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    • keehotee
  • Updated By keehotee on January 8, 2003
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    • Giant Sequoia - Yosemite National Park
    Giant Sequoia
    by keehotee
    A short drive from the south entrance, leads to a grove of sequoia trees, the largest trees in the world.

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    Mariposa Grove: The Sequoia trees are HUGE! Look at how they dwarf...
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    • mgard27
  • Updated By mgard27 on August 24, 2002
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    • Mariposa Grove - Yosemite National Park
    by mgard27
    The Sequoia trees are HUGE! Look at how they dwarf people.

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  • Directions: Mariposa Grove, at the south entrance of Yosemite National Park.
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    joanj
  • Updated By joanj on September 29, 2004
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    • Up in Mariposa Grove - Yosemite National Park
    Up in Mariposa Grove
    by joanj
    When visiting Yosemite, do take the tram up to the Mariposa Grove of Giant Sequoias, and Redwoods.. Imposing huge trees, wonderful for photo's.

    Unfortunately if you go later than mid October, it is closed for 6 months, due to weather conditions. Opening again in May.

    This split tree was so huge I was unable to get the top of it in the picture.

    Photo by joanj

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    Mariposa Grove: Unbelievably gigantic
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  • By auschic1 on April 22, 2005
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    • The roots of a fallen redwood - Yosemite National Park
    The roots of a fallen redwood
    by auschic1
    A have already mentioned Mariposa Grove but it is a definite must do if your in Yosemite. There's free shuttle buses that run down too which is a bonus.
    It's just a magical feeling seeing living things have have been around for so many years.

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    Mariposa Grove: Mariposa Grove: Imagine these in your garden...
    Orbital_
  • By Orbital_ on September 20, 2004
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    • The Grizzly Giant - some 2700 years old and huge! - Yosemite National Park
    The Grizzly Giant - some
    2700 years old and huge!
    by Orbital_
    At the southern end of the park near Wawona lies the Mariposa Grove of Giant Sequoas. This is another excursion out from Yosemite Valley that is well worth the trip indeed. A shuttle bus operates during the summer months looping out from Wawona. You’re strongly advised to use this by all guides, as parking at the grove is very limited and generally discouraged. Once at the Grove many trails criss-cross the site and are really the best way to appreciate the massive trees in all their glory. There’s always the towed trailer for the infirm and chubsters, but do yourself a favour and hit the trails.

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  • Directions: 27 miles south of Yosemite Valley along the twisty Wawona Road
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    Mariposa Grove: Mariposa Grove
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  • Updated By PinkFloydActuary on October 21, 2006
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    • Mariposa Grove - Yosemite National Park
    Mariposa Grove
    by PinkFloydActuary
    At the very south end of the park (just a two mile spur road from the South Entrance), you can enter into Mariposa Grove. This is a grove of Giant Sequoia trees. Some of the trees in the grove are over 2,500 years old. The spur road can close due to heavy traffic, so if this happens, you can catch a shuttle at Wawona. Once here, there are several trails you can take to view a number of the giant trees, or you can hop on a tram and be given a hour-long guided tour. There are also ranger led tours throughout the day. Through many parts of this section of the country, there are some huge trees (including Redwood National Park) - and you may get your fill pretty quickly. Worth it to see some of the giant trees in the parking lot itself, and a fallen tree just beyond that. The fallen tree and it's root system will clue you in to just how fragile these monsters truly are.

    Please see my travelogues for more pictures from Mariposa Grove.

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    Mariposa Grove: Mariposa Grove
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  • Updated By raulaf on May 7, 2005
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    • Tree Tunnel - Yosemite National Park
    Tree Tunnel
    by raulaf
    Gaze at giant sequoia trees. You can hike or take a tram thru the grove.

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  • Directions: Near the park's south entrance.
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    Mariposa Grove: Grizzly Giant
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  • Updated By mht_in_la on October 31, 2003
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    • Grizzly Giant - Yosemite National Park
    Grizzly Giant
    by mht_in_la
    Grizzly Giant is estimated at 2,700 years of age. Among the huge sequoias of Mariposa Grove, it stands out like a giant. The most distict feature of Grizzly Giant is its huge limbs. Some of its limbs are more than 7 feet in diameter. Just its limbs are thicker than most sequoias in the Grove.

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    Mariposa Grove: Mariposa Grove
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  • By paradisedreamer on May 30, 2003
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    • Mariposa Grove - Yosemite National Park
    by paradisedreamer
    Here you can see the giant Sequoia trees in all their glory without having to go as far north as the Red Wood forest. Stand at the base of a tree and just look up, up, up………

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    Mariposa Grove: See the giant Sequoias in...
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  • Updated By mgard27 on August 24, 2002
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    • Mariposa Grove - Yosemite National Park
    by mgard27
    See the giant Sequoias in Mariposa Grove (near the south entrance of Yosemite National Park).

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