Sequoia National Park is a national park in the southern Sierra Nevada east of Visalia, California

Visalia, California

Visalia is a Central California city situated in the heart of California’s agricultural San Joaquin Valley, approximately southeast of San Francisco and north of Los Angeles...

, in the United States

United States

The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

. It was established on September 25, 1890. The park spans 404051 acres (1,635 km²). Encompassing a vertical relief of nearly 13000 feet (3,962.4 m), the park contains among its natural resources the highest point in the contiguous 48 United States, Mount Whitney

Mount Whitney

Mount Whitney is the highest summit in the contiguous United States with an elevation of . It is on the boundary between California's Inyo and Tulare counties, west-northwest of the lowest point in North America at Badwater in Death Valley National Park...

, at 14505 feet (4,421 m) above sea level.