Generals Highway
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Route description
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It is named after two of the largest and most famous Giant Sequoia trees, the General Sherman and General Grant trees. The highway is notoriously steep, narrow, winding, and difficult to drive, especially its southern section from Hospital Rock to Giant Forest within Sequoia National Park. This section also consists of numerous switchbacks, and has a speed limit of 10 MPH. Regulations restrict the length of vehicles—they must not exceed Template:Convert, although vehicles longer than Template:Convert are not recommended to use the road [2] between Potwisha Campground and Giant Forest Museum.[3] Furthermore, the highway north of Lodgepole campground generally closes due to snow conditions, and is not plowed between the Friday after January 1 and the third Friday in March.[4]
The Generals Highway begins as a continuation of SR 198, where the state highway legally ends at the southern boundary of Sequoia National Park, although some commercially produced maps may still show the Generals Highway as part of SR 198. The road travels northeast along the middle fork of the Kaweah River and enters Sequoia National Park through the Indian Head Entrance. Near the Hospital Rock turnout, the road turns north and goes through several turns before straightening out and continuing northeast, passing near the General Sherman Tree. At Lodgepole Bridge, the road turns west before later turning north. Generals Highway leaves Sequoia National Park through the North Entrance, entering Sequoia National Forest.[5] The road continues northwest through Giant Sequoia National Monument before traveling along the northern border of Kings Canyon National Park, briefly entering it before terminating at SR 180.[6]
History
Two of the stone bridges on the highway are listed on the National Register of Historic Places.[7]
Major intersections
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See also
References
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- Roads in Tulare County, California
- Giant Sequoia National Monument
- Kings Canyon National Park
- Sequoia National Park
- Sequoia National Forest
- Historic American Engineering Record in California
- National Register of Historic Places in Tulare County, California
- Named highways in California