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The Merced Grove Ranger Station in Yosemite National Park was designed by the National Park Service and completed in 1935. The station is located near the Merced Grove of giant sequoias in the Crane Flat region of the park. [2] It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1978. [3]
Yosemite National Park (/ j oʊ ˈ s ɛ m ɪ t i / yoh-SEM-ih-tee [5]) is a national park of the United States in California. [ 6 ] [ 7 ] It is bordered on the southeast by Sierra National Forest and on the northwest by Stanislaus National Forest .
The Yosemite Mountain Sugar Pine Railroad (YMSPRR) is a historic 3 ft (914 mm) narrow gauge railway with two operating steam locomotives located near Fish Camp, California, in the Sierra National Forest near the southern entrance to Yosemite National Park. [1]
The Yosemite Park and Curry Company (YP&CC) was formed through the merger of the Yosemite National Park Company and the Curry Camping Company. [4] This merger was part of a decade-long initiative by National Park Service Director Stephen Mather to streamline operations within Yosemite National Park for improved service and efficiency. [4]
May 28, 1987 (Yosemite Village: Yosemite National Park: 29: Sachse Spring Snow Survey Shelter: July 18, 2014 (Off Kibbie Ridge Tr. near Sachse Spring: Yosemite National Park
Yosemite National Park had a record number of 5 million visitors in 2016. [5] In 2020 visitation dropped to 2,268,313 visitors. [ 6 ] A reservation system was implemented in 2020, which required a reservation in order to enter the park. [ 7 ]
For the record: 9:53 a.m. Aug. 28, 2024: A previous version of this story said Kings Canyon is west of Fresno.It is east. Just five hours north of Los Angeles sits a national park that should be ...
The LeConte Memorial Lodge was built by the Sierra Club in 1903 in memory of Joseph LeConte, one of the founding members of the Sierra Club, who died in 1901.The US$4,500 cost to build the Lodge was contributed by students, alumni and faculty from the University of California and Stanford University, San Francisco businesses, and friends and relatives of LeConte.