Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
Get the Yosemite National Park, CA local weather forecast by the hour and the next 10 days.
Get the Yosemite West, CA local weather forecast by the hour and the next 10 days.
Get the local weather forecast by the hour and the next 10 days.
Yosemite Valley and the Mariposa Grove were ceded to California as a state park, and a board of commissioners was established two years later. [55] Galen Clark was appointed by the commission as the Grant's first guardian, but neither Clark nor the commissioners had the authority to evict homesteaders (which included Hutchings). [53]
Visitors play in the snow at Leidig Meadow near Swinging Bridge in Yosemite Valley Friday, Feb 9, 2024 in Yosemite National Park. Upper Yosemite Fall can be seen far in the center background.
A cold weather system dropped about 2 feet of snow in Yosemite in the past week and brought a dusting to the national park’s majestic valley. ... That’s 24 hours a day in February on Saturdays ...
Clouds Rest is an arête; a thin, almost knife-like, ridge of rock formed when glaciers eroded away solid rock to form Tenaya Canyon and Little Yosemite Valley. The northwest face, mostly solid granite, rises 5,000 feet (1,520 m) above Tenaya Creek .
In the 1870s, growing interest in Yosemite's natural wonders spurred competition among three rival companies to build toll roads into the valley, aiming to profit from the increasing number of visitors. The first road completed was the Coulterville & Yosemite Turnpike, which opened in June 1874.