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6 unusual facts about Yosemite Valley


Buena Vista Museum of Natural History

Other exhibits include: collection of taxidermy animals from Africa, replica of a triceratops skull, replica of a yokuts Indian village, and a model of Yosemite Valley complete with roads, buildings, and trails.

Enemy Territory: Quake Wars

The Valley map is based on a real Earth location: Yosemite Valley.

Frederick Law Olmsted National Historic Site

Housed within the office complex are nearly 1,000,000 original design records detailing work on many of America’s most treasured landscapes including the U. S. Capitol and White House Grounds; Great Smoky Mountains and Acadia National Parks; Yosemite Valley; New York's Central Park; and whole park systems in cities such as Buffalo, Seattle, Boston and Louisville.

John Muir College

Muir's connection to California's Yosemite Valley continues with the Half Dome Lounge and the dining hall Pines (formerly Sierra Summit).

Mary Williamson Averell

Monies were contributed to The Boys' Club of New York that E.H. loved and supported, to the American Red Cross, to John Muir to help save the Yosemite Valley and to Yale University for an endowed chair of Forestry.

Nata Piaskowski

During the 1980s, she also photographed in New York, Washington D.C., Santa Fe and Taos as well as Death Valley and Yosemite Valley.


Bids for the 1932 Winter Olympics

It saw Lake Placid, United States, be selected ahead of the US candidates Yosemite Valley, Lake Tahoe, Bear Mountain, Duluth, Minneapolis and Denver, and Oslo, Norway and Montreal, Canada.

Mariposa Grove

Abraham Lincoln signed an Act of Congress on June 30, 1864 ceding Mariposa Grove and Yosemite Valley to the state of California.

Our New West. Records of Travel between the Mississippi River and the Pacific Ocean

In addition to his enthusiasm for the West, Bowles urges the preservation of Niagara Falls (probably influenced by Frederick Law Olmsted, whom he met in Yosemite Valley) and of regions of the Adirondacks and Maine (see pp. 384–85).


see also

Black Diamond Equipment

Black Diamond Equipment’s history dates back to the late 1950s, when climber Yvon Chouinard began hand-forging pitons and selling them from the trunk of his car in Yosemite Valley.

Julia F. Parker

Since 1960 Parker has worked as Cultural Specialist at the Yosemite Museum, where she interprets the traditional ways of the Native peoples who populated the Yosemite Valley for generations to park visitors.

Looking Down Yosemite Valley, California

Looking Down the Yosemite Valley, California is an 1865 painting by the German-American painter Albert Bierstadt (1830-1902).

Yosemite West, California

This is the best way to go if you want to see the Mariposa Grove, the Wawona area, and Glacier Point on the way to Yosemite Valley.