How very sad Do you know when the tunnel was put into the trunk ? The age of this magnificent tree is around 2000 years ! It will be surely missed
I no longer have the picture, but in the mid-1920's my mother and father (newly married) took a trip from Idaho to California and lived there for a few years. They drove their old Ford Model A (Model T?) through the tree and snapped a picture of them going through it. The article that Sheldon posted says that the drive-through was carved out in around 1880, for travelers with horse and buggy, and then later used for tourists with cars. It looks small for that now; so maybe they had to stop allowing this when we started having the larger cars, because the article said that only walking through it was allowed now. It is sad that such a distinctive landmark has been blown over in the storms. The tree looked like it was already dead from the pictures in the article, and maybe that is why the storm took it and not the other trees.
I wonder why "they" didn't go around that beautiful tree. We went around mountains and other obstructions. Bet it was a white man's idea.
I'm pretty sure that is part of The Trees of Mystery, and yes, it's a tourist attraction on the Redwood Highway.
I think the hole was natural, just made a little bigger by man. The hole was cut 136 years ago so I don't think that's what made the tree fall.
Oh, now that I looked at it again, I see it wasn't man-made like I thought. There's a "drive-through" tree at Trees of Mystery up here near me, and I just assumed that was the same tree. Teach me to assume lol Thanks Joe oh whoops, and @Sheldon Scott