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 feeling of peace and calmness in the atmosphere. You feel up close and personnel with nature. For a moment it is hard to imagine that there is a busy city life out there. The feeling you get cannot be easily expressed from words nor the pictures : you just have to be there.

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