MaryJo -- How far to Sequoia NP

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Mary Jo - We'll be visiting the area the week following Easter (April 16-23rd). Spending a few days in the SanDiego area then up to DL. Since we'll only need 2 days for DL and DCA, I'm wondering how far of a drive it would be to visit the Sequoia NP. (looks far on the map) Is it possible to do as a day trip or would it be better to visit the Joshua Tree Monument Park instead? The pictures you posted are breathtaking! I'd love to see General Sherman in person! Any recommendations would be greatly appreaciated. Thanks!!!!

 

[WebmasterMaryJo]

<font face="Comic Sans MS"><font color=#00009c>Hi Shadow,

I'm glad you like the pics.

Sequoia, from the LA area is about 5.5 hours. I don't think there is a way to do it in just one day - maybe 2 days, if you want to push it. If you were to do that, you could leave late, stop in Visalia & spend the night (maybe 3.5 hours north of LA), and then in the morning drive the 1.5 hours or so up into the Sequoia National Park. As you go up, you can see Moro Rock up ahead. You could easily see the General Sherman tree (largest living thing in the world, thank you very much), Crescent Meadow and Moro Rock, if you so wished. Then I'd recommend staying overnight at Three Rivers - town just down the hill from Sequoia - and head back down south the next morning.

The thing is - there might be snow, so you'd have to be flexible on what you want to do. The drive up to Sequoia from the south is very windy.

I haven't been to Joshua National Monument, so I'm sorry to say that I don't have any information.

Another nice day trip is to drive to Oceanside, take the 72 or 76 inland to Julian (a little town in the mountains w/delicious apple pie), and after a little stop, continue to Anza Borrego - it's a big desert, and has a nature walk (I think it's just an hour's walk or so) to an oasis hidden in the mountains. If we have a cool & wet spring, there'll still be desert flowers. If not, most of them will be dried up by that time. There is a nice visitor's center there. If you'd like, you could continue east to the Salton Sea, and then cut up north through Palm Springs & back to Anaheim. Or you can spend the night in Palm Springs. I like this trip because you go from the ocean & beach area through green fields, up to the mountain, down through the desert, and through towns that have sprung despite the desert - makes for long, but very interesting day. I would say to put away about 8-10 hours for this trip.


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