Yosemite National Park

• Yosemite National Park is located in east central California
• Established: 10-1-1890
  • The park's creation was pushed by John Muir who said: "No temple made with human hands can compare with Yosemite"
• Covers 761,267 acres
• Yosemite Valley is a one mile wide canyon roughly the size of Rhode Island
• El Capitan is the world's largest exposed granite monolith
• Many people ski here during the late fall, winter, and early spring
• Open year-round
• Other Places of Interest:
• Mariposa Grove
• Glacier Point
• Wawona Point
• Tioga Pass
• Mirror Lake
• Sentinel Dome
• Wapama Falls
• Ostrander Lake
• Yosemite Falls
  • The falls is fed by melting snow, so the cascade is dry during late summer, fall, and early winter
• Toulumne Grove

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