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REOPENING UPDATES
Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Parks personnel continue to make progress with snow clearing, damage repairs, and all the various tasks associated with recovering from a historic winter season. Memorial Day weekend is the usual kick-off to summer in the parks, but unfortunately this year, access to the world’s largest tree (by volume) and the surrounding Giant Forest and Lodgepole area will not be open in time.
Based on road repair assessments and snow clearing that still needs to happen, with only a couple weeks left before the holiday weekend, the difficult decision was made to postpone the reopening to this area to sometime between June 2 and June 9.
Current status and projected reopening timeframes as of May 11:
SEQUOIA NATIONAL PARK
The Foothills area between the Sequoia entrance station and Hospital Rock is CURRENTLY OPEN. This area provides access to lower elevation camping, trails, wildflowers, wilderness, rivers, and more. No access to giant sequoias.
The Giant Forest/Wolverton/Lodgepole/Wuksachi Area is CURRENTLY CLOSED. This area provides access to giant sequoias, the General Sherman Tree, camping, lodging, wilderness, Moro Rock, Tunnel Log, and more.
Estimated reopening via Highway 180 through the Kings Canyon entrance station is now June 2 – June 9.
Estimated reopening via Highway 198 through the Sequoia entrance station is now July 1.
Crystal Cave is CLOSED FOR 2023.
Due to significant road damage along Crystal Cave Road.
Mineral King is CURRENTLY CLOSED.
Due to severe road damage along the Mineral King Road both inside and outside the park boundary, no vehicular public access is anticipated before August, and likely to be later. Other types of access will be assessed in June after Tulare County completes temporary repair work and park personnel can go in and assess damage within the park boundary.
KINGS CANYON NATIONAL PARK
Grant Grove is CURRENTLY OPEN. This area provides access to giant sequoias, the General Grant Tree, winter snowplay, camping, lodging, restaurant, trails, and more.
Cedar Grove is CURRENTLY CLOSED.
Due to severe road damage along the Highway 180 corridor, outside the park, between Grant Grove and Cedar Grove, Caltrans does not expect repairs to be completed before the end of the summer season. This means public access is not expected into the Cedar Grove area of Kings Canyon National Park for the 2023 summer season.
We encourage visitors to explore areas that are open this upcoming holiday weekend.
For trip-planning information and the most current park conditions, we urge visitors to visit our website at nps.gov/SEKI. Updates to the reopening schedule are made on the Current Conditions web page weekly on Thursday afternoons.
Think it is bikeable? Not that I'd want to climb that 4000' back up the highway on a bike with a heavy pack on...JosiahSpurr wrote: ↑Thu May 25, 2023 11:38 am Yesterday, I hiked to Boyden Cavern and a half-mile beyond in the direction of Road's End.
Yes, however, it would be really difficult to carry anything for about 50 feet along a very steep hill on the far right side of the big, big washout ("dam"). There's no vegetation to hold onto. The fall risk isn't too bad, just a short ways down some dirt onto a mud flats. Then carrying everything over the boulders, then a third portage over the mudslide. It'd be a lot of work. *c9h13no3 wrote: ↑Thu May 25, 2023 1:58 pmThink it is bikeable? Not that I'd want to climb that 4000' back up the highway on a bike with a heavy pack on...JosiahSpurr wrote: ↑Thu May 25, 2023 11:38 am Yesterday, I hiked to Boyden Cavern and a half-mile beyond in the direction of Road's End.
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