Forget Yosemite, Visit Kings Canyon Instead

For those that love Yosemite, but can’t stand the crowd

Theodore Wells
Published in
4 min readJan 27, 2022

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A view south towards palmer mountain on a partly cloudy day with granite walls rising from either side.
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Kings Canyon NP is nestled right next to Sequoia NP in the Sierra Nevada Mountains. There it sits, just 2.5 hours south of Yosemite. Yet, I know a lot of people who have never heard of Kings Canyon NP. But that doesn’t mean it has nothing to offer. John Muir, Father of the National Parks, once…

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