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Anaheim Resort Transportation (ART), established in 1998 as the Anaheim Transportation Network (ATN) [2] and formerly known as Anaheim Resort Transit, [5] [11] is a mass transportation provider in the Anaheim Resort area [5] and its environs [4] in Orange County, California, United States.
State Route 198 (SR 198) is an east–west state highway in the U.S. state of California that runs from U.S. Route 101 (US 101) south of King City to Sequoia National Park. It connects the California Central Coast to the mid– Central Valley through Hanford and Visalia , although the most developed portion is in the Central Valley itself.
Visalia Transit, Tulare County Area Transit (TCAT), Sequoia Shuttle, The Loop, Dial-A-Ride, Visalia Towne Trolley, Amtrak, and private operators The intercity transportation system in Visalia serves as a regional hub for passenger and freight traffic in the Sequoia Valley , composed of freeways , roads, and bus lines.
Many park visitors enter Sequoia National Park through its southern entrance near the town of Three Rivers at Ash Mountain at 1,700 ft (520 m) elevation. The lower elevations around Ash Mountain contain the only National Park Service-protected California Foothills ecosystem, consisting of blue oak woodlands, foothills chaparral, grasslands, yucca plants, and steep, mild river valleys.
The Generals Highway begins as a continuation of SR 198, where the state highway legally ends at the southern boundary of Sequoia National Park. The road travels northeast along the middle fork of the Kaweah River and enters Sequoia National Park through the Indian Head Entrance. Near the Hospital Rock turnout, the road turns north and goes ...
Mineral King is a 7.5-mile-long (12.1 km), 1-mile-wide (1.6 km) glacial valley in the southern Sierra Nevada.The valley floor lies at an elevation of 7,400 feet (2,300 m), while the granite peaks rising above the head of the valley reach heights of 11,000 feet (3,400 m) or more.
Sequoia National Park was first preserved as land set aside for recreation through a bill, Sept. 25, 1890, ch. 926, §1, 26 Stat. 478, passed by Congress and signed by President Benjamin Harrison on September 5, 1890, largely due to the efforts of Colonel George W. Stewart, who is known as the "Father of Sequoia National Park". [7]
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 ...