Sequoia National Park Winter & Seasonal Hiking Guide
A Sequoia National Park winter starts with a split screen at the entrance station: green, drizzly foothills in front of…
Desolation Wilderness Permits & Backpacking Guide
Desolation Wilderness permits are the ticket into more than 100 alpine lakes, bare granite basins, and a skyline of peaks…
Kings Canyon National Park Hiking & Things to Do Guide
Most of the things to do in Kings Canyon National Park fall into two separate worlds, and one road connects…
Sequoia National Park Attractions & Crystal Cave Guide
The first giant sequoia you pass in Sequoia National Park makes you ease off the gas. The trunk is wider…
Easy & Short Hikes in Yosemite National Park
Some days in Yosemite you do not have six hours and 2,700 feet of climbing in you, and that is…
Eastern Sierra Lake Hiking Guide: Convict Lake & Rock Creek
Convict Lake, California, fills a glacier-carved box canyon on the Eastern Sierra, two miles west of US 395 and about…
Eagle Falls Hiking Guide at Lake Tahoe
The Eagle Falls Trail starts in a shaded Forest Service lot on Highway 89, across the road from Emerald Bay,…
Hetch Hetchy Hiking & Wapama Falls Guide
Hetch Hetchy Yosemite begins with a strange sequence: you park beside a 430-foot dam, walk across it, and step into…
Yosemite National Park Maps & Trailhead Navigation Guide
Yosemite National Park maps come in more varieties than almost any park in California, and the first lesson is that…
Emigrant Wilderness Hiking & Permit Guide
The Emigrant Wilderness is 113,000 acres of glaciated granite, volcanic ridges, and lake-studded basins on the western slope of the…
