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General Sherman

World Wide Gifts · CC BY-SA 2.0

94% trees around it and 190 species recorded.

82Forestyas Score

Notable treeDense canopyWildMountain forest

  • trees within 3 km94%
  • wild within 10 km100%
  • species recorded190
  • Altitude2,136 m

The forest around

94% trees.

Read like the rings of a cut trunk: from the centre out, the land within 1, 3, 6 and 10 km, coloured by what covers it.

Trees 96%Grassland 4%Trees 94%Grassland 6%Bare ground 0%Trees 93%Shrubland 0%Grassland 5%Bare ground 1%Trees 77%Shrubland 0%Grassland 9%Water 0%Bare ground 13%94%trees · 3 km

Trees, ring by ring

  • 0–1 km96%
  • 1–3 km94%
  • 3–6 km93%
  • 6–10 km77%

What covers the land (1–3 km)

  • Trees94%
  • Grassland6%
  • Bare ground0%

ESA WorldCover 2021 (10 m, from Sentinel satellites), sampled every 120 m. A clearing, a road or a lake counts as what it is.

Who lives here

190 species recorded.

The plants, fungi, birds and mammals people have recorded here most often.

Giant Sequoia
Giant SequoiaSequoiadendron giganteum136 recordsMike Murphy ( talk · contribs ) · CC BY-SA 3.0
Bush Chinquapin
Bush ChinquapinChrysolepis sempervirens19 recordsJoe Decruyenaere · CC BY-SA 2.0
Whiskerbrush
WhiskerbrushLeptosiphon ciliatus18 recordsAnthony Valois and the National Park Service · Public domain
Greenleaf manzanita
Greenleaf manzanitaArctostaphylos patula15 recordsWalter Siegmund · CC BY 2.5
White Fir
White FirAbies concolor11 recordsPuncsos · CC BY-SA 3.0
Sugar Pine
Sugar PinePinus lambertiana11 recordsMitch from Costa Mesa, CA, USA · CC BY-SA 2.0
Bracken
BrackenPteridium aquilinum10 recordsStefan.lefnaer · CC BY-SA 4.0
Snowplant
SnowplantSarcodes sanguinea9 recordsMelinda · CC BY-SA 2.0
Common Cowparsnip
Common CowparsnipHeracleum maximum8 recordsmiketilley · CC BY 4.0
Violet draperia
Violet draperiaDraperia systyla7 recordsEric in SF · CC BY-SA 3.0
Woodland pinedrops
Woodland pinedropsPterospora andromedea7 recordsWalter Siegmund · CC BY-SA 3.0
White-Vein Wintergreen
White-Vein WintergreenPyrola picta6 recordsWalter Siegmund · CC BY-SA 3.0

Open records within 2 km (GBIF, licensed for any use). Busy places are better recorded than remote ones.

In numbers

The forest, measured.

82out of 100

Our own rating, from open data only: tree cover (40 points), wildness (20), species recorded (30) and protection or heritage (10).

  • 94%Treesof the land within 3 km
  • 100%Wildno towns or farmland within 10 km
  • 190Speciesrecorded more than once within 2 km
  • 2,136 mAltitudeabove the sea

When to walk

Best for walking in May and in October.

How good each month is for a walk: mild days and little rain make the bar taller.

  1. Jan8°-2°82 mm
  2. Feb8°-2°74 mm
  3. Mar11°-1°68 mm
  4. Apr14°1°46 mm
  5. May19°5°22 mm
  6. Jun26°10°4 mm
  7. Jul30°15°5 mm
  8. Aug29°14°3 mm
  9. Sep26°10°4 mm
  10. Oct19°5°23 mm
  11. Nov13°1°43 mm
  12. Dec8°-3°90 mm
  • Bar: walking comfort; the number on top is the average maximum.
  • Below: average minimum (NASA, 1991–2020).
  • Rain: monthly total.

The place

General Sherman.

Giant sequoia in Giant Forest, California; largest single-stem tree in the world by volume

General Sherman is a notable tree in United States, 2,136 m above the sea.

Seen from space, 94% of the land within 3 km is trees, and 100% of the land within 10 km has no towns or farmland.

190 species have been recorded around it: 50 plants, 9 fungi, 119 birds and 12 mammals.

The most recorded plants are: Giant Sequoia, Bush Chinquapin and Whiskerbrush.

The best time to walk is in May and in October.

United States - California - Sequoia National Park - General Sherman Tree - Panorama
World Wide Gifts · CC BY-SA 2.0

Get there and walk

  • Official informationAccess, hours and rules from those who manage the place.Official site
  • Lodgepole Campgroundcampsite · 3.6 km · 15 within 10 km
  • Wuksachi Lodgeplace to stay · 3.1 km · 2 within 10 km
  • Three Riversnearest town · 21 km in a straight line
  • Fresno Yosemite International Airport (FAT)nearest airport with scheduled flights · 89 km in a straight lineCar hire at FAT airport (Fresno)Discover Cars · sponsored link

Plan the visit

A guided walk, a bed nearby, a car.

Car hire at FAT airport (Fresno)Discover CarsSee prices 

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From above

The forest and its surroundings.

The satellite image of the 6 × 6 km around the place, with the trails, notable trees, picnic sites and huts that OpenStreetMap shows.

General Sherman seen from above (Sentinel-2)
Seen from above: Sentinel-2 cloudless 2016 (EOX, CC BY 4.0), 6 × 6 km, north up. Points © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Around, in OpenStreetMap

  • 13marked trails within 5 kmHigh Sierra Trail, Lakes Trail, Tokopah Falls Trail and 10 more
  • 20named and notable trees within 6 kmGeneral Sherman Tree, Sentinel Tree, Tunnel Log and 17 more
  • 13picnic sites within 4 kmHalstead Meadow Picnic Area and 12 more
  • 14viewpoints within 5 kmEagle View, Moro Rock, Crescent Meadow and 11 more
  • 1visitor centres within 6 kmLodgepole Visitor Center
  • 26car parks within 3 km
  • 15campsites within 10 kmLodgepole Campground, Mehrten Creek, Buckeye Flats Campground and 12 more
  • 2places to stay within 10 kmWuksachi Lodge, Stony Creek Lodge
  • shelters and huts within 6 km
  • restaurants and cafés within 3 km

Counted in OpenStreetMap, the map anyone can edit. A low number may just mean nobody has mapped it yet.

In our other atlases

Around General Sherman.

The mountains, lakes, rivers, waterfalls and canyons around this forest, the viewpoints above it, the birds and the night sky, in the family's atlases.

Peakyas87 mountains within 25 km
Black Kaweah4,151 m · 21 kmKaweah Queen4,081 m · 22 kmPyramidal Pinnacle4,116 m · 22 kmKoontz Pinnacle4,145 m · 22 kmRed Kaweah4,185 m · 22 kmCentennial Peak4,026 m · 24 kmMilestone Mountain4,159 m · 24 kmMidway Mountain4,165 m · 25 km
Lakeyas1 lakes within 15 km
Moose Lake0.4 km² · 10 km
Darkskyas2 dark-sky places within 30 km
Deadman CanyonBortle 3 · 20 kmKings CanyonBortle 2 · 25 km
Viewyas3 viewpoints within 15 kmComing soon
Sherman Tree Overlook0.1 kmAdmiration Point5.4 kmAmphitheater Point4,393 m · 5.7 km
Cavernyas1 caves within 20 km
Crystal Cave6.7 km
Cascadyas1 waterfalls within 15 km
Tokopah Falls6.2 km

Figures from the sister sites' databases (Wikidata, HydroATLAS, GeoNames, OpenStreetMap). Links open when each site is online.

Photographs

The forest, as people saw it.

General Sherman with fire protection wrap
Elizabeth Wu, National Park Service · Public domain
General Sherman 1469870071
Kimon Berlin · CC BY-SA 2.0
17 23 571 sherman
Dsdugan · CC0

Other forests nearby.

General Sherman

United States

  • 82Forestyas Score
  • 94%Trees
  • 100%Wild
  • 190Species

President

United States · 2 km

  • 82Forestyas Score
  • 95%Trees
  • 100%Wild
  • 219Species

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General Grant

United States · 27 km

  • 82Forestyas Score
  • 92%Trees
  • 100%Wild
  • 191Species

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Sierra National Forest

United States · 100 km

  • 81Forestyas Score
  • 79%Trees
  • 100%Wild
  • 134Species

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Where these figures come from

Name and typeWikidata (Q152482) · CC0
Land coverESA WorldCover 10 m 2021 v200 · © ESA WorldCover project / Copernicus Sentinel data · CC BY 4.0
Species8,121 open records within 2 km (GBIF, CC0 and CC BY 4.0 only)
See these recordsgbif.org
Names and photosWikidata (CC0); GBIF Backbone Taxonomy · CC BY 4.0; Wikimedia Commons
AltitudeCopernicus DEM GLO-30 · © DLR e.V., © Airbus Defence and Space GmbH, Copernicus/ESA
Temperature and rainNASA POWER (CERES SYN1deg, 2001–2020; MERRA-2)
What is around© OpenStreetMap contributors · ODbL
ImagesEOX Sentinel-2 cloudless 2016 · CC BY 4.0; Wikimedia Commons
Sister atlasesPeakyas, Lakeyas, Darkskyas, Viewyas, Cavernyas, Cascadyas

Every figure is an average, an estimate or a count from a public dataset. Licences and methods: data sources.

The family

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