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Yosemite National Park Information |
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See also: Alameda CA Hotels |
About Yosemite National Park: Yosemite is a scenic
mountain region in central California. |
Information: Other
Resources:
Yosemite Gift Shop and Souvenirs Discount Hotels Search Camping
near Yosemite Hotels
near Yosemite: Official
Yosemite Valley Map Official
Yosemite Park Map
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Badger Pass, Wildlife and Yosemite Valley: |
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falls is near Yosemite Village on the floor of the valley. |
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Free park shuttle buses
operate daily in the east end of Yosemite Valley. Hotels
Near Yosemite Includes Oakhurst, Mariposa, Groveland, Fresno,
and Yosemite Valley. Camping and lodging
for Yosemite National Park are available throughout the park system
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It
was set aside as a state park in 1864 and, together with additional
surrounding territory, made a national park in 1890. Yosemite National
park encompasses 761,320 acres of the Sierra Nevada Range, including
Yosemite Valley, and features giant sequoia groves with trees thousands
of years old. Yosemite Valley alone has a number of attractions, such
as sheer rock walls, Yosemite Falls, and huge domes and peaks. The
greatest of Peak Within Yosemite National Park is El Capitan, a granite
buttress that rises 3,604 feet from the valley floor.
Winter
sports in Yosemite center around the oldest operating ski area in
California at Badger Pass (209)372-8430.
The parks animal life includes mule deer, various squirrels, chipmunks,
and black bears. The plant life of Yosemite National Park changes
markedly with altitude. Lower park elevations are characterized by
scattered trees, both deciduous and coniferous. At the level of Yosemite
Valley grow larger stands of conifers; higher up, closer to the tree
line in Yosemite, are mountain hemlock and lodgepole pine.
it
was formed by creeks tumbling into Yosemite Valley over the edges
of hanging tributary valleys. The Upper Yosemite Fall drops 1,430
feet and the Lower Yosemite Fall drops another 320 feet with cascades
between. The total drop from the crest of the Upper to the base of
the Lower is 2,425 feet, presenting for Yosemite National Park one
of the world's highest cataracts. Maximum flow for Yosemite Falls
is reached in May and June; it diminishes greatly in years of little
rainfall. Yosemite National Park exists at approximately 4000 feet
above sea level. Visitors to Yosemite National Park number over three
million per year and the expenses to maintain the park exceed 22 million
dollars annually.