California's Best Trips 2 - Full PDF eBook

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Yosemite, Sequoia


& Kings Canyon


National Parks


5–7 DAYS
450 MILES/725KM

GREAT FOR...


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BEST TIME TO GO
April and May for
waterfalls; June to
August for mountain
highlands.

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ESSENTIAL
PHOTO
Yosemite Valley from
panoramic Tunnel
View.

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BEST SCENIC
DRIVE
Kings Canyon Scenic
Byway to Cedar Grove.

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Drive up into the lofty Sierra Nevada, where glacial valley and


ancient forests overfill the windshield scenery. Go climb a


rock, pitch a tent or photograph wildflowers and wildlife.


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Glacier
Point

Wawona

Grant
Fresno Grove

TunnelView

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Yosemite Valley
Where waterfalls
tumble over giant
granite cliffs

15 miles

Giant Forest
Circumambulate the
world’s biggest trees

285 miles

Cedar Grove
Drop into the USA’s
deepest river canyon

250 miles

Tuolumne Meadows
Drive over the rooftop
of the Sierra Nevada

60 miles

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