Famous California Trees
The Eternal Tree House is a tourist attraction located on the Northern California redwood coast in Redcrest. The one-time giant of nature was felled in the early 1900’s by loggers and became fence rails, shakes, and railway ties. The remaining stump contained a huge cavern caused by fire centuries ago and had been used first by Indians and later trappers, hunters, travelers and their livestock for shelter. Eternal Tree House living tree with a 20′ room inside is estimated to be more than 2,500 years old!
If you love trees, California’s your place to see them. There’s no place on Earth quite like our state when it comes to trees, in fact. Like some magic fairy dust, there are climates that help trees to grow bigger, taller and last longer than anywhere on the planet. Here are some unique California trees you must add to your bucket list to see in 2014:
- Biggest tree in the world – General Sherman Tree in Sequoia-Kings Canyon National Park
- Tallest tree in the world, Hyperion, in Humboldt Redwood State & National Park
- Chandelier Drive Through Tree
- Eternal Tree House in Red Bud – free to see
- Lone Cypress in Pebble Beach – 17 Mile Drive (also home to the Ghost Tree)
- Oldest tree, Great Basin Bristlecone Pine in White Mountains – over 5,000 years old
- Biggest wisteria in the world – the size of a tree in Sierra Madre goes on view once each year
- Nation’s Christmas Tree, General Grant
- The Discovery Stump in Calaveras Big Trees State Park
- Hangmen’s Tree in Placerville
- Joshua Tree is rare tree you gotta see in Joshua Tree National Park
- Christmas Tree Lane (through New Year’s Day) in Altadena
