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Napa is just over an hour from San Francisco, and although not strictly on the way to Yosemite, it makes an excellent detour ...
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The largest county in the 209 is Tuolumne with 2,235 square miles followed by Merced with 1,979 square miles, Stanislaus with ...
Tuolumne County’s stagecoach era is the subject of a Sonora High School student’s term paper written for a U.S. history class ...
California’s iconic trees are so well appreciated that three national parks are named after them: Redwood, Sequoia and Joshua ...
California’s iconic trees are so well appreciated that three national parks are named after them: Redwood, Sequoia and Joshua Tree.
Mariposa Grove is ranked #4 out of 21 things to ... The distinction between the Mariposa Grove and the others is that Mariposa is the largest, ... There's also the fun California Tunnel Tree, ...
Each tree, Leonard recalled, ... “The biggest challenge that I’d say we’re facing is just the scope and scale of fires we’re ... the Mariposa Grove was threatened by the fast-moving ...
On June 30, 1864, President Lincoln signed the Yosemite Valley Grant Act protecting Yosemite Valley and Mariposa Big Tree Grove “upon the express conditions that the premises shall be held for ...
The Sugarbowl, an amphitheater of solemn and enormous trees, part of the Redwood Mountain grove, one of the largest collections of giant sequoias on Earth, has become a graveyard. Trees that have ...
The Mariposa Grove of giant sequoia trees, one of the most popular and breathtaking landmarks in Yosemite National Park, reopened to the public Wednesday morning, nearly four weeks after a major ...