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The rim walk is a wonderful and "character building" experience! Steel yourself for the long and steep initial climb, take your time and you will be rewarded with a spectacular and beautiful walk knowing the worst is over at the start. It's not easy, but I managed it at 74 without being particularly fit and with little preliminary training. Definitely best attempted during the cooler months - I was there in July/August and it was not very hot and no flies!

A fantastic place to visit. The rim walk was amazing, although would require a reasonable level of fitness to make the most of it. Highly recommend a helicopter ride if you have the time and budget. We used the company just down the road from the Kings Canyon Resort and they were highly professional. You get a different persepctive from the sky. We arrived on a Sunday in the afternoon which left us enough time to do the short walk along the bottom of the canyon from the visitor car park. We did the rim walk the next day and also visited Kathleen Springs. The next day we did the helicopter ride and then did a short 8 km return section of the Giles walk from the Kathleen Springs end. It helps if you have done some hiking as some of the blazes showing the trail were a little hard to locate in a couple of places. There was a lovely water hole at the end of the walk which made it well worth the effort. Highly recommend visiting. The sunsets are very pretty.

We stayed 2 nights and did 3 walks and still had lots of relaxing down time at the Resort. The highlight of course was the Canyon Rim Walk - which even my out of shape, non-exercising, 56 year old body with dodgy knees was easily able to achieve.

The whole experience of being in Kings Canyon was wonderful. The walks were laid out and groomed to make it easy to do on your own, although guided walks were offered. Signs along the way gave information on local floral and fauna and indigenous history. The colours at dawn and dusk were so beautiful. At this time of year - August- the desert was in bloom and the flowers and scent in the air fabulous. I highly recommend a visit. I could have stayed much longer.

We enjoyed both creek walk and Kings Canyon rim walk. Creek walk was for all fitness, and we did in afternoon around 2-3pm ( august ) For Rim walk, make sure you have enough water for the walk, try morning walk to avoid heat exhaustion. Bring a sandwich, fruit, snacks.

We loved the bush location, the excellently renovated rooms and bathrooms, facilities and friendly, helpful staff. The only minus was that the bathroom constantly omitted an unpleasant smell (bad plumbing?) and the shower was so that water ended up covering a great part of the bathroom floor.