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 6209-248VacYosmiteTunlTree
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 Tunnel tree in Tuolumne Grove

References

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  1. ^ The drive through trees of California
  2. ^ "Drive-Through Redwoods Are Monuments to Violent Deforestation". The Atlantic. 2017-01-10. Archived from the original on 2023-03-27.