The Most Amazing Place in America
The Coconino National Forest removes a 1.856 million acres (7,511 km ²) United States National Forest in northern Arizona near Flagstaff. Originally founded in 1898 merged called “San Francisco Mountains National Forest Reserve, the area was a U.S. National Forest in 1908, when reserves of San Francisco Mountains Forest National Reserve with the countries of forest around them is the creation of the Coconino National Forest.
Today, the Coconino National Forest encompasses diverse landscapes, including deserts, ponderosa pine forests, plains, plateaus, alpine tundra and ancient volcanic peaks. The forest surrounding the town of Sedona and Flagstaff, and borders on four other national forests, thePrescott the Kaibab National Forest to the west and north-west, the national forest in south-west, the Tonto National Forest in the south and the Apache-Sitgreaves National Forest in southeast.
The forest includes all or part of ten designated wilderness, including the Kachina Peaks wilderness, which contains the peak of the San Francisco Peaks. The company is located in Flagstaff. There are offices of local district ranger in Flagstaff, Sedona and Happy Jack.
The Sequoia is one of nineteen National Forests in California. It takes its name from the giant redwood, the tallest tree in the world, which grows in more than 30 plantations on the lower slopes of the forest. The Sequoia landscape is as spectacular as the trees. Soaring granite monoliths, glacier-torn canyons, roaring whitewater, and more waiting to be discovered at the southern end of the Sierra Nevada. Altitude of 1,000 meters in the foothills of the mountains of the region more than 12,000 feet in the rugged uplands and offers visitors some of the most spectacular views of the mountains of the West.
SPORTS Sequoia National Forest offers a wide range of recreational activities outdoors. The trails offer hiking, horseback riding and mountain biking. Campgrounds many developed or dispersed areas provide the full range of camping experiences. Rivers, lakes and reservoirs offer boating, fishing, water skiing, swimming, rafting and kayaking. In winter, high altitude skiing and snowboarding, cross country skiing, snowshoeing and POINTS walkers, off-road users and riders led more than 1,500 miles of groomed trails offer 1,000 miles of deserted streets and 850 miles of trails through the forest for their use and enjoyment. The Pacific Crest National Scenic Trail, which stretches over 2600 miles from Canada to Mexico, crosses the Sequoia National Forest about 78 miles. The three National Recreation Trails in the woods: Summit, Cannell Meadow, and Jackass Creek. Other places of interest on Forests: Hume Lake, Chicago Stump, Cannell Meadow Station, Kern River, Kings River, Dome Rock and Needles. The Sequoia contains portions of six designated wilderness: Kiavah, Monarch, South Sierra, Dome Land, Jennie Lake and rainbow trout. Specific areas of winter activities accessible by road are: Hume Lake Ranger District at Cherry Gap and Quail Flat; Tule River Ranger District near Aspen Campground and Greenhorn Ranger District at Greenhorn Summit HISTORY The Sequoia National Forest is named for the 39 trees Giant Sequoia, Sequoiadendron giganteum, located within its borders. In 1847, a German botanist named Stephen Endlicher named the coastal redwoods Sequoia sempervirens. He was probably in honor of Cherokee Chief Sequoya or Sikwayi invented a phonetic alphabet of 86 characters for the Cherokee language. In 1854, a French botanist Joseph Decaisne asked the name of the redwoods, which are closely related to the coastal redwoods.
