Road Construction

A historic black and white photo showing more than two dozen men with wheelbarrows and shovels standing in a road cut through a hill in the forest
Road construction was once much more labor intensive than today. This crew was working on building a road in Giant Forest.

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General Information

Many roads and facilities in the parks were badly damaged during the winter of 2022-2023 by repeated major storms that began with a weather event in early January 2023 and followed by a succession of weather events in March 2023. Damage also occurred outside the parks on roads that provide access to some park areas.

Many repairs were completed during 2023, but some significant repairs and recovery efforts by Tulare County, Caltrans, and the parks will continue in 2024. Access will re-open as work can be successfully completed. See the Road Conditions page for the most up-to-date information.

In areas where road work is on-going or there are only temporary repairs, travel slowly and obey reduced speed limits and any traffic management, such as temporary traffic lights or flaggers.

Traffic delay schedule coming soon.

 

Generals Highway

One site on Generals Highway, between Hospital Rock and Giant Forest Museum, requires extensive drilling and rebuilding in order to complete repairs. In order to complete the work before the summer season, crews are scheduled to be working in April and May. The delay and closure schedules are still being finalized, but will be posted here when they become available.

Mineral King Road

Mineral King Road was damaged both inside and outside the park boundary. Construction outside the park will resume in the fall. Inside the park, work is expected to begin in April at five different sites. Work on these sites is expected to continue for 8 weeks once it begins. Mineral King Road typically reopens to public vehicles in late May. Traffic delays are expected, but specifics are not yet available.

Highway 180 to Cedar Grove and Roads End

Highway 180 between Hume Lake Road and Roads End was extensively damaged and was closed throughout all of 2023. Caltrans is continuing repairs outside the park, west of Cedar Grove. There is no proposed reopening date at this time, but current projections are for their repairs to be complete sometime in June. The park hopes to be able to reopen Cedar Grove to the public shortly after Caltrans’ repairs are complete.

Crystal Cave Road

This road will remain closed for repairs and recovery in 2024.

Last updated: March 13, 2024

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Contact Info

Mailing Address:

47050 Generals Highway
Three Rivers, CA 93271

Phone:

559 565-3341

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