Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Parks - 1970

2. Kings River

Kings Canyon National Park consists of two sections. The small, detached General Grant Grove section of Kings Canyon National Park preserves several groves of giant sequoia including the General Grant Grove, with the famous General Grant Tree, and the Redwood Mountain Grove, which is the largest remaining natural Giant Sequoia grove in the world (covering 3,100 acres and with 15,800 sequoia trees over one foot in diameter at their bases). The park's Giant Sequoia forests are part of 202,430 acres (of old-growth forests shared by Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Parks. This section of the park is mostly mixed conifer forest, and is readily accessible via paved highways.