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An Appreciation of 
 
 Yosetnite NationalPark 
 
 By HARRIET MONROE, Editor of "Poetry, a Magazine of Verse" 
 
 Written Especially for the United States Railroad Administration 
 
 WICE — and each time through an entire July — I have 
 tramped with the CaUfornia Sierra Club through the 
 grandest areas of the Yosemite National Park. I have 
 camped in the Valley, in Tuolumne Meadows, and in the 
 lost Hetch-Hetchy — sleeping to the sound of rushing waters 
 with mountains towering around me. I have crossed Vogelsang Pass 
 when the mountain hemlocks were just slipping off their wet mantles of 
 snow; I have descended the formidable Tuolumne Canyon past the third 
 fall; and under Mount Dana I have looked down over the red rocks of 
 Bloody Canyon to Lake Mono, lying incredibly blue among the pink 
 and lilac craters of dead volcanoes. 
 
 My memories of this prismatically shattered earth are sharp in details 
 of beauty, but all of them rise against white granite and falling waters. 
 Never anywhere else can there be mountains so silver-white — El Capitan 
 shouldering the sky, Cloud's Rest and the two great Domes giving back 
 the sun, and Ritter, Lyell and Dana, fierce and jagged, guarding their 
 inscrutable heights. And through the crevices of this gleaming granite 
 run everywhere crystal streams — streams mad with joy that foam as 
 they fly, and shout as they take enormous leaps over stark precipices. 
 All kinds of falling waters — the delicate cascades of Illilouette; the 
 wind-blown tulle of Bridal Veil; Nevada, lacy, white-fingered, taking 
 her 600-foot leap like a step in a dance; Vernal, broad-shouldered, 
 strong-bodied, massive, as he jumps like an athlete; and, most. wonder- 
 ful of all, Yosemite, that Upper Yosemite Fall whose leap is 1 ,500 feet — 
 a tall white living figure against the formidable cliff, a figure moving 
 and breathing, tossing the spray from his eyes, shining tall and straight 
 there like a young Greek god. 
 
 Everywhere waters falling over and under and into white granite, 
 falling in ribbons and rivers and cataracts, ringing golden bells, booming 
 great guns, spraying the little flowers and the giant sequoias as they 
 pass. Everywhere splendor — a world gorgeous, exultant, full of color 
 and motion, existing for itself, for its own joy, and taking man on suffer- 
 ance, as it were, if he will accept its terms and be free of soul. 
 
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To the American People: 
 
 Uncle Sam asks you to be his guest. He has prepared for you the 
 choice places of this continent — places of grandeur, beauty and of 
 wonder. He has built roads through the deep-cut canyons and beside 
 happy streams, which will carry you into these places in comfort, and 
 has provided lodgings and food in the most distant and inaccessible 
 places that you might enjoy yourself and realize as little as possible 
 the rigors of the pioneer traveler's life. These are for you. They are 
 the playgrounds of the people. To see them is to make more hearty 
 your affection and admiration for America, a / 
 
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 Yosemite National Park 
 
 N the rock-ribbed heights of 
 the Sierra Nevada in Cali- 
 fornia lies the Yosemite 
 National Park, 4,0 
 to 9,000 feet above sea level 
 and covering an area of 719,622 acres. 
 It embraces so much in Nature that is 
 majestic and sublime, one feels that in 
 the "great order of things " this realm 
 of enchantment was created solely for 
 the purpose to which it is today de- 
 voted — the recreation and enjoyment of 
 mankind. 
 
 Among our National Parks, Yosemite 
 is especially favored in having, close to 
 its two entrances, features that are 
 singularly attractive. One is the Yos- 
 emite Valley, just within the Parks' 
 southwestern boundary; the other, the 
 Mariposa Big Tree Grove, directly with- 
 in the southern boundary of the Park. 
 In either case Yosemite greets the visi- 
 tor with a lavish display of its natural 
 gifts. 
 
 Yosemite Valley is only a mile wide 
 by seven miles long, its portal a scant 
 half-mile wide, but never was the vesti- 
 bule to a palace decked in fashion more 
 alluring. The revelation of its beauties 
 comes so suddenly, so many unexpected 
 sights are disclosed in so limited an en- 
 closure, that visitors are amazed and 
 well may wonder if anything more en- 
 trancing can lie beyond. And so with 
 the Mariposa Grove. From forests of 
 
 stately pines one suddenly enters among 
 trees of an immensity bewildering — 
 trees that in height, girth and diameter 
 exceed anything hitherto dreamed of. 
 
 And should the visitor go no farther 
 than either of these entrances to the 
 Park, he will be repaid a hundred-fold; 
 but beyond the narrow cliff-rimmed 
 confines of this valley of witchery, and 
 through the openings of this magic 
 grove, there stretches an immense region 
 that includes, in John Muir's words: 
 
 "The headwaters of the Tuolumne 
 and Merced rivers, two of the most 
 songful streams in the world; innumer- 
 able lakes and waterfalls and smooth 
 silky lawns; the noblest forests, the 
 loftiest granite domes, the deepest ice- 
 sculptured canyons, the brightest crys- 
 talline pavements, and snowy moun- 
 tains soaring into the sky twelve and 
 thirteen thousand feet, arrayed in open 
 ranks and spiry pinnacled groups par- 
 tially separated by tremendous canyons 
 and amphitheaters; gardens on their 
 sunny brows, avalanches thundering 
 down their long white slopes, cataracts 
 roaring gray and foaming in the crooked, 
 rugged gorges, and glaciers, in their 
 shadowy recesses, working in silence, 
 slowly completing their sculptures; new- 
 born lakes at their feet, blue and green, 
 free or encumbered with drifting ice- 
 bergs like miniature Arctic Oceans — 
 shining, sparkling, calm as stars. " 
 
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Happy Isles in the Merced River 
 
 The Yosemite Valley 
 
 The Yosemite Valley was discovered 
 to the world in 1851 by Captain John 
 Doling, while pursuing hostile Indians 
 with a detachment of mounted volun- 
 teers. 
 
 The Indians called it the Heart of 
 the Sky Mountain, or Ahwanee, "the 
 deep grass valley. " Later the name 
 Yo Semite was given to the valley, its 
 meaning being the "great grizzly bear," 
 and subsequently, when the National 
 Park was established, this famous name 
 was retained. 
 
 In spectacular waterfalls and sheer 
 cliffs Yosemite Valley is supreme. No- 
 where else have high mountain streams 
 found such varied and beautiful courses 
 to fling their waters over such lofty 
 cliffs and unite in a valley river. In 
 spring, from beneath the great snow- 
 mantle of the High Sierra, pour the ice 
 waters into the cups of the Yosemite; 
 and all summer, though in lessening 
 volume, these great reservoirs moun- 
 tain lakes of crystal — continue to feed 
 the streams of the Park. 
 
 All of the towering rock-masses of 
 Yosemite are remarkable. There are 
 peaks grouped strangely and peaks no 
 less strangely isolated. There are needle- 
 pointed pinnacles and smooth domes 
 whose tops are perfect hemispheres. 
 
 Wild Flowers, Shrubs and Ferns 
 
 The floor of the valley is level meadow- 
 land, its grass shining like green satin, 
 and through it winds the Merced River. 
 Over the stream bend alder, willow, 
 flowering dogwood, balm-of-Gilead, and 
 other water-loving trees, and inter- 
 spersed with the emerald verdure of the 
 glades are groves of pine and groups of 
 stately black oak. Many and bright 
 are the wild flowers of Yosemite, and 
 with the shrubs will be counted the red- 
 branched manzanita, the chinquapin, 
 the beautiful California lilac, violets, 
 wild roses, the mariposa lily, goldcup 
 oak, the brilliant snow plant and their 
 kind. In cool recesses of the forest, by 
 river banks and in rock-seams, grow 
 numerous beautiful species of ferns. 
 
 Thus near the river it is pastoral and 
 peaceful; and yet only a few rods away, 
 at the foot of a tumultuous cataract, 
 you may hear the noise of rushing waters 
 hurled from the brink of precipitous 
 cliffs. 
 
 The First Sight of Yosemite 
 Its Striking Features 
 
 The first view of Yosemite Valley, a 
 great gash in the heart of the mountains, 
 is a sight to inspire reverence. From 
 the deep shadows of the pines, a silence- 
 compelling vista bursts upon the eye. 
 
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El Capitan — Yosemite's Grandest Cliff 
 
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The Three Brothers 
 
 Mighty rock sentinels guard the en- 
 trance and beyond them towering cliffs 
 and verdant valley swim in a glorious 
 light 
 
 On the south wall shimmers the Bridal 
 Veil Falls. The water slips over the 
 great granite wall, white and ethereal. 
 It seems to drop its tenuous mist into 
 the very tree tops. The highest Euro- 
 pean fall is that of the Staubbach in 
 Switzerland, but even Bridal Veil — not 
 half the height of Yosemite Falls — is 
 higher, leaps out of a smoother channel, 
 has greater volume of water and is seen 
 in the midst of loftier precipices. The 
 stream is full thirty feet wide, and falls 
 first a distance of 620 feet, then pauses 
 an instant and drops a perpendicular 
 distance of 320 feet. But from the chief 
 points of view it seems to make only 
 one plunge and the effect is that of an 
 unbroken descent of over nine hundred 
 feet. Often the wind swings the great 
 column of water from the face of the 
 cliff and waves it like a scarf or veil. 
 At sunset, rainbows with an indescrib 
 able radiance bejewel its foam. 
 
 Around the shoulder behind which 
 Bridal Veil Creek makes its way to the 
 brink, tower the Cathedral Rocks. They 
 get their name from a resemblance to 
 the Duomo at Florence, and rise 2,591 
 feet above the valley floor. Just be- 
 
 yond them are seen the Cathedral Spires, 
 one solitary shaft of granite uplifting 
 for more than seven hundred feet. 
 
 Across the narrow valley, and nearly 
 opposite, is El Capitan — a rock more 
 than twice as great as Gibraltar. It 
 rises 3,604 feet, with an apparently ver- 
 tical front. Thrust out like a buttress, 
 it presents to the vision an area of more 
 than four hundred acres of naked gran- 
 ite. Sublime and steadfast it stands, a 
 veritable "Rock of Ages." The bulk of 
 El Capitan is so stupendous that it 
 can be seen from a vantage ground 
 sixty miles distant. 
 
 Eagle Peak, in the Three Brothers 
 group, lies a little beyond El Capitan. 
 Its height is 3,813 feet. Sentinel Rock 
 faces the Three Brothers from the south 
 wall, a splintered granite spire, very 
 slender, and nearly perpendicular for 
 about 1,500 feet below its apex, its total 
 height being 3,059 feet. Back of this 
 natural and majestic monument stands 
 Sentinel Dome, its storm-worn top 4,157 
 feet above the valley. 
 
 Almost at the base of Sentinel Rock 
 is Yosemite Village, the tourist center of 
 the Valley, where the Sentinel Hotel, 
 the post-office, a few shops and studios 
 are grouped, directly opposite Yosemite 
 Falls. Across the river to the west is 
 Yosemite Camp. Camp Curry is a mile 
 
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In the Mariposa Grove of Giant Sequoias 
 
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Several good motor roads lead into the Valley 
 
 east of the village, on the road to the 
 Happy Isles and at the base of Glacier 
 Point. Details of resorts and accom- 
 modations in the Park will be found on 
 later pages. 
 
 The greatest cataract in all the Sierra 
 is Yosemite Falls. This vast volume of 
 foaming water plunges 2,350 feet — 
 nearly half a mile. In reality it is not 
 one fall, but three. The first is 1 ,430 
 feet straight down. Then comes a 
 series of cascades 600 feet, and a final 
 leap of 320 feet. The stream is about 
 thirty-five feet wide and when its waters 
 are at flood the reverberations can be 
 heard all over the valley. This wide- 
 flung fall of wind-tossed water is Yose- 
 mite's sublimest feature. 
 
 Across the valley the massive shoulder 
 of Glacier Point is thrust out from the 
 south wall, and, almost opposite, on the 
 north, stands Yosemite Point, flanked 
 on the east by Indian Canyon, once used 
 by the Indians as exit or entrance for 
 Yosemite. 
 
 The Royal Arches are near the head 
 of the valley, in the vast vertical wall 
 whose summit is North Dome. The 
 arches are recessed curves in the granite 
 front, very impressive because of their 
 size, and made by ice-action. Much of 
 the rock is formed in layers like the 
 structure of an onion, the arches being 
 .the broken edges of these layers. Wash- 
 
 ington Column is the angle of the cliff at 
 this point — a tower completing the mas- 
 sive wall at the very head of Yosemite. 
 
 Over against it, but looking down the 
 valley, stands the highest rock of all the 
 region — the great South Dome, or Half 
 Dome, as it is most often called. It is 
 8,852 feet above sea level, or 4,892 feet 
 above the floor. Its massive front is 
 fractured vertically for about two thou- 
 sand feet, and the face turned outward is 
 polished by wind and storm — a moun- 
 tain apparently cleft in the center as by 
 some mighty giant's scimitar. The side 
 of the Half Dome toward the southwest 
 has the curve of a great helmet, so 
 smooth and precipitous as almost to 
 defy the climber. On its overhanging 
 rock, however, the most venturesome 
 have stood. From hotels and camps, 
 Half Dome is often seen raising its head 
 above the clouds. 
 
 To the northeast from here opens 
 Tenaya Canyon. Mirror Lake, an ex- 
 pansion of Tenaya Creek and lying be- 
 tween the North and Half Dome, is at 
 the entrance. When the sun creeps 
 over the great f^ank of the Half Dome, 
 the whole landscape is wonderfully re- 
 produced in this miraculous mirror, the 
 reflection of the sunrise being an unusual 
 feature. But sunrise over these colossal 
 cliffs is much later than the sunrise at 
 lower levels. 
 
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Viev- from Panorama Point along the Trail to Glacier Point. Sh owing the Half D 
 
 ,Vernal Falls and_Clouds" Rest 
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 ome. Liberty Cap, 
 
The Fallen Monarch in the Mariposa Grove of Big Trees 
 
 The Mariposa Big Tree Grove 
 
 Just within the southern boundary of 
 the Park, and reached from the Sentinel 
 Hotel and camps in the valley by a de- 
 lightful thirty-five mile auto drive 
 through timbered slopes and canyons, 
 and also direct from Merced by auto over 
 the Wawona Road, lies the Mariposa 
 Big Tree Grove. Here stand over six 
 hundred fine specimens of the Sequoia 
 Washmgtoniana, the famous Big Trees 
 which today grow only in the Sierra of 
 California. These are the oldest living 
 things. On some matured specimens, 
 fallen or partly burned — thus exposing 
 their annual wood rings — John Muir 
 counted upward of 4,000 years of 
 growth. The Mariposa Grove is the 
 greatest grove of these giant trees out- 
 side of the Sequoia National Park, and 
 contains the third largest tree in the 
 world, and also the world's tallest tree. 
 This is the Mark Twain, 331 feet in 
 height — with near-by neighbors not many 
 feet lower. Its largest tree is the Griz- 
 zly Giant, 93 feet in girth at its base, 
 29.6 feet in diameter, and 204 feet in 
 height. The first branch, 125 feet from 
 the ground, is six feet in diameter- a 
 tree itself. Twenty-two people can 
 barely encompass its girth, touching 
 finger tips. Eighteen horses, head to 
 tail, just circle its base. This sequoia 
 
 was considered by John Muir a mature 
 tree, probably verging on old age; and 
 there it stands today surrounded by its 
 fellows of varying ages, many as old as 
 itself — trees that were in their prime 
 before the dawn of Christianity, and are 
 still ripening their cones and regularly 
 shedding their tiny seeds year after year. 
 The Lafayette and Washington trees 
 are only three or four inches less in 
 diameter than the Grizzly Giant; the 
 Columbia tree is 294 feet in height, the 
 Nevada is 278, while the Forest Queen — 
 the shortest of 27 other notable named 
 trees — is 219 feet in height, 17 feet in 
 diameter, and 53 feet in girth, at base. 
 The Wawona, which is 227 feet in height, 
 has for years had an archway in its 
 trunk, through which the auto road 
 passes; its vitality is unimpaired in spite 
 of this 26-foot passage cut into its heart. 
 The Fallen Giant, which has been lying 
 in the grove for centuries, its firm wood 
 still sound, forms a roadway upon which 
 a six-horse coach, loaded with passengers, 
 has many times been driven. These 
 facts may give some idea of the immen- 
 sity of these trees.. Their true appreci- 
 ation is difficult; but if the Grizzly Giant 
 was sawed into inch boards, the tree 
 would box the greatest steamship ever 
 built, with enough boards left over to 
 box a flock of submarines. The beauty 
 
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Good trails and pleasant horseback parties add to Yosemite's delights 
 
 and symmetry of these giant conifers is no 
 less striking than their size: their bark 
 is soft and fibrous, and deeply fluted, 
 its bright cinnamon and purple giving 
 a rich coloring to their stately columns. 
 Just beyond the southwest corner of 
 the Park, six miles from the Mariposa 
 Grove, is the comfortable Hotel Wawona, 
 providing good service. The auto trip 
 from the Valley to the Mariposa Grove 
 and return takes a full day. Within the 
 park boundaries are also two smaller 
 sequoia groves, the Merced Grove, six 
 miles north, and the Tuolumne Grove, 
 fifteen miles north from El Portal, by 
 auto road. 
 
 The Trails to Glacier Point and Other 
 Vantage Points 
 
 From the Sentinel Hotel the road leads to 
 Happy Isles, where the Merced races in joyous 
 frolic. From here starts the "long trail" — twelve 
 miles to Glacier Point. It winds along the 
 bottom of a wild canyon hemmed in by titanic 
 walls. Panorama Point. 4,000 feet above the 
 river on the south side, is almost perpendicular, 
 and the highest continuous wall of Yosemite. 
 Its face is traced by miniature streams of trick- 
 ling water and painted by purple lichen, and per- 
 haps nowhere else do you feel so deeply the 
 geological impressiveness of the region. From 
 a bridge over the river, half a mile farther, you 
 catch a glimpse of Vernal Falls, gloriously re- 
 splendent in the dark canyon. The river is 
 nearly eighty feet wide and falls 317 feet from 
 granite ledge to fern-hung glen. The sparkling 
 waters drop like an endless stream of shooting 
 stars. The spray is driven outward like smoke, 
 
 and every sprig of plant and grass, moss and 
 fern, is kept vividly green by this incessant bap- 
 tism. The trail leads to the top of the Fall. 
 
 A little beyond — within a mile — is Nevada 
 Falls, where the same stream plunges over a 
 precipice 594 feet high, the great snowy torrent 
 glancing from sloping rock about midway in a 
 compound curve, over cliffs of polished granite. 
 Under the bald dome of lofty Liberty Cap, with 
 Mount Broderick at its back and the Half Dome 
 near by, Nevada Falls plunges into its abyss, the 
 whole volume of the crystal Merced shattered 
 into a shower of shining jewels, while below — 
 where the river gathers its forces — banners of 
 rainbow-tinted spray fly wide upon the wind. 
 The horse trail leads up the timbered sides 
 of the gorge to the top of Vernal Falls, where 
 is a natural parapet of granite from which to 
 watch the river falling in a green and azure 
 mantle over the square-cut edge. The trail 
 thence mounts to the top of Nevada Falls where 
 another guarded vantage point, directly on the 
 brink, shows the swiftly gliding stream curving 
 and breaking in foam in its descent. Where 
 else can two such waterfalls be so closely fol- 
 lowed from river-bed to rim, with their spray 
 moistening the air around you? A few yards 
 beyond the edge of Nevada Falls, the river is 
 crossed by a low bridge, built on granite out- 
 croppings. From here the trail turns west along 
 the southern side of the canyon, passing over 
 the ridge of Panorama Point, and beneath stately 
 pines enters the picture-gorge of lllilouette Creek, 
 its falls splashing 370 feet in festoons of silver 
 spray. Descending to the stream, another 
 bridge is crossed and the trail turns sharply 
 north, zig-zagging up the heavily timbered 
 southern side of Glacier Point to its summit. 
 The marvelous view at every turn grows wider 
 in its scope. The new and attractive Glacier 
 Point Hotel stands in a grove of pine that covers 
 the mountain top. 
 
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Liberty Cap and Nevada Falls 
 
 The View from Glacier Point 
 
 Glacier Point is the most accessible and per- 
 haps the greatest vantage point in Yosemite. 
 Within a hundred yards of the hotel are the 
 projecting rocks which mark the Point. It is 
 3,234 feet from their tops to the valley floor. A 
 pebble dropped will touch nothing until it strikes 
 the talus, 3,000 feet below. The largest buildings 
 are dwarfed to cottages, camps are white specks, 
 lofty pines are mere shrubs, men and horses seem 
 dots on the valley floor. The view is sublime. 
 Sharp brinks and precipices plunge into the val- 
 ley on one side; into the gorge of the Illilouette 
 on the other. Looking down the valley to the 
 left. Eagle Peak juts above the rim, and Yose- 
 mite Falls gleams in full light; opposite are the 
 Royal Arches and the North Dome, and beyond 
 them the Basket Dome; IViirror Lake is a splash 
 of brightness at the entrance to the Tenaya Can- 
 yon, which can be traced to the northeast 
 through its steep walls. The great face of the 
 Half Dome, with the curve of its splendid helmet 
 in unbroken view, towers above; beyond, against 
 the sky, rises the bare granite of Cloud's Rest. 
 To the right is seen majestic Liberty Cap, while 
 in the distance rears the white peak of the 
 Obelisk, with the snowy range of Mounts Starr 
 King, Lyell, Clark and Dana, 13,000 feet above 
 the sea, seeming to swim in the azure. Below 
 you. Vernal and Nevada Falls sparkle in their 
 gorge of green. 
 
 The view beyond the valley to the north 
 embraces snow-capped Hoffman Peak, Tuolumne 
 Peak and Colby Mountain and reaches beyond 
 the Grand Canyon of the Tuolumne and the 
 Hetch-Hetchy Valley — a remarkable region of the 
 Park recently opened by roads and trails, and 
 later described. 
 
 Sentinel Dome, a mile and a half south, rises 
 over Glacier Point a thousand feet, and can be 
 climbed without difficulty. From its summit 
 
 the San Joaquin Valley and the Coast Range, 
 nearly a hundred miles distant, are distinctly 
 seen. The Pohono trail from Glacier Point leads 
 to The Fissures, on the rim, clefts in the rock 
 that reach down hundreds of feet, one being only 
 four feet across. 
 
 From Glacier Point return can be made by 
 the short trail, four and a half miles to the valley 
 floor. It is a steep and continuous zig-zag. At 
 Union Point, 2,350 feet above the valley, stop 
 is made for a rest. Just below stands Agassiz 
 Column, like a balanced rock, a shaft of granite 
 eighty-five feet in height. Its corroded base 
 seems too frail to support its great bulk. 
 
 In addition to the two trails described. Glacier 
 Point is reached by auto-stages over the Wawona 
 Road to Chinquapin, there turning east and run- 
 ning fourteen miles to the Glacier Point Hotel. 
 
 There is also a newly constructed foot trail 
 leading from the valley at the base of Glacier 
 Point, on a natural ledge diagonally across the 
 face of the cliff to the top. While this trail is 
 steep, it is well built and safe and is less than 
 two miles in length. 
 
 Trail Trips to Top of Yosemite Falls, 
 Eagle Peak and El Capitan 
 
 Among other horse and foot trails from the 
 valley are those to the rim at Yosemite Point, 
 above Yosemite Falls. One can climb 500 feet 
 below to the very lip of the falls and look down 
 into the peaceful valley across the plunging 
 waters that shatter the air with their roar. Far- 
 ther along, the trail reaches Eagle Peak, 3,81 3 feet 
 above the floor, where a splendid view is had; 
 and the trip can be continued to the crest of 
 El Capitan. 
 
 Artist's Point and Inspiration Point — along 
 the Wawona auto road to the Mariposa Big 
 Tree Grove — are among the outlooks affording 
 vistas that are never forgotten. 
 
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Nevada Falls 
 
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Polly Dome on the Tioga Road — Its polished sides glint in the sun 
 
 The Tioga Road and Tenaya Lake Region 
 
 The completion of the Tioga Road crossing 
 the Park from east to west, and connecting 
 with roads from Yosemite Valley, offers to Park 
 visitors a new auto drive through a mountain- 
 top paradise. Crossing the South Fork of the 
 Tuolumne close to the western border, the 
 Tioga Road runs east near the Tuolumne Grove of 
 Big Trees, and continues toward Harden Lake, 
 whence it turns south and skirts Mount 
 Hoffman, 10,921 feet, passing along the shore of 
 Tenaya Lake and winding upward amidst moun- 
 tain heights of striking formation. At Tenaya 
 Lake Lodge there is good accommodation and 
 service. Tuolumne Peak rises to the north. 
 Cathedral Peak to the south, and beyond, 
 through a wilderness of timbered granite slopes, 
 the road mounts to the Sierra's rim at Tioga 
 Pass, 9,941 feet, with Dana Mountain, 13,050 
 feet above sea level, towering 3,000 feet higher 
 than the road. The view to the east looks 
 down the precipitous wall of the Sierra into 
 Owens Valley, lying like an emerald 5,741 feet 
 below, while northward gleams Mono Lake in 
 turquoise blue. 
 
 Grand Canyon of the Tuolumne 
 
 Directly north of the Tioga Road and fifteen 
 miles from the rim of Yosemite Valley, lies the 
 Grand Canyon of the Tuolumne, another of 
 Yosemite's marvels. This great spectacle, with 
 the Hetch-Hetchy Valley joining it on the west, 
 and the miles of lake-dotted, stream-woven 
 slopes of the gorged Sierra still farther north, 
 are now open to the tourist by the improvement 
 of horse trails connecting with those leading 
 from the valley by way of Tenaya Lake, through 
 Soda Springs and other points on the Tioga 
 Road. It is a section hitherto little known 
 and seldom explored by any but the con- 
 firmed mountain-lovers of the Pacific Coast, 
 
 the Sierra Club having camped throughout this 
 wide domain during fifteen years of summer out- 
 ings. Another trail leaves the Tioga Road at 
 the Yosemite Creek bridge and covers eight 
 remarkable scenic miles to the Ten Lakes Basin, 
 on the south rim of the Tuolumne Canyon. 
 
 This region, and that leading to the crest of 
 the range along the eastern boundaries of the 
 Park, is the realm of the camper in the forest, 
 whose outing may last two weeks or a month 
 or more. Saddle horses and pack animals follow 
 winding trails by icy streams that have their 
 birth in everlasting snows and f^ow westward 
 through a sea of peaks, resting by the way in 
 snow-bordered lakes, romping through luxuriant 
 glades, rushing over rocky heights and swinging 
 in and out of the shadows of mighty mountains. 
 It is a summerland of sunshine where it seldom 
 rains. 
 
 "It is the heart of High Sierra," writes John 
 Muir, "'8,500 to 9,000 feet above the level of 
 the sea. The gray, picturesque Cathedral Range 
 bounds it on the south; a similar range or spur, 
 the highest peak of which is Mount Conness, on 
 the north; the noble Mount Dana, Gibbs, Mam- 
 moth, Lyell, McClure, and others on the axis of 
 the range, on the east; a heaving, billowy crowd 
 of glacier-polished rocks and Mount Hoffman on 
 the west. Down through the open, sunny 
 meadow levels of the valley flows the Tuolumne 
 River, fresh and cool from its many glacial foun- 
 tains, the highest of which are the glaciers that 
 lie on the north sides of Mount Lyell and Mount 
 McClure." 
 
 Of the Grand Canyon of the Tuolumne, Muir 
 wrote: "It is the cascades or sloping falls on the 
 main river that are the crowning glory of the 
 canyon, and these, in volume, extent, and var- 
 iety, surpass those of any other canyon in the 
 Sierra. The most showy and interesting of them 
 are mostly in the upper part of the canyon above 
 
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Yosemite Valley from Insp.rat.on Pent. Br.dal Veil Falls on r.ght 
 
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ce on the Tioga Road. 
 
 Mirror Lake, showing reflection of the Half Dome. 
 
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Tioga Lake in Glacier Canyon, on the Tioga Road 
 
 the point of entrance of Cathedral Creek and 
 Hoffman Creek. For miles the river is one 
 wild, exulting, on-rushing mass of snowy purple 
 bloom, spreading over glacial waves of granite 
 without eny definite channel, gliding in mag- 
 nificent silver plumes, dashing and foaming 
 through huge bowlder dams, leaping high in the 
 air in wheel-like whirls, displaying glorious en- 
 thusiasm, tossing from side to side, doubling, 
 glinting, singing in exuberance of mountain 
 energy." 
 
 The Waterwheel Falls 
 
 Muir's "wheel-like whirls" are the soon-to-be- 
 celebrated Waterwheel Falls. Rushing down 
 the canyon's slanting granites under great head- 
 way, the river encounters shelves of rock pro- 
 jecting from its bottom. From these are thrown 
 up enormous arcs of solid water high in the air. 
 Some of the waterwheels rise fifty feet and span 
 eighty feet in the air. 
 
 The sight is extraordinary in character and 
 quite unequaled in beauty. Nevertheless, be- 
 fore the trail was built, so difficult was the going 
 that probably only a few hundred persons all 
 told had ever seen the waterwheels. 
 
 The Mountain Climax of Yosemite Park 
 
 The mountain mass, of which Mount Lyell 
 is the chief, lies on the southeast boundary of 
 the Park. It is reached by trail from Tuolumne 
 Meadows on the north, or from Yosemite Valley 
 on the south, by the trail passing Vernal and 
 Nevada Falls. 
 
 From the Tuolumne Meadows the trail swings 
 around Johnson Peak along the Lyell Fork, and 
 turns southward up its valley. Rafferty Peak 
 
 and Parsons Peak rear gray heads on the right, 
 and huge Kuna Crest borders on the left side ol 
 the trail for miles. At the head of the valley, 
 beyond several immense granite shelves, rears 
 the mighty group with Mount Lyell, 13,090 
 feet, in the center, supported on the north by 
 McClure Mountain and on the south by Rodgers 
 Peak. 
 
 The way up is through a vast basin of tumbled 
 granite, encircled by a rampart of nine sharp, 
 glistening peaks and hundreds of spearlike points, 
 the whole cloaked in enormous sweeping shrouds 
 of snow. Presently the granite spurs inclose 
 you. And beyond these looms a mighty wall 
 which apparently forbids further approach to 
 the mountain's shrine. But another half hour 
 brings your climbing horse face to face with 
 Lyell's rugged top and shining glaciers, one of 
 the noblest places in America. 
 
 Merced and Washburn Lakes 
 
 The waters from the western slopes of Lyell 
 and McClure find their way, through many 
 streams and many lakelets of splendid beauty 
 into two lakes which are the headwaters oi 
 Merced River. The upper of these is Washburn 
 Lake, cradled in bare heights and celebrated for 
 its fishing. This is the formal source of the 
 Merced. Several miles below, the river rests 
 again in Merced Lake. 
 
 There is a mountain lodge with good accom- 
 modations and service at Merced Lake, and a 
 fine trail leads to the Yosemite Valley through 
 glacier-polished slopes. 
 
 Fishing in these waters is unusually good. 
 
 Page nineteen 
 
Vernal Falls. Its choriis of liquid voices is heard for mil 
 
 Page twenty 
 
Motor road tunneling one of the giant Sequoias 
 
 Wild Animals and Fishing 
 
 The Park is a sanctuary for wild game of 
 every sort, firearms not being permitted. There 
 is an abundance of deer, bear and smaller fur 
 animals. The predatory mountain lion or 
 cougar, lynx, timber wolf, fox and coyote, are 
 being exterminated as rapidly as possible by 
 the rangers. Fishing is permitted in all waters 
 within the Park during the open season, under 
 the State laws regarding size of fish and limit. 
 A State fishing license is necessary and can be 
 obtained in Yosemite village. On many of the 
 lakes there are boats which can be rented. 
 
 The Park Season 
 
 While Yosemite National Park is open all the 
 year, and the Sentinel Hotel, in the valley, is 
 always open for tourists, the Mariposa Grove 
 and the higher elevations are inaccessible except 
 during the summer season, extending from May 
 1st to November 1st. In the spring months 
 the waterfalls are seen at their best, though even 
 late in August, when the waters have lowered, 
 their mist-like filmy beauty is incomparable. In 
 September and October Yosemite is delightful. 
 These are the "months of reflection," when the 
 exquisite autumnal colorings, and the light and 
 air of Indian summer, lend their charm to the 
 glories mirrored in mountain lakes. 
 Approaches to the Park 
 
 The El Portal Entrance — The approach 
 from Merced by rail to El Portal, the western 
 gateway to Yosemite Park, follows for over 
 seventy miles the picturesque canyon of the 
 Merced River — once famous for its gold-bearing 
 gravels, now for its speckled trout. Winding 
 through the foothills, the scenery each mile in- 
 dicates, by the increasing ruggedness of the rock 
 formations, a nearing to the great Sierra Range. 
 The pines take on a greater height, their stately 
 outlines appearing against a mountain back- 
 ground ever becoming loftier. Auto-stages 
 
 daily meet incoming trains at El Portal and from 
 there start on the fifteen-mile drive into the 
 heart of the valley, the road closely skirting, 
 beneath shady forests, the curves and reaches of 
 the turbulent, musical stream. Passing under 
 a rocky archway, a narrow portal towers ahead, 
 pinnacles and precipices crowding on either 
 side — a fitting introduction to the wild beauties 
 beyond. Arriving at Yosemite village, stop is 
 made at the Sentinel Hotel, Yosemite Camp and 
 Camp Curry. 
 
 The Wawona Entrance At Merced, auto- 
 stages meet incoming trains and daily, during 
 the summer season, leave for the Park over the 
 Wawona Road. From the San Joaquin Valley 
 the road climbs upwards into the romantic foot- 
 hill country that in Forty-Nine was crowded 
 with gold-seekers. The scenic drive continues to 
 Miami Lodge, on the margin of the forest over- 
 looking the valley of Miami Creek. Here lunch 
 is had, the road beyond Miami leading through 
 forests that grow denser, and amid scenery in- 
 creasing in grandeur. Following a short detour 
 to the south, the road turns into the Mariposa 
 Grove of Big Trees — the southern gateway to the 
 Park. After a stop amidst the giant trees, the 
 trip is continued to the Wawona Hotel, seventy- 
 four miles from Merced. Each morning the auto- 
 stage starts from Wawona on the thirty-five-mile 
 drive through densely forested canyons to the 
 hotel and camps in the Yosemite Valley. The 
 first view of the valley is had from Inspiration 
 Point. At Chinquapin, fourteen miles from 
 Yosemite Village, a road diverges to the east 
 and runs the same distance to the Glacier Point 
 Hotel, on the summit of Glacier Point. 
 
 How to Reach Yosemite National Park 
 
 Yosemite National Park is reached the year 
 round via Merced and El Portal, Cal. The 
 Yosemite Valley Railroad operates daily be- 
 tween Merced and El Portal, a distance of 
 
 P a £ e twenty-one 
 
Cathedral Rocks 
 
 Page twenty -two 
 
Another of the amazing spectacles of Yosemite is the Waterwheel Falls of the Tuolumne Ri 
 
 seventy-eight miles, connecting with auto stages 
 of the Yosemite National Park Company run- 
 ning between El Portal and Yosemite Valley, a 
 distance of fourteen miles. During summer 
 season the Park is also reached by daily auto- 
 mobile service of the Yosemite Stage and Turn- 
 pike Co., "The Horseshoe Route," operating 
 between Merced and Yosemite Valley, a dis- 
 tance of 109 miles, via Mariposa Grove of Big 
 Trees and Wawona (over-night stop), with side 
 trip of twenty-eight miles from Chinquapin to 
 Glacier Point and return. Another summer 
 route is via El Portal and Tuolumne Big Trees, 
 ("Triangle Route"). 
 
 Round-trip excursion tickets at reduced fares 
 are sold at certain stations in California to 
 Yosemite National Park as a destination. Pas- 
 sengers wishing to visit the Park in connection 
 with journeys to other destinations (while en route 
 between San Francisco and Los Angeles, for 
 example) will find stop-over privileges available 
 on both round-trip and one-way tickets and may 
 make side trip from Merced to the Park and return. 
 
 During summer season the fare from Merced 
 to Yosemite village via El Portal is $10 one way, 
 $13.50 round trip; via Mariposa Grove and 
 Wawona it is $14.25 in each direction, with $5 
 additional charge for side trip to Glacier Point. 
 Fare from Merced to Yosemite Valley and re- 
 turn, for circle tour in one direction via El 
 Portal, and in the opposite direction via Wawona 
 and Mariposa Grove, is $24.25. Fare from 
 Merced to Yosemite Valley and return via El 
 Portal, in one direction via Tuolumne Big Trees, 
 is $20.00. 
 
 Certain regulations are in effect for free stor- 
 age of baggage at Merced and other stations for 
 actual length of time consumed by passen- 
 gers in making side trip to Yosemite National 
 Park. On baggage checked to El Portal usual 
 free allowance will be made by railroads. On 
 baggage checked through to Yosemite village. 
 
 via El Portal, collection of $1.00 for each trunk 
 will be made. Automobile stage lines will carry 
 limited amount of hand baggage without charge. 
 
 Hotels, Camps, and Lodges 
 
 Sentinel Hotel, American plan: 
 
 Per day, each, room without bath 
 
 Per day. each, room with bath $ 6 00- 
 
 Elxclusive use of double room by one per- 
 son, additional charge, per day 1 50- 
 
 Tub or shower baths in detached rooms, 
 
 each 
 
 Meal and lodging rates — 
 
 Breakfast 
 
 Luncheon 
 
 Dinner 
 
 Lodging 
 
 Meals served in rooms, extra 
 
 New Glacier Point Hotel, American plan: 
 
 Per day, each, room without bath 
 
 Per day. each, room with bath 
 
 Exclusive use of double room by one per- 
 son, additional charge, per day ..... 
 
 Tub or shower baths 
 
 Meal and lodging rates: 
 
 Breakfast 
 
 Luncheon 
 
 Dinner . 
 
 Lodging 
 
 Meals served in room, extra 
 
 Camp Curry. American Plan: 
 
 Board and lodging in ordinary tents — 
 
 Per day, each 
 
 Per week, each 
 
 Per four weeks, each 
 
 Children between 5 and 8 years, per day 
 
 Between 3 and 5 years, per day 
 
 Under 3 years, per day 
 
 Guests desiring extra tent room will be 
 charged as follows: 
 Tent for four people, occupied by two 
 
 people, per day extra, each 
 
 Tent tor two people, occupied by one 
 
 person, pei day extra 
 
 Extra tent rates will be applied only be- 
 tween June I and August I. 
 Meal and lodging rates: 
 
 Breakfast , 
 
 Lunch 
 
 Dinner 
 
 Lodging 
 
 Meals sent to tents or served out of meal 
 hours, extra 
 
 $5.00 
 7.00 
 
 3.00 
 
 .50 
 
 1.00 
 1.25 
 I 50 
 3 25 
 .50 
 
 50- 
 
 4 50 
 8.00 
 
 3 00 
 .50 
 
 I 00- 
 
 1.00 
 LOO 
 
 1.00 
 
 5.00 
 
 .50 
 
 3.50 
 23 00 
 90.00 
 2 25 
 L75 
 L25 
 
 LOO 
 1.00 
 
 .75 
 
 .75 
 
 1 00 
 
 LOO 
 
 .25 
 
 Page twenty-three 
 
Agassiz Column 
 
 Page twenty-four 
 
Hotels, Camps and Lodges — Continued 
 
 Board and lodging in bungalow tents, in- 
 cluding bath: 
 
 Per day, each $ 5 00 $ 6 00 
 
 Per week, each 33.00- 40.00 
 
 Per four weeks, each 125. 00- 1 50 . 00 
 
 Tub or shower baths, each .35 
 
 3 tickets for I . 00 
 
 5 tickets for 1 . 50 
 
 Yosemite Camp, American plan: 
 
 Per day. each 3 . 50- 4 . 00 
 
 Per week, each 23 00- 26. 50 
 
 Per four weeks, each 90.00-104.00 
 
 Elxclusive use of bungalow or tent by one 
 
 person, additional charge per day I 00 
 
 Tub or shower baths in detached rooms, 
 
 each . .35 
 
 Meal and lodging rates: 
 
 Breakfast .75 
 
 Luncheon 75 
 
 Dinner I 00 
 
 Lodging I . 00- I 50 
 
 Meals served in tents or bungalows, 
 
 extra .25 
 
 Merced Lake Lodge, American plan: 
 
 Per day, each 4 . 00 
 
 Exclusive use of tent by one person, addi- 
 tional charge per day I . 00 
 
 Tub or shower baths .50 
 
 Meal and lodging rates: 
 
 Breakfast $1 .00 
 
 Luncheon .75 
 
 Dinner I . 00 
 
 Lodging I . 50 
 
 Meals served in tents, extra 50 
 
 Tenaya Lake Lodge, American plan: 
 
 Per day, each 4 . 00 
 
 Exclusive use of tent by one person, additional 
 
 charge per day I . 00 
 
 Tub or shower baths .50 
 
 Meal and lodging rates: 
 
 Breakfast I .00 
 
 Luncheon .75 
 
 Dinner 1 . 00 
 
 Lodging 1 . 50 
 
 Meals served in tents, extra .50 
 
 Swimming — There are swimming pools at Camp Curry 
 and Yosemite Camp. 
 
 Rates for Sight-Seeing Automobile Trips 
 
 Round 
 Trip 
 
 Floor of Yosemite Valley to Mirror Lake, upper end 
 
 of valley and Happy Isles (time, about 2 hours) . $1 . 00 
 
 Floor of Yosemite Valley to El Capitan, Pohono 
 Bridge, lower end of valley, returning via Bridal 
 Veil Falls and Cathedral Rocks (time, about 2 
 hours) I 00 
 
 Yosemite Valley to Artist and Inspiration Points, 
 on the rim of the valley, including lower end 
 of valley and El Capitan via Pohono Bridge, 
 returning via Bridal Veil Falls and Cathedral 
 Rocks (time, about 3 hours) 3 00 
 
 Rates for Automobile Tours 
 
 One Round 
 Way Trip 
 
 Between Yosemite Valley, Artist and In- 
 spiration Points, Glacier Point, and 
 Mariposa Big Trees: 
 
 Yosemite to Glacier Point $3 00 .$7 50 
 
 Yosemite to Mariposa Big Trees 7 50 10 00 
 
 Yosemite to Mariposa Big Trees and re- 
 turn to Glacier Point 10 00 
 
 Yosemite to Glacier Point, thence to 
 Mariposa Big Trees and return to 
 
 Yosemite 1 5 00 
 
 Glacier Point to Mariposa Big Trees. ... 7. 50 
 Glacier Point to Mariposa Big Trees and 
 
 return to Yosemite 10 00 
 
 Between Yosemite Valley and Tuolumne 
 
 Bie Trees 5 00 
 
 Saddle Animals for Riding on Floor of Valley 
 
 Full day $4 00 
 
 Half day 2.50 
 
 Full day shall consist of eight hours — the first half day 
 to terminate not later than 12 o'clock noon; the second 
 half day to terminate not later than 6.00 p. m.; each half to 
 consist of a period of four hours or less. 
 
 Horseback Tours fror 
 Yosemite Valley 
 
 From Yosemite Valley to: 
 
 Glacier Point, short trail 
 
 Glacier Point via Vernal and 
 
 Nevada Falls, long trail 
 
 Glacier Point via Pohono Trail, 
 returning via Pohono Trail, 
 
 short trail or long trail 
 
 Merced Lake 
 
 Tenaya Lake 
 
 Top of Vernal and Nevada Falls 
 Clouds Rest by Vernal and 
 
 Nevada Falls 
 
 Eagle Peak via Yosemite Falls 
 
 Yosemite Falls 
 
 North Dome via Mirror Lake 
 
 returning via Yosemite Falls 
 
 From Glacier Point to: 
 
 Floor of valley, short trail 
 Floor of valley via Nevada and 
 
 Vernal Falls, long trail. 
 Floor of valley via Pohono Trail 
 
 Sentinel Dome 
 
 Ostrander Lake (good fishing) 
 Mariposa Big Trees via Wa 
 wona, Peregoy Meadows, and 
 Alder Creek, returning 
 Chilnulalna Falls and Mono 
 Meadows (3-day trip) . . 
 
 Merced Lake 
 
 Johnson Lake 
 
 T-^^F'— If'^lldaT 
 
 From Merced Lake to: 
 
 Floor of valley, direct 
 
 Floor of valley via Clouds Rest 
 Washburn Lake (good fishing) 
 Tenaya Lake via Forsyth Pass 
 Tenaya Lake via Vogelsang or 
 
 Babcock Pass and Tuolumne 
 
 Meadows 
 
 From Merced Lake to: 
 
 Tenaya Lake via Sunrise Trail 
 
 and Tuolumne Meadows 
 
 Glacier Point 
 
 From Tenaya Lake to; 
 
 Floor of valley via Snow Creek 
 
 and Tenaya Canyon. . 
 Floor of valley via Forsyth Pass 
 Merced Lake via Forsyth Pass 
 
 or Babcock Pass and Tuol 
 
 umne Meadows 
 
 Merced Lake via Forsyth Pass 
 Merced Lake via Sunrise Trail 
 
 and Tuolumne Meadows 
 
 McGee Lake 
 
 Tuolumne Soda Springs. . . 
 
 Waterwheel Falls 
 
 May Lake (good fishing) . . 
 Dog Lake (good fishing) . . 
 Mount Conness via Tuolumne 
 
 Meadows 
 
 Bloody Canyon via Tuolumne 
 
 Meadows 
 
 Ranger's station down Leevin 
 
 ing Canyon (2 days) 
 
 $4 00 
 4 00 
 
 r« D J Number 
 
 One Round Required 
 Way Trip ;„ p^.ty 
 
 2 00 
 
 3 50 
 
 4 00 
 
 4.00 
 
 4 00 
 5.00 
 
 4.00 
 
 5 00 
 
 5 00 
 4.00 
 
 4 00 
 5.00 
 
 5 00 
 4.00 
 
 5.00 
 
 $4.00 
 4.00 
 
 5.00 
 
 7.00 
 1 00 
 4 00 
 
 15.00 
 7 50 
 4 00 
 2.50 
 3.50 
 
 2.00 
 
 7.50 
 
 3 50 
 3.50 
 4,00 
 2.00 
 3.50 
 
 5 00 
 
 10.00 
 
 Rates for Private Party Camping Trips 
 
 Saddle horses, per day, each $2 00 $3 00 
 
 Pack horses, per day, each 2 . 00- 3 . 00 
 
 Guides, with horse, per day, each 5.00 
 
 Packers, with horse, per day. each 5.00 
 
 Cook, with horse, per day. each 5,00 
 
 Rates for All-Expense Camping Tours 
 
 1 person, cost per day, per person $25 . 00 
 
 2 persons, cost per day. per person 15.75 
 
 3 persons, cost per day. per person 1 2 . 65 
 
 4 persons, cost per day. per person 1 2 . 40 
 
 5 persons, cost per day, per person I I . 30 
 
 6 persons, cost per day, per person 10 60 
 
 7 persons, cost per day, per person 1 . 00 
 
 8 persons, cost per day, per person 9 70 
 
 9 persons, cost per day, per person 9 . 60 
 
 10 persons or more, cost per day, per person 9. 50 
 
 Above rates include the necessarj- guides, cooks, saddle 
 
 horses, pack horses, provisions, canvas shelters, cooking 
 utensils, stoves and bedding. 
 
 P a ^ e twenty-five 
 
Some of the sequoia trees are the largest and the oldest living things 
 Page twenty-six 
 
Sentinel Hotel, Yosemite Valley 
 One of the swimming pools in Yosemite Valley 
 
 Glacier Point Hotel 
 Hotel Wawona. near Mariposa Grove of Big Trees 
 
 Camping Outfits for Valley Use 
 
 Many tourists prefer to rent their camping outfits in- 
 stead of bringing same with them, and for the benefit of 
 such persons the following schedules have been prepared, 
 showing cost of renting camping outfits and equipment 
 furnished. 
 
 It is advisable in every instance that tourists desiring 
 to camp in the Park should have reserved the necessary 
 equipment before arrival, as during the busy season tents 
 are in great demand. 
 
 No charge is made for camp sites, which are 
 assigned to campers by the superintendent of the 
 Park. 
 
 Price List for Regular Outfits by the Week and Month 
 
 Persons in Party 
 
 One 
 Week 
 
 Two 
 
 Weeks 
 
 Three 
 Weeks 
 
 One 
 Month 
 
 One 
 
 $5.00 
 7.50 
 9.00 
 11.00 
 13.00 
 15.00 
 
 $6 50 
 9 00 
 10 50 
 12 00 
 14 00 
 16.00 
 
 $7.50 
 9.50 
 11.50 
 13 00 
 15 00 
 17.00 
 
 $8 00 
 10 00 
 
 Three 
 
 12 00 
 
 Four 
 
 Five 
 
 Six 
 
 14.00 
 16.00 
 18.00 
 
 
 
 Hikers' Tours 
 
 The hotels and camps are within walking distance of 
 each other, for those accustomed to that means of travel- 
 ing. Economical and comfortable trips can be made by 
 equipping oneself at the rental department and merchan- 
 dise store in the valley with camp outfit and supplies, 
 and with pack animal, if desired. Carrying heavy equip- 
 ment on a walking trip robs the trip of much of its pleasure. 
 A delightful vacation may be had at an approximate cost 
 of $1 to $2 per day per person, including all expense. 
 
 Trail Trips from Yosemite Village 
 
 1. Yosemite to Wawona by horse trail via Glacier Point. 
 
 Distance twenty-five miles. 
 
 2. Yosemite to Glacier Point via short trail, over Pohono 
 
 Trail, and return via Fort Monroe on Wawona Road. 
 Distance twenty-four miles. 
 
 3. Yosemite to Buck Camp by horse trail via Glacier 
 
 Point, and return via Merced Lake. Distance 
 seventy-eight miles. 
 
 4. Yosemite to Tuolumne Meadows and Soda Spritigs via 
 
 road to Mirror Lake, thence via horse trail and 
 Tenaya Canyon. Distance twenty-four miles. 
 
 5. Yosemite to Hetch-Hetchy Valley by horse trail via 
 
 Tenaya Canyon and McGee Lake. Distance sixty- 
 two miles. • - 
 
 6. Yosemite to Hetch-Hetchy via Yosemite Falls. White 
 
 Wolf, and Harden Lake. Distance thirty-one miles. 
 
 7. Yosemite to Hetch-Hetchy by horse trail via Tenaya 
 
 Canyon. Matterhorn, and Tiltill. Distance 100 miles. 
 
 8. Yosemite to Hetch-Hetchy by horse trail via Tenaya 
 
 Canyon. Smedburg, and Benson Lakes. Distance 
 seventy miles. 
 
 9. Yosemite to Soda Springs by horse trail via Vogelsang 
 
 Pass. Distance thirty-seven miles. 
 
 10. Yosemite to Soda Springs. Lyell Fork Meadows, and 
 Donohue Pass, via horse trail and Nevada Falls. 
 Distance thirty-eight miles. 
 
 I I. Yosemite to Soda Springs by horse trail via Yosemite 
 Falls. Eagle Peak, and Yosemite Point Trail. Dis- 
 tance twenty-eight miles. 
 
 12. Yosemite to North Dome by horse trail and return 
 
 via Yosemite Point. Distance nineteen miles. 
 
 13. Yosemite to Lake Tenaya by horse trail and return 
 
 via Forsyth Pass and Clouds Rest. Distance thirty- 
 two miles. 
 
 14. Yosemite to Merced Lake and Washburn Lake by 
 
 horse trail. Distance twenty miles. 
 
 15. Yosemite to Johnson Lake and Buck Camp, via Glacier 
 
 Point. Illilouette Creek, Buena Vista Creek, and 
 Royal Arch Lakes. Distance twenty-two miles 
 
 16. To Moraine Meadows via Nevada Falls. Starr King. 
 
 Ottoway Creek, and Merced Pass. Distance twenty- 
 one miles. 
 
 17. Yosemite to Waterwheel Falls via Tenaya Canyon and 
 
 White Cascades. Distance twenty-five miles. 
 
 18. Yosemite to Ten Lakes via Yosemite Falls and Yo- 
 
 semite Creek. Distance seventeen miles. 
 
 U. S. R. R. Administration Publications 
 
 The following publications may be obtained 
 free on application to any Consolidated Ticket 
 Office; or apply to the Bureau of Service National 
 Parks and Monuments, or Travel Bureau — 
 Western Lines, 646 Transportation Building, 
 Chicago, 111.: 
 
 Arizona and New Mexico Rockies. 
 California for the Tourist. 
 Colorado and Utah Rockies. 
 Crater Lake National Park, Oregon. 
 Glacier National Park, Montana. 
 Grand Canyon National Park, Arizona. 
 Hawaii National Park, Hawaiian Islands. 
 Hot Springs National Park, Arkansas. 
 
 Page twenty-seven 
 
The Maiden's Profile in Nevada Fall 
 
 Page twenty-eight 
 

 Camp Curry, on the floor of the valley 
 
 Mount Rainier National Park, Washington. 
 Northern Lakes — Wisconsin, Minnesota, Upper Mich- 
 igan, Iowa and Illinois. 
 
 Mesa Verda National Park, Colorado. 
 
 Pacific Northwest and Alaska. 
 
 Petrified Forest National Monument, Arizona. 
 
 Rocky Mountain National Park, Colorado. 
 
 Sequoia and General Grant National Parks, California. 
 
 Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming, Montana, Idaho. 
 
 Yosemite National Park, California. 
 
 Zion National Monument, Utah. 
 
 U. S. Government Publications 
 
 The following publications may be obtained 
 from the Superintendent of Documents, Govern- 
 ment Printing Office, Washington, D. C., at 
 prices given. Remittances should be by money 
 order or in cash. 
 
 Sketch of Yosemite National Park and an account of 
 the origin of Yosemite and Hetch-Hetchy Valleys, by F. 
 E. Matthes. 48 pages, 24 illustrations. 10 cents. 
 
 The Secret of the Big Trees, by Ellsworth Huntington. 
 24 pages, 14 illustrations. 5 cents. 
 
 Forests of Yosemite, Sequoia, and General Grant National 
 Parks, by C. L. Hill. 40 pages, 23 illustrations. 20 cents. 
 
 Panoramic view of Yosemite National Park, 18 !o by 18 
 inches. 25 cents. 
 
 The National Parks Portfolio. By Robert Sterling Yard. 
 260 pages, 270 illustrations. Pamphlet edition, 35 cents; 
 book edition. 55 cents. 
 
 The following may be obtained from the Director of 
 the United States Geological Survey, Washington, D. C. 
 
 Map of Yosemite National Park, 29 by 31 inches, 25 
 cents a copy flat; 40 cents a copy folded and bound be- 
 tween covers. 
 
 Map of Yosemite Valley, 35 by 15^^ inches. 10 cents. 
 
 The following publications may be obtained free on 
 written application to the Director of the National Park 
 Service, Washington, D. C or by personal application to 
 the office of the superintendent of the Park. 
 
 Circular of General Information Regarding Yosemite 
 National Park. 
 
 Glimpses of our National Parks. 48 pages, illustrated. 
 
 Map showing location of National Parks and National 
 Monuments and railroad routes threto. 
 
 Park Administration 
 
 Yosemite National Park is under the jurisdiction 
 of the Director, National Park Service, Depart- 
 ment of the Interior, Washington, D. C. The 
 Park .Superintendent is located at Yosemite, Cal. 
 
 Altitude of Summits in Yosemite Valley 
 
 
 
 Altitude 
 
 
 Altitude 
 
 Above 
 
 Name 
 
 Above 
 
 Pier near 
 
 
 Sea Level 
 
 Sentinel 
 Hotel 
 
 
 Feet 
 
 Feet 
 
 
 4,701 
 7,602 
 
 739 
 
 Basket Dome ... 
 
 3,642 
 
 Cathedral Rocks 
 
 6,551 
 
 2,591 
 
 Cathedral Spires 
 
 6.114 
 
 2,154 
 
 Clouds Rest. 
 
 9,924 
 5,031 
 
 5,964 
 
 Columbia Rock 
 
 1,071 
 
 Eagle Peak 
 
 7,773 
 
 3,813 
 
 
 7,564 
 
 3,604 
 
 
 7,214 
 8,852 
 
 3,254 
 
 Half Dome 
 
 4,892 
 
 Leaning Tower 
 
 5.863 
 
 1,903 
 
 Liberty Cap 
 
 7.072 
 
 3,112 
 
 North Dome 
 
 7,531 
 
 3,571 
 
 Old Inspiration Point 
 
 6,603 
 
 2,643 
 
 Panorama Point 
 
 6,224 
 
 2,264 
 
 Profile Cliff 
 
 7.503 
 4.195 
 
 3,543 
 
 Pulpit Rock 
 
 765 
 
 
 8.117 
 
 4,157 
 
 Stanford Point 
 
 6.659 
 
 2,699 
 
 Washington Column . 
 
 5.912 
 
 1,952 
 
 Yosemite Point 
 
 6.935 
 
 2,975 
 
 Height of Waterfalls in Yosemite Valley 
 
 Name 
 
 Height 
 of Fall 
 
 Altitude 
 
 Above 
 
 Sea 
 Level 
 
 of Crest 
 
 Above 
 Pier near 
 Sentinel 
 
 Hotel 
 
 Yosemite Falls 
 
 Middle Yosemite Falls 
 
 Feet 
 
 1,430 
 
 600 
 
 320 
 
 594 
 
 317 
 
 370 
 
 620 
 
 1.612 
 
 1.170 
 
 Feet 
 6,525 
 
 Feet 
 2.565 
 
 Lower Yosemite Falls 
 
 Nevada Falls 
 
 Vernal Falls 
 
 Illilouette Falls 
 
 Bridal Veil Falls 
 
 4,420 
 5,907 
 5,044 
 5,816 
 4,787 
 7,008 
 6,466 
 
 460 
 1,947 
 1,084 
 1,856 
 
 827 
 
 Ribbon Falls 
 
 Widows Tears Falls 
 
 3,048 
 2,506 
 
 Page twenty 
 
Camp Yosemite, on the floor of the valley 
 
 Size of Big Trees in Mariposa Grove 
 [All dimensions are in feet.] 
 
 Distances from" Yosemite Post-Oflfice to Principal 
 Points in Yosemite Valley 
 
 Trees 
 
 Grizzly Giant 
 
 Faithful Couple. . . 
 
 Michigan 
 
 Fresno 
 
 Columbia 
 
 Old Guard (South 
 
 Tree) 
 
 Lafayette 
 
 Nevada 
 
 General Sherman.. 
 General Grant . 
 General Sheridan.. 
 
 Philadelphia 
 
 St. Louis 
 
 Lincoln 
 
 Washington 
 
 William McKinley 
 General Logan. . . . 
 
 Galen ClarK 
 
 Pittsburgh 
 
 Vermont 
 
 Wawona (26 feet 
 
 through opening) 
 
 New York 
 
 Forest Queen 
 
 Boston 
 
 Chicago 
 
 Whitt;er 
 
 Longfellow 
 
 Capt. A. E. Wood. 
 
 Mark Twain 
 
 Mississippi 
 
 Stonewall Jackson. 
 
 Georgia 
 
 South Carolina.. . . 
 
 
 Ap- 
 
 
 
 proxi- 
 
 Girth 
 
 Girth 
 
 mate 
 
 about 
 
 at 
 
 Diam- 
 
 10 Feet 
 
 Base 
 
 eter 
 
 Above 
 
 
 
 Ground 
 
 
 Base 
 
 
 93 
 
 29 6 
 
 64.5 
 
 94 
 
 29 9 
 
 63 
 
 55.5 
 
 17.7 
 
 40 
 
 63 
 
 20 
 
 38.5 
 
 80.5 
 
 25 6 
 
 52 
 
 45 
 
 14.3 
 
 31 
 
 92 5 
 
 29.4 
 
 53 
 
 48.5 
 
 15.4 
 
 35 
 
 63 
 
 20 
 
 41.5 
 
 67 
 
 21.3 
 
 42 
 
 76 
 
 24.2 
 
 51 
 
 61.5 
 
 19 6 
 
 50.5 
 
 73 
 
 23 2 
 
 51 
 
 72 
 
 22 9 
 
 54.5 
 
 92 
 
 29.3 
 
 65 
 
 70 
 
 22.3 
 
 46.5 
 
 76 
 
 24.2 
 
 49.5 
 
 59 5 
 
 18 9 
 
 47 
 
 53 5 
 
 17 
 
 41 
 
 47 
 
 14.9 
 
 38 
 
 60.5 
 
 45.5 
 
 52 
 
 16.5 
 
 53.5 
 
 17 
 
 38 
 
 58 
 
 18.4 
 
 47 
 
 57 
 
 18.1 
 
 40.5 
 
 62 
 
 19.7 
 
 47 
 
 51.5 
 
 16.4 
 
 43 
 
 52 
 
 16.5 
 
 40 
 
 53 
 
 16.9 
 
 41 
 
 54.5 
 
 17.3 
 
 37.5 
 
 53 
 
 16 9 
 
 38.5 
 
 48 
 
 15.3 
 
 35 
 
 74 
 
 23.5 
 
 54.5 
 
 Ap- 
 proxi- 
 mate 
 Diam- 
 eter 
 10 Feet 
 Above 
 Ground 
 
 20.5 
 20 
 12.7 
 12.2 
 16 5 
 
 16 2 
 
 17.3 
 
 20.7 
 
 14 8 
 
 15.7 
 
 14.9 
 
 13 
 
 12.1 
 
 19. 
 
 14. 
 
 12. 
 
 14. 
 
 12. 
 
 14. 
 
 13. 
 
 12. 
 
 13 
 
 11.9 
 
 12.2 
 
 III 
 
 17.3 
 
 Height 
 
 .204 
 244 
 257 
 273 
 294 
 
 244 
 273 
 278 
 267 
 271 
 263 
 275 
 269 
 258 
 235 
 243 
 259 
 238 
 242 
 257 
 
 227 
 237 
 219 
 248 
 223 
 268 
 273 
 310 
 331 
 269 
 265 
 270 
 264 
 
 Name 
 
 Basket Dome (top of) .... 
 
 Camp Curry 
 
 Clouds Rest 
 
 El Capitan 
 
 Glacier Point 
 
 Glacier Point Hotel 
 
 Half Dome (foot of) 
 
 Happy Isles 
 
 Liberty Cap 
 
 Mirror Lake 
 
 Mount Watkins (top of) . . 
 Nevada Falls (594 feet) . . . 
 
 North Dome (top of) 
 
 Sentinel Rock . . . . 
 
 Tenaya Canyon 
 
 Union Point 
 
 Vernal Falls (317 feet).... 
 Yosemite Falls (1.750 feet) 
 
 Distance 
 
 Miles 
 
 Direction 
 
 9.0 
 
 Northeast 
 
 1.0 
 
 East 
 
 no 
 
 
 3.5 
 
 West 
 
 4.5 
 
 South 
 
 4.5 
 
 
 3.0 
 
 East 
 
 2.5 
 
 
 5.5 
 
 
 3.0 
 
 " 
 
 9.0 
 
 
 6.0 
 
 '• 
 
 II. 
 
 Northeast 
 
 I.O 
 
 West 
 
 4.0 
 
 East 
 
 3.0 
 
 South 
 
 5.0 
 
 East 
 
 .5 
 
 North 
 
 What to Wear 
 
 Reasonably warm clothing should be worn, and persons 
 should be prepared for sudden changes of weather and 
 altitude. Good everyday clothes, golf or bicycle suits are 
 suitable for both men and women for Park travel. Wear- 
 ing apparel, dry goods, boots, shoes, etc., may be procured 
 at reasonable rates at the general store on the floor of the 
 valley. Serviceable gloves and tinted glasses should form 
 a part of one's outfit. 
 
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 THE HAWAIIAN ISLANDS 
 
 The National Parks at a glance 
 
 United States Railroad Administration 
 Director General of Railroads 
 For particulars as to fares, train schedules, etc., apply to any Railroad Ticket Agent, or to any 
 of the following Consolidated Ticket Offices: 
 
 West 
 
 Beaumont, Tex., Orleans and Pearl Sts. 
 Bremerton, Wash 224 Front St. 
 
 Butte, Mont 2 N Main St. 
 
 Chicago, 111 175 W. Jackson Blvd. 
 
 Colorado Springs, Colo. 
 
 1 19 E. Pike's Peak Ave. 
 
 Dallas, Tex 112-114 Field St. 
 
 Denver, Colo 601 17th St. 
 
 Des Moines, Iowa 403 Walnut St. 
 
 Duluth, Minn 334 W. Superior St. 
 
 El Paso, Tex. . . . Mills and Oregon Sts. 
 
 Ft. Worth, Tex 702 Houston St. 
 
 Fresno, Cal .J and Fresno Sts. 
 
 Galveston, Tex.. 21st and Market Sts. 
 
 Helena. Mont 58 S. Main St. 
 
 Houston, Tex 904 Texas Ave. 
 
 Kansas City, Mo. 
 
 Ry. Ex. Bldg.. 7th and Walnut Sts. 
 
 Annapolis, Md 54 Maryland Ave. 
 
 Atlantic City, N.J... 1301 Pacific Ave. 
 Baltimore, Md . . . B. & O. R. R. Bldg. 
 
 Boston. Mass 67 Franklin St. 
 
 Brooklyn, N. Y 336 Fulton St. 
 
 Buffalo, N. Y., Main and Division Sts. 
 Cincinnati. Ohio. 6th and Main Sts. 
 Cleveland, Ohio.. 1004 Prospect Ave. 
 Columbus. Ohio 70 East Gay St. 
 
 Dayton, Ohio 19 S. Ludlow St. 
 
 Asheville, N.C .. . 
 
 Atlanta, Ga. 
 
 Augusta, Ga 
 Birmingham, Ala 
 Charleston, S. C 
 Charlotte, N. C 
 Chattanooga, Tenn 
 Columbia, S. C . 
 Jacksonville, Fla 
 
 For detailed 
 National Park.s 
 Chicago. 
 
 POOLE BROS CHICAGO 
 
 14 S. Polk Square 
 
 74 Peachtree St. 
 
 81 I Broad St. 
 
 2010 1st Ave. 
 
 Charleston Hotel 
 
 22 S. Tryon St. 
 
 817 Market St. 
 
 Arcade Building 
 
 58 W. Bay St. 
 
 information rega 
 and Monuments 
 
 Lincoln, Neb 104 N. 13th St. 
 
 Little Rock. Ark 202 W. 2d St. 
 
 Long Beach, Cal. . . L.A.&S.L. Station 
 
 Los Angeles, Cal 2 I 5 S. Broadway 
 
 Milwaukee, Wis 99 Wisconsin St. 
 
 Minneapolis, Minn. ,202 Sixth St. South 
 Oakland, Cal. . . 13th St. and Broadway 
 
 Ocean Park. Cal 160 Pier Ave. 
 
 Oklahoma City, Okla. 
 
 131 W. Grand Ave. 
 
 Omaha, Neb 1416 Dodge St. 
 
 Peoria, 111 Jefferson and Liberty Sts. 
 Phoenix. Ariz. 
 
 Adams St. and Central Ave. 
 Portland, Ore., 3d and Washington Sts. 
 
 Pueblo, Colo 401-3 N. Union Ave. 
 
 St. Joseph, Mo 505 Francis St. 
 
 St. Louis, Mo. 318-328 N. Broadway 
 
 East 
 
 Detroit. Mich.. 13 W. LaFayette Ave. 
 Evansville. Ind.. . L. & N. R. R. Bldg. 
 
 Grand Rapids. Mich 125 Pearl St. 
 
 Indianapolis. Ind., 1 12-14 English Block 
 Newark, N.J., Clinton and Beaver Sts. 
 
 New York. N. Y 64 Broadway 
 
 New York. N. Y 57 Chambers St. 
 
 New York. N. Y 31W. 32dSt. 
 
 New York. N. Y I 14 W. 42d St. 
 
 South 
 
 Knoxville. Tenn 600 Gay St. 
 
 Lexington. Ky Union Station 
 
 Louisville. Ky 4th and Market Sts. 
 
 Lynchburg, Va 722 Main St. 
 
 Memphis. Tenn 60 N. Main St. 
 
 Mobile. Ala 51 S. Royal St. 
 
 Montgomery. Ala Exchange Hotel 
 
 Nashville. Tenn.. Independent Life Bldg, 
 
 St. Paul. Minn. . ,4th and Jackson Sts. 
 
 Sacramento, Cal 801 K St. 
 
 Salt Lake City, Utah 
 
 Main and S. Temple Sts. 
 San Antonio, Texas 
 
 315-17 N. St. Mary's St. 
 
 San Diego, Cal 300 Broadway 
 
 San Francisco, Cal. 
 
 Lick Bldg.. Post St. and Lick Place 
 San Jose. Cal.. 1st and San Fernando Sts. 
 
 Seattle. Wash 714-16 2d Ave. 
 
 Shreveport, La., Milam and Market Sts. 
 
 Sioux City, Iowa 510 4th St. 
 
 Spokane, Wash. 
 
 Davenport Hotel, 815 Sprague Ave. 
 Tacoma, Wash. . 1117-19 Pacific Ave. 
 Waco, Texas. . 6th and Franklin Sts. 
 
 Whittier, Cal L. A. & S. L. Station 
 
 Winnipeg. Man 226 Portage Ave. 
 
 Philadelphia. Pa .... 1539 Chestnut St. 
 
 Pittsburgh. Pa Arcade Building 
 
 Reading. Pa 16 N. Fifth St. 
 
 Rochester. N. Y 20 State St. 
 
 Syracuse. N. Y University Block 
 
 Toledo, Ohio 320 Madison Ave. 
 
 Washington, D. C ... 1229 F St. N. W. 
 Williamsport, Pa . . .4th and Pine Sts. 
 Wilmington. Del 905 Market St. 
 
 Paducah. Ky 430 Broadway 
 
 Pensacola, Fla San Carlos Hotel 
 
 Raleigh. N.C 305 LaFayette St. 
 
 Richmond. Va 830 E. Main St. 
 
 Savannah, Ga 37 Bull St. 
 
 Sheffield. Ala Sheffield Hotel 
 
 Tampa. Fla Hillsboro Hotel 
 
 Vicksburg. Miss. 1319 Washington St. 
 
 New Orleans. La . . . St. Charles Hotel ' Winston-Salem. N. C. .236 N. Main St. 
 
 rding National Parks and. Monuments address Bureau of Service, 
 Travel Bureau Western Lines, 646 Transportation Bldg., 
 
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