MAPS & TOURS: TREASURES SORTED BY ACTIVITIES AND INTERESTS
Tulare County Treasures await you in or near communities all over our big county (California's seventh-largest and one of its most geographically diverse). Travel our back roads and byways as well as our highways to explore an amazing array of landscapes, cultural and historical sites, and famous trails, and enjoy the activities and interests that welcome you along your way.
Please Contact Us if we've missed listing an activity, interest, or a Treasure that meets our criteria. Thank you!
Links to published Treasure Tales are in green.
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Archaeology
Blue Oak Ranch Preserve Exeter Rocky Hill Site Mountain Home Demonstration State Forest Sequoia National Forest Sequoia National Park |
near Potwisha, Sequoia N.P.
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Architecture
Ash Mountain Entrance Sign, Sequoia National Park Bank of Italy Building (now Bank of Sierra), Visalia Buck Rock Fire Lookout (v) C. A. Elster Building, Springville Exeter Senior Center (formerly Exeter Public Library, Carnegie Community Building) First Congregational Church of Porterville (v) Fox Theatre, Visalia Generals Highway Stone Bridges Hockett Meadow Ranger Station Moro Rock Stairway, Sequoia National Park Orosi-Cutler Branch Library (Carnegie library) Pear Lake Ski Hut Pogue Hotel, Lemoncove Porterville Main Post Office Redwood Meadow Ranger Station Smithsonian Institution Shelter Hut Tharp's Log Tulare Union High School Auditorium Visalia Town Center Post Office Zalud House Museum, Porterville |
First Congregational Church of Porterville
Fox Theatre, Visalia
Pogue Hotel, Lemon Cove
Tulare Union High School Auditorium
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Sequoia National Park
Sequoia & Kings Canyon National Parks
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Birding
Virtually all the natural Treasures afford birding opportunities. (Note: sandhill crane viewing at Pixley NWR in winter.) Boating/Kayaking/Rafting Giant Sequoia National Monument Golden Trout Wilderness Lake Kaweah, West of Three Rivers Success Lake, East of Porterville Sequoia National Forest Sequoia National Park |
Western bluebird
Kaweah River, Sequoia N.P.
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Camping (fee required at most campgrounds)
Balch Park Buck Rock (v) (nearby) Colonel Allensworth State Historic Park Giant Sequoia National Monument Kings Canyon National Park Lake Kaweah Mineral King Mountain Home Demonstration State Forest Sequoia National Forest Sequoia National Park Success Lake (East of Porterville) |
Lake Kaweah
Mineral King
Sequoia National Park
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Caving
Sequoia National Forest Sequoia National Park Disc Golf Bartlett Park Cutler Park Dry Creek Preserve Kings River Park Lake Kaweah (via Slick Rock parking area) Mooney Grove Park Pixley Park (9 holes) Dog Walking Note: When visiting a Treasure that permits dog-walking, please walk your dog responsibly; respect and protect wildlife, water quality, and the enjoyment of other visitors. Keep your pet on a leash less than six (6) feet long (unless otherwise indicated) and under your control at all times. Please always pick up your pet's poop and dispose of it in an appropriate waste container. Thank you for doing your part to maintain access for dogs at these special places. [Be aware that pets are not permitted on any trails (or off trails) in Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Parks. Pets are allowed on a less than six-foot leash in campground and picnic areas in these parks.] Treasures that allow dog walking: Alpaugh Park (on leash) Balch Park (on leash) Bartlett Park, near Porterville (on leash) Blue Oak Ranch Preserve (Sopac McCarthy Mulholland Blue Oak Ranch Preserve) (on 6' leash) Bravo Lake Botanical Garden, Woodlake (on 6' leash) Buck Rock Fire Lookout (v), Sequoia National Forest, (on 6' leash) Colonel Allensworth State Historic Park (on leash) Cutler Park, east of Visalia (on leash) Dry Creek Preserve (v), near Woodlake (on 6' leash) Giant Sequoia National Monument (on 6' leash) Homer Ranch Preserve, near Woodlake (on 6' leash) Kaweah Oaks Preserve, east of Visalia (on 6' leash) Lake Kaweah, near Three Rivers (on 6' leash) Ledbetter Park, Cutler-Orosi (on leash) Mooney Grove Park, Visalia (on leash) Mountain Home Demonstration State Forest (under owner's restricted control or 6' leash) Pixley Park (on leash) Sequoia National Forest (on 6' leash) Success Lake and Big Sycamore Trail, near Porterville (on 6' leash) Tule River Parkway, Porterville (on leash) Woodville Park (on leash) Yaudanchi Ecological Reserve, Porterville (on 6' leash) Photos on this page by: John Greening, Roy Kendall, Laurie Schwaller; and courtesy of recreation.gov |
Crystal Cave, Sequoia National Park
Mooney Grove Park, Visalia
Bravo Lake Botanical Garden
Buck Rock Fire Lookout
Cutler Park
Tule River Parkway
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