Visiting Kings Canyon National Park - March 1st, 2018

On our second full day here at Sequoia Ranch RV park, we decided to set out to check out Kings Canyon national park. Since the weather was forecasted to be cool, we decided to take the dogs along for the ride even though they could not exit the vehicle while in the park. And as always, they really enjoyed it! These three really are great traveling dogs!

Though the weather was cool, and cloudy, we still very much enjoyed this days adventure. We found that the drive took us up to about 7,000 feet and because of the storm system moving through, we spent a fair amount of time in the clouds. None the less, we loved everything that we saw.

We had a chance to check out the Gamlin Cabin which has served many purposes over its many years of existence.

There was also this tree that fell over in the 1800's that served as shelter for early settlers and also the cavalry at one point that use to patrol the park before the national parks service.

We also got to see the General Grant Tree. The hike to this tree was much more leisurely than the one to see the General Sherman tree that we saw the day before.

The drive up to Kings Canyon took us through some rather windy back roads. In the summer time, when coming from Three rivers, you can drive through Sequoia National park to Kings Canyon but it takes a long time. Basically, there is no easy way to get to Kings Canyon from Three Rivers, but for the most comfortable drive, that also allows you to set in provisions, taking the long way through Visalia can work out well.

Safe Travels All!

Carol and Eric Anderson

On the Road to Sequoia National park - April 30th, 2018

We were invited to see our niece Morgan is get married on the 4th of May in Southern California, and never wanting to miss a party, we accepted the invitation. Carol had the amazing idea that while on the way that we stop at Sequoia National park for a couple of days so that we could check it, as well as it's sister park of 'Kings Canyon' out. Well, as usually, Carol's idea was amazing! We chose as our base of operations the 'Sequoia Ranch RV park' in Three rivers California. The RV park here is a little on the rustic side, but for us, it was very enjoyable. This park has everything we could want. It has full hook ups, a river near many of the camp sites, and an amazing Dog Bark Park that was rarely used by the other RV'ers. Though the park is a little on the rustic side, it is very well maintained. We even found that there is a swimming hole on the property. Though dogs are not allowed in the swimming hole, they are allowed down stream a ways. 

The park has RV sites as well as tent camping sites and is open all year long. 

We arrived at the park on Sunday and set up camp. On Monday we set out to Sequoia National park to see the beautiful ancient trees of this forest. Though it was a cloudy day, we could not have been more pleasantly surprised by what we discovered. This national park is just amazing as far as the vista's that you come across while you are exploring the area. 

There are many amazing places to check out in this park such as 'Hospital Rock'. 

The furthest point of our drive on this day was to the Wuksachi Lodge for lunch. This lodge hasn't been here that long, it was built back in 1999 as a replacement to some of the more rural accommodations that use to be down among the Sequoia Trees that were threatening to the trees and also in danger of being damaged by falling limbs from trees. 

We went on a half mile hike down to the General Sherman Tree which is the largest tree by volume in the world. Though the hike was only a half mile, it did descend about 300 feet down to the tree. And as we all know, what goes down must go up! So, the hike up took us a little longer than the hike down. None the less, this was well worth the experience. 

There is a great visitor center here with a lot of great information about the trees and how they have survived for literally thousands of years. 

We would definitely like to return here again soon! 

Safe Travels! 

Eric and Carol Anderson