#swimming
5 trips tagged “swimming”
swimming backpacking at a glance
CaliPeaks documents 5 California backpacking routes tagged swimming, ranging from 6.8 to 11.8 miles with 1,500–3,200 feet of total climbing. Difficulty spans 0/100 (Moderate) on Ten Lakes Basin up to 36/100 (Moderate) on Lake Aloha via Glen Alpine, which also carries the tag's biggest climb at 3,200 feet. All of these routes require a wilderness permit — each trip page links the booking window.
These routes cross Sequoia & Kings Canyon National Parks, Desolation Wilderness, Yosemite National Park and Henry W. Coe State Park, and the months most of them share are July, August, September. Every stat below is cited on its trip page, so you can compare them like-for-like and follow any number back to the managing agency.
Eagle Lake
Eagle Lake is Mineral King's quick alpine swim spot: a 3.4-mile climb from the valley floor to a lake beneath the cirque of the western Grea…
Glen Alpine to Susie Lake
Susie Lake is the quick, beautiful Desolation overnight: 3.8 miles from Glen Alpine past Grass Lake to a clear tarn on the edge of the Lake …
Lake Aloha via Glen Alpine
Lake Aloha is Desolation Wilderness's crown jewel: a shallow, island-dotted lake spread across granite slabs at 8,116 feet beneath Pyramid P…
Ten Lakes Basin
Ten Lakes Basin is a pocket of granite-ringed alpine lakes northwest of Tuolumne Meadows, reached by an 11.8-mile round trip from Tioga Road…
China Hole
China Hole is Coe's classic creek camp: 5.2 miles down from the Coe Ranch ridgetop to a swimming hole on the East Fork of Coyote Creek, unde…