Crossword clues for yosemite
yosemite
- Sierra Nevada attraction
- ___ Sam (gunslinger in Bugs Bunny cartoons)
- Sierra Nevada lure
- Ansel Adams subject
- Site of many Ansel Adams works
- Site depicted on California's America the Beautiful quarter
- Sierra Nevada park
- Sierra Nevada national park
- National park in northern California
- National park in California
- Home of El Capitan
- Highest waterfall in US
- El Capitan's national park
- El Capitan's locale
- El Capitan's home
- Cartoon character Sam
- Tuolumne Meadows locale
- California hikers' mecca
- California national park featured in "Star Trek V: The Final Frontier"
- Home of the 1,612-foot Ribbon Falls
- Half Dome's home
- Subject of many Ansel Adams photos
- Apple operating system that's also a geographical name
- A series of waterfalls in Yosemite National Park in California
- Is reduced to a trickle for part of each year
- El Capitan locale
- With joyous heart, Middle-easterner is climbing Mecca
- Some yeti seen roaming mountain valley
- Some getting upset with it in the old American park
- Three times oyster content gets sent back in US national park
- US National Park in California
- Western park
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
from Southern Sierra Miwok /yohhe'meti/ "they are killers." "[E]vidently a name given to the Indians of the valley by those outside it." [Bright]
Gazetteer
Wikipedia
Yosemite National Park is a national park in the United States.
Yosemite may also refer to:
Places:
- Yosemite, Kentucky
- Yosemite Valley, a glacial valley
- Yosemite Valley, California, a census area
- Yosemite Village, California
- Yosemite Lakes, California
- Yosemite Rock, a Phantom Island in the Pacific Ocean
Transportation:
-
, the name of more than one United States Navy ship
- Yosemite (sidewheeler), a steamboat that operated in California, Washington, and British Columbia
- Yosemite Mountain Sugar Pine Railroad
Other uses (general):
- Yosemite (film), a 2015 film
- OS X Yosemite, Mac OS X version 10.10 computer operating system by Apple, Inc.
- Yosemite bowline, a knot
- Yosemite Decimal System, a system for rating walks, hikes, and climbs
- Yosemite Entertainment, a division of Sierra Entertainment
- The Yosemite, a 1912 book by John Muir about the national park
- Yosemite Server Backup, computer software
Yosemite is a 2015 American drama independent film written and directed by Gabrielle Demeestere, which stars James Franco, Henry Hopper, Steven Wiig, Barry Del Sherman, and Alec Mansky.
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.