page_title: Wawona Tree
hierarchical_section_title: Wawona Tree
caption_attribution_description: The Wawona tree, Mariposa Grove, Yosemite Valley, Cal. Half of a stereograph.
context_page_description: The Wawona Tree, also known as the Wawona Tunnel Tree, was a famous giant sequoia that stood in Mariposa Grove, Yosemite National Park, California, USA, until February 1969. It had a height of 227 feet and was 26 feet in diameter at the base.
  The origin of the word Wawona is not known. A popular story claims Wawō'na was the Miwok word for "big tree", or for "hoot of the owl". Birds are considered the sequoia trees' spiritual guardian.
context_section_description: The Wawona Tree, also known as the Wawona Tunnel Tree, was a famous giant sequoia that stood in Mariposa Grove, Yosemite National Park, California, USA, until February 1969. It had a height of 227 feet (69 m) and was 26 feet (7.9 m) in diameter at the base.
  The origin of the word Wawona is not known. A popular story claims Wawō'na was the Miwok word for "big tree", or for "hoot of the owl".  Birds are considered the sequoia trees' spiritual guardian.
caption: Wawona Tunnel Tree, June 1918
exif: {"Image Orientation": "Horizontal (normal)", "Image XResolution": "1200", "Image YResolution": "1200", "Image ResolutionUnit": "Pixels/Inch", "Image Software": "Adobe Photoshop CS Windows", "Image DateTime": "2008:09:03 10:12:15", "Image Artist": "Library of Congress", "Image ExifOffset": "196", "Thumbnail Compression": "JPEG (old-style)", "Thumbnail XResolution": "72", "Thumbnail YResolution": "72", "Thumbnail ResolutionUnit": "Pixels/Inch", "Thumbnail JPEGInterchangeFormat": "334", "Thumbnail JPEGInterchangeFormatLength": "9369", "EXIF ColorSpace": "Uncalibrated", "EXIF ExifImageWidth": "1323", "EXIF ExifImageLength": "1379"}