National Parks
Portfolio

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Contents

Foreword

Parks vs Monuments

Acadia

Bryce Canyon

Carlsbad Caverns

Crater Lake

General Grant

Glacier

Grand Canyon

Grand Teton

Hawaii

Hot Springs

Lassen Volcanic

Mesa Verde

Mount McKinley

Mount Rainier

Platt

Rocky Mountain

Seqoia

Wind Cave

Yellowstone

Yosemite

Zion

Monuments

National Parks Portfolio

Sequoia and General Grant

GENERALS' HIGHWAY EN ROUTE TO GIANT FOREST
Photograph by Lindley Eddy

THE GREATER SEQUOIA

TO THE north and east of the original Sequoia National Park lay an area of extraordinarily scenic country. Just as the park was supreme in its forest luxuriance, so the outlying country was supreme in rock-sculptured canyon and snowy summit.

Part of this area was added to the park in 1926, increasing it to an area of six hundred and four square miles. Thus was acquired the Kern Canyon—a Yosemitelike valley thirty miles in length—the whole of the Upper Kaweah watershed with the River Valley and Kaweah Peaks, and Mount Whitney.

Sequoia Park now contains the largest trees, and outside of Alaska, the largest mountain in the United States. It also has the greatest range in altitude of any of our national parks—from one thousand three hundred feet at the park boundary near Ash Mountain headquarters to fourteen thousand four hundred and ninety-six feet at the summit of Mount Whitney.

THE GOLDEN TROUT CREEK
The trout caught here are brilliantly golden. Many lakes and streams in the park have been stocked from this near-by stream
Photograph by H.C. Tibbitts

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