Instead, constuction of the two 4,200 foot-long tunnels was approved as a solution to the landslides that have intermittently closed the scenic stretch of Highway 1 since its construction in 1937.

The Pioneer Cabin tree, at the Calaveras Big Trees State Park, about 90 miles east of Sacramento, was one of several tunnel trees in California ... only to hikers on a 1.5-mile loop through ...

A powerful winter storm in California has brought down an ancient tree, carved into a living tunnel more than a century ago. The "Pioneer Cabin Tree," a sequoia in Calaveras Big Trees State Park ...

The most famous and widely known tree in California ... water falls. The tunnel was cut in 1881. The carpenters selected a large sequoia tree. Its diameter was almost 6.1 metres at 3 m above ...

An ancient tree, which had a living tunnel carved into it 137 years ago, was felled by an intense winter storm in California‘s Calaveras Big Trees State Park on Sunday, according to SFGate.com.

When the dusty, ferny mountain forest became Calaveras Big Trees State Park, in 1931, the tunnel tree emerged as a centerpiece, the California ... along the two-lane Highway 4, which follows ...

Vistors used to drive through the giant sequoia tree named the Pioneer Cabin, one of the oldest residents of Northern California. By Arlene Washington A popular sequoia “tunnel tree” — an ...