There are hundreds of miles of trails in Sequoia National ... is a big hit with visitors, who call it a beautiful, relatively easy walk. A shorter hike in Giant Forest, the Big Trees Trail ...

Courtesy of National Park Service Another factor that can end the lives of big trees, of course, is logging. Many giant sequoias fell to the ax during the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

Reaching heights of over 300ft (the same height as Big Ben), sequoias are the largest ... to Yosemite National Park, Kings ...