Tuolumne Grove Yosemite National Park

September 11, 2025

This is your promised bonus for surviving the Pothole Dome loop.

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Bull Thistles

Elderberry

The Big Oak Flat Road is the original western entrance to the park

A telling reflection of our government's interest in the park system

A 'little' Giant Sequoia

This one is a bit bigger

I personally thanked this group of Volunteers in Parks

Sugar Pine

Seqouia

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No horses will fit in this log

Pacific Dogwood  –aka– Western Flowering Dogwood

It was more cramped in here that it might appear

The VIPs have finished their lunch

Approaching the final attraction

I believe that this is the last standing tunnel tree

What remains of the top of the tree

There is no picture of me, because I foolishly didn't pack a spare camera battery

I drove through here in the early '60s, when this still was a six-mile, one-way option down to the western park entrance (see Addendum).

• Trailhead: One mile north of the Crane Flat junction on SR-120
• Distance: 2½ miles
• Elevation: 6200' to 5700'

ADDENDUM

Here is a perfect example of why internet AI cannot be trusted; I found this unintelligent info after our trek:

Perhaps we all were just dreaming when we thought that we walked through the tree that actually fell 88 years ago.