Redwood Mountain Grove is the largest grove of giant sequoia

Sequoiadendron

Sequoiadendron giganteum is the sole living species in the genus Sequoiadendron, and one of three species of coniferous trees known as redwoods, classified in the family Cupressaceae in the subfamily Sequoioideae, together with Sequoia sempervirens and...

 (Sequoiadendron giganteum) on earth. It is located in Kings Canyon National Park

Kings Canyon National Park

Kings Canyon National Park is a National Park in the southern Sierra Nevada, east of Fresno, California. The park was established in 1940 and covers...

 and Giant Sequoia National Monument

Giant Sequoia National Monument

The Giant Sequoia National Monument is a U.S. National Monument located in the southern Sierra Nevada in eastern central California. It is administered by the United States Forest Service as part of the Sequoia National Forest and includes 38 of the 39 Giant Sequoia groves that are located in the...

 on the western slope of California

California

California is a state located on the West Coast of the United States. It is by far the most populous U.S. state, and the third-largest by land area...

's Sierra Nevada. The grove contains the world's tallest giant sequoia (311 ft). The Hart Tree and Roosevelt Tree, two of the 25 largest trees by volume in the world, grow here. The largest tree is the General Sherman Tree

General Sherman (tree)

The General Sherman is a giant sequoia tree located in the Giant Forest of Sequoia National Park in Tulare County, California. By volume, it is the largest known living single stem tree on Earth...

 in the 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...

 grove to the southeast.

Noteworthy trees

Some of the trees found in the grove that are worthy of special note are:

• Roosevelt: the largest tree in the grove with a volume of over 35000 cubic feet (991.1 m³).
• Hart
  Hart (tree)
  The Hart tree is a giant sequoia in California's Sierra Nevada. It was once claimed to be the fourth largest giant sequoia in the world but is now considered the 25th largest. The tree, which is named for Michael Hart who discovered it sometime around 1880, is in the Redwood Mountain Grove of giant...
  
  : near the Roosevelt stands a very tall tree with a huge basal burn, this tree has a volume of around 34500 cubic feet (976.9 m³).
• Unnamed Tree: Tallest giant sequoia at 311 feet (94.8 m).

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