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The Sierra Nevadas of California make Yosemite National Park a place of staggering mountain views, lush vegetation, and home to the highest waterfall in North America. Visit the Tuolumne Meadows for colorful wildflowers and be surrounded by majestic peaks. Mariposa Gove will give you views of giant sequoias, and the nearby Wawona Hotel offers a golf course and stately rooms. Yosemite National Park is a huge tourist attraction for its beauty, and luckily there is enough for everyone.
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'Yosemite National Park lies in the heart of California. With its 'hanging' valleys, many waterfalls, cirque lakes, polished domes, moraines and U-shaped valleys, it provides an excellent overview of all kinds of granite relief fashioned by glaciation. … Read more...
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