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I II - UNITED STATES Historic Events DEPARTMENT OF THE Kings INTERIOR 1862 First white man of record entered area. Joseph Hardin Thomas discovered the , then unnamed. HAROLD L. ICKES, Secretary Canyon OPEN NATIONAL 1867 General Grant Tree measured; named by ALL Lucretia P. Baker, member of pioneer YEAR PARK family of the district. CALIFORNIA

1870 First settlers occupied Fallen Monarch MULE ARE SEEN EVERYWHERE huge hollow log. IN THE PARK NEWTON B. DRURY, Director

1872 The Gamlin brothers built log house now COKTEi^rs known as Gamlin Pioneer Cabin and INGS CANYON NATIONAL rates the two great South Fork and used as museum. K PARK was created by act of Middle Fork Canyons. The Middle North Dome ...... Cover Congress, March 4,1940. It comprises Fork is reached only by trail by cross­ Cover photo by Laval Co., Inc. 710 square miles of superlative moun­ ing over Pass or Cartridge A Description of Kings Canyon by 1878 Preemption claim surrounding the Gen­ eral Grant Tree surrendered to the Gov­ tain scenery in the heart of the Sierra Pass, by traversing the 12,000-foot (1838-1914) .... 4 ernment by Israel Gamlin. Nevada and three groves of giant se­ Mather Pass on the , The Groves 6 quoias. In the creation of this park, the or by descending from road end at Forests and Flowers 6 Crabtree Camp on the North Fork of 1890 General Grant National Park (now Gen­ former General Grant National Park, Wildlife 6 eral Grant Grove Section of Kings Can­ with the addition of the Redwood the Kings into Tehipite Valley to Fishing 7 yon National Park) created by act of Mountain area, became the General view the famous Tehipite Dome. Trails 7 Congress on October 1. Grant Grove Section. This portion is In this new park accom­ Park Season 8 the gateway to the Kings Canyon and modations will be kept to a minimum. Administration 8 1891 General Grant National Park first ad­ High Sierra wilderness and is a center The real beauties of the park are for tourist travel. The main portion Naturalist Service 10 ministered by Capt. J. H. Dorst, United available only to those who ride States Cavalry. of the park includes watersheds of the horseback or hike the many trails Free Campgrounds 10 South and Middle Forks of the Kings which lead to unexcelled camp­ Christmas Tree Ceremony .... 10 River and the Evolution Creek and grounds. Church Services 10 1914 Walter Fry appointed first civilian super­ intendent of both parks. Goddard Cany on watershed, tributary The John Muir Trail follows Railroad, Bus, and Airplane to the South Fork of the San Joaquin through the entire summit region of Services 10 River. It includes also the crest of the the park for 78 miles, seldom below Approach to Park by Highway and 1925 General Grant Tree designated as Na­ and western slope from tion's Christmas Tree. 8,500 feet, and crosses five high moun­ Trail 11 to Mount Lamarck, a tain passes. Accommodations and Expenses . 14 summit area containing four peaks Fourteen miles southeast of the Miscellaneous Services 15 1940 Kings Canyon National Park established over 14,000 feet in altitude, and more Section lies the on March 4 by act of Congress absorbing than twenty others above 13,000 feet Saddle Horses and Pack Stock . . 15 General Grant National Park which be­ . The two Big Selected Bibliography 15 came General Grant Grove Section. in altitude. Tree national parks are linked by Granite gorges, mountain meadows, one of the finest mountain roads in and trout-filled streams and lakes America—the . abound. The Monarch Divide sepa­ This highway reaches a 7,600-foot

2 Kings Canyon National Park * California Kings Canyon National Park * California 3 altitude at Big Baldy Saddle, passing gliding softly with scarce a ripple over through heavy forests of pine, fir, beds of brown pebbles, now rushing cedar, and Sequoia gigantea the whole and leaping in wild exultation across length of 30 miles between General avalanche rock-dams or terminal mo­ Grant Grove in Kings Canyon Na­ raines, swaying from side to side, tional Park and in Se­ beaten with sunshine, or embowered quoia National Park, and affording with leaning pines and firs, alders, spacious views of the mountain and willows, and tall balsam poplars, foothill country. which with the bushes and grass at their feet make charming banks. A DESCRIPTION OF KINGS Gnarled snags and stumps here and CANYON BY JOHN MUIR there reach out from the banks, mak­ (1838-1914) ing cover for trout which seem to "In the vast Sierra wilderness far to have caught their colors from rain­ the southward of the famous Yosemite bow spray, though hiding mostly in Valley, there is a yet grander valley shadows, where the current swirls of the same kind. It is situated on the slowly and protecting sedges and wil­ south fork of King's River, above the lows dip their leaves. most extensive groves and forests of ****** the giant sequoia, and beneath the shadows of the highest mountains in "From the brink of the walls on the range, where the canyons are either side the ground still rises in a deepest and the snow-laden peaks are series of ice-carved ridges and basins, crowded most closely together. It is superbly forested and adorned with called the Big King's River Canyon, many small lakes and meadows, where or King's River Yosemite, * * * . It is deer and bear find grateful homes; about ten miles long, half a mile while from the head of the valley wide, and the stupendous rocks of mountains other mountains rise be­ purplish gray granite that form the yond in glorious array, every one of walls are from 2,500 to 5,000 feet in them shining with rock crystals and height, while the depth of the valley snow, and with a network of streams below the general surface of the moun­ that sing their way down from lake tain mass from which it has been to lake through a labyrinth of ice- carved is considerably more than a burnished canyons. The area of the mile. basins drained by the streams entering the valley is about 450 square miles, and the elevation of the rim of the "The bottom of the valley is about general basin is from 9,000 to upward 5,000 feet above the sea, and its level of 14,000 feet above the sea; while the or gently sloping surface is diversified general basin of the Merced Yosemite with flowery meadows and groves and has an area of 250 square miles, and open sunny flats, through the midst of its elevation is much lower. which the crystal river, ever changing, PADILLA STUDIOS PHOTO ever beautiful, makes its way; now AN ANGLER IN KINGS CANYON

4 Kings Canyon National Park * California Kings Canyon National Park * California 5 "At the head of the valley the river ceeding 2 feet, and, though many of main along the crest of the Sierra. forks, the heavier branch turning the older show fire scars, there Bears are found throughout the park, northward, and on this branch there have been no recent fires. but not in large numbers. Feeding of is another Yosemite, called from its Adding to the grandeur of the se­ these animals by visitors is strictly pro­ flowery beauty Paradise Valley; and quoia groves of Redwood Mountain hibited. When this regulation is fol­ the name might well be applied to the and Canyon are superlative stands of lowed, the bears cause very little main canyon, for notwithstanding its sugar pines and ponderosa pine, many trouble to campers. Pine martens, tremendous rockiness, it is an Eden of them 200 feet tall, a few even taller, marmots, and conies inhabit the high of plant-beauty from end to end." accompanied by an abundance of elevations. The Columbia gray squir­ young growth of their own kind and rel is a common sight as it dashes THE GROVES by a scattering of firs, cedars, and a across roads and trails, a blue-gray The General Grant Tree in the few other species. The net result is a vision that at times appears to be all Grant Grove of Big Trees is so huge primeval forest of supreme wilderness tail. The , or Sierra its size is difficult to comprehend. Its beauty, as yet largely unspoiled, with chickaree, gray-brown in color, is greatest horizontal diameter is 40.3 thousands of sequoias ranging from well known for its amusing habit of feet at the base, and at 200 feet above tiny seedlings up to magnificent old scolding. Birds are numerous. Moun­ the ground its diameter is about 12 patriarchs perhaps 3,000 years old. tain quail and Sierra grouse are en­ feet. This tree is 267 feet high and is countered on trail trips, and notable FORESTS AND FLOWERS one of the most celebrated trees in the birds of the high mountain areas are: United States, having been dedicated Coniferous trees predominate. There golden eagle, rosy finch, Clark's nut­ as the Nation's Christmas Tree. Huge are eight species of pines found in cracker, and water ouzel. The Park specimens of sugar and ponderosa the park, including the one-leaved, or Information Office at General Grant pine, fir, and cedar in this grove and pinon pine. The mountain hemlock Grove Section is headquarters for in­ in the nearby North Grove arouse and whitebark pine are timber-line formation about plants, birds and interest second only to that of the trees. The Kellogg black oak fre­ animals. giant sequoias themselves. quents the valleys, and the golden- FISHING Six miles toward Sequoia National cupped, or canyon live oak, the talus * Park, just off the Generals Highway, slopes. The Nuttall dogwood pro­ Excellent trout fishing in over 200 is the of duces a wealth of white blossoms in lakes and in more than 150 miles of sequoias. Towering in close-ranked the spring and colorful foliage in the streams is to be found in this park. companies along the crest of a promi­ fall. Azaleas around the meadows are Native rainbow trout is abundant, nent mountain ridge, and etched in a blaze of glory in the spring. Mea­ and golden trout has been introduced bold relief against the sky, these forest dows are abloom in June and July. from the Kern Basin. Some eastern giants march down the slopes of the Conspicuous are the leopard lilies and brook trout are found in high mountain mountain and spread out in stately pentstemon of several varieties, In­ lakes. Banks of streams are largely groves over the canyon floor imme­ dian paintbrush, larkspur, shooting free from vegetation, and conditions diately below. Nowhere else do giant stars, and Queen Anne's lace. for fly fishing are excellent in late sequoias stand out so prominently on summer and early fall. State seasons WILDLIFE a ridge, silhouetted against the sky. prevail, and a State fishing license is Seven giant sequoias, averaging 10 California , black bear, required. feet in diameter and 200 feet high, and several species of squirrel are the TRAILS are on one acre. There are at least best known animals of the park. A The trail system at the General PADILLA STUDIOS PHOTO 7,000 sequoias with a diameter ex­ few bighorn, or mountain sheep, re- Grant Grove Section offers the hiker RIDING A TRAIL TO THE HIGH COUNTRY

6 Kings Canyon National Park • California Kings Canyon National Park • California 7 or horseback rider miles of well- PARK SEASON graded pathways to many lovely sec­ The General Grant Grove in Kings tions of the park. Canyon National Park is open all The John Muir Trail traverses the year, with Federal and State authori­ main section of the park from end to ties cooperating to clear the roads in end, being the main summit trail winter. It is seldom that travel is in­ route between Yosemite and Sequoia terrupted more than a day or two. National Parks. This trail affords Campgrounds are not open during the the mountaineer an opportunity to winter season, but informal accom­ penetrate spectacular mountain coun­ modations are available in the Gen­ try. The peaks, cliffs, lakes, streams, eral Grant Grove Section. All forms and meadows of this portion of the of winter sports, except skating, are High Sierra offer unusual scenic at­ enjoyed, and snowshoes, skis, and to­ tractions to the summer visitor. boggans may be rented at reasonable Main trails leading into scenic por­ prices in the General Grant Grove tions of the park from the west are Section. the Copper Creek Trail over Granite Usually during the winter season, Pass to Simpson Meadows on the meals and accommodations are to be Middle Fork, the Tehipite, Evolution had at the coffee shop at park head­ Basin, and Bishop Pass Trails, and quarters in the General Grant Grove Trail over the crest Section, but it is better to check in from Inyo County to the east. A fa­ advance. Entrances over high moun­ vorite loop trip for knapsackers and tain passes are not open to travel until packers is from the floor of Kings after July 1. Canyon up the South Fork to Paradise Valley, up Woods Creek to ADMINISTRATION and Glenn Pass (11,900 feet) and down to Kings Canyon. The Kings Canyon National Park Trails lead over four passes into Se­ is administered by the National Park quoia National Park. Service of the United States Depart­ There are no restrictions on camp­ ment of the Interior. The representa­ ing in the back country, except pre­ tive of this bureau in direct charge of cautions against fire and proper sani­ the park, is the superintendent. Ad­ tary measures. Hikers and those with ministrative headquarters is in the pack animals must carry their own Federal Building, Fresno; but district equipment. Camping grounds on the headquarters at General Grant Grove Middle Fork are found at Little Pete, Section is occupied as an administra­ Grouse, and Simpson Meadows, and tive office by the superintendent dur­ Tehipite Valley; on the South Fork ing the summer season. All-year mail, are Paradise Valley, Woods Creek, telephone, and telegraph service is Rae Lakes, Vidette Meadows on maintained at this point. The post Bubbs Creek, and Scaffold Meadows office address is Kings Canyon Na­ LAVAL COMPANY. INC. PHOTO on Roaring River. tional Park, Calif. LOOKING ACROSS AT ZUMNWALT MEADOWS

8 Kings Canyon National Park * California Kings Canyon National Park * California 9 NATURALIST SERVICE Grant Tree, designated in 1925 as the Many forms of outdoor activities Nation's Christmas Tree. These serv­ are encouraged in Kings Canyon Na­ ices have been broadcast over Na­ tional Park, but special attention is tion-wide hook-ups, and Presidential paid to fostering a knowledge of the messages have constituted a part of wildlife and natural beauty which the the program. When the weather is park was created to preserve. At the favorable, a large audience attends Plaza in the General Grant Grove this unique ceremony. Section, a ranger naturalist is in CHURCH SERVICES charge of the educational program, Sunday morning services and Sun­ which includes guided field trips, au­ day school are conducted during the tomobile caravans, and campfire en­ season by the Church of the Sequoias tertainments. There are talks on the at the chapel near the park amphi­ giant sequoias and other natural fea­ theatre and at Cedar Grove Camp­ tures by rangers, and music and in­ ground. Vesper services or a program formal entertainment by visitors. of religious instruction, with illustra­ General Grant Grove Section has a ted lectures, feature Sunday evening very fine outdoor amphitheatre, with UP THE RIVER TO KINGS CANYON presentations. a seating capacity of 1,200. Programs are given here and at Cedar Grove RAILROAD, BUS, AND the Sequoia and Kings Canyon Na­ Grove Section direct (not including two or three times a week. AIRPLANE SERVICES tional Parks Co. leaves Fresno daily Sequoia National Park) at $6, one The Southern Pacific Railroad serves at 8:15 a. m. by way of Visalia way, and $9, round trip. All-expense FREE CAMPGROUNDS Fresno, Visalia, and Exeter; the Santa and Exeter, arriving at Giant Forest tours, including sightseeing and all There are five improved camp­ Fe Railway reaches Fresno, Corcoran, about 12:15 p.m. An auto stage leaves accommodations and transportation, grounds in the General Grant Grove and Hanford. Busses take Santa Fe Giant Forest at 1:45 p. m. for the are available at $11 for one-day tour; Section, located among the pines, passengers from Corcoran and Han­ return trip to Fresno, via the General $15.50 for two-day tour. This circle firs, and cedars of the plateau and ford to Visalia. From Visalia and Grant Grove Section, over the spec­ tour service enables travelers to visit ridges near park headquarters. Com­ Fresno park busses are available dur­ tacular Generals Highway, arriving both national parks easily. fort stations, with hot and cold ing the summer season. Pacific Grey­ at Fresno 6:30 p. m. Stops are made at APPROACH TO PARK BY showers, are conveniently located, hound and Santa Fe busses, as well as Tree in Giant For­ HIGHWAY AND TRAIL spring water is piped through the planes of the United Air Lines, connect est, General Grant Tree in Grant Main Entrance:—1. From Fresno, camping areas, and firewood is kept at Fresno. There is also an airplane Grove of Big Trees, and other inter­ over new entrance highway, 56 miles; constantly replenished. landing field at Visalia. esting places en route. Round trip fare over old Highway No. 180, via Pine- At Cedar Grove are three large The stage service to Sequoia and from Fresno, Visalia, or Exeter and hurst, 64 miles; or from Visalia on campgrounds with comfort stations, Kings Canyon National Parks is a return over circle tour route and sched­ Highway 65, 53 miles; to General running water, tables and stoves, and circle tour in one direction only from ule above, with stopover privileges in Grant Grove Section, and thence to wood. Camping provisions are avail­ Fresno, via Visalia and Exeter, to Giant Forest and General Grant Grove the floor of the South Fork of Kings able in the campgrounds. Giant Forest in the Sequoia National Section, $10 a passenger. From Fresno, River Canyon, 30 miles. This State Park, thence via the Generals High­ Visalia, or Exeter to the General road into the canyon ends at Cedar CHRISTMAS TREE CEREMONY way to the General Grant Grove Sec­ Grant Grove Section, via Giant For­ Grove in the , At high noon on Christmas Day tion of Kings Canyon National Park, est, $8 per passenger. "On Call" stage where public campgrounds, adminis­ each year, devotional and patriotic returning direct to Fresno. From June service by advance reservation is avail­ tered by the National Park Service, services are held beneath the General 10 to September 10, an auto stage of able from Fresno to the General Grant are available.

10 Kings Canyon National Park • California Kings Canyon National Park • California 11 Trips up the canyon into the park, Cedar Grove, 22 miles; or by Eliza­ or into the high country, must be beth Pass (11,200 feet), or Colby Pass made on foot or on horseback: (12,000 feet), or Foresters Pass (13,200 Cedar Grove to Kanawyers, on Cop­ feet), from Sequoia National Park. per Creek, 8 miles; Paradise Valley, 5- From Fresno to Huntington 12.8 miles; Vidette Meadows, 19.8 Lake, Highway 168, to end of road miles; Kearsarge Pass, 28 miles; Simp­ at Florence Lake, 84 miles; thence by son Meadows, on Middle Fork, 28 trail through Blaney Meadows, 6 miles. miles; Colby Meadows, in Evolution 2. From Fresno, via the Shaver Valley, 18.6 miles; , 30.4 Lake Road, Highway 168, with turn- miles. off at Shaver Lake, to Dinkey Creek East Side Entrances: —1. An easy and Crabtree Camp, thence by trail approach bv road is from Bishop, to Gnat Meadow, 14 miles; also by Inyo County, up Bishop Creek, High­ rough road via Trimmer and Balch way 168, to Parcher's Resort, 20 miles; Power House to Crabtrees, and thence and thence by trail over Bishop Pass by the poor and very steep Tehipite (12,000 feet), 7 miles, and down Duzy Trail to Tehipite Valley, on the Creek to the Middle Fork of Kings Middle Fork of Kings River, Simpson River, 12 miles; Simpson Meadows, Meadows, 29 miles; or over Hell-for- 25.2 miles. Sure Pass, 11,300 feet, 25 miles, into 2. From Junction on Highway 6, Goddard Canyon, 28 miles; or Evolu­ 8 miles north of Independence, Inyo tion Valley, 33 miles. County, via Sawmill Creek Road, 2 3. From Visalia (53 miles), High­ miles; and thence by trail over Saw­ way 65, to General Grant Grove Sec­ mill Pass to Woods Lake and Woods tion, and thence along the Generals Creek, 10.5 miles; Rae Lakes, 17-5 Highway toward Giant Forest, 8 miles; Sixty Lake Basin, 24-7 miles. miles, to a side road to Big Meadows 3. Easiest approach is from Inde­ and extended narrow road to Horse pendence, Inyo County, via Independ­ Corral Meadow; thence by trail to ence Creek Road, Highway 180, to the floor of the South Fork of Kings Kearsarge Valley, thence by trail over River Canyon, via either the Sheep Kearsarge Pass (11,823 feet), 4 miles; Creek Trail to Cedar Grove, 8 miles; to Bullfrog Lakes, 6 miles; to head of or Scaffold Meadow and the Sphinx Bubbs Creek, 7-2 miles; Glenn Pass, Trail to Bubbs Creek, 21 miles. 8.2 miles; Rae Lakes, 11.6 miles. 4. From Visalia or Exeter to Giant 4. From Independence, up Symmes Forest in Sequoia National Park on Creek Road, 9 miles; and thence by Highway 198; and by the Generals trail over Shepherd Pass, 7-5 miles; to Highway to General Grant Grove Tyndall Creek, 11.5 miles; and over Section, 30 miles; and State Highway Foresters Pass (13,200 feet), 16.5 No. 180, to the floor of Kings Can­ miles; into Bubbs Creek, 23-5 miles. yon, 30 miles; or by trail from Giant 5. From Lone Pine, Inyo County, MAP OF KINGS CANYON NATIONAL PARK Forest over J. O. Pass (9,410 feet), to Whitney Portal, 14 miles; thence

12 Kings Canyon National Park • California Kings Canyon National Park * California 13 by trail over Whitney Pass, 12 miles; price from $2.50 a day for two persons also a service station and repair ga­ mals can be obtained at various places. and Foresters Pass, 35-5 miles—park in a room without bath (double bed) rage equipped for emergency road The names and addresses of these boundary—open only after middle of to $6 a day for two persons in a room service. packers may be secured by addressing July; and head of Bubbs Creek, 42.5 with bath (twin beds). A few bunga­ For further information on trans­ the Superintendent, Kings Canyon miles. This is the best route if trip to low tents are completely equipped for portation and accommodations, ad­ National Park, 313 Federal Building, is included. housekeeping with all necessary uten­ dress: Sequoia and Kings Canyon Na­ Fresno, Calif. 6. From Big Pine, Inyo County, to sils, bedding, and linen. The rent by tional Parks Co., Sequoia National Glacier Lodge and Glacier Pack Train the day is from $2 for one person to Park, Calif. SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY base below the Palisades Glacier, 11 $4-50 for five. By the week, the rates The rates mentioned herein may have Brewer, William H. "Up and Down California miles; thence by trail to Taboose Pass for these housekeeping cottages range changed slightly since issuance of this in 1860-1864." Yale University Press, New Haven. 1930. entrance to the Cartridge Creek and from $12 for one person to $27 for booklet, but the latest rates approved Farquhar, Francis P. "Place Names of the High upper South Fork of the Kings stream five. Water for drinking and cooking by the Secretary of the Interior are on Sierra." , San Francisco. 1926. and lake areas, 20 miles. is piped conveniently to each camp, file at park headquarters. "Exploration of the Sierra Nevada." Cali­ fornia Historical Society Quarterly. San Fran­ and laundry tubs with hot water are The following resorts in the Se­ cisco, California. March 1925. ACCOMMODATIONS AND available without extra charge. quoia National Forest are located Fry, Walter, and White, John R. "The Big - EXPENSES At Meadow Shelter Camp are par­ conveniently on or near the entrance Trees." Stanford University Press. 1930. Re­ vised edition 1938. The most convenient lodge and tially furnished housekeeping cabins highway: Jordan, David Starr. "The Alps of the King(s)- cabin facilities are at General Grant equipped with furniture, but no bed­ Hume Lake Resort.—Hotel, store, Kern Divide." San Francisco. 1907. Grove Section in Kings Canyon Na­ ding or utensils. The rates are $1.50 cabins, free campgrounds, 4 miles dis­ King, Clarence. "Mountaineering in the Sierra tional Park and at Giant Forest in a day for one or two persons and 50c a tant on a side road. Nevada." 1872. New editions 1874, 1902, 1935. Sequoia National Park. It is 30 miles day for each additional person. Linen, Barton's Resort.—Gas, cabins, Matthes, Francois E. "Kings River Canyon and from General Grant Grove Section to blankets, and all other camping equip­ light lunches, soft drinks. ." Sierra Club Bulletin, 1926, Giant Forest over the Generals High­ ment may be rented. A modern sani­ Horseshoe Bend Resort.—Service Vol. 12, No. 3. way and the same distance by the tary toilet and bathhouse is centrally station, AAA towing, store, cabin, Muir, John. "Our National Parks." 1901 and State Highway to Cedar Grove on the located, and laundry tubs with hot later editions. "A Rival of the Yosemite." meals. Century Magazine, November 1891. floor of Kings Canyon. Trips to the water are available without extra MISCELLANEOUS SERVICES Shirley, Clifford J. "Redwoods of Coast and floor of Kings Canyon can be made charge. Sierra." 1936. At General Grant Grove Section easily from either General Grant In Grant Grove Village there is a Starr, Walter A., Jr. "Guide to the John Muir will be found the following facilities: Grove Section or Giant Forest. Coffee Shop where combination Trail and the High Sierra Region." Sierra Post office; telephone; free county li­ Club. San Francisco. 1934. Grant Grove Lodge and Meadow breakfasts are provided from 25 cents brary; village market offering gro­ White, Stewart Edward. "The Pass." 1906. Shelter Camp in the General Grant to 65 cents and luncheons and dinners "The Mountains." 1904. ceries, meats, fresh vegetables, and Grove Section are operated by the Se­ from 50 cents to $1, as well as sand­ Whitney, Joseph Dwight. "Reports of the milk at reasonable prices; gasoline quoia and Kings Canyon National wich and a la carte service. A soda Geological Survey of California." Geology, service station; saddle and pack Vol. 1, 1865. Parks Company. The season is from fountain is located in the Coffee Shop, horses; curios; and coffee shop. Sierra Club Bulletins, 1893 to date. May 15 to November 15. Grant Grove and photographic supplies and sou­ Lodge is a colony of comfortable rustic venirs are obtainable at the Studio. SADDLE HORSES AND MAPS cabins, with and without private At Grant Grove Market, supplies of PACK STOCK U. S. Geological Survey Topographic Maps: bath, and bungalow tent cottages all kinds are available, including Pack trips to Kings Canyon and , Bishop, Tehipite, and grouped around a central office and staple groceries and canned goods, Mount Whitney Quadrangles. Price, 10c other sections of the High Sierra may each. From Geological Survey, , lounge building with massive stone fresh meats, produce, milk, baked be arranged. Saddle horses and pack D. C. fireplace. A modern sanitary toilet goods, drug sundries, hardware, fish­ mules cost $1.50 to $3 a day; burros, National Park Service Administrative Map of and bathhouse is centrally located. ing tackle, etc. Fishing licenses are Sequoia and General Grant National Parks. $1.50 aday; guides or packers, $5 aday; Price, 25c each. From Geological Survey, European plan lodging rates range in obtainable at the market. There are cooks, $6 a day. Riding and pack ani­ Washington, D. C.

14 Kings Canyon National Park • California Kings Canyon National Park * California 15 RULES AND REGULATIONS lations . Dead and down timber, except [Briefed] sequoia, may be used for firewood. Let no one say, and say it to your shame, Live growth must not be in any way That all was beauty here until you came. injured. The park regulations are designed Animals, Birds.—Do not kill, cap­ for the protection of the natural beau­ ture, or scare. They are your friends. ties and scenery as well as for the Feeding, touching, teasing, or molest­ comfort and convenience of visitors. ing bears is prohibited. Complete regulations may be seen at Dogs and Cats.—Dogs and cats are park headquarters. The following prohibited on the Government lands synopsis is for the general guidance in the park unless such animals are on of visitors, who are requested to assist leash, crated, or otherwise under the administration by observing the physical restrictive control at all rules. times: Provided, however, that the Park Signs .—Please read them; they Superintendent may designate areas are for your protection and guidance. to which dogs and cats may not be Fires.—Light carefully and in des­ admitted. ignated places. Extinguish completely Fishing.—Get a State license. The before leaving camp even for tempo­ limit is 15 fish a day or 7 pounds and rary absence. Do not guess your fire 1 fish. Avoid closed waters. is out—know it. Hunting, Firearms.—Hunting and Smoking Restrictions.—No smok­ trapping are not allowed in the park. ing will be allowed during the fire Firearms must be sealed at entrance. season while visitors are in motion on Noises.—Be quiet in camp after 10 roads or trails in the park. Smoking p. m. Many people come here for rest. is permitted in camps or at stations. No outboard motors allowed on lakes Warning signs will indicate the sea­ or streams. son of fire hazards and will be re­ Automobiles.—Drive carefully. moved only when danger from this Keep cut-outs closed. Obey park traf­ source is over. Watch the signs. fic rules. The automobile, trailer, or Camps. —Keep your camp clean. motorcycle fee is $1, good for calendar As far as possible burn garbage in year in Kings Canyon and Sequoia campfire and put empty cans and National Parks. residue into garbage cans or pits pro­ Park Rangers.—The rangers are vided. If no can or pit is provided, here to help and advise you as well bury the refuse. as to enforce the regulations. When Trash.—Do not throw paper, lunch in doubt, ask a ranger. refuse, kodak cartons, chewing gum Penalties.—Please study the regu­ paper, or other trash on trails, roads, lations. We shall enforce them as or elsewhere. Carry until you can burn courteously and liberally as possible; in camp or place in receptacle. but deliberate infraction may bring Trees, Shrubs, Flowers.—Do not penalty not to exceed $500 fine or 6 touch them until you know the regu­ months' imprisonment, or both.

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