There are many big trees at Calaveras Big Trees State Park but none rises so majestically as the Agassiz Tree.
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The base of the Agassiz, a giant sequoia at Calaveras Big Trees State Park, believed to be 2,000 years old, is 250 feet tall, 25 feet in diameter (measured 6 feet off the ground) and has a circumference of 97 feet on Monday, Sept. 22, 2014, in Arnold, Calif. Other specimens residing in the state’s 75 sequoia groves are taller, but such a girth is rarely seen.
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There are several sequoias in the Sierra that are taller than the 250-foot-tall Agassiz Tree, but few can match its 97-foot circumference.
