Friday May 18th:We settled into the Visalia KOA yesterday afternoon. Very nice campground and the people running it are really friendly. The noticed the "Acadia National Park" logo on my hat and told us how they had worked at the Mount Desert Island KOA for a year and how much they liked the area.
Today we plotted a route up to see the Sequoias. The South Entrance specified that the park road in one section at the beginning did not allow vehicles over 22 feet long. Our truck measures out at 18 feet so we just fit under the restriction, but that section was also under construction on weekdays and traffic was only allowed through once each hour so we decided to drive up to the Kings Canyon entrance north of us. I let the Garmin GPS pick the route and it took us across CA-245 which looked like a good diagonal route and the most direct. Very pretty road that wandered through the valley Orange, Tangerine, and Almond groves and had very little traffic, so was a great drive. As we neared the mountains the road went up and up and up and got smaller and smaller and the turns became sharper and more frequent. The last quarter of the drive was done at 15-20 mph just turning through switchback constantly. Very few houses or roads and it looked like the few people that lived on the road stayed away from civilization for long periods. With the curves and speed it took us longer to go the direct route than it would have to gone around, but we saw country that only three other people have seen this decade I think.
We finally arrived at the NP entrance and drove in to a beautiful area.
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