Adam Tree

The Adam Tree was the largest sequoia in Mountain Home Grove for exactly as long as nobody had measured Genesis. Jesse Hoskins named it around 1884, and in 1978 the tree surveyors Flint and Law put numbers on it: 29 metres round and 991.6 cubic metres of wood. Seven years later the same pair measured Genesis, elsewhere in the grove, and Adam slipped to second place at home. Ranked against every giant sequoia known, it now sits 20th or 21st; the lists disagree by one place. The Castle Fire burned through Mountain Home in 2020 and took the top off Genesis. Adam came off far better. A visitor who walked the grove in June 2021 wrote that it looked virtually untouched; another account describes a blackened, undermined base on a tree that was otherwise fine. Both are hobbyist trip reports, and we have found nothing written about it since 2023, so its present state rests on their word. The grove is free to enter. Getting here is a drive on mountain roads from Springville, with no bus, and we could not confirm the trail to the tree or whether the road is open in a given month, so check with CAL FIRE or Tulare County before you set out. Nobody has published an age for the Adam Tree. If you know how old it is, or you have stood under it since the fire, tell us.