Large tree in whose trunk a tunnel has been drilled
A tunnel tree is a large tree in whose trunk a tunnel has been drilled. This practice took place mainly at the end of the 19th and beginning of the 20th century in the west of the United States.[citation needed]
The tunnel allowed tourists to walk or drive through the tree with a car. The tunnels were bored to boost tourism.[1]
The tunnelling seriously damaged the health of the trees. As a result, some trees have fallen. Due to the harmful effects of hollowing out trees, the practice of creating tunnel trees has been abandoned.[2]
List of tunnel trees
Name
Place
Tree species
Note
Picture
Wawona Tree
Mariposa Grove, Yosemite National Park
Sequoiadendron giganteum
Fell 1969
Pioneer Cabin Tree
Calaveras, Calaveras Big Trees State Park
Sequoiadendron giganteum
Fell 2017
Tunnel Log
Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Parks
Sequoiadendron giganteum
Fell 1937, blocking a road, a tunnel cut through the log in 1938
Chandelier Tree
Leggett
Sequoia sempervirens
Shrine Drive-Thru Tree
Myers Flat
Sequoia sempervirens
Klamath Tour-Thru Tree
Klamath
Sequoia sempervirens
California Tunnel Tree
Mariposa Grove, Yosemite National Park
Sequoiadendron giganteum
Dead Giant Tunnel Tree
Tuolumne, Yosemite National Park
Sequoiadendron giganteum
^The drive through trees of California
^"Drive-Through Redwoods Are Monuments to Violent Deforestation". The Atlantic. 2017-01-10. Archived from the original on 2023-03-27.
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