Kings Canyon National Park – Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Parks CA

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.

 

 

Location Info


Kings Canyon National Park
Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Parks, CA Fresno County

Coordinates: 36.7999922, -118.55004

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