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This 5 page paper discusses Yosemite National Park, what it looks like, who uses it, and other similar issues. Bibliography lists 1 source.
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millions of visitors a year. This paper describes (as far as is possible) the landscape of the park. Discussion Most people who come to Yosemite come in by Highway 41
from the west. This route takes them through the Wawona Tunnel, which might have been designed by Frank Lloyd Wright for effect. Wright liked to design buildings in which low
tunnels opened out into much larger rooms, frequently two stories high, and that is the effect here. A visitor comes out of the east end of the Wawona Tunnel to
find all of Yosemite Valley before him. It is one of the most photographed views on earth; it "provides the classic view of Yosemite Valley, including El Capitan, Half Dome,
Sentinel Rock, Cathedral Rocks and Bridalveil Falls" (Uhler, 2007). Yosemite Valley is the part of the park that most people think of when they hear the name. The valley
is striking because it is steep and narrow, and the rock formations (El Capitan and Half Dome) tower over 3,000 feet into the sky. El Capitan in particular is a
mecca for rock climbers; its even made its way into popular culture: one of the Star Trek films featured Captain Kirk and Dr. McCoy climbing this formation. Yosemite was
formed by a combination of forecast; it began to form "about 500 million years ago when the Sierra Nevada region lay beneath an ancient sea. Thick layers of sediment lay
on the sea bed, which eventually was folded and twisted and thrust above sea level. Simultaneously molten rock welled up from deep within the earth and cooled slowly beneath the
layers of sediment to form granite" (Uhler, 2007). Most of the overlaying rock was worn away by erosion, exposing the granite; then "glaciers went to work to carve the face
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