Helms Picnic Area

Helms Picnic Area is a picnic site in Fresno County, San Joaquin Valley, California. Helms Picnic Area is situated nearby to Wishon Reservoir, as well as near Lower Coyote Meadow.

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Helms Pumped Storage Plant.

Power station

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The Helms Pumped Storage Plant is located 50 miles east of Fresno, California, in the Sierra Nevada Mountain Range's Sierra National Forest. It is a power station that uses Helms Creek canyon on the North Fork of the Kings River for off-river water storage and the pumped-storage hydroelectric method to generate electricity. Helms Pumped Storage Plant is situated 2 miles north of Helms Picnic Area.

Latitude

37.01394° or 37° 0′ 50″ north

Longitude

-118.97333° or 118° 58′ 24″ west

Open location code

8593227G+HM

OpenStreetMap ID

OpenStreetMap feature

tourism=picnic_site

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