Yosemite National Park

noun

1. a national park in E California. 1,182 sq. mi. (3,060 sq. km).

Yosemite National Park

noun

1. a national park in central California, in the Sierra Nevada Mountains: contains the Yosemite Valley, at an altitude of about 1200 m (4000 ft), with sheer walls rising about another 1200 m (4000 ft). Area: 3061 sq km (1182 sq miles)

Yosemite National Park

1. Located in California .

Notes

Famous for its dramatic rock formations and waterfalls.

Example Sentences

Even Yosemite National Park launched a temporary reservation system to manage crowds, one that will return this summer.

From Outside Online

On May 9, the couple loaded their car with guns and bulletproof vests and headed toward a ranch in Mariposa County, not far from Yosemite National Park, to meet the Grizzly Scouts for another training session.

From ProPublica

The gentlest slope off the iconic 8,839-foot summit in Yosemite National Park is a 45-to-60-degree granite wall—usually hiked over the course of a long, summer day via the 800-foot Cables Route—and it rarely has enough snow on it to set a ski edge.

From Outside Online

It’s no exaggeration to say that some of the most formative outdoor experiences of my adult life happened at Yosemite National Park in California.

From Outside Online

That means more fires in places like Yosemite National Park, which had to close last month due to smoke, and in the Los Angeles-Orange County megalopolis.

From ProPublica

So far, 43,000 acres of Yosemite National Park has been burned.

From The Daily Beast

Up to 10,000 campers at Yosemite National Park may have been exposed to a deadly rodent-borne illness.

From The Daily Beast

The landscape of the entire Yosemite National Park is preëminently glacial.

From Project Gutenberg

The Yosemite National Park is perhaps the most delightful region in all the world for the study of plant life.

From Project Gutenberg

About twenty-five small glaciers still remain in the Yosemite National Park.

From Project Gutenberg

Where it becomes the eastern boundary of the Yosemite National Park it breaks into climaxes of magnificence.

From Project Gutenberg

Hunting, or the possession of firearms, is not permitted in the Yosemite National Park.

From Project Gutenberg