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Kings Canyon National Park Scenic Drive in, California Places Visited: Friday, June 3: River Bend & Kings Canyon RV Park & Mobile Home Park Sanger (East Fresno), California: $25 FHU-30amp. Gravel interior roads with grass sites. N36° 43.924' W119° 28.084' 559-787-3627 (be aware that this RV-Park is NOT a resort. Far from it there are many ramshackle trailers providing permanent housing.) This is the day we are going to do Kings Canyon National Park. Kings Canyon and Sequoia are adjoining National Parks, both have giant sequoias. Kings Canyon Scenic Drive in Kings Canyon National Park, California
Deep in the canyon we started seeing metamorphic rock (sedimentary rocks that have been transformed via extreme temperatures and pressures. A cave created by acidic water eroding marble is open to tourist traffic. Marble is ordinary limestone that has been transformed into a metamorphic rock by extreme pressure and heat. The pic on the left shows the walkway to the cave while the pic on the right is of sedimentary rocks that once lay in flat beds. Extreme pressures deep within the earth have distorted those once parallel beds of sediment. I suspect that this rock was transformed into marble. The pic to the right is showing a 100' by 100' section of the canyon wall.
Kings Canyon Scenic Drive in Kings Canyon National Park, California
Before dropping into the canyon we stopped to admire the beautiful meadows and inspect giant ponderosa pines.
Kings Canyon Scenic Drive in Kings Canyon National Park, California
And as if we had not seen enough there was snow at and above 7,000'.
Kings Canyon Scenic Drive in Kings Canyon National Park, California
Kings Canyon Scenic Drive in Kings Canyon National Park, California
Kings Canyon is said to be the deepest canyon in the US even deeper than the Grand Canyon. The drive into Kings Canyon starts out along the top of the canyon then works its way down to the valley and Kings River over the 35-miles. The CCC built this road back in the 1930's and they provided ample view points, vista stops, pull outs and sight seeing opportunities. Kings River has cut a narrow gorge through the extremely hard granite in places. Perpendicular walls are common.
Kings Canyon Scenic Drive in Kings Canyon National Park, California
Kings Canyon Scenic Drive in Kings Canyon National Park, California
Kings Canyon Scenic Drive in Kings Canyon National Park, California
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