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This partial list of city nicknames in California compiles the aliases, sobriquets, mottos and slogans that cities in California are known by (or have been known by historically), officially and unofficially, to locals, outsiders or their tourism boards or chambers of commerce.
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.
Yosemite Valley (/ j oʊ ˈ s ɛ m ə t i / yoh-SEM-ə-tee; Yosemite, Miwok for "killer") is a glacial valley in Yosemite National Park in the western Sierra Nevada mountains of Central California, United States.
Now we know the valley and surrounding area as Yosemite National Park – one of America’s most popular national parks, with 3,897,070 million visitors in 2023 – designated in 1890. You have ...
El Capitan is composed almost entirely of a pale, coarse-grained granite approximately 100 MYA (million years old). In addition to El Capitan, this granite forms most of the rock features of the western portions of Yosemite Valley.
Touron is a derogatory term combining the words "tourist" with "moron" to describe any person who, while on vacation, commits an act of pure stupidity. [1] The term is considered park ranger slang that describes how some tourists act in national parks. [2] The phrase indicates an act of ignorance and is known to be used in different subcultures.
There are a few dozen speakers of the three Sierra Miwok languages, and in 1994 there were two speakers of Lake Miwok. The best attested language is Southern Sierra Miwok, from which the name Yosemite originates. [3] The name Miwok comes from the Northern Sierra Miwok word miw·yk meaning 'people.' [4]
A worker at Yosemite National Park has been charged with aggravated sexual abuse, accused of raping and strangling a female park employee on May 31, according to federal prosecutors.