The Wawona Tree, also known as the Wawona Tunnel Tree, was a famous giant sequoia that stood in Mariposa Grove, Yosemite National Park, California, United...
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Wawona (formerly Big Tree Station, Clark's Station, Clarks Station, Wah-wo-nah, and Clark's Ranch) is a census-designated place in Mariposa County, California...
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military hospital in Waldshut, Germany. On March 1, 2016, the Wawona Hotel was renamed Big Trees Lodge due to a legal dispute between the U.S. government,...
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Mariposa Grove (redirect from Big Tree Grove)
Mariposa Grove is a sequoia grove located near Wawona, California, United States, in the southernmost part of Yosemite National Park. It is the largest...
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Yosemite National Park, USA Wawona Hotel, in Yosemite National Park Wawona Tree, a giant sequoia in Yosemite National Park Camp Wawona, a summer camp in Yosemite...
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carving through trees, the trend of creating tunnel trees has long passed. The two giant sequoia drive-through trees have both fallen: Wawona Tree fell in 1969...
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The tree was chosen in part because of the large forest fire scar. The Pioneer Cabin Tree emulated the tunnel carved into Yosemite's Wawona Tree, and...
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List of Yosemite destinations (section Near Wawona)
Hetchy Dome Clouds Rest For information about the tree, see Sequoiadendron giganteum. Groves of the trees include: Mariposa Grove Tuolumne Grove Merced Grove...
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after the community of Wawona but its name origin is not known. A popular story claims Wawō'na was the Miwok word for "big tree", or for "hoot of the owl"...
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flows southwest to join South Fork Merced River about 6 miles northwest of Wawona. Alder Creek drains 14.89 square miles (38.6 km2) of area, receives about...
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A tunnel tree is a large tree in whose trunk a tunnel has been drilled. This practice took place mainly at the end of the 19th and beginning of the 20th...
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hanging trees List of tallest trees List of tree genera Veteran tree Bonsai Capitol Christmas Tree Living Heritage Tree Museum National Christmas Tree (United...
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Yosemite National Park (redirect from Camp Wawona)
did the number of trails and hotels to build on it. The Wawona Tree, also known as the Tunnel Tree, was a giant sequoia that grew in the Mariposa Grove....
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Badger Pass Mariposa Grove of Giant Sequoias Tuolumne Meadows Tioga Pass Wawona Tree Chilnualna Falls People John Muir Stephen T. Mather Galen Clark Shelton...
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a Newbery Honor recipient in 1947. It may have been inspired by the Wawona Tree. Children's literature portal 1946 in literature The Newbery Companion...
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plain ORDINARY FOOLISHNESS In 1897, the Washburn brothers, who owned the Wawona Hotel, had the Guardian of the State Grant evict James McCauley and took...
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Yosemite National Park. Located near the General Grant and General Sheridan trees, the cabin has been rebuilt three times on the same site, with the current...
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1859. In 1876, the more substantial Wawona Hotel was built to serve tourists visiting the nearby grove of big trees and those on their way to Yosemite...
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fire was referred to as a "human-start". The fire caused evacuations of Wawona and impacted tourism and air quality in the Sierra National Forest and surrounding...
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previously tried a variety of methods, including using pitch from nearby pine trees for extra friction. Anderson subsequently went on to add ropes to his eye...
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towering black locust tree beside North Hall, Muir took his first botany lesson. A fellow student plucked a flower from the tree and used it to explain...
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Yosemite's Wawona Tree, and was intended to compete with it for tourists. Along with the 1850s exhibitions, the destruction of the big trees was met with...
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a flat rock. While the cubs sleep, the rock grows and grows, above the trees and into the sky. The mother bear is unable to climb the rock to get to...
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14 nights, with only seven of those nights allowed in Yosemite Valley or Wawona. Because of the popularity of the camp, the relatively small number of camp...
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located just outside the southern area of Yosemite National Park, just off Wawona Road, a continuation of State Route 41 from Fresno. It is a census-designated...
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