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Location:
USA,
California, Yosemite
Category:
National
Park
Description:
View
from
Tioga pass, Yosemite National park
Location Information:
Yosemite National Park is a national
park spanning eastern portions of
Tuolumne, Mariposa and Madera
counties in east central California,
United States. The park covers an
area of 761,266 acres (308,073 ha)
and reaches across the western
slopes of the Sierra Nevada mountain
chain. Yosemite is visited by over
3.5 million people each year, many
of whom only spend time in the seven
square miles (18 km2) of Yosemite
Valley. Designated a World Heritage
Site in 1984, Yosemite is
internationally recognized for its
spectacular granite cliffs,
waterfalls, clear streams, Giant
Sequoia groves, and biological
diversity Almost 95% of the park is
designated wilderness. Although not
the first designated national park,
Yosemite was central to the
development of the national park
idea, largely owing to the work of
people like Galen Clark and John
Muir.
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