Redwood Drive is an approximately 7.3-mile highway located in the Sierra Nevada range of Tulare County. The highway connects California State Route 190 near Camp Nelson to the Stagg Tree Trail in the Alder Creek Grove of Redwood Sequoias. Much of Redwood Drive is maintained as part of Tulare County Mountain Road 216. The Stagg Tree is the fifth largest Sequoia by volume. The tree was observed in the Alder Creek Grove in 1931 and was originally called the Day Tree. Between 1944-1946 the Rouch family would purchase much of the Alder Creek Grove for logging interests and would construct a switchback road from Camp Wishon. Logging in the Alder Creek Grove was unprofitable and the Rouch family would subdivide their land in 1955 into what become the Sequoia Crest community. Tulare County would construct Redwood Drive to serve the then new community. The Day Tree would be renamed as the "Stagg Tree" in 1960 in honor of Amos Alonzo Stagg. Th...
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