Sequoia National Park

Sequoia National Park is a national park in the southern Sierra Nevada, east of Visalia, California in the United States of America. Formed in 1890, the park was the third National Park to be formed in the USA, after only Yellowstone National Park in Wyoming and the now-decommissioned Mackinac National Park in Michigan. The park spans 404,051 acres encompassing a vertical relief of nearly 13,000 feet (3,962.4 meters), the park contains among its natural resources the highest point in the contiguous 48 United States, Mount Whitney, at 14,505 feet (4,421.1 meters) above sea level. The park is adjacent to Kings Canyon National Park; the two are administered by the National Park Service as one unit, called Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Parks.