Mountains Yosemite Valley

Climbers from all over the world have been visiting the valley for decades often staying in the little changed walk in campground of camp 4 to test themselves against the great big wall climbs on el capitan and half dome.

Mountains yosemite valley. The park located in central california is home to both yosemite valley the valley tuolumne meadows and several other less visited climbing venues such as wawona and hetch hetchy. Crane your neck up in awe at the sheer face of el capitan elevation 7569 feet a big wall that rises straight up from the valley floor. Yosemite falls is the highest. The tioga pass drive through tuolumne meadows from the east side is normally closed from sometime in the fall through mid to late may due to snowfall.

Yosemite valley as seen from the trail between taft point and sentinel dome. Famous mountains in yosemite apart from its grand waterfalls yosemite national park is best known for its towering granite rock formations and epic sierra nevada mountain peaks a couple of which rise above a breathtaking 14000 feet. The nuances of the valley form spectacular rock formations for which yosemite valley is famous. The yosemite valley is a wonderland of rocks carved up polished and strewn across the valley floor by ancient glaciers.

Many people enjoy short walks and longer hikes to waterfalls in yosemite valley or walks among giant sequoias in the mariposa tuolumne or merced groves. Yosemite valley can be reached from the west south or east via highways 120 west 140 41 or 120 via tioga pass. Yosemite valley is open year round and numerous activities are available through the national park service yosemite conservancy and aramark at yosemite including nature walks photography and art classes stargazing programs tours bike rentals rafting mule and horseback rides and rock climbing classes. Over eons rivers and glaciers somehow carved 3000 feet into solid granite to create yosemite valley.

The full park map and yosemite valley map are both available as art poster prints from the npmaps yosemite store. Yosemite valley is a glacial valley in yosemite national park in the western sierra nevada mountains of central california. This is the yosemite valley map showing the developed areas and trails of yosemite valley in greater detail. The valley is drained by the merced river and a multitude of streams and waterfalls flow into it including tenaya illilouette yosemite and bridalveil creeks.