range, |
Grand Teton National Park | |
Grove of the Patriarchs  Protected from the periodic fires that swept through the surrounding areas, this small island of 1,000-year-old |
Mount Rainier National Park | |
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Hoh River Rain Forest South of Forks, an 18-mi spur road links Highway 101 with this unique temperate rain forest, where spruce |
Olympic National Park | |
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Auto Log Before its wood showed signs of severe rot, cars drove right on top of this giant fallen sequoia. Now |
Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Parks | |
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Fallen Monarch This Sequoia's hollow base was used in the second half of the 19th century as a home for settlers, a saloon, |
Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Parks | |
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General Grant Tree President Coolidge proclaimed this to be "the nation's Christmas tree," and 30 years later President Eisenhowe |
Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Parks | |
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General Sherman Tree Neither the world's tallest nor oldest sequoia, General Sherman is nevertheless tops in volume—and |
Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Parks | |
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Redwood Mountain Grove If you are serious about sequoias, you should consider visiting this, the world's largest big-tree grove. |
Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Parks | |
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Sequoia National Forest and Giant Sequoia National Monument Covering 1,139,500 acres, the monument is tucked north of Sequoia National Park between the two sections |
Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Parks | |
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Mariposa Grove of Big Trees Of Yosemite's three sequoia groves—the others being Merced and Tuolumne, both near Crane Flat well |
Yosemite National Park |
