I think that I shall never see...
 

Awesome trees.

I've seen the General Sherman - now I have to see the rest.

Great link. Go see the Bristlecone pines, they aren't too far away.

I've seen four of them. I don't know, none of them were all that interesting to me.

10. The Lone Cypress is a tree that photographs really well but in person is very underwhelming. It isn't so much that the tree is interesting as the location. I'd find that spot just as interesting if the tree weren't there at all.

9. The Circus Trees just feel very artificial and have the misfortune of being in a very boring theme park. After seeinga few we topped going out of our way for them.

8. and 7. General Sherman and Coastal Redwoods. I like being among them while hiking for the atmosphere they create but looking at an individual tree is interesting for about as long as it takes to look to the top of it. Plus the thing that makes General Sherman interesting is one of minimal distinction. It is a really big tree; who cares that it is 8 feet taller than the one down the road.

So maybe I'm just not a tree person (and I find it suspics that four out 10 of the best trees in the world are in California) but I'd really like to see the Tule Tree. The rest I'd go to just for the opportunity of traveling to them.

Wow, I love trees, so I found it very interesting! That Teapot Boab tree is real strange!

I've seen quite a few of these awsome trees.

I never go anywhere. :(

I've never seen a single one. I've got to get out more.....

I've seen several and would love to see the Baobabs. One of the best names ever for something in nature as far as I'm concerned.

what a neat link. my dad tried for years to get a bristlecone pine seed/sapling etc (however they propogate) so he could try and get it to grow. (in our yard no less...he was crazy that way) he could barely get anyone at the forrest service to talk to him about such an undertaking. he finally contacted someone at a city planners office and was told why (or at least given enough good reason to make him stop). they aparrently dont want people planting things known to live 3000 years within the city limits.

go figure :rolleyes:

great stuff, thank you.

Is it wierd to say that I have never seen any of these trees,
nor have I ever heard of them?

Why do I feel suddenly very uneducated?

Well, think of yourself as not being a tree-hugger then? ;)

Basket tree!

I've not seen the General Sherman. Mark Ryden recently painted the tree and I'm gripped by a desire to head north sometime soon. Road trip!

Is the King's Canyon camping trip still on the calendar because if so then I'm sure a lot of people will soon see General Sherman.

Getting up to the Sequoias isn't that bad of a trip - I'd like to try to do it sometime - whenever I get a breather. It looks like its probably too late to get ressies to a campground on a weekend, though, and I just can't be sure of my time until it comes up. :( Maybe a nice day trip?

As has been mentioned, reservations are generally not a necessity.

Steinbeck's Travels with Charley:

The redwoods, once seen, leave a mark or create a vision that stays with you always. No one has successfully painted or photographed a redwood tree. The feeling they produce is not transferable. From them comes silence and awe.... Respect - that's the word. One feels the need to bow to unquestioned sovereigns....
Of course, many of the ancient groves have been lumbered off...
Fossils of these ancients have been found dating from the Cretaceous era while in the Eocene and Miocene they were spread over England and Europe and America. And then the glaciers moved down and wiped the Titans out beyond recovery. And only these few are left - a stunning memory of what the world was like once long ago. Can it be that we do not love to be reminded that we are very young and callow in a world that was old when we came into it?

I had half expected to see the Santa Barbara Fig Tree. The pictures don't do it justice.

That fig tree is absolutely amazing! The pics don't do it justice.

Yeah, the fig tree's amazing (I don't envy anyone who has to clean the fig mess up). I wonder if pictures do it justice, though.

I've heard pictures don't do it justice.

My in-laws traveled to Yosemite last year. Their gift to us was a sequoia seed picked up at the gift shop. We've still got it in its cute can ("Grow a sequoia in your backyard!") and we're threatening to plant it in our foot-wide strip of dirt in the patio. :D

Go for it! We have a sequoia that was planted in the front of our cabin in 1939, it's about 50 feet tall now.