You would think the beauty and grandeur of Yosemite ... The tunnel tree that used to be the park entrance is located in Tuolumne Grove, which is one of just 75 groves of sequoia trees in California.

Rare or ecologically sensitive trees such as California black oaks ... where carloads of tourists pile out to snap pictures of Bridalveil or Yosemite falls. Still, the public has let park ...

There's also the fun California Tunnel Tree, which is the only living sequoia in Yosemite that features a human-made tunnel carved out the middle of the trunk. Visitors can admire the towering ...

(Read “How Sequoias Survive Wildfires, in Yosemite and Beyond.”) Although these sequoias have fallen, there are still three redwood tunnel trees in California that cars can drive through.

Fans of the tree posted photos of themselves smiling ... Allday said there are only a few “tunnel trees” remaining in California. Yosemite’s Wawona Tree failed in the late 1960s during ...

That's because Yosemite Valley features many of the park's top attractions, including Tunnel View and a handful of Yosemite's most famous waterfalls, including Vernal Fall, Nevada Fall ...

An enormous sequoia tree in California's Calaveras ... tree was cut to form a tunnel in the 1880s. It was hollowed out to compete with a similar tree tunnel in Yosemite National Park.

A giant ancient sequoia with a hollowed-out tunnel that drew thousands of visitors each year in California ... Big Trees Association, said in a Facebook post that included two photos of the ...

An enormous sequoia tree in California's Calaveras ... tree was cut to form a tunnel in the 1880s. It was hollowed out to compete with a similar tree tunnel in Yosemite National Park.