The Hazelwood tree is a giant sequoia in Giant Forest

Giant Forest

The Giant Forest, famed for its giant sequoia trees, is within Sequoia National Park. This montane forest, situated at over above mean sea level in the western Sierra Nevada of California, covers an area of...

, a sequoia grove where the largest tree

Tree

A tree is a perennial woody plant. It is most often defined as a woody plant that has many secondary branches supported clear of the ground on a single main stem or trunk with clear apical dominance. A minimum height specification at maturity is cited by some authors, varying from 3 m to...

 in the world lives - the General Sherman. It is located on a hillside just west of the Hazelwood Nature Trail. The tree had a volume of 36228 cubic feet (1,025.9 m³) and was the 17th largest giant sequoia, before losing half its trunk in a lighting storm in 2002. The tree was measured in 1989.