<Tr> <Th> Website </Th> <Td> Official website </Td> </Tr> <P> Sequoia National Park is an American national park in the southern Sierra Nevada east of Visalia, California . The park was established on September 25, 1890 to protect 404,064 acres (631 sq mi; 163,519 ha; 1,635 km) of forested mountainous terrain . Encompassing a vertical relief of nearly 13,000 feet (4,000 m), the park contains the highest point in the contiguous United States, Mount Whitney, at 14,505 feet (4,421 m) above sea level . The park is south of, and contiguous with, Kings Canyon National Park; the two parks are administered by the National Park Service together as the Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Parks . UNESCO designated the areas as Sequoia - Kings Canyon Biosphere Reserve in 1976 . </P> <P> The park is notable for its giant sequoia trees, including the General Sherman tree, the largest tree on Earth . The General Sherman tree grows in the Giant Forest, which contains five of the ten largest trees in the world . The Giant Forest is connected by the Generals Highway to Kings Canyon National Park's General Grant Grove, home of the General Grant tree among other giant sequoias . The park's giant sequoia forests are part of 202,430 acres (316 sq mi; 81,921 ha; 819 km) of old - growth forests shared by Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Parks . The parks preserve a landscape that still resembles the southern Sierra Nevada before Euro - American settlement . </P> <P> Many park visitors enter Sequoia National Park through its southern entrance near the town of Three Rivers at Ash Mountain at 1,700 ft (520 m) elevation . The lower elevations around Ash Mountain contain the only National Park Service - protected California Foothills ecosystem, consisting of blue oak woodlands, foothills chaparral, grasslands, yucca plants, and steep, mild river valleys . The region is also home to abundant wildlife: bobcats, foxes, ground squirrels, rattlesnakes, and mule deer are commonly seen in this area, and more rarely, reclusive mountain lions and the Pacific fisher are seen as well . The last California grizzly was killed in this park in 1922 (at Horse Corral Meadow). The California Black Oak is a key transition species between the chaparral and higher elevation conifer forest . </P>

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