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P.O. Box 577 Yosemite, CA 95389

209-372-0200

Yosemite National Park is in California’s Sierra Nevada’s. It is famous for its giant, ancient sequoias and for Tunnel View, where you can see El Capitan and Bridalveil Fall rising from Yosemite Valley, with Half Dome in the background. Half Dome and El Capitan are granite cliffs and are known to be the world's tallest granite monolith. Yosemite National Park has deep valleys, grand meadows, a vast wilderness area and its waterfalls. At 1,430-feet tall, Yosemite Falls is the largest waterfall in North America. Yosemite was carved by glaciers long ago. The landscape was created from the interaction of the glaciers and the underlying rocks were the basis for its preservation as a National Park.