Buildings and Structures in Yosemite National Park: Acting Superintendent's Headquarters, Ahwahnee Hotel, Badger Pass Ski Area, Bridalveil Creek Campg

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 32. Chapters: Acting Superintendent's Headquarters, Ahwahnee Hotel, Badger Pass Ski Area, Bridalveil Creek Campground, Camp 4 (Yosemite), Chris Jorgensen, Chris Jorgenson Studio, Crane Flat Campground, Crane Flat Fire Lookout, Glacier Point Trailside Museum, Glen Aulin High Sierra Camp, Great Sierra Mine Historic Site, Great Sierra Wagon Road, Henness Ridge Fire Lookout, High Sierra Camps, Hodgdon Homestead Cabin, Housekeeping Camp, LeConte Memorial Lodge, McCauley and Meyer Barns, McGurk Cabin, Merced Grove Ranger Station, National Register of Historic Places in Yosemite National Park, O'Shaughnessy Dam, Parsons Memorial Lodge, Porcupine Flat Campground, Rangers' Club, Soda Springs Cabin, Swinging Bridge, Tamarack Flat Campground, Tioga Pass Entrance Station, Tuolumne Meadows Ranger Stations and Comfort Stations, Wawona Covered Bridge, Wawona Hotel, Wawona Tunnel, White Wolf (Yosemite), Yosemite Creek Campground, Yosemite Lodge at the Falls, Yosemite Museum, Yosemite Transportation Company Office, Yosemite Valley Bridges, Yosemite Valley Chapel, Yosemite Village Historic District. Excerpt: The High Sierra Camps are nine rustic lodging facilities located in two national parks and a national monument in California's Sierra Nevada mountain range. Open most years from June or July to September, they are staffed camps with tent cabins and food service facilities. The backcountry camps receive their supplies by pack mules. Seven camps are located in Yosemite National Park. Five of these camps are located off the road in the wilderness, and are accessible only by hiking or by horseback riding. There are two similar camps which can be reached by automobile, located near the Tioga Road. Six of the camps are arranged along a loop trail 51.0 miles (82.1 km) long, and each camp can be reached in sequence in a one day hike from the previous camp. There are also two similar camps to the south of Yosemite, one each in Sequoia National Park and Giant Sequoia National Monument. In 1916, Stephen Mather of the National Park Service made an agreement with a private concessionaire, D. J. Desmond, to build mountain "chalets" at Tenaya Lake, Tuolumne Meadows and Merced Lake. Desmond's company went bankrupt during World War I, and these first camps closed in 1918. In 1923, the Park Service decided that the camps should be re-opened and expanded. Ranger and naturalist Carl Parcher Russell hiked through the region and selected locations for five more camps. Three of these were built the following year by a new concessionaire, the Yosemite National Park Company. That firm merged with the Curry Camping Company in 1925, forming the Yosemite Park and Curry Company, which ran the camps for many years under the management of Donald Tresidder, until his death in 1948. Ansel Adams defended the High Sierra Camps against critics who saw them as an encroachment into the wilderness: "The present High Sierra Camps do not, in my opinion, violate wilderness qualities as they now exist. I personally feel that a High Sierra Camp near the north rim of the Yosemite Valley would be a logical link