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...

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...

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,...

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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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...

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...

Hetchy Dome Clouds Rest For information about the tree, see Sequoiadendron giganteum. Groves of the trees include: Mariposa Grove Tuolumne Grove Merced Grove...

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"...

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...

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...

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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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....

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...

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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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...

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...

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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Badger Pass Mariposa Grove of Giant Sequoias Tuolumne Meadows Tioga Pass Wawona Tree Chilnualna Falls People John Muir Stephen T. Mather Galen Clark Shelton...