Which national park in the United States is famous for its giant sequoia trees and is a World Heritage Site?

Yosemite National Park is the United States national park famous for its giant sequoia groves and designated a World Heritage Site. Located in California’s Sierra Nevada, Yosemite is also celebrated for granite cliffs, waterfalls, alpine meadows, glaciers, and Yosemite Valley.

The park contains three principal giant sequoia groves: Mariposa Grove, Tuolumne Grove, and Merced Grove. Mariposa is the largest, with roughly 200 mature trees. Giant sequoias are not the same species as coastal redwoods; they are especially notable for massive trunk volume and extraordinary longevity.

Yosemite became a national park in 1890 and was inscribed as a natural World Heritage Site in 1984. Its landscape was shaped in part by glaciers, which carved the famous U-shaped Yosemite Valley and helped expose the dramatic granite formations around it.

A common mix-up is Sequoia National Park, which is more strongly associated with the General Sherman Tree and extensive sequoia forests but is not the answer among the listed choices. Yosemite’s sequoias are concentrated in groves rather than spread uniformly throughout the park.