Sequoia National Park visit from Los Angeles bucket list life goals #giant sequoia national monument

A few years ago, I made a list of 101 Life Goals. I’ve actually done some of them! I love this list. When I’m feeling down, reading over it motivates me and cheers me up.

Now, you’ve got to be careful what you do with a list like this. Many times I’ve asked myself, “How in the heck did I wind up in Los Angeles?” Then one day, I realized that many of my life goals involved California! The universe works in mysterious ways.

 

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Visiting Sequoia National Park was one of the California goals on my list, and it was just a four-hour-or-so drive from our home in Studio City. We’d been to the Redwood National Park before, and we loved it. We wanted to see this one, too.

To get to the park from Vasilia, where we had a guest house rental (and where our dogs stayed), you drive for quite a while before you hit some switchbacks and start increasing in elevation. Finally, you see your first big trees.

 

 

Sequoia National Park visit from Los Angeles bucket list life goals

 

When you get to the Giant Forest Museum parking lot, a shuttle takes you to other locations. We were there early on a Monday morning, so even though it was summer, the park wasn’t crowded.

The General Sherman Tree is the largest tree in the world.

 

Sequoia National Park visit from Los Angeles bucket list life goals

 

It’s a little hard to see the scale of it in photographs, though this video I put on Instagram might help (I had trouble uploading it here.)

Here’s me with the General Sherman Tree.

 

Sequoia National Park visit from Los Angeles bucket list life goals

 

There are a lot of hiking trails so you can wander around and take in the magnificent energy of these ancient trees. Some of them are 3,000 or more years old.

 

Sequoia National Park visit from Los Angeles bucket list life goals #giant sequoia national monument

 

Sequoia National Park visit from Los Angeles bucket list life goals #giant sequoia national monument

 

This is a great road trip from either Los Angeles or San Francisco (which would be about a 5-hour drive.) If you’re visiting from another part of the country—or a different country altogether—I’d include Yosemite National Park (about three and a half hours away from Sequoia National Park) as part of the same vacation.

It’s a beautiful thing that over the decades, we’ve become smarter about preserving such amazing trees and such important areas.

 

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Have you had the chance to visit any of the national parks in the United States? Or did this post remind you of some of the beautiful places in nature you’ve been? Let us know in the comments! Thanks for reading!

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