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The Yosemite Valley from Inspiration Point, showing visitors gazing at Bridalveil Falls, 1921. As with Yellowstone, the new federal park was under U.S. Army jurisdiction until 1914. In 1906, the state ceded the Valley and Mariposa Grove to the federal government. The National Park Service, on its creation in 1916, took over Yosemite. [26]
In 1881, the company opened its first long-distance toll road, the Madera-Mariposa Route—a 90-mile stagecoach line connecting Yosemite Valley to the Southern Pacific Railway in Madera and serving as a vital link between the Sierra Nevada and the San Joaquin Valley. [9]
Mariposa: Catheys Valley: 9.50: Hornitos Road – Hornitos: Mariposa: 21.22: SR 49 south – Oakhurst: West end of SR 49 overlap: 22.00: SR 49 north / Jones Street – Coulterville, Sonora: East end of SR 49 overlap: Yosemite National Park: 51.80: East end of state maintenance at western park boundary Arch Rock Entrance Station; park fee or ...
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The park can be divided into five sections—Yosemite Valley, Wawona/Mariposa Grove/Glacier Point, Tuolumne Meadows, Hetch Hetchy, and Crane Flat/White Wolf. [135] Numerous books describe park trails, while the National Park Service provides free information.
The Mariposa Grove was first visited by non-native people in 1857 when Galen Clark and Milton Mann found it. They named the grove after Mariposa County, California, where the grove is located. [2] Abraham Lincoln signed an Act of Congress on June 30, 1864, ceding Mariposa Grove and Yosemite Valley to the state of California. Criticism of ...
Yosemite National Park East end of state maintenance at western park boundary Big Oak Flat Entrance Station; park fee or pass required for entry [28] Mariposa MPA R41.52-43.75 Big Oak Flat Road to SR 41 / SR 140 – Yosemite Valley Tuolumne Grove (winter closure gate near the eastern end of the grove) [5] [29] Tuolumne TUO 43.75-R56.15
Continuing to the west, SR 49 passes through Mormon Bar before running concurrently with SR 140 briefly through the town of Mariposa. Near the town of Mount Bullion, SR 49 passes by Mariposa-Yosemite Airport before turning northwest and going through Bear Valley and the intersection with CR J16.