Kings Canyon National Park

Kings Canyon is the deepest valley in North America with 2,500 meters. It is located in the southern Sierra Nevada in California. In it springs from the southern arm of the Kings River. The valley is a glacial trough valley and was ground out by glaciers from the granite of the mountain range. The steep walls of the narrow in the upper part of the valley qualify it as a canyon. Because the horizontal alignment is lacking, however, is not in accordance with the German language, to a canyon.

Together with the adjoining valley north of intermediaries Kings River arm and other smaller areas of Kings Canyon is part of the Kings Canyon National Park, which is one of the Sequoia & Kings Canyon National Parks. Only the lower part of the valley with an east-west orientation is served by Fresno over the impasse California State Route 180. The higher areas are only accessible as a mountain hike on foot or pack trips on horseback or mule.

The headwaters of the South arm is located in a sprawling mountain valley with a variety of mountain lakes at an altitude of 3400 meters. Through it the John Muir Trail long distance footpath runs and the valley is for climbers also from the Owens Valley on the eastern flank of the Sierra Nevada over the 3485 meter high pass Taboose accessible.