Yosemite, 1959

The Wawona Tree stood in Mariposa Grove, Yosemite National Park. It had a height of 227 feet and was 90 ft in circumference. A tunnel was cut through the tree in 1881. The Wawona Tree fell in 1969 under an estimated two- ton load of snow on its crown. The giant sequoia is estimated to have been 2,300 years old.

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