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      "content": "Traveler 2023 p10: from Summit Ranger Station drive Highway 108 east 27 miles, right at Kennedy Meadows sign, half a mile to Trailhead Parking sign, left into the lot.",
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      "content": "2023 Forest Service guide reports a 1-night camping limit at Kennedy trailhead. Traveler p10 specifies campers and stock entering Emigrant Wilderness.",
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      "content": "Traveler 2023 p10 Highway 108 information advises against large RVs or trailers from Kennedy Meadows on the west to Leavitt Meadow on the east; grades can be as steep as 26 percent, with narrow winding road and no shoulder.",
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      "content": "2023 traveler-2023: Kennedy Meadows to Relief Reservoir is reported as 6 miles (round trip). Precise endpoint and parking inclusion are not resolved.",
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      "content": "Traveler 2023 p10 states that the trail begins half a mile from the parking lot, at the south end of the main road. It does not state whether the six-mile round-trip destination total includes this connection.",
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      "content": "Traveler 2023 p10 Relief Reservoir entry explicitly places the trail start at the south end of the main road, half a mile from the Kennedy trailhead parking lot. The connecting walk is described but its geometry is not reviewed. The reported half-mile connecting walk is retained; destination totals are not inferred.",
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      "source_id": "source-usfs-emigrant-traveler-2023"
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      "content": "Traveler 2023 p10 Horse Camping lists vault toilets at Kennedy Meadows trailhead.",
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      "content": "Traveler 2023 p10 Highway 108 information advises against large RVs or trailers from Kennedy Meadows on the west to Leavitt Meadow on the east; grades can be as steep as 26 percent, with narrow winding road and no shoulder.",
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      "content": "Traveler 2023 p8 lists new vault toilets at Sonora Pass day use area among improvements planned complete by 2026. A plan is not evidence of completion.",
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      "content": "Traveler 2023 page 10 Horse Camping: Crabtree and Kennedy Meadows trailheads allow one-night stays for campers and stock entering Emigrant Wilderness. This report concerns trailhead stays, not a lake camping interpretation.",
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      "content": "Traveler 2023, Highway 108 recreation opportunities page 10, Horse Camping: Crabtree and Kennedy Meadows trailheads have vault toilets. This is a published facility report, not an operating-status check.",
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      "content": "Traveler 2023 page 8, improvements planned complete by 2026: new vault toilets include Crabtree day use area. A planned completion date does not establish installation or opening.",
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