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Title: A guide to the national parks of America
Year: 1918 (1910s)
Authors: Allen, Edward Frank, b. 1885, ed
Subjects: National parks and reserves National parks and reserves
Publisher: (New York) R. McBride & company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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ing a pleasure. Provisions can be obtained atany of the supply depots throughout the park. Campers should pack their goods in dunnagebags, rather than in suit cases or grips, whichare liable to be damaged while a trail trip isin progress. Dunnage bags may be rented inthe park at a nominal rate. A deposit is required on all equipment takenoutside of Yosemite Valley and refunded uponreturn of equipment. Camping Outfits for Valley Use Tourists may rent their camping outfits atreasonable rates as indicated above. It is ad-visable in every instance that tourists desiringto camp in the park should have reserved thenecessary equipment before arrival, as duringthe busy season tents are in great demand. No charge is made for camp sites, which areassigned to campers by the supervisor of thepark. What to See June is an ideal time to visit Yosemite Na-tional Park, for then the roads and trails areless dusty than later in the season, the de- TRAVEL-GUIDE MAP )SEMITE NATIONAL PARK CALIFORNIA Scale
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YOSEMITE NATIONAL PARK 133 ciduous trees and shrubs are clothed in theirfreshest green, the woods and meadows arefragrant with wild flowers, and the waterfalls,the Parks greatest attraction, are at their full. I never knew any one to be disappointedin his first sight of the valley/ says a Cali-fornia author ;x but there is one thing thatgenerally surprises—that is its narrownessand the remarkable verticality of the enclos-ing walls. These stupendous cliffs shootstraight upward to a height of almost a mile(to be exact, from 3,000 to 5,000 feet) abovethe valley floor, which is itself 4,000 feet abovethe sea. As the Yosemite is only aboutthree-quarters of a mile across at its broadest,it is, in fact, less a valley than a gorge — anincidental bulge some seven miles long in thewild, deep-cut canyon of the Merced River. Yosemite Valley is the best known and mostfrequently visited portion of the Park, butalthough it is the most spectacular in the mat-ter of scenic grandeur, it is by no m

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