Sequoia National Park is a U.S. national park in the southern Sierra Nevada of California, established in 1890 to protect groves of giant sequoia trees, including General Sherman, the largest tree on Earth by volume.
Established as the second national park in the United States, Sequoia spans more than 400,000 acres and is administered jointly with the adjacent Kings Canyon National Park. Its terrain rises from oak foothills to Mount Whitney, the highest summit in the contiguous United States at 14,505 feet, which sits on the park's eastern boundary.
The park's centerpiece is the Giant Forest, home to General Sherman and four of the five largest known giant sequoias. Beyond its big-tree groves, it preserves deep canyons, granite high country, marble caverns such as Crystal Cave, and extensive backcountry wilderness within the broader Sequoia–Kings Canyon complex.