Mammoth Lakes Alpine Lake Hiking Guide
The road keeps climbing through lodgepole pines, past Twin Lakes, past the green shallows of Lake Mamie, and then it…
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…
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,…
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…
Mount Whitney Permits & Lottery Guide
A Mount Whitney permit is the one document standing between you and the highest summit in the lower 48, and…
Rae Lakes Loop Hiking & Permit Guide
The Rae Lakes Loop is a 41.4-mile circuit through Kings Canyon National Park that climbs from a granite-walled valley floor…
