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Encyclopedia: Yosemite Valley

Yosemite Valley (pronounced "Yo-SEM-it-ee", IPA [joʊˈsɛməti]) is a world-famous scenic location in the Sierra Nevada of California. It is the centerpiece of Yosemite National Park.

More than 100 million visitors have come seeking what John Muir wrote about:

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Vallée de Yosemite

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Ray Jardine

Ray Jardine (1945-) is an America rockclimber famous for being the first to free climb the West Face of El Capitan in the Yosemite Valley and also for inventing the spring loaded camming devices that revolutionized rock climbing...

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Nevada Fall

Nevada Fall Nevada Fall is a 594 ft (181 m) high waterfall on Merced River in Yosemite National Park, California. Together with 317 ft (97 m) high Vernal Fall which starts at the bottom of Nevada Fall, it forms a cascade in which Merced River flows down to Yosemite Valley. This cascade...

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John Muir Trail

John Muir Trail is a long distance footpath in the United States of America running 211 miles (340 km) from the Yosemite Valley to Mount Whitney. Much of the trail serves as a section of the longer... runs through Yosemite National Park, Kings Canyon National Park, Sequoia National Park, Inyo National...

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Silver Strand Falls

Silver Strand Falls drops 574 feet (175m) along Meadow Brook, at the western end of Yosemite Valley, within Yosemite National Park. The falls are commonly thought to drop 1170 feet (356m), this is incorrect. The name Widow's Tears had been applied to Silver Strand Falls in the past, but seasonal...

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California State Highway 140

California to Yosemite Valley or the southern portion of Yosemite will transfer from Highway 99 to... take CA-49 south at this point. For those whose destination is in Yosemite Valley, the portion of.... It runs alongside the Merced River, through El Portel, and into Yosemite Valley, where it ends...

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Half Dome

Half Dome Half Dome from Yosemite Valley Elevation: 8,836 ft (2,693 m) Latitude: 37Â... Yosemite Valley, and may be the Valley's most familiar sight. The granite crest rises more than 1440... Road Half Dome closeup from Yosemite Valley...

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Bridalveil Fall (Yosemite)

This article is about Bridalveil Fall in Yosemite. For waterfalls named 'Bridal Veil', see Bridal Veil Falls. Bridalveil Fall is one of the most prominent waterfalls in the Yosemite Valley in California, seen yearly by millions of visitors to Yosemite National Park. It is approximately 227 m tall...

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Carleton Watkins

Carleton E. Watkins - 19th Century California Photographer He became famous for his series of photographs and historic stereoviews of Yosemite Valley in the 1860s, and also created a variety images of California and Oregon in the 1870s and later. Watkins purchased the 1860's Central Pacific...

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Mariposa Grove

, 1864 ceding the "Mariposa Big Tree Grove" (and Yosemite Valley) to the state of California... Giant Sequoia in the Mariposa Grove, Yosemite Mariposa Grove is a sequoia grove located near Wawona, California in the southernmost part of Yosemite National Park. It is the largest grove of...

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Josiah Whitney

Geological Survey of California . He also published The Yosemite Book , which advocated protecting Yosemite Valley as a national park. Whitney is probably best known for his scientific feud with John Muir. Whitney concluded that Yosemite Valley was a graben, a downdropped block of land. In 1871, Muir...

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