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Sequoia National Park
Sequoia Trees
Sequoia National Park
is home to the giant sequoia tree. The largest of the sequoias are as tall
as an average 26-story building,
and their diameters at the base exceed the width of many city streets. As
they continue to grow, they produce
about 40 cubic feet of wood each year, approximately equal to the volume of a
50-foot-tall tree one foot in diameter.
Sequoia Cones
Alpine Meadow
Yosemite
Half Dome
Yosemite National Park contains many domes, such as Half Dome (8,842 feet) in the Yosemite Valley, a glacier carved canyon.
Alpine Meadow
Bridalveil Fall
Height: 620 feet.
Hearst Castle
The Neptune Pool
Hearst
Castle was built by William
Randolph Hearst (1863-1951). Construction for the marble-lined "Neptune
Pool" spanned 1924-1936.
Three swimming pools were built on this site, each successively larger; the
present version holds 345,000 gallons of water.