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THE GREATER SEQUOIA TO THE north and east of the original Sequoia National Park lay an area of extraordinarily scenic country. Just as the park was supreme in its forest luxuriance, so the outlying country was supreme in rock-sculptured canyon and snowy summit. Part of this area was added to the park in 1926, increasing it to an area of six hundred and four square miles. Thus was acquired the Kern Canyona Yosemitelike valley thirty miles in lengththe whole of the Upper Kaweah watershed with the River Valley and Kaweah Peaks, and Mount Whitney. Sequoia Park now contains the largest trees, and outside of Alaska, the largest mountain in the United States. It also has the greatest range in altitude of any of our national parksfrom one thousand three hundred feet at the park boundary near Ash Mountain headquarters to fourteen thousand four hundred and ninety-six feet at the summit of Mount Whitney.
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