Three Rivers Trip Overview
Walk through enormous, ancient groves at Sequoia National Park with this self-guided driving tour. Witness the giant sequoias in all their majesty, including General Sherman, the most massive living thing on the planet. As you tour this jaw-dropping primeval forest, you’ll learn about the area’s early inhabitants, from the Paiute tribe to the founders of a secretive, ill-fated colony. Plus, take in jaw-dropping views of Kings Canyon with the same tour!
Here’s how it works: Within 30 min, we’ll send you two things: a unique password and an app. Download the app onto your phone, enter the password, and download the tour inside. When you arrive, head over to the first stop. Stick to our recommended route and speed limit for the best experience.
Purchase one tour per vehicle. Everyone can listen at the same time!
No expiration — the tour is available from the minute you book until forever!
This is not an entrance ticket. Check opening hours and pandemic rules before your visit.
Additional Info
Duration: 3 to 4 hours
Starts: Three Rivers, United States
Trip Category: Cultural & Theme Tours >> Cultural Tours
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What to Expect When Visiting Three Rivers, California, United States
Walk through enormous, ancient groves at Sequoia National Park with this self-guided driving tour. Witness the giant sequoias in all their majesty, including General Sherman, the most massive living thing on the planet. As you tour this jaw-dropping primeval forest, you’ll learn about the area’s early inhabitants, from the Paiute tribe to the founders of a secretive, ill-fated colony. Plus, take in jaw-dropping views of Kings Canyon with the same tour!
Here’s how it works: Within 30 min, we’ll send you two things: a unique password and an app. Download the app onto your phone, enter the password, and download the tour inside. When you arrive, head over to the first stop. Stick to our recommended route and speed limit for the best experience.
Purchase one tour per vehicle. Everyone can listen at the same time!
No expiration — the tour is available from the minute you book until forever!
This is not an entrance ticket. Check opening hours and pandemic rules before your visit.
Itinerary
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Stop At: Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Park, Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Park, California
The park is notable for its giant sequoia trees, including the General Sherman Tree, the largest tree on Earth by volume. The General Sherman tree grows in the Giant Forest, which contains five of the ten largest trees in the world. The Giant Forest is connected by the Generals Highway to Kings Canyon National Park’s General Grant Grove, home of the General Grant tree among other giant sequoias.
Duration: 1 hour
Stop At: Tunnel Rock, Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Park, CA
Landmark boulder & photo spot marking a former roadway through a granite tunnel.
Duration: 10 minutes
Stop At: Marble Falls, 47050 Generals Hwy Sequoia National Park, Three Rivers, CA 93271-9599
Marble Falls Trail begins from Potwisha Campground in the foothills region of Sequoia National Park. The 8-mile round trip trail is the perfect spot for a spring hike. Follow a flower-lined path up a mountain canyon to a powerful waterfall. In April and May, much of the trail is colored with flowers, giving hikers plenty to look at on the way to Marble Falls.
Duration: 10 minutes
Stop At: Amphitheater Point, General Highway, Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Park, CA
Located on the General’s Highway between Hospital Rock Picnic Area and the Giant Forest Museum, this viewpoint offers stunning views of Moro Rock and the steep elevation change from the foothills to granite peaks.
Duration: 10 minutes
Stop At: Generals Highway Lookout, Sequoia National Park,, 12 Generals Hwy, Sequoia National Park, CA 93262, USA
The Generals Highway is a prominent driving route through the Sequoia National Park. The Generals Highway Lookout, which is located along this scenic route, is a spectacular panoramic spot that is popular among passers-by.
Duration: 10 minutes
Stop At: Giant Forest Museum, 47050 Generals Hwy, Three Rivers, CA 93271, USA
The Giant Forest Museum is a museum, dedicated to the main features of the Giant Forest area of Sequoia National Park, including its giant sequoias, meadows, and also the human history of the area.
Duration: 10 minutes
Stop At: Moro Rock Trail, Sequoia National Park, Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Park, CA 93262
Isolated, dome-shaped granite formation with a rock-cut stairway to the panoramic summit.
Duration: 10 minutes
Stop At: Squatters Cabin, California 93262, USA
The Squatter’s Cabin is the only remnant of the Kaweah Colony, a socialist utopian group established in the Sierra Nevada in the 1880s. Now located in Sequoia National Park, the one-room log structure is located at Huckleberry Meadow near the Giant Forest.
Duration: 10 minutes
Stop At: General Sherman Tree, Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Park, CA
The General Sherman Tree is the world’s largest tree, measured by volume. It stands 275 feet (83 m) tall and is over 36 feet (11 m) in diameter at the base. Sequoia trunks remain wide high up. Sixty feet above the base, the Sherman Tree is 17.5 feet (5.3 m) in diameter.
Duration: 10 minutes
Stop At: Congress Trail, Generals Hyway, Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Park, CA
This short, paved, looped hiking trail passes groves of gigantic sequoias in Sequoia National Park.
Duration: 10 minutes
Stop At: Big Baldy, Generals Highway, Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Park, CA
Giant sequoia trees may be the main attraction in the Grant Grove section of Kings Canyon National Park, but the area contains several granite peaks, and the highest point – 8,209 foot Big Baldy – may be reached by a pleasant, 2.2-mile trail through scattered pine woodland, starting from the General’s Highway (CA 198).
Duration: 10 minutes
Stop At: King’s Canyon Overlook, CA-198, Hume, CA 93628, USA
Explore the King’s Canyon Overlook.
Duration: 10 minutes
Stop At: Redwood Mountain Overlook, Highway 198, Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Park, CA
This overlook is just west of the Redwood Mountain Road, along the General’s Highway. Before you lies one of the largest groves of giant sequoia trees in the world. From this overlook, you can see the tops of sequoias, the canopy of the Redwood Mountain grove.
Duration: 10 minutes
Stop At: General Grant Tree Trail, Grant Tree Road, Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Park, CA 93628
A short trail in Kings Canyon National Park leads to this huge, well-known sequoia in Grants Grove.
Duration: 10 minutes
Stop At: Panoramic Point, Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Park, CA
This overlook is located a short driving distance from the Kings Canyon Visitor Center. Look outward from Panoramic Point across hundreds of miles of Kings Canyon National Park and neighboring national forest lands.
Duration: 10 minutes
Stop At: Redwood Mountain Overlook, Highway 198, Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Park, CA
The Redwood Mountain Loop combines two trails—the Hart Tree and Fallen Goliath Trail and the Sugar Bowl Trail to make a 10-mile loop. The Redwood Canyon Trailhead is 6.5 miles from the Grant Grove Visitor Center. From Grant Grove, drive 5 miles south on the General’s Highway, turn right at Quail Flat onto a rough dirt road. Continue for 1.5 miles to Redwood Saddle, and follow the left fork to the parking area.
Duration: 10 minutes
Stop At: Crystal Cave, Ca-180 E, Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Park, CA 93265
Crystal Cave is a marble karst cave within Sequoia National Park, in the western Sierra Nevada of California. It is one of at least 240 known caves in Sequoia National Park. Crystal Cave is in the Giant Forest area, between the Ash Mountain entrance of the park and the Giant Forest Museum.
Duration: 10 minutes
Stop At: Chicago Stump, Hume, CA 93628, USA
The 20ft-high Chicago Stump is all that’s left of the once-mighty, 3200-year-old General Noble tree. The 285ft giant was cut into sections and transported to the 1893 World’s Columbian Exposition in Chicago to demonstrate the unbelievable scale of the newly discovered giant sequoias. Dubious viewers soon nicknamed it the ‘California hoax’!
Duration: 10 minutes
Stop At: Boyden Cavern, Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Park, CA 93633
Boyden Cavern is located in Kings Canyon, Giant Sequoia National Monument, and lies beneath the massive 2,000-foot high marble walls of the famous Kings Gates. The cavern features stalactites, stalagmites, flowstone, pendants and shields, and even a cave bear (formation).
Duration: 10 minutes
Stop At: Zumwalt Meadow Trail, 47050 Generals Highway, Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Park, CA
Zumwalt Meadow provides visitors with a scenic contrast to the powerful rock formations deep in the heart of the canyon. Glorious and lush in spring, and splendid in summer and fall, Zumwalt Meadow is a spectacular alpine setting.
Duration: 10 minutes
