Wm.B. Richardson 1936 42 General Account Big Meadow is located between the Sequoia and General Grant National Parks. It is accessible by auto being about 10 mi. from the northern Sequoia N.P. checking station (7 mi. WSW along main highway and 3 mi. on road turning to the right). Mr. Brown the ranger at Big Meadow conducted me to the campsite some 200 yds south west of the ranger station. The country might best be described as a low rolling granite area. Thin are no angular granite talus slopes are found about the General Grant but rather thin are slab sloped rocks which have pealed off of the granite down. Vegetation - Principally lodge- pole pine About the meadow and stream thin is a pure stand of this conifer, while on the gentler slopes above camp thin is a mixed forest of lodge pole pine, Yellow pine, Red Fir and White pine. Soil - Coarse light reddish brown sandy loam. The darker colored soil being found about the meadow. Thin parent