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Housing Units (2000): 123
Land area (2000): 2.110480 sq. miles (5.466117 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 2.110480 sq. miles (5.466117 sq. km)
FIPS code: 86912
Located within: California (CA), FIPS 06
Location: 37.743324 N, 119.575724 W
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Yosemite Valley
Wikipedia
Yosemite Valley is a glacial valley in Yosemite National Park in the western Sierra Nevada mountains of Northern California. The valley is about long and up to a mile deep, surrounded by high granite summits such as Half Dome and El Capitan, and densely forested with pines. The valley is drained by the Merced River and a multitude of streams and waterfalls including Tenaya, Illilouette, Yosemite and Bridalveil Creeks. Yosemite Falls is the highest waterfall in North America, and is a big attraction especially in the spring when the water flow is at its peak. The valley is renowned for its natural beauty, and is widely regarded as the centerpiece of Yosemite National Park, attracting visitors from around the world.
The Valley is the main attraction in the park for the majority of visitors, and a bustling hub of activity during "tourist season" in the summer months. On July 2, 2011 there was a record 20,851 visitors to the valley.
Most visitors enter the valley from roads to the west and pass through the famous Tunnel View entrance. Visitor facilities are located in the center of the valley. There are both hiking trail loops that stay within the valley and trailheads that lead to higher elevations, all of which afford glimpses of the park's many scenic wonders.
Usage examples of "yosemite valley".
Twenty thousand years ago, the Ice Age glaciers receded from California, gouging out Yosemite Valley and other beauty spots as they left.
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.