Table of Contents
(listed from northwest to southeast)

Big Stump Grove (3)

General Grant Grove (3)

Converse Basin, Stump Meadow (5)

Indian Creek and Hume Lake (1)

The Kings River Highway (6)

Cedar Grove in Kings Canyon (5)

Zumwalt Meadows (4)

South Fork of the Kings River (5)

The Generals Highway (2)

Tokopah Valley (3)

General Sherman Tree (1)

Muir Grove (3)

Giant Forest (5)

Crescent Meadow (6)

Moro Rock (5)

Kaweah River Approach (3)

Mineral King Road (6)

Mineral King (4)

Sawtooth Pass (8)

Kern River and Southern Sierra (1)

Tehachapi Pass (3)

(see also the Fullscreen versions)

Complete Listing (see also the Fullscreen versions)
listed from northwest to southeast

The Big Stump Grove

Snow on the Kings Canyon Highway, above Miramonte.

The Burnt Monarch in the Big Stump Grove.

A huge pile of sawdust remains after more than a century.

The stump of the Mark Twain Tree, cut for exhibition.

The General Grant Grove of Giant Sequoias

The General Grant Tree, from the official "photo point".

The General Grant Tree from the official photo point in winter.

The Oregon and California Trees, in Grant Grove.

The Oregon and California Trees in winter snow.

The Fallen Monarch in winter.

Inside the Fallen Monarch tree, Grant Grove, Kings Canyon National Park.

Converse Basin and Stump Meadow

Looking over the McGee Fire area from the Kings Canyon Highway.

Converse Basin, once the largest Sequoia grove, but almost completely logged.

A stump-filled meadow in Converse Basin.

Looking out over the lower canyon of the Kings River, from near the Boole Tree.

Stump Meadow in Converse Basin.

A hollow log in Stump Meadow, Converse Basin.

Indian Creek and Hume Lake

Indian Creek Meadow, east of Converse Basin.

The lower end of Indian Creek Meadow in winter.

Winter at the Hume Lake Christian Camps.

The Kings River Highway

Above Yucca Point on the Kings Highway.

Wildflowers near Yucca Point on the Kings Highway

Just above the gorge of the South Fork on the Kings River Highway.

Horseshoe Bend on the South Fork Kings River.

Towering limestone cliffs at Boyden Cavern.

The South Fork of the Kings River below Kings Canyon.

Cedar Grove in Kings Canyon

Incense cedars along the Kings River in Kings Canyon.

Muir's Pulpit on the South Fork of the Kings River.

John Muir gave lectures from this very point.

Roaring River Falls in spring.

Knapps Cabin, a relic of early tourism in Kings Canyon.

Zumwalt Meadows in Kings Canyon

Zumwalt Meadows in Kings Canyon.

Zumwalt Meadows, on the Kings River in Kings Canyon.

Talus piles on the south side of Zumwalt Meadows.

Footbridge across the South Fork Kings River.

Along the South Fork of the Kings River

Kings Canyon upstream from Zumwalt Meadows.

The Bailey bridge over the Kings River at Bubbs Creek.

The canyon of the South Fork at the top of Kings Canyon.

Mist Falls on the Kings River, near the top.

The cataract at the top of Mist Falls, Kings River.

The Generals Highway

From the Redwood Mountain viewpoint on the Generals Highway, Sequoia National Forest.

(Deep snow at the Kings Canyon wilderness viewpoint, Generals Highway, Sequoia National Forest.)

Lost Grove straddles the Generals Highway.

Tokopah Valley

The Marble Fork of the Kaweah River, in Tokopah Valley.

On the trail to Tokopah Falls.

At the base of Tokopah Falls, early summer.

General Sherman Tree and the Congress Trail

(At the base of the General Sherman Tree in winter, Sequoia National Park.)

(Footbridge on the Congress Trail, winter.)

(Sequoias on the CongressTrail, near the General Sherman tree.)

The Senate Group of Giant Sequoias in winter.

Muir Grove

Approaching Muir Grove, from the granite dome to the east.

A dense grouping of mature Sequoias, Muir Grove.

A large Sequoia burnt entirely through at its base.

Giant Forest

Four giant Sequoias flank the road entering Giant Forest.

The Sentinel Tree in front of the Giant Forest Visitor Center.

(Snow in Round Meadow, Giant Forest.)

(The old Giant Forest Market, now closed.)

On the east side of Round Meadow.

Medium size Sequoias on the north side of Round Meadow.

Beetle Rock, at the edge of the Giant Forest

Crescent Meadow

The Drive-Through Log on the Crescent Meadow Road.

Wildflowers in Crescent Meadow.

A Sequoia log that has fallen into Crescent Meadow.

Huckleberry Meadow, near Crescent Meadow.

Log Meadow, named for Tharp's Log.

Tharp's Log, a pioneer cabin built into a hollow log.

Moro Rock

The view opens up as one ascends Moro Rock.

Stairs and ramps take one safely to the top of Moro Rock.

Looking toward the Great Western Divide, from the top of Moro Rock.

At the summit of Moro Rock.

The viewpoint over the Kaweah River Canyon, Moro Rock.

The Kaweah River Approach to Sequoia Park

Lake Kaweah in the foothills.

(Blue oak woodland near Ash Mountain on the Kaweah River.)

A foothills hillside in spring, near the Ash Mountain entrance.

(Indian swimming hole below Hospital Rock on the Kaweah River.)

Amphitheater Point, on the southern approach to Giant Forest.

Mineral King Road

The road to Mineral King winds for many miles through the rugged foothills.

Panorama Point at the park boundary on the Mineral King Road.

The site of Atwell Mill, where Sequoias were cut in the nineteenth century.

Footbridge over the east Fork of the Kaweah River, near Atwell Mill.

Prescribed burning has opened up many of the Sequoia groves.

The Kaweah River Canyon just below Mineral King.

Mineral King

Downtown Mineral King, just a scattering of cabins.

At the base of the Sawtooth Pass trail in Mineral King.

The Mineral King Valley, past the end of the road.

Extensive meadows in the Mineral King valley.

The Sawtooth Pass Trail

Just above Groundhog Meadow on the Sawtooth Pass trail.

On a rocky spur below Monarch Lake.

Evening at the foot of Sawtooth Pass.

Nightfall at Monarch Lake.

Moonlight at Monarch Lake.

The steep sandy switchbacks up to Sawtooth Pass.

At the summit of Sawtooth Pass.

On the divide between Sawtooth Pass and Glacier Pass.

The Kern River and Southern Sierra

The Piute Mountains north of Tehachapi Pass.

Tehachapi Pass

(Old mine at Lorraine, Caliente Creek.)

Oak parkland on the Tejon Ranch, Tehachapi Pass highway.

The Monolith cement plant, at Tehachapi Pass.

Wind turbines at Oak Creek Pass.