What might be the world’s oldest tree — a bristlecone pine named Methuselah that is thousands of years old — is hidden in plain sight somewhere along the 4.5-mile Methuselah Trail in the ...

It was there, last October at roughly 10,000 feet elevation, that I celebrated my 40th birthday with Methuselah, a 4,853-year-old Great Basin bristlecone pine tree. Methuselah is the oldest known ...

Click on the images below to take your own tour, complete with details about what you're seeing. In case you're wondering, the tree shown in the NOVA program is not the Methuselah Tree.

The tree is somewhere along the 4.5-mile (7.2 kilometers) Methuselah Trail in the White Mountains of Inyo National Forest in California. 3. Mystery tree (4,000 to 4,900 years old) ...

In California's White Mountains, the most ancient members of P. longaeva, including the Methuselah Tree, can be found high in the subalpine zone, from 9,500 feet to timberline at roughly 11,500 feet.

The Methuselah Tree: It takes only a few minutes to see this Bay Area icon. A dirt path enters forest, then quickly turns left down a set of wood stairs, where you can peer up at the giant tree.

Methuselah was 4,789 years old when examined in 1957, with an estimated seeding date of 2833 BC. That makes Methuselah—commonly referred to as the oldest tree in the world—4,856 years old in 2024.

Up among the Bristlecones, daybreak comes very early and the allure of finding the Methuselah Tree had us on the trail by a respectable 7 a.m. Reasoning that it was highly unlikely that I was ...

What might be the world's oldest tree - a bristlecone pine named Methuselah that is thousands of years old - is hidden in plain sight somewhere along the 4.5-mile Methuselah Trail in the Inyo ...

The tree, which is over 4,800 years old, is found in a grove of other trees, but its exact location is kept a secret.