The Sierra Club and Our National Parks

Kings Canyon/Sequoia National Park, California

Grouse Meadows (Middle Fork Kings River), Kings Canyon National Park

Sequoia/Kings Canyon National Park, with over 200,000 acres of protected area and home to the largest living trees on Earth, is a jewel of our national parks system. With giant sequoia groves that contain the oldest trees on the planet, Mount Whitney, black bears, California spotted owls and dozens of other species, Sequoia/Kings Canyon is an area that must be protected as part of our natural heritage for future generations. But the global warming threatens this area, and we must take action now before it is too late.

Over the years, the Sierra Club has played a major role in protecting Sequoia/Kings Canyon and making sure that we preserve it for future generations. We campaigned in the 1930s to add Kings Canyon to the National Park, and prevented the Mineral King area from being turned into a resort, and added over 80,000 acres of the park to the national wilderness system. The Sierra Club is now working to protect Giant Sequoia from logging, and get more funding for Sequoia/Kings Canyon, and protect the park from global warming - the hotter and dryer it gets in the forest, the harder it is to manage the forest and protect the species.

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Trails To Enjoy In This Park

John Muir

High Sierra

GPS Coordinates

Sequoia: 36°26'0"N 118°41'0"W
Kings Canyon: 36°48'0"N 118°33'0"W