I visited Sequoia National Park a few times as kid for camping. Amazing adventure to be had.
But I’m hearing vast swathes of forest surrounding the big trees have been devastated by bugs and fire. Seems the Sequoias are virtually impervious to both, which would explain their ancient age and size.
If you go, please let me know what you see there.
We were in Sequoia last weekend. All the big trees are doing fine. They’ve been doing some prescribed burns over the last few years, and also removing some dead timber. It seems the US Park Svc has finally figured out that prescribed burns are preferable to allowing the dead trees to accumulate and provide fuel for potential big fires.