The Summit Road Tree is a
giant sequoia located in the
Mountain Home Grove, one of several
sequoia grove
This is a list of giant sequoia groves. All naturally occurring giant sequoia groves are located in the moist, unglaciated ridges and valleys of the western slope of the Sierra Nevada range in California, United States. They can be found at ele ...
s found in the southern
Sierra Nevada
The Sierra Nevada () is a mountain range in the Western United States, between the Central Valley of California and the Great Basin. The vast majority of the range lies in the state of California, although the Carson Range spur lies primarily ...
of
California. It is the
16th largest giant sequoia in the world, and could be considered the 15th largest depending on how badly
Ishi Giant atrophied during the
Rough Fire
The Rough Fire was a wildfire of the 2015 California season. It burned of land, a season record, and was extinguished by 3,742 firefighters.
Progression
The fire, caused by a lightning strike on July 31, approximately North of Hume Lake, bu ...
in 2015.
History
The Summit Road Tree, also known as the Summit Tree, was named and measured in 1988 by "big tree hunter" Wendell Flint, with the help of friends Mike Law and Jerry Latham. Flint later determined that it was by volume the 16th largest tree in the world. However, the number two tree, the
Washington Tree, lost its ranking in 2003 due to damage from a lightning strike, and the Summit Road Tree is now considered the 16th largest.
Dimensions
The dimensions of the Summit Road Tree as measured by Flint, Law and Latham are shown below. The calculated volume ignores burns.
See also
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List of largest giant sequoias
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List of individual trees
The following is a list of notable trees. Trees listed here are regarded as important or specific by their historical, national, locational, natural or mythological context. The list includes actual trees located throughout the world, as well as ...
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Mountain Home Grove
References
Further reading
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Individual giant sequoia trees
Natural history of Tulare County, California
Sequoia National Forest
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