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Zumwalt Meadows, Where the road ends

  When you follow Highway 180 along the south fork of the King's River , the road leads you down into one of the deepest canyons in north America, the Kings Canyon in Kings Canyon National Park. The descent in to the Kings Canyon takes around 1.5 hours on  steep grade mountanous winding road that’s around 40 miles long from the  Kings Canyon visitor centre. Highway 180 is the only route into the canyon, which then terminates  deep in the canyon and at the end of the road's is a  visitors car park. A walk from there take you deep in to the nearby forest and Zumwalt Meadows. The trail to the meadow begins about a mile before the road ends. From the beginning of the trail head you can view  the free flowing Kings river  with a granite mountain in the   background. The water is cold and refreshing. Not many people on the day I visited. So, you feel its only you  and nature around you. There is a feelin...