Photo by Gantas Vaičiulėnas.
Hint: It’s really, really tall trees.
Some trees feel older than memory, pressing skyward for what seems like forever.
If you’ve ever walked through the old growth giants of Redwoods National Park, it truly feels like a religious experience.
Indeed, California has several of the world’s tallest trees. However, far across the globe, the island of Tasmania also holds a number of record breaking trees, with heights that feel unreal.
(As we posted this, we were reminded how sharing images of extremely tall trees never does them justice. Seeing these enormous living things in person is always a more rewarding experience.)
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From California’s misty coasts to Tasmania’s rugged valleys, the tallest trees in the world stretch past imagination.
These giants remind us that scale is not just about numbers, but about the stories living things carry.
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Ten of the Tallest trees in the world
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California’s Sky Reachers
California is home to three of the tallest:
Hyperion, the record-holding coast redwood, nearly 380 feet tall.
Raven’s Tower, a Sitka spruce hidden in Prairie Creek Redwoods State Park, rising 317 feet.
An Unnamed Giant Sequoia in Sequoia National Forest, 314 feet of living history.
In California’s fog-draped forests, these trees are monuments to time, endurance, and patience.
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Tasmania’s Wild Giants
Tasmania holds its own, with three remarkable trees among the world’s tallest:
Centurion, a Eucalyptus regnans, at 327 feet.
White Knight, a manna gum that glows silver in the mist, standing 301 feet.
Neeminah Loggorale Meena, a blue gum with a name as lyrical as its towering form, at 298 feet.
Photo by Alexandru Ant.
Tasmania’s giants rise in rugged, remote forests where storms and shifting weather test their strength.
Why They Matter
Numbers alone cannot capture what it feels like to stand among these giants. Each tree is a record of centuries, of fire and storm, of growth and stillness. They root us in scale, in humility, in wonder.
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