Ancient Bristlecone Pine Forest

Mountain Range · Big Pine, California

A grove in the White Mountains holding the oldest known non-clonal living things on earth — bristlecone pines that were already two thousand years old when the pyramids were built. The oldest, Methuselah, is somewhere in this grove at around 4,850 years, and the Forest Service will not tell you which tree it is.

White Mountain Road, off Highway 168, Big Pine, California, 93513, United States

SEASONAL — White Mountain Road typically open July to October, closed by snow the rest of the year.

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