Chandelier Tree
Coordinates: 39 ° 51 ′ 51 ″ N , 123 ° 42 ′ 40 ″ W.
The Chandelier Tree is a 96-foot-tall coast redwood (Sequoia sempervirens) in Leggett , Mendocino County , California . "Chandelier" means chandelier . The tunnel, carved into the tree trunk in 1930, with a width of almost 2 meters and a height of almost 3 meters, allows passage with a car and is a tourist attraction.
An already dead trunk of a giant sequoia tree (Sequoiadendron giganteum) , which has a similar tunnel hole for cars to drive through, is located in the Sequoia National Park .
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Commons : Chandelier Tree - collection of images, videos and audio files
- California's drive-thru redwoods are shady operations. . . ( Memento from March 5, 2008 in the Internet Archive )