Yosemite National Park

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Yosemite National Park is a national park and a UNESCO World Heritage Site in the Sierra Nevada mountains in east-central California. Approximately four million visitors each year come to Yosemite to marvel at its spectacular granite cliffs, towering waterfalls, remote wilderness, massive sequoia trees, and high mountain meadows. The park encompasses a massive 750,000 acres (300,000 hectares), 1,200 sq mi (3,100 km2) area and contains thousands of lakes and ponds, 1,600 mi (2,600 km) of streams, 800 mi (1,300 km) of hiking trails, and 350 mi (560 km) of roads.

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Tunnel tree at Yosemite National Park 20220524

A Yosemite Shuttle bus on Northside Drive in May 2022, with Half Dome behind

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Bridalveil Fall and raised U shaped valley

<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yosemite_Valley" class="extiw" title="en:Yosemite Valley">Yosemite Valley</a>: El Capitan from Central Pillar of Frenzy

<i>Marmota flaviventris</i>, or a Yellow Bellied Marmot, on a rock in the Tuolumne Meadows Yosemite National Park, California, United States.

The spiny crown of Cathedral Peak, Yosemite National Park, California in October 2008.

A basket woven by Miwok-Mono Paiute Native American artist <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucy_Telles" class="extiw" title="en:Lucy Telles">Lucy Telles</a></b>.
<ul><li>active in the Yosemite Valley region, California.</li>
<li>in the collection of the Smithsonian's National Museum of the American Indian</li></ul>

Close-up of Yellow Star-thistle (Centaurea solstitialis).

The <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/O%27Shaughnessy_Dam" class="extiw" title="en:O'Shaughnessy Dam">O'Shaughnessy Dam</a> in Yosemite National Park, USA.

Panoramic drawing of the Yosemite National Park

Lightning first ignited the Meadow fire on July 20. For several weeks, park officials let the small, high-altitude (8,000 feet or 2,440 meters) blaze burn in order to preserve the park’s natural fire patterns and because it posed no threat to public safety, according to The Los Angeles Times. Indeed, the fire had burned just 19 acres (8 hectares) over the first 49 days.
<p>Then winds surged on September 7 and the Meadow fire suddenly flared up. By September 8, the fire had charred 2,582 acres (1,044 hectares). Though it is large enough to provoke dramatic photographs from the ground, the fire is small compared to California’s largest fires. For comparison, the Happy Camp Complex fire in northern California has burned more than 99,000 acres and was only partly contained as of the same date.
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Photo was taken by Yosemite National Park staff on September 7, 2014. Half Dome is on the left, with a smoke plume rising from Little Yosemite Valley to its right.

<a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/El_Capitan" title="El Capitan">El Capitan</a> in <a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Yosemite_National_Park" title="Yosemite National Park">Yosemite National Park</a>, view from the valley floor. Photo taken in <a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Autumn" title="Autumn">Autumn</a>. Note
the climbers.

"View of Tutocanula Pass, Yosemite, California," mammoth plate, by the American photographer Carleton E. Watkins. Yale Collection of Western Americana, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University, New Haven, Conn.

U.S. President <a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Theodore_Roosevelt" title="Theodore Roosevelt">Theodore Roosevelt</a> (left) and nature preservationist <a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/John_Muir" title="John Muir">John Muir</a>, founder of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sierra_Club" class="extiw" title="w:Sierra Club">Sierra Club</a>, on <a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Glacier_Point" title="Glacier Point">Glacier Point</a> in <a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Yosemite_National_Park" title="Yosemite National Park">Yosemite National Park</a>. In the background: Upper and lower Yosemite Falls.

Церемония индейского племени Пайут в 1872 году

Glacially polished granite cirque in upper Tenaya Canyon.

<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galen_Clark" class="extiw" title="en:Galen Clark">Galen Clark</a> in front of the Grizzly Giant Tree, Mariposa Grove, Yosemite National Park.

An album by Carleton E Watkins (1829-1916), one of the finest American landscape photographers of the nineteenth century.

Chief Tenaya who died 1853 was a leader of the Ahwahnechee people in Yosemite Valley, California.

Photograph of Jenny Curry in front of <a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Category:Camp_Curry&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Category:Camp Curry (page does not exist)">Camp Curry</a> sign in Yosemite. (c. 1900).

United States National Park Service photo of snowshoeing in Yosemite National Park

American Black Bear (<i>Ursus americanus</i>) — tagged, in Yosemite Valley.

Yosemite's classic pitch "The Narrows" on the North Face of Sentinel Rock
swallows Ryan Frost, 1996.

<a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Lafayette_Bunnell" title="Lafayette Bunnell">Lafayette Bunnell</a>, explorer of Yosemite Valley.

<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_National_Park_Service" class="extiw" title="w:United States National Park Service">United States National Park Service</a> photo of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wawona_Hotel" class="extiw" title="w:Wawona Hotel">Wawona Hotel</a> main building, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wawona,_California" class="extiw" title="w:Wawona, California">Wawona, California</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yosemite_National_Park" class="extiw" title="w:Yosemite National Park">Yosemite National Park</a>

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