Earlier this month, we made a trip to the 2 "forgotten" National Parks in central California, Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Parks. We drove up on Friday, stopping in Bakersfield for coffee with a high school friend of Rodney's that lives there. We left at 5:00 AM to avoid LA traffic and pulled into the coffee shop in Bakersfield at 7:15 AM!
The drive there to the entrance is about 90 minutes. We took CA-99 to CA-198 through Visalia. We bought a National Parks Pass so we could use it as incentive to visit other parks Rasila has not seen that are drivable from Southern California.
We camped in the Lodgepole campground, along the Marble Fork of the Kaweah River, which is the west drainage of Sequoia National Park. King's River is what drains Kings Canyon, and the Kern River drains the valley between the Great Western Range and Mount Whitney.
We did short day hikes and drove over to King's Canyon's visitors center, General Grant Grove, and the Panoramic Overview. There is so much wilderness there you have to see it to really appreciate it.
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