RV C.G near Sequoia + Kings Canyon N.P CA

That photo is great Profdant, thanks for posting. Back on topic, we stay in Kaweah RV Park in Three Rivers in order to visit Sequoia National Park. It is a good drive into the heart of the park, but well worth it.

Oh, my goodness -- that is so cool! It worked. Just click on the Expand tab, and then close the photo window when you are done gawking at those trees. This is not a trick shot, by the way -- those trees are really that big. Seeing them in snow is even better than in the summertime -- fewer people, no bugs, very quiet, and the orange-red bark against the snow is just great.

If you rent or bring snowshoes, there is phenomenal hiking right now in the Sequoias. Stay in Three Rivers at the RV park, and take your toad up Highway 198 to Giant Forest. We were just there a couple of weeks ago. This is the Senate grouping in Congress Grove -- DW is in a blue hat in the lower right corner of the shot. Supposedly, if you click on this shot, it should show as a full size photo -- not sure if it is going to work. This is my first time using the photo paste app, so bear with me:

Do you want to do some hiking at the higher elevations, and not really care where you are camped?

The Edison company bought out a lumber company in the early 1920's and started developing lakes and hydroelectric systems that are still in use today, and as a part of renewing their water use permits in the 70's, they had to install campgrounds with electric hookups. This would be at Huntington Lake, and Shaver Lake. They are at 5,500 and 6,500 feet elevation respectively, and not really a great place to go this month, due to feet of snow they normally get.

Sequoia NP is around 6,500 feet where the General Grant Grove is located, and would be under some amount of snow all winter. So I am guessing that this request would be for next May when it is warmer?

If you are looking for a place to camp this winter, I would suggest the Escapees park at Coarsegold. It makes a wonderful winter retreat. . . It is near the entrance to Yosemite, not far from Bass Lake, and taking the back roads would be accessible to many great places to hike.

Bass Lake has some Coast To Coast membership parks near or one on it (at least many years ago).

Due to the length of the entrance roads to Kings Canyon, there will always be some distance between any private land and the trail heads of Kings Canyon. Same goes for Sequoia.

Hume Lake was built by a lumber company back in the 1880's for taking out lumber with a flume to Sanger CA. They actually had a sawmill located there, and steam trains running around the forest (hauled into the forest with wooden lumber wagons, as there where no tracks between Sanger and Hume Lake). So there are some privately owned cabins around Hume Lake, and some support RV sites for the workers who live on site in the summer. There is even a gas station there, all on private land surrounded by the National Park.

Good luck,

Fred.

We found Sequoia RV Ranch in Three Rivers, CA to be very convenient to both parks but it is still a good drive to them. It was the best and closest of the ones we found with FHU.