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Sequoia & Kings Canyon

National Parks

California

Sequoia National Park:

Established: September 25, 1890

404,064 acres

Annual Visitors: 1,291,256 (in 2017)

Kings Canyon National Park:

Established:

October 1, 1890 (General Grant National Park)

March 4, 1940 (Kings Canyon National Park)

461,901 acres

Annual Visitors: 692,932 (in 2017)

The Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Parks is the consolidated management structure for Sequoia National Park and Kings Canyon National Park in California. The two parks have been jointly administered since 1943. They have a combined size of 1,353 square miles. (Wikipedia)

Official Site: https://www.nps.gov/seki/index.htm

Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sequoia_and_Kings_Canyon_National_Parks

Sequoia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sequoia_National_Park
Kings Canyon: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kings_Canyon_National_Park
General Grant: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Grant_Grove

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/SequoiaKingsNPS

Twitter: https://twitter.com/@sequoiakingsnps

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/sequoiakingsnps

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Hikes and Trails in Sequoia-Kings Canyon National Park | Modern HikerNamesake of the world’s largest living thing (as well as one of the tallest and oldest), Sequoia National Park is an incredible landscape. From tall trees to deep canyons, snow-capped mountains and glaciers to rushing rivers, this park traverses some of the Lower 48’s most beautiful landscape. Easily accessible trails attract the bulk of the …

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