California is home to the largest trees on Earth, the giant sequoia.

Standing under these massive organisms, you can’t help but be filled with wonder at how something can be so old and so enormous, yet so graceful.

They’re not the tallest trees in the world (that distinction goes to the coast redwoods in Northern California and Southwestern Oregon) or the widest (that would be the Montezuma cypress in Mexico), but by volume, they are the biggest. And they can be visited at Sequoia National Park in the Sierra Nevada mountain range, roughly five hours north of Southern California in the Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Parks.

A winding mountain road snakes into the forest, leading to a place of perfect conditions for giant sequoias to thrive. These trees grow on the western slopes of the

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