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2. Wawona Hotel - Wikipedia

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   The Wawona Hotel, located in southern Yosemite National Park, California, is a historic late Victorian mountain resort and one of the largest intact hotels of its kind within a national park.

3. 168-year-old Yosemite National Park hotel is closing. What to ...

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   The hotel will close Dec. 2 with no date for reopening, according to the National Park Service. 168-year-old Yosemite National Park hotel is closing. What to know about the Wawona

4. Yosemite's Wawona Hotel, age 168, will close ... - AOL

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   The National Park Service announced that the historic Wawona Hotel in Yosemite would close on Dec. 2 to allow the agency to conduct a comprehensive assessment. Yosemite's Wawona Hotel, age 168 ...

5. Yosemite Stage and Turnpike Company - Wikipedia

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   The first road completed was the Coulterville & Yosemite Turnpike, which opened in June 1874. Shortly after, the Chinese Camp & Yosemite Turnpike, later known as the Big Oak Flat Road, began operations. In 1875, the Washburn brothers completed the Wawona Road—the third road to reach Yosemite and the most enduring—providing access from the ...

6. Yosemite National Park - Wikipedia

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   He had simple lodgings and roads built. In 1879, the Wawona Hotel was built to serve tourists visiting Mariposa Grove. [42] As tourism increased, so did the number of trails and hotels to build on it. [43] The Wawona Tree, also known as the Tunnel Tree, was a giant sequoia that grew in the Mariposa Grove. It was 234 feet (71 m) tall, and was 90 ...

7. Yosemite Valley - Wikipedia

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   One of these hotels—the Wawona Hotel, built in the 1880s—still operates. After the Valley became a park, the surrounding territory was still subject to logging, mining, and grazing. John Muir publicized the damage to the subalpine meadows that surround the Valley and in 1890, the government created a national park that included a much ...