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Yosemite National Park.
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Yosemite National Park
Yosemite National Park is a national park in the state of California, U.S.A.. Created in 1890, it was the second national park, after Yellowstone. It is a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Yosemite covers 1,189 square miles (3,081 square kilometers) on the Sierra Nevada.
Over 3.5 million people visit the park each year. Despite the park's great size, most people spend time in Yosemite Valley, one of the most beautiful places in the park. Almost 95 percent of the park is wilderness. Yosemite has many waterfalls. The most famous of these is the world-famous Yosemite Falls, which at 2,425 feet (739 m) tall, is one of the tallest waterfalls in the world.
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Half Dome
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Half Dome is a granite dome in Yosemite National Park, located in northeastern Mariposa County, California, at the eastern end of Yosemite Valley — possibly Yosemite's most familiar rock formation. The granite crest rises more than 4,737 ft (1,444 m) above the valley floor.
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Half Dome was originally called "Tis-sa-ack," meaning Cleft Rock in the language of the local Native Americans.Tis-sa-ack is also the name of the fourth route on the formation, ascended by Royal Robbins and Don Peterson over eight days in October 1969.Tis-sa-ack is the name of a mother from a native legend. The face seen in Half Dome is supposed to be hers .Tis-sa-ack is the name of a Mono Lake Paiute Indian girl in the Yosemite Native American legend.[citation needed] John Muir referred to the peak as "Tissiack".
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Mariposa Grove
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Mariposa Grove is a sequoia grove in the southernmost part of Yosemite National Park. It is the largest grove of Giant Sequoias in the park, with several hundred mature examples of the tree. Two of its trees are among the 30 largest Giant Sequoias in the world
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Giant Sequoia
The Giant Sequoia named Grizzly Giant is between probably 1900–2400 years old: the oldest tree in the grove. It has a volume of 34,010 cubic feet . It is 210 feet tall, and has a heavily buttressed base with a basal circumference of 28 m (92 ft) or a diameter of 30 feet (9.1 m); above the buttresses at 2.4 m above ground, the circumference is only 23 m. Grizzly Giant's first branch from the base is 2 m (6 ft) in diameter.
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California Tunnel
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The California Tunnel tree: Cut in 1895 to allow coaches to pass through it (and as a marketing scheme to attract visitors to the grove), this is the only living tree with a tunnel in it since the fall of the Wawona Tunnel Tree in 1969.
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Glacier Point
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Glacier Point is a viewpoint above Yosemite Valley . It is located on the south wall of Yosemite Valley at an elevation of 7,214 feet , 3,200 feet above Curry Village. The point offers a superb view of Yosemite National Park's Yosemite Valley, including Yosemite Falls, Half Dome, Vernal Fall, Nevada Fall, and Clouds Rest. Glacier Point can be reached from the Valley via Glacier Point Road.During the summer, Glacier Point is often crowded with tourists. The road is usually open from June through October. In winter, Glacier Point Road closes due to snow.
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Bridal Veil Fall
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Bridal Veil Fall is one of the most prominent waterfalls in the Yosemite Valley in California, seen yearly by millions of visitors to Yosemite National Park.
Bridal Veil Fall is 617 ft and flows year round.
The Ahwahneechee tribe believed that Bridal Veil Fall was home to a vengeful spirit named Pohono which guarded the entrance to the valley, and that those leaving the valley must not look directly into the waterfall lest they be cursed. They also believed that inhaling the mist of Bridalveil Fall would improve one's chances of marriage.
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