Yosemite National Park was accredited as a World Heritage Site in 1984 and the National Park Service claims over 95 percent of the property to be preserved wilderness.
Yosemite National Park contains over 761,000 acres of protected land, including sequoia groves and expanses of alpine wilderness.
In Yosemite National Park, more than 247 bird spices, 80 mammal species, 40 reptile species, 37 species of native trees and hundreds of native species of wildflowers have been recorded.
Yosemite National Park also is home to a large bear population.
Yosemite’s cliffs and waterfalls form a monumental landscape that has long been a scared national icon, a tourist mecca, and a focal point for conservation.
Prominent and popular, the smooth and sheer, gray pure-rock monolith known throughout the world as Half Dome sticks out above Yosemite National Park like a sore thumb – a massive one at that.
Other famous features include El Capitan, the largest single granite rock on Earth at 1230 meters and Mono Lake, one of the oldest lakes in North America.
Yosemite National Park, currently visited by nearly 3.5 million people annually, has continued to add and update amenities and various other research initiatives.
Yosemite National Park
