The Nation's Christmas Tree City
In 1926, President Coolidge named the General Grant Tree in Kings Canyon the Nation's Christmas Tree. He did it after letters from Charles E. Lee, secretary of the Sanger Chamber of Commerce. In 1949 the U.S. Post Office Department recognized Sanger as the Nation's Christmas Tree City.
Every year on the second Sunday of December, the Trek to the Tree goes up to the General Grant Tree. The National Park Service traces it to a Christmas Day program in 1925, and the 100th trek was held in 2025. Downtown, the tree in Brehler Square grew from a General Grant sapling and is lit in early December.
Around town
Sanger sits just south of Highway 180, the road to Kings Canyon, and the town is surrounded by farmland. The 1887 railroad depot is now the Sanger Depot Museum, and the Toyland Parade runs downtown in December.
