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    Yosemite National Park is one of America's most beloved parks located in California. It is famous for its incredible granite domes and massive waterfalls. The park offers many outdoor activities like hiking, climbing, and horseback riding along trails that lead to scenic areas. Yosemite National Park covers over 750,000 acres and contains giant sequoia groves, lakes, mountains, and meadows. The geology of the park includes granite rocks and remnants from over 10 million years ago when glaciers formed the iconic Yosemite Valley.

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    Yosemite National Park is one of America's most beloved parks located in California. It is famous for its incredible granite domes and massive waterfalls. The park offers many outdoor activities like hiking, climbing, and horseback riding along trails that lead to scenic areas. Yosemite National Park covers over 750,000 acres and contains giant sequoia groves, lakes, mountains, and meadows. The geology of the park includes granite rocks and remnants from over 10 million years ago when glaciers formed the iconic Yosemite Valley.

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    Yosemite National Park is one of America's most beloved parks located in California. It is famous for its incredible granite domes and massive waterfalls. The park offers many outdoor activities like hiking, climbing, and horseback riding along trails that lead to scenic areas. Yosemite National Park covers over 750,000 acres and contains giant sequoia groves, lakes, mountains, and meadows. The geology of the park includes granite rocks and remnants from over 10 million years ago when glaciers formed the iconic Yosemite Valley.

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    Yosemite National Park

    One of America's most loved parks, Yosemite National Park is one of the best places to visit in
    California, particularly for nature lovers. Famous sights, like the incredible granite domes of El
    Capitan and Half Dome, have to be seen in person to fully appreciate their grandeur. The
    massive waterfalls that tumble off sheer cliffs from mountain snowfall or sudden summer
    rainstorms are another of the park's highlights.

    Yosemite National Park is full of activity-based things to do that include hiking, climbing,
    walking, and horseback riding. Hiking trails lead to some of the most scenic areas and are a good
    way to escape the crowds at lookouts.

    Yosemite National Park (/joʊˈsɛmɪti/ yoh-SEM-ih-tee)[5] is an American national park in


    California,[6][7] surrounded on the southeast by Sierra National Forest and on the northwest by
    Stanislaus National Forest. The park is managed by the National Park Service and covers an area
    of 759,620 acres (1,187 sq mi; 3,074 km2)[3] and sits in four counties – centered in Tuolumne and
    Mariposa, extending north and east to Mono and south to Madera County. Designated a World
    Heritage Site in 1984, Yosemite is internationally recognized for its granite cliffs, waterfalls,
    clear streams, giant sequoia groves, lakes, mountains, meadows, glaciers, and biological
    diversity.[8] Almost 95 percent of the park is designated wilderness.[9] Yosemite is one of the
    largest and least fragmented habitat blocks in the Sierra Nevada, and the park supports a
    diversity of plants and animals.

    The geology of the Yosemite area is characterized by granite rocks and remnants of older rock.
    About 10 million years ago, the Sierra Nevada was uplifted and tilted to form its unique slopes,
    which increased the steepness of stream and river beds, resulting in the formation of deep,
    narrow canyons. About one million years ago glaciers formed at higher elevations which
    eventually melted and moved downslope, cutting and sculpting the U-shaped valley that attracts
    so many visitors to its scenic vistas today.[8]

    The Yosemite Valley itself was discovered by European American settlers in 1851. There are
    earlier instances of other travelers entering the Valley but James D. Savage is accredited with
    discovering the area that is now known as Yosemite National Park.[10] Despite Savage and other
    white men claiming their discovery of Yosemite, the region and Valley itself has been inhabited
    for nearly 4,000 years, although humans may have first visited the area as long as 8,000 to
    10,000 years ago.[11][12]

    Yosemite was critical to the development of the national park idea. Galen Clark and others
    lobbied to protect Yosemite Valley from development, ultimately leading to President Abraham
    Lincoln signing the Yosemite Grant of 1864 which declared Yosemite as federally preserved
    land.[13] It was not until 1890 when John Muir led a successful movement which had Congress
    establish Yosemite Valley and its surrounding areas as a National Park. This helped pave the
    way for the National Park System.[13] Yosemite now draws about four million visitors each year,
    [14]
    and most visitors spend the majority of their time in the seven square miles (18 km2) of
    Yosemite Valley.[8] The park set a visitation record in 2016, surpassing five million visitors for
    Yosemite National Park

    the first time in its history.[15] The park began requiring reservations to access the park during
    peak periods starting in 2020 as a response to the rise in visitors.

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