Which national park contains the world's largest tree by volume, the General Sherman tree?

Sequoia National Park contains the General Sherman tree, the world’s largest known living single-stem tree by volume. The tree is a giant sequoia, or Sequoiadendron giganteum, growing in the park’s Giant Forest in California.

General Sherman is estimated to contain about 52,500 cubic feet, or roughly 1,487 cubic metres, of trunk wood. It stands about 275 feet tall and has a ground-level circumference of more than 100 feet. Its age is commonly estimated at approximately 2,300 to 2,700 years, making it an extraordinary survivor of fire, drought, storms, and changing climates.

The tree was named for William Tecumseh Sherman, the American Civil War general. Its distinction is specifically about volume, not height, width, or age. Hyperion, a coast redwood in Redwood National Park, is taller, while some bristlecone pines are older.

Visitors sometimes confuse General Sherman with the General Grant Tree in Kings Canyon National Park. General Grant is also a giant sequoia and one of the largest trees on Earth, but General Sherman remains the accepted record-holder for living tree volume.