Welcome to Kings Canyon National Park! Named for the glacier-carved valley Kings Canyon, this park contains multiple 14,000-foot peaks, meadows, rivers, as well as a bounty of giant sequoia trees.

People have inhabited this area for around 6 or 7 thousand years, and while some Natives ventured into the mountains to collect plants, hunt game, and trade, the inhospitable winters in the high country made more permanent settlements not feasible here. Prior to contact with Europeans, the Yokut population hovered around 15-20 thousand, with Monos around 6 thousand.

The first people aside from Native Americans to venture into the park's high country were most likely John Fremont's party in 1844, though they were forced to retreat to the Central Valley after a snow storm impeeded their progress.

Today, Kings Canyon is protected by the National Parks service. It offers several activities to tourists, such as camping, hiking, backcountry travel, usually via backpacking or horsepacking, climbing, cayoneering, bouldering, rappelling, fly fishing, kayaking, among other things (all information courtesy of Wikipedia.com, image courtesy of RoadTripWarrior - Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0, Link).