Potwisha Campground Trail is a 1.8 mile heavily trafficked loop trail located near Three Rivers, California that features a river and is good for all skill levels. The trail is primarily used for hiking, walking, running, and camping and is accessible year-round.
Sequoia National Park charges a fee to enter. Fees are $35 per vehicle or $30 per motorcycle. If you are entering on foot or bike the fee is $20 per person. You can also purchase a park specific annual pass for $70. Please note that this trail starts across from the Potwisha Campground.
California Travel and Tourism Commision, P.O. Box 1499 , Sacramento, CA, 95812-1499, Phone: 800-862-2543
Directions from Ash Mountain Entrance: Follow Highway 198 (Generals Highway) northward 4 miles to the campground. It lies on the western side of the road.
Great trail very beautiful. just wish it was a little longer, but that's ok still a nice trail.
Beautiful little trail with great opportunities for swimming and jumping off rocks into the water, but also quite crowded at the beginning. The trail after the water, though scenic, doesn’t offer much in terms of diversity of views. Still, a good experience, especially for kids.
The entire trail itself was terribly boring but when you get to the end it looks like you could see a big waterfall, but it was Aug 4th and it was all dried up. BUT you must stop at this trailhead/parking lot because the swimming hole here is AWESOME. Bad trail, good swimming hole.
*NOTE* the trail is across the street from Potwisha Campground entrance. The trail is poorly marked. We did not even realize we were parking at the trailhead when we were parking in the campground's overflow lot. We were unsure if we were on the trail until we saw the bridge in the pictures. The trail itself wasn't so busy but the river was. There were a lot of locals in all the big watering holes. My family went upstream and found a small piece of heaven to ourselves and out of sight of others. The scenery was beautiful and the water was refreshing.
So so pretty and refreshing, but we had no idea which way to go ... also, I didn’t know it was actually inside the park so I had to pay the $35 to get in. Once we got to the bridge, we couldn’t figure out which way to go so we just went back. I took my boys with me .. 12y and 15y, they enjoyed it... it was a lot of rock climbing.
The best hike we have had. Beautiful scenery and the weather was absolutely perfect. Greg and I had a wonderful time. Love him.
Wonderful trail. Did a solo hike starting from hospital rock out and back on the potwisha. Awesome scenery and a great starter hike not far from the entrance of the park. Please remember to download your map layers before heading up to the park. There will be no cell service once you get there.
Good campground, late May, mule deer in our campsite, restrooms clean, easy access to water and trash, very quite about 9:00 pm, good family campground, be careful of snakes - tall grass. Everyone very friendly campground. Hike to fall took about 2:30 up and 1:30 down.