Along the Methuselah Loop Trail are the oldest trees (NOT the oldest beings) in the world. Some of these Bristlecone pine trees can be about 5,000 years old. The trail contours around the north side of the slope, with views into the high valley. Here the trees are a bit protected from sun and wind, though there's also less precipitation.
While the Great Basin Bristlecone pines might be the longest-living non-clonal organism on the planet, clonal organisms (a group of genetically identical plants, fungi, or bacteria that clone non-sexually) such as the Quaking aspen or the Mojave Desert creosote are considered to be much older. A Quaking aspen grove in the Wasatch Mountains of Utah is estimated to be 80,000 years old (although probably much younger). Both the Aspen and Mojave creosote achieve their age by "cloning" new trees or bushes from their root systems— some might consider this cheating. The Great Basin Bristlecone Pine, however, exists on its own, rooted in stone, twisting its way through thousands of years, thriving in the impossible.
At an undisclosed location near this point are the remains of the famous Prometheus tree, a Great Basin Bristlecone pine once recorded as the oldest tree in the world, estimated between 4700-5000 years-old.