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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.



Archaeology

Blue Oak Ranch Preserve

Exeter Rocky Hill Site

Mountain Home Demonstration State Forest

Sequoia National Forest

Sequoia National Park




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near Potwisha, Sequoia N.P.
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


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First Congregational Church of Porterville
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Fox Theatre, Visalia
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Pogue Hotel, Lemon Cove
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Tulare Union High School Auditorium
Backpacking

Giant Sequoia National Monument 

Golden Trout Wilderness

Kings Canyon National Park


Mineral King

Mountain Home Demonstration State Forest

Sequoia National Forest

Sequoia National Park

Smithsonian Institution Shelter Hut


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Sequoia National Park
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Sequoia & Kings Canyon National Parks
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



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Western bluebird
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Kaweah River, Sequoia N.P.
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)


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Lake Kaweah
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Mineral King
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Sequoia National Park
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



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Crystal Cave, Sequoia National Park
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Mooney Grove Park, Visalia
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Bravo Lake Botanical Garden
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Buck Rock Fire Lookout
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Cutler Park
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Tule River Parkway
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