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Kings Canyon National Park, 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. Our motorhome in Kings Canyon RV-Park
Our motorhome in River Bend & Kings Canyon RV-Park Sanger (east Fresno), California. Kings River flowing past our motorhome in Fresno, California
We are staying in a mom & pop campground east of Fresno on CA-180. The Kings River flows through the campground we are staying in. Actually, what remains of the Kings River is flowing about 30' behind our motorhome. I say what remains of the Kings River because not far upstream from our campground is a reservoir that captures the water from the Kings River and delivers the vast majority of its water to a series of irrigation canals that water the fertile San Joaquin Valley around Fresno. CA-180 is the highway that goes east out of Fresno into Kings Canyon until the road dead ends way back in the canyon. It is 35-miles from our Campground to the entrance to Kings Canyon with the last 16-miles being a constant 6% grade that takes us from 275-feet to over 7,000-feet in Kings Canyon. Most of the literature recommends not taking vehicles over 22' up to and through either Kings Canyon or Sequoia National Parks but people do it anyway. Especially people with rented motorhomes. Kings Canyon has two major attractions. The first is giant Sequoia trees. Not far from the entrance to Kings Canyon is Grant's Grove where a number of extremely large and old sequoia trees are easily accessible.
Giant sequoia tree in Kings Canyon National Park, California
The hardest thing to do with a giant sequoia tree is to capture the enormous size. Pictures just do not seem to be able to do that. Look at the huge pine tree to the right of the giant sequoia in the picture on the left. That is a big pine tree but it is dwarfed by the sequoia.
Mike with a Giant sequoia tree in Kings Canyon National Park, California
We are used to big trees but these sequoias are really big trees. Amen!
Giant sequoia tree in Kings Canyon National Park, California
In these pics I am trying to so some comparisons to get a sense of the true size of these giants. The giant sequoia in the pic to the left has a trunk that is massive in comparison the the very large pine trees also in the picture. Giant sequoia tree in Kings Canyon National Park, California
In the picture to the right look at how small the pine trees look in comparison to this giant.
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