Bull Creek Giant Coast Redwood | 10th

Continued from: Largest Coast Redwoods

Copyright 2009 - 2011 by Mario Vaden

Bull Creek Giant in Humboldt Redwoods State Park is the 10th largest known coast redwood. 2010 data lists this redwood at 337' high, 22.3' diameter and 31,144 ft cubic feet wood volume. As the name connotes, Bull Creek Giant is in the vicinity of Bull Creek, a tributary of the Eel River. This is the largest Sequoia sempervirens in the Humboldt Redwoods State Park / HRSP. The stand of trees surrounding it has world record biomass. Dr. Robert Van Pelt, a forest researcher, wrote that this forest grove has more wood per unit of area than anywhere else on the face of the planet.

The trunk tapers rather quickly to 16' thick at 11 feet above the ground, with hardly any noticeable taper after that for over 100 feet. It's still 10 wide at 160 feet high, and 5' wide at 310 feet high. Bull Creek Giant has the second largest known trunk diameter on earth at that 310 mark.

The Bull Creek Flats area is the tallest forest canopy on the planet, with the highest density of top in the 330 to 350 feet, and plenty of redwoods near 360 feet tall. This redwood appeared on the cover of a book by author Richard Preston