Sequoia National Park is named after on the largest tree species on the planet and it is home to the United States highest peaks. Neighboring Kings Canyon lays just to the north, Plunging 2000 feet deeper into the Earth than Arizona's Grand Canyon.
Yet, despite their differences the two parks have much in common. Their valleys have been shaped by the same snow-fed cascades of the Central Sierra Nevada. While from their soils rise giant sequoias some of which first put down roots 3,000 years ago, long before the rise of the Roman Empire.
