- City:
- Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Parks, CA
- Site Type:
- Parks and Recreation
- New Deal Agencies:
- National Park Service (NPS), Conservation and Public Lands
- Started:
- 1940
- Completed:
- 1940
- Quality of Information:
- Moderate
- Marked:
- Yes
- Site Survival:
- Extant
Description
In 1940, Congress and President Franklin D. Roosevelt created a new national park to include the glacially-formed splendor of Kings Canyon. Kings Canyon National Park subsumed the former, smaller General Grant National Park.
Sequoia National Park and Kings Canyon National Park are contiguous. Since the Second World War, Kings Canyon and Sequoia have been administered jointly. They are administered by the National Park Service together as the Sequoia & Kings Canyon National Parks.
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