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The Pioneer Cabin Tree, the California sequoia that had had a tunnel carved in it in the s so that people, and for a time cars, could travel through, has fallen. Jim Allday of Arnold is a volunteer at the park who was working there Sunday.

He said the tree went down about 2 p.m. and “shattered” on impact. Jan 12, And to complicate matters further, this famous sequoia, the Wawona Tree, fell over in early The tunnel through Yosemite's famous Wawona Tree was cut in as a tourist attraction.

It's unclear exactly how old the tree was, but The Los Angeles Times reports that the trees in the state park are estimated to be more than 1, years old.

It was the second standing sequoia to be tunneled (the first, a dead tree, still stands in the Tuolumne Grove in Yosemite). Jan 10, Northern California’s famed Pioneer Cabin Tree, a giant sequoia in Calaveras Big Trees State Park that was carved out to form a tunnel big enough to drive through, fell down during a recent Estimated Reading Time: 2 mins.