Shorty Lovelace Historic District

The Shorty Lovelace Historic District includes a series of cabins built in Kings Canyon National Park by trapper Joseph Walter "Shorty" Lovelace between 1910 and 1940. Lovelace was the first non-Native American to live year-round in the upper Kings River Canyon. Lovelace may have built as many as thirty-six structures in the area, with possibly a dozen surviving. Lovelace built his first cabins in 1912 at Crowley Canyon. The cabins were typically five feet by seven feet with dirt floors.

Structures include:


 * Williams (Quartz) Meadow Cabin
 * Sphinx Creek Cabin
 * Crowley Canyon Cabin
 * Granite Pass Cabin
 * Vidette Meadow Cabin
 * Gardiner Creek Cabin
 * Woods Creek Cabin
 * Cloud Canyon Cabin
 * Lower Bubbs Creek