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Yosemite National Park Travel Guide

Are you traveling to the Yosemite National park to visit and tour the treasures of the Yosemite? Looking for spending your vacation in the Yosemite National park with or without a guided tour? You came to the right place! Our Yosemite National park Travel Guide offers all visitors and travelers to the Yosemite all tourist information related to the Yosemite Park including, driving, hiking, visiting the Yosemite Giant Sequoias, the Yosemite valley, the Yosemite Half Dome, El Capitan, the Yosemite three groves of Giant Sequoias, a wide and spectacular selection of photos of the Yosemite National park.

 

Where is the Yosemite National Park?

The Yosemite National Park is located in California Sierra Nevada. Yosemite National park has only four gates accessible by vehicles:

1-If you drive from the eastern slope of the Sierra Nevada coming from Las Vegas, Lake Tahoe, Mammoth Lakes or Death Valley via State highway 395, you will need to get on highway 120 through Lee Vining heading west. However, this access is closed to traffic from November through July every year due to heavy snow. You may also get the news before the hit the road as this highway can also be closed occasionally due to fires. This happened many times including August and early September 2009 when the rangers-fire fighters lost control of their “control burns”! Shouldn’t be accountable of that vis-à-vis California tax payers?

2-If you drive from San Francisco, Sacramento or and from Central Valley, get on State highway 120 heading east to the Yosemite National Park.

3-If you drive from Central Valley coming from Merced, Clovis, Madera, Monterey or Los Angeles, you can take highway 140 to the Yosemite National Park via El Portal.

4-You may also choose to get to the Yosemite on highway 41 via Oakhurst and Fish camp. Please take in consideration that many Groves of Sequoias and highways are closed in winter due to heavy snow. Tires chains are required in winter.

Yosemite National park is located about 410 miles North-East of Las Vegas , 188 Miles south of Lake Tahoe and 200 Miles East of San Francisco. The Yosemite National Park is a 1,188 square miles .The Park was recognized as a World Heritage and protected site in 1984.

 

Brief introduction of the Yosemite Geology

The Yosemite National Park is a glaciated landscape that has shaped the Yosemite Valley from a V to a U shape in the course of the geological evolution of the Yosemite Park. This unique and amazing glaciations landscape resulted from the interaction of the glaciers and the underlying rocks that shifted the Sierra Nevada and lifted the mountains creating giant granite rocks and hanging valleys. Half Dome, El Capitan, Cathedral Rocks, the three brothers, Clark Ranges, Glacier Point and the three brothers above the Yosemite Valley witness this glaciations landscape of the Yosemite National Park. No place on earth provides such concentration of wonders in such limited area like the Yosemite Valley. Please note that the Yosemite valley is only 1% of the Yosemite National Park!

 

Brief History of the origins of the name "Yosemite"

The Native Americans called the Ahwahnee lived in what will become the Yosemite National Park. When the Mariposa Battalion got to the Yosemite to force the natives to leave the Park and gather them in a concentration camp in Wawana by Mariposa, they decided to call the new land as the Yosemite believing the natives were called so but then found out they actually belonged to the Ahwahnee tribe.

 

The Yosemite Valley

The Yosemite Valley is the main focus for all visitors from all over the world. The Yosemite Valley is home to a large concentration of amazing and spectacular wonders including waterfalls, hanging valleys, rivers , giant granite dome and towering cliffs and an interesting fauna and flora. Learn more about the Yosemite Valley now..

 

Yosemite National Park Travel Guide

The Yosemite Valley is the main focus for all visitors from all over the world. The Yosemite Valley is home to a large concentration of amazing and spectacular wonders including waterfalls, hanging valleys, rivers , giant granite dome and towering cliffs and an interesting fauna and flora. Learn more about the Yosemite Valley now..

 

 
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