El Capitan's national park

Usage examples of yosemite.

She had put on her battered chinos again and a T-shirt that said YOSEMITE in faded red letters.

Twenty thousand years ago, the Ice Age glaciers receded from California, gouging out Yosemite Valley and other beauty spots as they left.

In the more populous parks like Glen Canyon and Yosemite, or those close to urban areas as were Joshua Tree or Smokey Mountains, crime was more prevalent.

There was a small mountain of stuffed animals in one corner -- Yosemite Sam on top -- and a neat row of four plastic soccer balls.

Darkness came early to the Yosemite Valley, and she dreaded the drive home in the dark.

But others have succeeded, most notably in 1923 when, after a long fight between conservationists and businessmen, the Hetch Hetchy Valley in the northern part of Yosemite-which was said to be even more spectacularly beautiful than Yosemite Valley itself-was flooded to create a reservoir to provide drinking water for San Francisco, 150 miles to the west.

They've got one cliff called El Capitan, in the Yosemite Valley, that goes practically a mile straight up.

Michel had visited Yosemite Valley in his youth, and he still recalled those towering granite cliffs.

We saw the mountains, Yosemite Valley, San Francisco, the Bay Area, and a lot of other places that I’.

Without any sense of scale, it looked like a picture from some fantasy Yosemite Valley.

Accordingly, she had dragged them up to Alaska and to the Yosemite Valley, and was now returning leisurely, via the Yellowstone, just in time for the tail-end of the summer season at Saratoga.

He took the plastic wrap off the first of the books, Priestley's The Good Companions, and riffled the pages, finding an old postcard bookmark with a picture of Yosemite Valley on it.