Calaveras Big Trees State Park
Calaveras is about 3 hours drive from Berkeley.
It has ones of the biggest trees in the world!! Those trees are called the Sequoia trees.
The Sequoia trees are the biggest and the Redwood trees are the tallest trees in the world!
Calaveras was discovered by a hunter named Augustus T. Dowd in 1852
while he was hunting.
In this picture, I was standing on the stump. In 1853, five men spent 22 days to drill holes on the tree because they were trying to cut this tree. Later, they made this stump into a dance floor. And they used the fallen tree trunk for a two-lane bowling alley.
This is a part of the fallen trunk.
Sina found a very big pine cone. It was tall like the redwood tree.
These barks look different but they do the same job.
There were some fallen trees nearby.
Look at our size and the Sequoia size!
This tree fell in 1965.It was so big that when it fell, people thought there was an earthquake. They believed that this tree weighed about 2,600 tons.
This is a female cone. Sometimes you can find seeds in them.
Some big trees have more then 40,000 cones at the same time.
Some big trees have more then 40,000 cones at the same time.
This tree bark is spiral. The spiral bark helps the tree to be flexible when there are strong winds.
Sina and I were entering the base of this tree. It used to be two trees actually.
But they connected and they are now called the Siamese Twins.
But they connected and they are now called the Siamese Twins.
Can you see two trees?
I went into this log with Sina and Uncle Semih. While we were posing for this picture, I put my finger over a hole (see the next picture). I didn't know that inside the hole was a baby bird. The baby bird thought my finger was a worm and it pecked my finger 5 times!!
The hole where the baby bird was hiding.
My finger!!!!
These two trees are called Mother and Son.
Look at the layers of the bark.
This is an old tree. It now has a tunnel inside. It is very long!!
Sina and I ran inside the tree tunnel.
They called this tree the Abraham Lincoln Tree
because they name big beautiful trees with important people's names.
because they name big beautiful trees with important people's names.
This is called the Pioneer Cabin Tree. A car can fit through it!!
If you come to California, I recommend this place for you because it is a very fun place. You can also camp there. It is not very far and definitely not crowded.
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Information on this page comes from a Guide to the Calaveras North Grove Trail by Calaveras Big Trees State Park.
