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Many park visitors enter Sequoia National Park through its southern entrance near the town of Three Rivers at Ash Mountain at 1,700 ft (520 m) elevation. The lower elevations around Ash Mountain contain the only National Park Service-protected California Foothills ecosystem, consisting of blue oak woodlands, foothills chaparral, grasslands, yucca plants, and steep, mild river valleys.
The following year the park superintendent, Colonel John White, first proposed the removal of the development. However, the concessioner was able to intervene with the director of the Park Service, and White was overruled. He was, however, able to impose limits on guest accommodations, the first such limits in the National Park system.
It is located in Sequoia National Park, [1] 2.1 miles (3.4 km) southeast of Triple Divide Peak and 2.7 miles (4.3 km) northwest of Black Kaweah. The High Sierra Trail traverses Kaweah Gap south of the summit, and Lilliput Glacier is on the mountain's northern flank. The mountain is named for George W. Stewart, editor of Visalia Delta.
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The Kaweah Gap (/ k ə ˈ w iː ə /) is the lowest east–west pass through the Great Western Divide, in Sequoia National Park, California, United States. The High Sierra Trail is routed through this pass. [2] The Kaweah Gap is flanked by Mount Stewart to the north and Eagle Scout Peak to the south.
Mount Kaweah (/ k ə ˈ w iː. ə /) is a mountain in California's Sequoia National Park and forms part of the Kaweah Peaks Ridge, a spur of the Great Western Divide which extends south from Triple Divide Peak. It has a summit elevation of 13,807 ft (4,208 m), the highest along the Kaweah Peaks Ridge.