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A First-time Guide To Sequoia National Park By Anita Isalska • August 8, 2025

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There’s no mistaking the main attraction of Sequoia National Park – giant Sierra redwood trees as tall as they are ancient. But even beyond the famous, towering sequoias, this park in California’s Sierra Nevada has mind-boggling dimensions.

The peaks of the Great Western Divide soar higher than 12,000ft, creating a skyscraping backdrop to the park’s 631 sq miles of woodlands, meadows and granite domes. It’s a grand setting for every level of adventure – easy strolls through sequoia groves, white-water rafting and going off-grid in remote glacier-carved valleys.

Despite its proximity to A-list national park Yosemite ,

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