Author: Mike Tuttle

  • May Clean-Up Dates

    So originally the May Clean-up Date for 2024, the first event of the season was to be held on Saturday, May 4th. But due to unavoidable scheduling conflicts, the event had to be pushed back a week to Saturday, May 11th on Mother’s Day Weekend. As California Highway between Grant Grove and Cedar Grove, outside…

  • 2024 Clean Up Dates

    Welcome to 2024!!! It’s time once again to plan those summer events. The Friends of the South Fork Kings River once again invites you to join us for our 21st Anniversary, Annual Litter Clean-Up Events, along the eastern terminus of California Highway 180 and South Fork of the Kings River. In Association with: – Sequoia &…

  • 2023 March 24, Public Meeting on Winter Storm Damage & Recovery

    A YouTube.com video (**Updated** 2023 March 24 Public Meeting on Winter Storm Damage and Recovery — Open Captioned) in which John Liu gave a report on the road conditions of CA-198, CA-245, & CA-180. The information regarding CA-180 from the Hume lake cutoff to Cedar Grove, or on the map shown at the public meeting,…

  • 2023 Clean Up Dates

    Welcome to 2023!!! It’s time once again to plan those summer events. The Friends of the South Fork Kings River once again invites you to join us for our 20th Anniversary, Annual Litter Clean-Up Events, along the eastern terminus of California Highway 180 and South Fork of the Kings River. In Association with: – Sequoia &…

  • 2022 Clean Up Dates

    Welcome to 2022!!! It’s time once again to plan those summer events. About April 20th, a rock slide blocked and damaged part of State Route 180 at milepost 131, just east of Boyden Cavern.  The rock slide left a 600-foot debris field, 15 trees, and boulders weighing up to 200 tons. Caltrans Central Valley District 6…

  • 2021 Clean Up Dates

    Welcome to 2021!!! As the opening of the Kings Canyon draws near it’s once again time to plan those summer events. 2020 saw the most of the camping in the canyon closed for the year due to the Coronavirus Pandemic. At the moment the National Park Service is planning to open the parks as usual…

  • 2019 Clean up Dates

    Welcome to 2019 New Year, New Calendars, New Resolutions.. Time to start planning those Summer outings. In 2018 we had a total of 41 volunteers, and cleaned up 368 lbs of litter. Here’s the flyer for the litter clean-ups for 2019. The Clean-up dates are: April 27th, June 1st, July 6th, August 3rd, September 7th,…