At an elevation of 6,600 feet, General Grant National Park and places
nearby at Hume and Big Meadow are points of departure for the Kings
Canyon, Sugarloaf, and Roaring River areas. The most direct routes to
these areas are from this park. Good hotel and camping facilities, post
office, stores, telephone, and telegraph, repair shops, etc., are
located in General Grant National Park.
From the Kings Canyon main trails lead out as follows: Up Copper Creek
and via Granite Basin to Simpson Meadow (and down the Middle Fork to
Tehipite Valley and Dome), north from Simpson Meadow to John Muir Trail,
and over Muir Pass via LeConte Canyon to Yosemite; up Paradise Valley to
Woods Creek and John Muir Trail over Pinchot Pass to the upper basin of
the South Fork of the Kings River; up Bubbs Creek to intersection with
John Muir Trail, or over Kearsarge Pass to the Owens Valley, or via
Center Basin, Junction, and Shepherd Passes to the Kern Canyon.