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Sequoia & Kings Canyon National Park
Wilderness Permit Reservation Availability
 

For overnight wilderness trips from 5/27/11 to 9/24/11 reservation applications will be accepted by fax or mail beginning 3/1/11.

Reservation requests must be received at least 2 weeks prior to your start date. For requests within 2 weeks of your start date first come-first serve permits may be available from the permit station closest to your entry trail. Call the Wilderness Office for more information. The following information was last updated on 9/10/2011:

Trail

Almost Full Dates (5 spots or fewer available)

Full Dates

Alta

9/18

Atwell/Hockett

 

 

Belle Canyon
(Seville, Ranger, & Lost Lakes)

 

Bubbs Creek (Rae Lakes Loop counter-clockwise

Copper Creek

 

Eagle Lake

Farewell Gap

Franklin Pass

9/11

Garfield Grove

 

High Sierra

9/17

JO Pass

 

Ladybug

9/24

Lewis Creek

Middle Fork Kaweah

 

Mosquito/Mineral

Paradise Ridge

Redwood Canyon

 

Sawtooth Pass
(Monarch & Crystal Lakes

Sugarloaf (Marvin Pass)

Tar Gap

Timber Gap

Twin Lakes/Silliman

9/16 

9/10, 9/23

White Chief

 

Woods Creek
(Rae Lakes Loop clockwise)

9/12, 9/17

9/11,
9/16


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The Four Guardsmen (four sequoias), with the Generals Highway running between them.

Did You Know?
Sometimes you will see sequoias in a straight row. This may happen because sequoia seeds prefer mineral-rich burned ground. When a fallen log burns long and hot, it leaves a strip of bare mineral-rich soil — an ideal place for new sequoias to grow. Years later, we see a line of sequoias!

Last Updated: September 10, 2011 at 12:52 MST