Hume Lake is a reservoir in the Sierra Nevada, within Sequoia National Forest and Fresno County, central California.
Hume Lake
Dam impounding the waters of Hume Lake, illustrating the unique multiple arch construction designed by John S. Eastwood.
1940s conference postcard
Hume Lake showing extensive mountain pine beetle damage as of April 2016.
The Kings River, is a 132.9-mile (213.9 km) river draining the Sierra Nevada mountain range in central California in the United States. Its headwaters originate along the Sierra Crest in and around Kings Canyon National Park and form the eponymous Kings Canyon, one of the deepest river gorges in North America. The river is impounded in Pine Flat Lake before flowing into the San Joaquin Valley southeast of Fresno. With its upper and middle course in Fresno County, the Kings River diverges into multiple branches in Kings County, with some water flowing south to the old Tulare Lake bed and the rest flowing north to the San Joaquin River. However, most of the water is consumed for irrigation well upstream of either point.
The Kings River in the San Joaquin Valley about 10 miles (16 km) below Pine Flat Dam
The South Fork Kings River at Zumwalt Meadow
The Kings River canyon above Pine Flat Lake
A photograph taken by Ansel Adams of the Middle Fork from the south fork of Cartridge Creek
