We left the cousins around noon and took a very long and winding road to get to Kings Canyon. It dropped quite a distance, with some up and down. We saw evidence of the fire that had evacuated our relatives and an abandoned high school.
Arrived at the park n the afternoon and finally discovered why it is Kings Canyon and Sequoia National Park. They share at least one entrance. Not unlike Petrified Forest and Painted Desert.
As planned we drove down to the designated parking lot for the shuttle and took the shuttle around the park.
The super impressive entrance sign.
If we thought the road to the park was long and winding, it had nothing on the road in the park.
That very narrow road caused problems as there were poles for the snow right off the edge of the white line, and while most of the poles were three feet high, one of them was six feet high and hit our rearview mirror. Which then wacked into the passenger window and scared Paul (as well as shattering). Fortunately, it did not break the passenger window.
Giant Trees everywhere,
Forest.
After driving a while, we left Kings Canyon and entered Sequoia NP.
And there were even bigger trees. We saw General Sherman - the biggest tree. and hiked around the loop and saw lots of other big trees.
Then, having timed it just so we had seen everything just as the last shuttle left, we returned to the RV and drove out of the park the way we came, and headed off to the RV Park.
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