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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.
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.
This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Yosemite National Park.. This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Yosemite National Park, California, United States.
After passing through the powerhouses, Hetch Hetchy water flows into the 167 mi (269 km) Hetch Hetchy Aqueduct which travels across the Central Valley. Just before reaching the Bay Area, it passes through the Irvington tunnel near the city of Fremont , and the aqueduct splits into four pipelines at 37°32′53″N 121°55′55″W / 37. ...
Wapama Falls is the larger of two waterfalls located on Falls Creek on the northern wall of Hetch Hetchy Valley below Hetch Hetchy Dome, in Yosemite National Park. The other waterfall, Tueeulala Falls, is on a separate seasonal distributary of Falls Creek. Wapama Falls flows year-round and during peak flow has been known to inundate the trail ...
Trail hike [3] 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.
White Wolf campground, southeast of Hetch Hetchy Reservoir, is within day-hiking distance of the canyon rim, but the return trip from the very bottom is long and steep. Between the eastern tip of the reservoir and the point where the trail begins the climb to White Wolf, the valley is a trackless wilderness.
The San Francisco Public Utilities Commission (SFPUC), of which Hetch Hetchy Water and Power is a division, provided about 45% of the funds for construction of the 1971 New Don Pedro Dam and so has the right to store 570,000 acre-feet (700,000,000 m 3) of water in the reservoir.