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Map of Hetch Hetchy Project facilities View of reservoir and Kolana Rock. Hetch Hetchy Valley serves as the primary water source for the City and County of San Francisco and several surrounding municipalities in the greater San Francisco Bay Area.
[14] [17] At the time, Hetch Hetchy was an isolated, seldom visited subalpine valley, visited intermittently by gold seekers and sheepherders. However, since 1890, Hetch Hetchy Valley and the surrounding lands had been part of Yosemite National Park and thus off-limits to utility development, let alone at the grand scale proposed by the city. [18]
Smith Peak, in Yosemite National Park in the United States, overlooks the Hetch Hetchy Reservoir and provides grand vistas of the Hetch Hetchy Valley and surrounding wilderness. It is named for a sheep owner who claimed to own the Hetch Hetchy Valley and used it as a summer pasture.
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Falls Creek, also known as the Falls River, [2] is a tributary of the Tuolumne River in Yosemite National Park, California, United States.The creek begins at the northern boundary of the national park and flows 24 miles (39 km) [1] to empty into the Tuolumne at Hetch Hetchy Reservoir, dropping over two well-known waterfalls.
Tueeulala Falls is located on the north side of Hetch Hetchy Valley in Yosemite National Park. At roughly 880 feet it is the smaller of two large waterfalls that spill into Hetch Hetchy Reservoir, the other being Wapama Falls. It is, however, the larger of the two in terms of greatest free-fall distance, as Wapama is split into two falls.
Less crowded than Yosemite Valley, whose roads have been choked with visitors, Hetch Hetchy Valley is a half-forgotten realm filled with granite walls, tall falls and wildflowers.
Hetch Hetchy Dome is a granite dome, ... Some history, of Hetch Hetchy Valley; One photo ... Mobile view; Search.