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LIVING IN THE WILDERNESS
 WHO'S COMING? Copyrighted by J.T. Boysen  WOOF! Copyrighted by J.T. Boysen |
LIVING is comfortable in the Yosemite. A luxurious new hotel, the Ahwahnee, was completed in 1927 to care for both summer and winter visitors, and lodges ofter excellent summer accommodations at more reasonable rates. Above the valley are lodges and camps at convenient intervals on road and trail. There is also a hotel on Glacier Point, overlooking the valley.
The Yosemite is an excellent place to camp out. One may have choice of many kinds of mountain country. Nearly everywhere the trout fishing is exceptionally fine. Camping outfits may be rented and supplies purchased in the valley. Garages for motorists and resthouses for hikers are located at convenient intervals. A number of free public automobile camp grounds have been made available by the Government.
A new all-year road into Yosemite Valley was opened to the public during the summer of 1927.
TIOGA ROAD
ABOVE the north rim of the valley the old Tioga Road, which the Department of the Interior acquired in 1915 and put into good condition, crosses the park from east to west, affording a new route across the Sierra and opening to the public for the first time the magnificent scenic region in the north.
The Tioga Road was built in 1881 to a mine soon after abandoned. For years it had been impassable. It is now the gateway to a wilderness heretofore accessible only to campers.
NORTH OF THE VALLEY'S RIM
BEFORE the restored Tioga Road made accessible the magnificent mountain and valley area constituting the northern half of the Yosemite National Park, this pleasure paradise was known to none except a few enthusiasts who penetrated its wilderness year after year with camping outfits. Motorists making the trip from the valley to Lake Tahoe now pass through this area.
It is the region of rivers and lakes and granite domes and brilliantly polished glacial pavements. The mark of the glacier may be plainly traced on every hand.
It is the region of small glaciers, remnants of a gigantic past, of which there are several in the park. It is the region of rock-bordered glacier lakes of which there are more than two hundred and fifty. It is the region, above all, of small, rushing rivers and of the roaring, foaming, twisting Tuolumne, second only to the Merced.
From the base of the Sierra crest, born of its snows, the Tuolumne River rushes westward roughly paralleling the Tioga Road. Midway it slants sharply down into the Tuolumne Canyon, forming in its mad course a water spectacle destined some day to world fame.
TIOGA ROAD SCENERY
Photograph by George Stone
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