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Auto Log

Giant Sequoia in Giant Forest in Sequoia NP, Sierra Nevada near Three Rivers, CA

The Auto Log was once a towering giant sequoia. It fell down in 1917. Because it landed right next to Crescent Meadow Road, park authorities decided to turn it into an instructive visitor attraction. A kind of parking space was gouged along the upturned side of the tree trunk, and visitors were encouraged to drive their cars off the road and onto the trunk as a way to convey the enormity of giant sequoias.

Nearly a century of rot, and countless thousands of cars, have been too much for the giant sequoia, and the battered trunk is now off-limits to vehicles. However, visitors today can still walk the length of the former log roadway.

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