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    Yosemite Valley (Yosemite, Miwok for "killer") is a census-designated place (CDP) in Mariposa County, California, United States. It consists of the developed...
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    Yosemite Valley (/joʊˈsɛməti/ yoh-SEM-ə-tee; Yosemite, Miwok for "killer") is a glacial valley in Yosemite National Park in the western Sierra Nevada mountains...
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    Yosemite National Park (/joʊˈsɛmɪti/ yoh-SEM-ih-tee) is a national park in California. It is bordered on the southeast by Sierra National Forest and on...
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    Little Yosemite Valley is a smaller glacial valley upstream in the Merced River drainage from the Yosemite Valley in Yosemite National Park. The Merced...
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    a band of Native Americans called the Ahwahnechee lived in Yosemite Valley. The California Gold Rush greatly increased the number of non-indigenous people...
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    traditionally lived in the Yosemite Valley and still live in the surrounding area. They are the seven tribes of Yosemite Miwok, Northern Paiute, Kucadikadi...
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    The Yosemite Valley Chapel was built in the Yosemite Valley of California in 1879. The wooden chapel was designed by San Francisco architect Charles Geddes...
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    larger, Looking Down Yosemite Valley, California, which was painted a year later in 1865. Many versions of Valley of the Yosemite were painted by Bierstadt...
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    Half Dome (redirect from Yosemite Half Dome)
    quartz monzonite batholith at the eastern end of Yosemite Valley in Yosemite National Park, California. It is a well-known rock formation in the park,...
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    The 1996 Yosemite Valley landslide occurred on July 10, 1996, near the Happy Isles trailhead in Yosemite Valley, Yosemite National Park, Mariposa County...
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  • Tenaya (category Yosemite National Park)
    Tenaya (died 1853) was a leader of the Ahwahnechee people in Yosemite Valley, California. Tenaya's father was a leader of the Ahwahnechee people (or Awahnichi)...
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    drop. Trails from the valley floor and down from other park areas outside the valley lead to both the top and base of Upper Yosemite Fall. The upper fall...
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    state highway in the central part of California, connecting the San Joaquin Valley with the Sierra Nevada, Yosemite National Park, and the Mono Lake area...
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    Fire Lookout Yosemite National Park Yosemite Valley Badger Pass Ski Area Mariposa County History of the Yosemite area Chinquapin, California "2021 U.S....
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    Looking Down the Yosemite Valley, California is an 1865 painting by the German-American painter Albert Bierstadt (1830–1902). It was Bierstadt's first...
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    Francisco Bay Area or other parts of Northern California to Yosemite Valley and the southern portion of Yosemite would transfer from Highway 99 to Highway...
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    The Yosemite Valley Railroad (YVRR) was a short-line railroad that operated in California from 1907 to 1945, providing a new mode of travel and tourism...
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    in Mariposa County, California, United States. The population was 111 at the 2020 census. It is located entirely within Yosemite National Park, as it...
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    Yosemite Creek is a 15-mile-long (24 km) creek of the Sierra Nevada, located in Yosemite National Park, Mariposa County, California, United States. The...
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    Wawona Tunnel, and provides the first view of Yosemite Valley. The route then continues into Yosemite Valley where it terminates at SR 140/Southside Drive...
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    Merced River (category Rivers of Yosemite National Park)
    through the southern part of Yosemite National Park, where it is the primary watercourse flowing through Yosemite Valley. The river's character changes...
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    VI 5.13c, El Capitan, Yosemite Valley, California 2004: Dihedral Wall (FFA) VI 5.14a, El Capitan, Yosemite Valley, California 2005: The Nose VI 5.14a/b...
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    of 4000 ft (1200 m) on the north side of the Yosemite Valley, close to base of granite cliffs near Yosemite Falls. Nearby boulders have long been used for...
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    Yosemite Valley in 1860. Forest Sanford Townsley (1882–1943), chief ranger at Yosemite National Park for 27 years. List of cemeteries in California Pioneer...
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  • Upper Cascade Falls, Yosemite Valley, California. 2002: Grand Illusion (5.13c, onsight, first female ascent) at Sugarloaf, California. 2003: Sarchasm (5...
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  • Thumbnail for Yosemite Lodge at the Falls
    Village, Yosemite National Park, Mariposa County, California. The lodging accommodation is close to Yosemite Falls. The Lodge complex has a total of 245 rooms...
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  • Thumbnail for Eagle Peak (Mariposa County, California)
    the highest of the Three Brothers, a rock formation, above Yosemite Valley in California. This independent peak is located just east of El Capitan. John...
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    hot embers were spilled from the top of Glacier Point in Yosemite National Park to the valley 3,000 feet (900 m) below. From a distance it appeared as...
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    group of California Indian Miwok people, Indigenous to California. Their homeland included regions of the Sacramento Valley, San Joaquin Valley, and the...
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    most of Yosemite Valley at the end of the last Ice Age, and is close to disappearing due to sediment accumulation. List of lakes in California Media related...
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