Sequoia & Kings Canyon National Parks
The adjacent Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Parks in the southern Sierra Nevada of California have some accessible and easy trails. The parks include high mountains, rugged foothills, deep canyons, marble caverns, and the world’s largest trees. Elevations range from 1,300′ in the foothills to 14,491′ at the summit of Mt. Whitney. Much of the parks area is designated wilderness. The two parks are administered together by the National Park Service. Thank you Gary Rogers for bringing these parks to my attention.
There are five visitor centers and a museum. Two of the visitor centers, Foothills and Kings Canyon, and the museum are open year around.
Here is the Parks’ website. Park phone 559-565-3341
Cedar Grove area trails
Zumwalt Meadow 1.5-mile trail, some of it boardwalk. The trail “…passes high granite walls, lush meadows, and the Kings River.” Parts of this trail were washed out in early 2017, making it more difficult. Check with the visitor center.
Roaring River Falls paved “Relatively accessible” “…A very short, shady walk to a powerful waterfall rushing through a granite chute.”
? Mist Falls 3 of the first 4 miles to the falls are “relatively flat” but the last mile to the falls rises 600″.
Giant Forest and Lodgepole trails
General Sherman Tree. There is handicapped parking and an accessible trail two miles north of the Giant Forest Museum on the Generals Highway. The main trail is only 0.5 mile, but includes some stairs.
Big Trees Trail 0.66 mile paved loop starting at Giant Forest Museum.
Grant Grove trails
General Grant Tree Trail 0.33 mile paved. Trail to one of the world’s largest living trees.
? North Grove Loop 1.5 mile through “…quiet walk past meadows and creeks, through mixed conifer and sequoia forest.”