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Yosemite, Sequoia & Kings Canyon National Parks 5 ©Lonely Planet Publications Pty Ltd Yosemite, Sequoia & Kings Canyon National Parks Yosemite National Park p44 Around Yosemite National Park p134 Sequoia & Kings Canyon National Parks p165 Michael Grosberg, Jade Bremner PLAN YOUR TRIP ON THE ROAD Welcome to Yosemite, YOSEMITE NATIONAL Tuolumne Meadows . 80 Sequoia & PARK . 44 Hetch Hetchy . 86 Kings Canyon . 4 Driving . 87 Yosemite, Sequoia & Day Hikes . 48 Kings Canyon Map . 6 Yosemite Valley . 48 Cycling . 87 Yosemite, Sequoia & Big Oak Flat Road Other Activities . 90 Kings Canyon Top 16 . 8 & Tioga Road . 56 Winter Activities . 95 Need to Know . 16 Glacier Point & Sights . 97 Badger Pass . 60 What’s New . 18 Yosemite Valley . 97 Tuolumne Meadows . 64 If You Like . 19 Glacier Point & Wawona . 68 Month by Month . 22 Badger Pass Region . 103 Hetch Hetchy . 70 Itineraries . 24 Tuolumne Meadows . 106 Activities . 28 Overnight Hikes . 72 Wawona . 109 Yosemite Valley . 74 Travel with Children . 36 Along Tioga Road . 112 Big Oak Flat & Travel with Pets . 41 Big Oak Flat Road . 114 Tioga Road . 75 Hetch Hetchy . 115 Glacier Point & Badger Pass . 78 Sleeping . 116 Yosemite Valley . 116 VEZZANI PHOTOGRAPHY/SHUTTERSTOCK © VEZZANI PHOTOGRAPHY/SHUTTERSTOCK DECEMBER35/SHUTTERSTOCK © NIGHT SKY, GLACIER POINT P104 PEGGY SELLS/SHUTTERSTOCK © SELLS/SHUTTERSTOCK PEGGY HORSETAIL FALL P103 VIEW FROM TUNNEL VIEW P45 Contents UNDERSTAND Yosemite, Sequoia & TAHA RAJA/500PX TAHA Kings Canyon Today . .. 208 History . 210 Geology . 216 © Wildlife . 221 Conservation . 228 SURVIVAL GUIDE VIEW OF HALF DOME FROM Clothing & GLACIER POINT P104 Equipment . 232 Directory A–Z . 236 Glacier Point & SEQUOIA & KINGS Badger Pass . 118 Transportation . 244 CANYON NATIONAL Health & Safety . 249 Big Oak Flat Road & PARKS . 165 Tioga Road . 120 Index . 255 Day Hikes . 167 Tuolumne Meadows . 123 Map Legend . 263 Sequoia National Park . 167 Wawona . 123 Kings Canyon Hetch Hetchy . 123 National Park . 174 © REISER/SHUTTERSTOCK OWEN Eating & Drinking . 125 Overnight Hikes . 176 Yosemite Valley . 125 Sequoia National Park . 178 Glacier Point Road & Kings Canyon Badger Pass . 127 National Park . 179 Wawona . 127 Driving . 182 Big Oak Flat Road & Other Activities . 183 Tioga Road . 128 Sights . 187 Tuolumne Meadows . 128 Sequoia National Park . 187 Hetch Hetchy . 128 Kings Canyon National Park . 189 SUMMIT OF CLOUDS REST P59 AROUND YOSEMITE Sleeping . 196 NATIONAL PARK . 134 Sequoia National Park . 196 Yosemite Gateways . 136 Kings Canyon SPECIAL Highway 140 . 136 National Park . 199 FEATURES Highway 120 (West) . 138 Eating & Drinking . 201 Hiking in Yosemite . .. 50 South of Yosemite Sequoia National Park . 201 Hiking in Sequoia (Highway 41) . 140 Kings Canyon & Kings Canyon . 172 Fish Camp . 140 National Park . 202 Geology . 216 Oakhurst . 141 Around Sequoia & Wildlife . 221 Tioga Pass to Lee Vining . 142 Kings Canyon National Parks . 204 Clothing & Eastern Sierra . 144 Three Rivers . 204 Equipment . .. 232 North of Mono Lake . 145 Visalia . .. 206 Mammoth Lakes Region . 148 ©Lonely Planet Publications Pty Ltd 24 Itineraries Yosemite Falls Trail •# Glacier Mountain Room Lounge •# RHalf Dome Point •# Tunnel •#Mist Trail View •# R É Taft Point & the Fissures É #÷ Yosemite National Park É É Big Trees •# Lodge Mariposa •# Grove 2 DAYS A Weekend in Yosemite Feast on a multicourse banquet of Yosemite Valley attractions, scenic overlooks and giant sequoias. Pack a lunch and head out to conquer the long climb of either the Mist Trail or the Yosemite Falls Trail, giving yourself lots of scenic breathers along the way. Quench your thirst post-hike with a celebratory drink at the Yosemite Valley Lodge’s Mountain Room Lounge, and in the evening hear the rangers spin tales at a convivial campfire program. On your second day, pack up and proceed to Glacier Point, stopping en route for a leisurely stroll to vertigo-inducing Taft Point and the Fissures. Save lunch for when you get to road’s end, in full view of Half Dome and Vernal and Nevada Falls. Continue past Wawona to the South Entrance to take a gander at the giant sequoias of Mariposa Grove. Return to the historic Big Trees Lodge for dinner in its classy dining room. On your way home, stop at the magnificent Tunnel View lookout, taking in one last valley eyeful before you leave. 25 •#Bodie State Historic Park •#Mono Yosemite Lake National Park É #÷ June Lake Loop Ansel Adams •#•# Wilderness Area Mammoth PLAN YOUR TRIP •# Lakes •# Devils Postpile É National Monument & Reds Meadow Laws Railroad Museum •# & Historic Site IT É I NERAR #÷ Kings Canyon Manzanar National National Park I •# Historic Site ES Whitney Lone Portal •# •#•# Sequoia Pine National #÷ Alabama Park Hills 2 WEEKS Highway 395 (Eastern Sierra Scenic Byway) Start in diminutive Lone Pine, exploring the fascinating paraphernalia from hundreds of movies in the Museum of Western Film History. Then head out to the nearby orange, round-earthen mounds of the otherworldly Alabama Hills, where many of the Old West Hollywood movies were shot. Day-trippers can make like they’re on their way to climb the jagged peak of 14,505ft Mt Whitney by heading to Whitney Portal and Lone Pine Lake. Just up the road, near even tinier Independence, is the Manzanar National Historic Site, a museum dedicated to telling the story of a dark chapters in US history, located on the barren, windswept land of the former WWII-era internment camp. You could then spend many days around Bishop, the second-largest town in the Eastern Sierra, hiking, cycling, fishing, bouldering… and hitting the Laws Railroad Museum & Historic Site’s collection of antique railcars. Same goes for the year-round resort town of Mammoth Lakes (the mountain’s ski season can run into June), with backcountry hikes galore, and a massive mountain-bike park. Don’t miss Reds Mead- ow, just west of Mammoth Mountain, and the surreal 10,000-year-old Devils Postpile National Monument. The drive around the June Lake Loop, under the shadow of Carson Peak, meanders through a horseshoe canyon, especially scenic in fall, and it’s backed by the Ansel Ad- ams Wilderness Area and its world-class high-country trails. In summer the swim- ming beach is a revelation of fun. For some geographic diversity, drive a little further north to Mono Lake to walk to its glassy surface and unearthly tufa towers. An appro- priate coda to the trip is wandering among the frozen-in-time gold-rush-era buildings in the preserved ghost town of Bodie State Historic Park. 26 Tueeulala & Wapama Falls •# Hetch Hetchy Reservoir Tuolumne Sequoia Lodgepole PLAN YOUR TRIP Meadows National Park Village •# ÷# •# Tenaya É Crystal Lake •# •# É Cave É É •#Olmsted Point É Giant É Yosemite Merced River Forest•# Crescent •# Valley •# •#Meadow •# Vernal & •# •# •# Glacier Nevada Falls IT Moro Rock Point I NERAR •# #÷ Hospital Rock Yosemite É É I Tunnel Rock É National Park •# ES •# Foothills •# Chilnualna Falls Big Trees Lodge •# Visitor Center •# Mariposa Grove Sequoia National 8 Yosemite Complete 1 DAY DAYS Park Pack in all of Yosemite’s major sights on Big trees, deep caves and high granite a tour of waterfalls, sequoias and high- domes are all on the agenda for this day- country vistas. Spend your first day stroll- long tour of Sequoia National Park. ing the crowd-free loop Yosemite Valley Start your day at the Foothills Visi- trails. Next day, hike the drenched Mist tor Center, stopping long enough to get Trail to Vernal and Nevada Falls. The oriented. Head north on the Generals following day float along the Merced Hwy, hitting the brakes at Tunnel Rock – River – the best rafting views you’ll ever visualize squeezing through in a tin lizzie have. Reserve day four to huff and puff the (small early-model car) – and to see Native Four Mile Trail to Glacier Point for vistas American pictographs and grinding holes from the park’s most famous viewpoint, at Hospital Rock, near riverside swim- or take a climbing class with the Yosemite ming holes. Mountaineering School. Arriving in Giant Forest, let yourself Drive out to Hetch Hetchy for a day trip be dwarfed by the majestic General Sher- and hike to Tueeulala Falls and Wa- man Tree, the world’s largest tree. Learn pama Falls. Next morning, gobble down a more about giant sequoias at the kid- filling breakfast at the historic Big Trees friendly Giant Forest Museum. Hop on the Lodge, park at Yosemite’s South Entrance park shuttle for a wildflower walk around and humble yourself exploring the ancient Crescent Meadow and to climb the . Pack a lunch and hike Mariposa Grove puff-and-pant stairway up Moro Rock for to thundering Chilnualna Falls, near bird’s-eye canyon and peak views. Wawona. The following day, stop to marvel at Olmsted Point from the Tioga Rd view- Picnic by the river at Lodgepole Vil- point, and take in the dazzling views from lage, then get back in your car and make the sandy shores of Tenaya Lake. Wind up your way to the chilly underground won- your trip with a wander around the Sierra derland of Crystal Cave, where you can Nevada’s biggest alpine meadow while marvel at delicate marble formations while camped at Tuolumne Meadows. easing through eerie passageways. 27 ÷# Kings Canyon Saddlebag National Park Tuolumne Lake Bodie State •# Meadows Historic Park PLAN YOUR TRIP •#Mono Lake Yosemite É Converse Junction •# National É •# Basin View Park June Lake Loop #• Knapp's #÷ •# Grove É Yosemite•# Mammoth Lakes #• É Cabin Muir •#•# Rock Valley •# Hot •# #•Hume Lake #• •# Devils Ancient #• Cedar Grove #• #• Wawona Springs #• É É Kings Canyon Village #• Postpile É Bristlecone É National #• Scenic Byway Roaring Pine Forest #• Zumwalt Monument Grant Grove Village River É Meadow É IT General Grant Falls I NERAR Grove É Kings Canyon National Park ÷# Kings Canyon É National Park #÷ •# Manzanar É •# #÷ Sequoia I National Lone ES Park Pine ÷# Sequoia National Park Kings Canyon Sequoia to 1 DAY 14 National Park DAYS Alabama Hills From giant sequoia crowns to the depths Kick off the trip with three to four days in of the Kings River canyon, this twisting Sequoia and Kings Canyon National scenic drive is an eye-popping revelation.
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