Yosemite and the Central Sierra Nevada Mountains

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Winter in Yosemite Valley, Discovery View at the Wawona Tunnel, Yosemite National Park

Winter at Discovery View, Yosemite National Park

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Yosemite and the Central Sierra Nevada Mountains

Yosemite National Park, California

The Incomparable Valley, as geologist Francois Matthes called it, and truly it deserves the accolade, with its towering granite cliffs and astoundingly high waterfalls, wonderful forests, alpine meadows and rugged peaks. This is a huge park, running from the hot foothills to glaciated peaks, it is larger than the state of Rhode Island. A World Biosphere Reserve and UNESCO World heritage Site, it has been protected as a public park since 1863.

Choose one of the localities from the Table of Contents below to see thumbnail images of the VR panoramas.

Table of Contents

: The Wawona Tunnel and Discovery View, Yosemite National Park; Valley View of Yosemite Valley, Yosemite National Park; Bridalveil Falls, Yosemite Valley, Yosemite National Park; El Capitan Meadow, Yosemite National Park; Leidig Meadow, Yosemite National Park; The Four Mile Trail to Glacier Point. Yosemite National Park; Chapel Meadow. Yosemite Valley, Yosemite National Park; Yosemite Valley during a spring storm in mid-May 2010; Cooks Meadow in Yosemite Valley, Yosemite National Park; Yosemite Lodge, Yosemite National Park; Lower Yosemite Falls, Yosemite National Park; The Yosemite Falls Trail, Yosemite National Park; Viewpoints on the north rim of Yosemite Valley, Yosemite National Park; Yosemite Village, Yosemite National Park; Ahwahnee Meadow in Yosemite Valley, Yosemite National Park; The Ahwahnee Hotel in Yosemite Valley, Yosemite National Park; More of the Ahwahnee Hotel, cottages and river, Yosemite National Park; Southside Road in Yosemite Valley, Yosemite National Park; Stoneman Meadow in Yosemite Valley, Yosemite National Park; Camp Curry in Yosemite Valley, Yosemite National Park; The Pines Campgrounds in Yosemite Valley, Yosemite National Park; Mirror Lake in Yosemite Valley, Yosemite National Park
The Giant Staircase: Happy Isles in Yosemite Valley, Yosemite National Park; Vernal Falls and the Mist Trail, Yosemite National Park; The Horse Trail (John Muir Trail), Yosemite National Park; Nevada Falls, Yosemite National Park; The Panorama Trail, Yosemite National Park
Hetch Hetchy: Tuolumne River below Hetch Hetchy, Yosemite National Park; O'Shaugnessy Dam at Hetch Hetchy, Yosemite National Park; The north side trail at Hetch Hetchy, Yosemite National Park; South Fork of the Tuolumne River, Stanislaus National Forest and Yosemite National Park
: Near Crane Flat on the Tioga Road in Yosemite National Park; Crane Flat Meadow, Yosemite National Park; Tuolumne Grove of Giant Sequoias, Yosemite National Park; Forests Along the Tioga Road, Yosemite National Park; Yosemite Creek Above the Falls, Yosemite National Park; Olmsted Point on the Tioga Road, Yosemite National Park; Tenaya Lake, Yosemite National Park; The Cathedral Range, Yosemite National Park; The west end of Tuolumne Meadows, Yosemite National Park; The Soda Springs area at Tuolumne Meadows; Tuolumne Meadows, Yosemite National Park; Vogelsang High Sierra Camp and Lake; The Dana Fork of the Tuolumne River, Yosemite National Park; Tioga Pass, the East Entrance to Yosemite National Park
Glen Aulin Trail: The trail from Tuolumne Meadows to Glen Aulin, Yosemite National Park; Glen Aulin on the Tuolumne River, Yosemite National Park; Below Glen Aulin on the Tuolumne River, Yosemite National Park; Waterwheel Falls on the Tuolumne River, Yosemite National Park
South Rim: The Glacier Point Road, Yosemite National Park; Viewpoints on the south rim of Yosemite Valley, Yosemite National Park; Sentinel Dome, Yosemite National Park; Glacier Point above Yosemite Valley, Yosemite National Park
Wawona and the Mariposa Grove: Wawona, Yosemite National Park; The Lower Mariposa Grove of Giant Sequoias, Yosemite National Park; The Upper Mariposa Grove of Giant Sequoias, Yosemite National Park
: Knights Ferry on the Stanislaus River; Yosemite Junction and Chinese Camp; Lake Don Pedro, Moccasin, and the Priest Grade, Tuolumne County; Groveland and Big Oak Flat, Tuolumne County; Coulterville and Bear Valley, Mariposa County; Catheys Valley in the foothills west of Mariposa; Mariposa, Mariposa County; The Merced River Below Yosemite Valley, Sierra National Forest; El Portal, west entrance to Yosemite National Park; The Big Oak Flat Road, Yosemite National Park; Cascade Valley, Yosemite National Park

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