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Rae Lakes Creek in Kings Canyon National Park, within the Sequoia-Kings Canyon biosphere reserve. The Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Parks is the consolidated management structure for Sequoia National Park and Kings Canyon National Park in California. Both parks have been jointly administered since 1943. They have a combined size of 1,353 ...
The Sequoia-Kings Canyon Wilderness encompasses over 768,000 acres (311,000 ha) in Kings Canyon and Sequoia National Parks, or nearly 90 percent of their combined area. [8] In addition to Sequoia National Park on the south, Kings Canyon is surrounded by multiple national forests and wilderness areas.
The park's giant sequoia forests are part of 202,430 acres (316 sq mi; 81,921 ha; 819 km 2) of old-growth forests shared by Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Parks. [6] The parks preserve a landscape that was first cultivated by the Monache tribe, the southern Sierra Nevada before Euro-American settlement.
This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Sequoia National Park and Kings Canyon National Park, California, United States. The locations of National Register properties and districts for which the latitude and longitude coordinates are included below, may be seen in a ...
Big Stump Grove is a giant sequoia grove located at the southwest entrance of Kings Canyon National Park in the Sierra Nevada of California. It is one of a group of eight close but narrowly separated Giant Sequoia groves situated in Giant Sequoia National Monument and Kings Canyon National Park.
General Grant Grove, a section of the greater Kings Canyon National Park, was established by the U.S. Congress in 1890 and is located in Fresno County, California.The primary attraction of General Grant Grove is the giant sequoia trees that populate the grove.
Triple Divide Peak is a mountain along the Great Western Divide in the Sierra Nevada range on the boundary between Kings Canyon and Sequoia national parks, in Tulare County, California. It rises to 12,640 feet (3,853 m). [1] Near Kaweah Gap, the peak divides three important watersheds: the Kern River, the Kaweah River, and the Kings River.
The Robert E. Lee tree is the second largest giant sequoia in the Grant Grove section of Kings Canyon National Park, and the eleventh largest giant sequoia in the world. Richard Field, a Confederate lieutenant, named this tree in honor of Robert E. Lee around 1875. [ 1 ]