Prepare to ‘Highlight the Starlight' at this tree-filled ‘Dark Sky Festival'

SEEKING STARLIT SEQUOIAS: The last weekend of summertime may feature the two most enchanted days on the calendar, but the season's second-to-last-weekend also possesses plenty of wonder. In fact, we might gently argue that the summer's penultimate weekend is the time to really dig into the pleasures of the natural world in a slow way, without the pressure that comes with making the most of summer's fleeting final hours. That weekend arrives around the middle of September, and in 2025 something twinkly and towering and full of ethereal splendor will alight on summer's-not-quite-last-gasp: The Dark Sky Festival in Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Parks.