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The area separates Sierra National Forest (south) and Stanislaus National Forest (north). Inside Yosemite, state routes are federally maintained and are not included in the state route logs. The highway continues into the park as El Portal Drive, following the Merced River to Yosemite Valley.
El Portal plays host to a number of outdoor activities. El Portal was the terminus of the Yosemite Valley Railroad at the entrance to the National Park, [5] and in 1978 Hetch Hetchy Railroad no. 6 was brought to El Portal and added to the National Register of Historic Places. [9] El Portal is Spanish for "the gateway" derived from this fact. [5]
The Bagby Stationhouse, Water Tanks and Turntable are associated with the Yosemite Valley Railroad (YVRR), which ran from Merced, California to El Portal at the entrance to Yosemite National Park. The railroad operated from 1907 to 1945.
In April 1918, the new El Portal Inn replaced the Hotel Del Portal. The smaller and less elegant Inn was a two-story, twenty-room hotel. It was operated by the Yosemite Terminal Company, a subsidiary of the Yosemite Valley Railroad. [5] [7] On July 9, 1932, the El Portal Inn was burned down due to defective kitchen equipment.
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1.1 Near the valley. 1.2 Near Glacier Point. ... A list of Yosemite destinations includes hiking trails and things to see: ... El Portal View; O'Shaughnessy Dam;
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