robert_j
Earning My Ears
- Joined
- Mar 15, 2017
I am not sure what to do. My original plan was to leave Anaheim (DLR) on Wednesday, July 5, at around mid day and drive up to Sequoia National Park that afternoon. We were going to stay at Wuksachi Lodge overnight and then take our time driving back out of the park on Thursday morning, seeing General Sherman, etc., on the way to Yosemite. We have two nights booked for Yosemite (July 6-7).
But then today I got this in my email:
"We are emailing you to alert you of major reconstruction on part of the Generals Highway, in Sequoia National Park, scheduled to start mid-June 2017. You can expect traffic delays on the Generals Highway between Hospital Rock and the Giant Forest (Deer Ridge to Eleven Range). If you are planning to access lodging in Sequoia and Kings Canyon via the Ash Mountain Entrance using Hwy 198, you may encounter delays due to road construction.
"Park visitors arriving at the South Entrance after 8pm may be delayed over three hours at the construction zone. Visitors arriving at the South Entrance after 10:30 pm may not be able to pass through to lodging until 5:00 am. We recommend late afternoon and evening arrivals use Highway 180 and enter from the north at Big Stump Entrance Station."
Ugh! The scheduling is so tight, I am thinking of skipping Sequoia altogether, staying overnight on July 5 in, say, Fresno, and then spending the morning in the Mariposa grove in Yosemite instead. We would lose out on the bigger trees in Sequoia, but then we would not be sitting in traffic in a construction zone either, and then we would maximize our time in Yosemite.
What do you think? Is it worth it to keep the Wuksachi reservation? Am I making too much of the construction?
But then today I got this in my email:
"We are emailing you to alert you of major reconstruction on part of the Generals Highway, in Sequoia National Park, scheduled to start mid-June 2017. You can expect traffic delays on the Generals Highway between Hospital Rock and the Giant Forest (Deer Ridge to Eleven Range). If you are planning to access lodging in Sequoia and Kings Canyon via the Ash Mountain Entrance using Hwy 198, you may encounter delays due to road construction.
"Park visitors arriving at the South Entrance after 8pm may be delayed over three hours at the construction zone. Visitors arriving at the South Entrance after 10:30 pm may not be able to pass through to lodging until 5:00 am. We recommend late afternoon and evening arrivals use Highway 180 and enter from the north at Big Stump Entrance Station."
Ugh! The scheduling is so tight, I am thinking of skipping Sequoia altogether, staying overnight on July 5 in, say, Fresno, and then spending the morning in the Mariposa grove in Yosemite instead. We would lose out on the bigger trees in Sequoia, but then we would not be sitting in traffic in a construction zone either, and then we would maximize our time in Yosemite.
What do you think? Is it worth it to keep the Wuksachi reservation? Am I making too much of the construction?