When will Sequoia-Kings Canyon National Parks lodges, hotels open for 2024 season?
It's finally snowing in the mountains this new year after a dry start to winter.
Visitors and locals waiting to stay overnight in beautiful Sequoia and Kings Canyon national parks will have to wait some more as all lodges, hotels, and cabins are closed until mid-March 2024.
The concessionaire for Wuksachi Lodge, the largest lodging option for visitors, says guests won't be able to stay overnight starting Jan. 7 through March 15. Other services at the lodge remain open, including Peaks Restaurant, the gift store, and the pizza place at this time.
In nearby Lodgepole, the market showers and laundry remain closed.
Driving west on the Generals Highway (make sure the highway is open), you pass by the popular Montecito Sequoia Lodge, which will be closed until May after a heavy snowstorm collapsed the only bridge into the property last winter. This will be the second winter the lodge is closed.
Montecito Sequoia will open in May for visitors, but there will be no cross-country skiing on their miles of typically groomed trails this winter.
Further west on the Generals Highway, Grant Grove Village in Kings Canyon National Park is partially open, including the market, gift shop, and visitor center this new year.
However, the Grant Grove restaurant is closed until March 22. As for accommodations, the John Muir Lodge and Grant Grove cabins will not open until March 22.
The other visitor center in Kings Canyon National Park, Cedar Grove, is closed for the winter, including all accommodations.
For those adventurous enough to want to visit and stay in Bearpaw High Sierra camp sometime next summer - don't hold your breath as the camp, 11 miles from Crescent Meadow, is closed until further notice.
The closest place to stay is the Three Rivers community along Highway 198, which has plentiful accommodation options.
This article originally appeared on Victorville Daily Press: Sequoia-Kings Canyon National Parks hotels, lodges, places to stay
