Franklin, Giant sequoia in Giant Forest, Sequoia National Park, California, United States

Franklin is a giant sequoia in Giant Forest, within Sequoia National Park in California's western Sierra Nevada. It ranks as the eighth largest giant sequoia in the world. The tree stands near the Washington Tree, which lost half its trunk in 2005, and near the General Sherman Tree, the largest tree on Earth by volume, measuring 36.5 feet across its base.

The Franklin Tree was named by Wendell Flint after Benjamin Franklin. It stands in Giant Forest, the grove in Sequoia National Park that also holds the General Sherman Tree, the largest tree in the world by volume. Nearby is the Washington Tree, once the second largest tree in the world, which lost half its trunk in 2005.

The tree was named by Wendell Flint after Benjamin Franklin, one of the Founding Fathers of the United States. It stands in Giant Forest, where nearby the Washington Tree lost half its trunk in 2005 and was displaced in the rankings of the largest sequoias.

The Franklin Tree stands in the Giant Forest of Sequoia National Park, at over 6,000 feet (1,800 m) in the western Sierra Nevada of California. Visitors reach it on foot through the grove; the General Sherman Tree, 36.5 feet (11.1 m) across at its base, lies nearby. The Washington Tree, once the second largest in the world, lost half its trunk in 2005 and stands close by.

The Franklin Tree is the eighth largest giant sequoia in the world, named by Wendell Flint after Benjamin Franklin. Nearby stands the Washington Tree, once the second largest tree on Earth until it lost half its trunk in 2005, after which many sequoias surpassed it.