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2 unusual facts about Kings Canyon National Park


David Steeves

In 1977, some Boy Scouts from Los Angeles on a hiking trip in Dusy Basin in Kings Canyon National Park came across a cockpit cover.

Kings Canyon

Kings Canyon National Park is a national park in California, United States, named for Kings Canyon, a canyon within the park


Charles Punchard, Jr.

Punchard's next stops were Sequoia National Park and General Grant Grove in what later became Kings Canyon National Park where he studied the conditions and developed a comprehensive development plan.

Rosalie Edge

In addition to founding the ECC and Hawk Mountain Sanctuary, Edge led the national grassroots campaigns to create Olympic National Park (1938) and Kings Canyon National Park (1940), and successfully lobbied Congress to purchase about 8,000 acres of old-growth sugar pines on the perimeter of Yosemite National Park that were to be logged.


see also

Boyden

Boyden Cave, a mile-long cavern located in Kings Canyon National Park, California, United States