Places Yosemite

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KINGS CANYON

Yosemite National Park

LAB TECHS BEBS & JOSIE requested some weeks off from their hectic lab disciplines and went on a fun road trip to Kings Canyon National Park, a 454,600-acre forest preserve located in the Sierra Nevada Mountains of east-central California.  It has some of the highest peaks and deep canyons and contains trees that are more than 2,000 to 3,000 years old.  These trees are considered by many nature lovers and conservationists as a national shrine.  Let's pretend we're traveling side by side with Bebs & Josie as they drove along the roads and wilderness of this famous forest park where many tourists hike or ride horses along the trails of Kings Canyon....

    The General Grant National Park contains the oldest and largest sequoia trees in the United States.  The most famous is General Grant, the second largest tree in the world and named after the foremost Civil War hero Ulysses S. Grant.  The General Sherman tree is the largest living thing on earth.

 

Josie had to stop her car along the giant trees (Sequoia Gigantea) because there's a bear on the middle of the road.  There are many bears and deers. Bebs later told folks of their un-bear-able adventure with the animal. 

 

Pictures speak a thousand words....so let 'em speak....

 

In 1940, the General Grant National Park was combined with the Kings River section, a wilderness that has high mountains and deep canyons.

The Kings River lies northeast of Grant Grove. The winding river carves out Tehipite Valley Canyon and Kings Canyon.  The Kings Canyon is about 10 miles long, half mile wide with walls that are 2,500 to 5,000 feet high.  Snow-capped mountain peaks are perfect background for the canyons.  One of the highest peaks is North Palisade (14,254 ft.)

 

 Tranquil and peaceful, a region of sparkling lakes, rushing streams, and jagged mountain edges.

    

Come and visit this most beautiful place with 30 kinds of trees, more than 1,300 varieties of plants, over 60 kinds of animals, and more than 200 species of birds.    

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