Silliman Creek - Sequoia National Park

During our March 2018 visit to Sequoia National Park, we passed Silliman Creek several times with my wife getting just a glimpse of what seemed to be a very picturesque stream. We finally made a note of its location on Generals Highway and planned time to stop. The creek passes under Generals Highway at milepost 21.2 measured from the Ash Mountain Entrance Station. A small pullout is located at milepost 21.1 on the outside of a curve, so you have to be traveling from Wuksachi toward Lodgepole in order to safely use the pullout. This probably isn't a location where I'd want to standing beside the road with the summer traffic, but as you can see below, we had the road pretty much to ourselves.

The creek is just past the orange pole on the right

Silliman Creek just before it passes under the road

Boulder filled creek bed

 

A closer look at the stream

Entrance to Sequoia and/or Kings Canyon National Parks requires an entry fee of $30 per passenger vehicle for a 7-day pass. Any of the America the Beautiful passes may be used instead.

The park website is https://www.nps.gov/seki.