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When it opened in 1933, the Wawona Tunnel was the longest automobile tunnel in the world and remains the longest highway tunnel in California at 4,233 feet (1,290 m) long. [ 2 ] [ 8 ] The Tom Lantos Tunnels in Pacifica, California are 4,149 feet (1,265 m) .8 Miles long; the Caldecott Tunnel in Oakland, California is 3,771 feet (1,149 m) long.
Theodore Roosevelt riding through the Wawona Tree, 1903. In September 1880, the company transported President Rutherford B. Hayes during his visit to Yosemite Valley. [13] In 1903, Edward and John Washburn hosted Theodore Roosevelt at the Wawona Hotel and transported him to the Mariposa Grove, including a ride through the iconic Wawona Tunnel ...
Fort Mason Tunnel, former rail tunnel beneath Fort Mason, San Francisco; Point Richmond Tunnel, carrying BNSF freight parallel to the road tunnel in Point Richmond; Summit Tunnel (Tunnel No. 6), abandoned rail tunnel, Central Pacific Railroad, one of a number through the Donner Pass area of the Sierra Nevada [4]
Wawona Tunnel [a] Extant 1932 1991 SR 41 (Wawona Road) Turtleback Dome: Yosemite Village: Mariposa: CA-130-E: Santa Ana River Hydroelectric System, Flume and Tunnel below Fish Screen 1898 1991 Redlands: San Bernardino: CA-130-G
Wawona and 46th Avenue station (also known as SF Zoo) is a light rail stop on the Muni Metro L Taraval line, located in the Parkside neighborhood of San Francisco, California. The stop opened as the terminus of an extension of the line to the San Francisco Zoo on September 15, 1937.
San Francisco Bay Area Local history, Arts Building tours by appointment, group working to establish new museum [8] 1997 San Francisco Museum at the Mint: San Francisco San Francisco San Francisco Bay Area Local history Planned museum in the Old Mint to be operated by the San Francisco Museum and Historical Society. Wax Museum at Fisherman's Wharf
The San Francisco Historical Society was founded in 1988 by historian Charles A. Fracchia. [1]In February 2002, the San Francisco Historical Society merged with the Museum of the City of San Francisco to create the San Francisco Museum and Historical Society, [2] which the San Francisco municipal government recognized as the official historical museum of San Francisco. [3]
[8] [9] The tunnel, measuring 7 ft (2.1 m) wide, 9 ft (2.7 m) high, and 26 ft (7.9 m) long, transformed the tree into a significant tourist attraction and a symbol of the grove's colossal sequoias. [10] Such tunnel trees became hallmark attractions of Mariposa Grove. A second tunnel tree, the California Tunnel Tree, was cut in 1895.