If you have dreamed of seeing big trees you are going to love the Mariposa Grove of Giant Sequoias in Yosemite National Park. This area recently went through a $40 million dollar restoration project.

Yosemite Falls is nothing short of impressive ... Mariposa Grove of Giant Sequoias The Mariposa Grove of Giant Sequoias, ...

President Lincoln signed a congressional act establishing a grant to reserve two areas of what today is Yosemite, the valley and a southerly grove of sequoias. After his expedition Olmsted wrote a ...

On June 30, 1864, President Abraham Lincoln signed an act of Congress ceding the Yosemite Valley and the Mariposa Grove of Giant Sequoias to the state of California. As a member of the board of ...