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Jan 10, An iconic living tree with a tunnel so big that visitors could once drive through it toppled on Sunday during a winter storm. The sequoia, nicknamed the. Jan 09, The great tree with its foot diameter was already a popular photo stop even before the tunnel was carved into it, as 19th-century images show: Transcendental Graphics via Getty Images According to the American Park Network’s shrubhauling.bar website, the tree was hollowed out in the s to compete with a similar tree in Yosemite National Park, which had become a popular tourist Estimated Reading Time: 2 mins.

Jan 13, Made famous for the car tunnel carved into its trunk more than years ago, California's giant sequoia tree, known affectionately as the Pioneer Cabin Tree, has fallen. The tree, which was estimated to be more than 1, years old, toppled over last weekend, after a vicious winter storm rolled through the Calaveras Big Trees State Park in Arnold, shrubhauling.barted Reading Time: 4 mins.

One of the most iconic and enduring trademarks of American roadside kitsch is the drive-through tree- only possible with the massive girth of California Redwoods. Of two well-known tree tunnels in Central California, the one in Tuolumne Grove is through a dead tree, and the Wawona Tree in Yosemite.

All other giant redwood tunnel trees are now dead. Dead Giant, located in Tuolomne Grove in Yosemite National Park, was tunneled in after it had died, and Tunnel Log, located in Giant Forest in Sequoia National Park, was tunneled after it fell on Decemmber 4,