May 27, 2007

May 27, 2007

After breakfast we drive the remaining few miles up the Kings Canyon to where the road ends. Along the way we stop to see the Roaring River enter the canyon. It comes rushing in thru a narrow chute forming a nice waterfall. At Roads-End, I get out and take a few pictures of this pretty granite canyon. John Muir, the famous naturalist of the West, said this canyon is lovelier than its more famous cousin, Yosemite Valley. I will decide if he is right shortly. There is a huge waterfall a four-mile hike away. I would like to do it but we have a date with Yosemite tomorrow so we need to leave this hike for another time. We make the drive out of the canyon and back to Grants Grove. There we take a break and do a short hike to see the Giant Sequoias one last time.

From Grants Grove we head out of the park and down the mountain towards Fresno, CA and the San Joaquin valley. Our first choice for an RV park tonight is full so we go for our backup north of Mariposa, CA. It is a little out of the way and takes us several hours to get there. We take highway 99 part of the way. Along much of the route in the median are planted huge flowering bushes of white, pink and red. I like California highways!