earning it the nickname “Dead Giant Tunnel Tree,” but other entrances into Yosemite National Park started cutting into live trees. The living tunnel tree in the Mariposa Grove is still ...

Restoration ecologist Sue Beatty in front of the California Tunnel Tree, a giant sequoia in Mariposa Grove in Yosemite National Park, Friday, June 20, 2014. In the height of the Civil War on June ...

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 ...

It’s an additional 1.5 mile-round trip hike to the grove’s most famous features, the Grizzly Giant and California Tunnel Tree. The Mariposa Grove Welcome Plaza, which is near Yosemite’s ...

YOSEMITE NATIONAL PARK – Towering above the other trees in the Mariposa Grove ... There's a reason the Tunnel View Overlook, with its first, breathtaking view of the valley and its soaring ...

The most famous was the Wawona Tree, in Yosemite National Park; it fell during a winter storm in 1969 at an estimated age of 2,100 years. The other remaining sequoia tunnels are dead or consist of ...

One of the hotel’s competitors even carved a tunnel through a tree in Yosemite National Park, an innovation that proved a hit. So the landowner decided to cut a hole through his own tree ...

The blaze in Yosemite National Park was measured at ... The grove's other stars, the California Tunnel Tree, the Bachelor and Three Graces, and Fallen Monarch, were so far unscathed.

(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.