We with Margy visited the Park on our way back from Mexico anf Scottsdale in the end of August 2016. We spend one full day driving across the Park from the Tioga Pass entrance to the Arch Rock entrance, using the main road and making a loop around the Yosemite Valley. There are 2 main views closed to the entrance and the exit of the Valley. The main objects around Yosemite Village are El Capitan and the Half Domo – huge stone mountains on the north side of the valley. The famous Yosemite Fall was dry in this hot month of August. From the Village the road to the Arch Rock entrance is around the Merced River. We drove to the Mariposa Grove, closed to the south entrance, but it was closed for visitors by some reason. We went back and continued north to the Sequola Forest to see and take photos to the Famous Wawona Tunnel Tree – the leaving sequola, gutted in 1881 to make a drive-through tree for horse- drawn Wagon. Later became a photogenic attraction for the automobile travelers. The tree toppled in 1969 but the cut part of the tree remain for ever.The best photos taken from the entrance of Yosemite Valley to the village inside and back to the west entrance, including around and the Tunnel tree are shown in this second blog-album.
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