Travel | 旅游 California. Sequoia & Kings Canyon. 2016 May. Sequoia & Kings Canyon National Parks From San Luis Obispo, we headed straight to Sequoia National Parks via Visalia and Three Rivers. The drive was several hours, but you will get to see varying terrain and farmland which are quite scenic along the way. Giant Forest Museum General Sherman Tree, the world’s largest living tree. General Sherman Tree is the most giant Sequoia in the world. Largest by volume, at 275 ft tall and 36.5 ft across at the base, believed to be 2,200 years old and weigh 1,385 tons. These are figures our brain familiar with normal trees cannot process. Only way to appreciate the unfathomable, unearthly size of the giant sequoias is the see one yourself. Continue Reading