🌲 Tallest Tree: The Coast Redwood
3rd Grade 🏆 World Records
Coast redwoods in California are the tallest trees on Earth. The tallest, named Hyperion, is about 380 feet tall.
Giants of California
Redwoods grow along the foggy coast of Northern California and southern Oregon. Some are more than 2,000 years old.
Biggest by size
Their cousins, the giant sequoias in the Sierra Nevada, are the biggest trees by volume. The General Sherman tree is the largest single tree on Earth.
Quick quiz
Which are the tallest trees?
In which state do coast redwoods grow?
About how tall is Hyperion?