With five National Parks – Death Valley, Lassen Volcanic, Sequoia and Kings Canyon, and Yosemite, two National Monuments – Devils Postpile, Lava Beds, and an National Recreation Area – Whiskeytown NRA, the Sierra Nevada is home to some of our nation’s most treasured natural beauty.
Yosemite National Park, in the Southern Central Sierra Region | Image via Pixabay / Public Domain
Lava Beds National Monument preserves more than 700 caves, Native American rock art sites, historic battlefields and campsites, and high desert wilderness.
Lassen Volcanic National Park is home to steaming fumaroles, meadows freckled with wildflowers, clear mountain lakes, and numerous volcanoes.
Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Parks are home to groves of giant sequoia trees, huge mountains, rugged foothills, deep canyons, and vast caverns.
Lembert Dome soars 800 feet above Tuolumne Meadows and the Tuolumne River in Yosemite National Park, 8 miles west of the Tioga Pass Entrance.
Hetch Hetchy Valley, in Yosemite National Park’s northwest corner, boasts one of the longest hiking seasons in the park, spring waterfalls and wildflowers.
Located just east of the Sierra Nevada, Death Valley is home to the lowest, hottest, and driest area in the United States.
Olmsted Point looks down on Yosemite Valley from the east. If you're entering the park from Lee Vining on Tioga Road, this is a must-stop viewpoint.
El Capitan is a vertical rock formation in Yosemite National Park, in Yosemite Valley. You can climb it, but we like it just fine from the Valley floor.
Rising nearly 5,000 feet above Yosemite Valley and 8,800 feet above sea level, Half Dome is a Yosemite icon and a great challenge to many hikers.
Liberty Cap is a granite dome in Yosemite National Park, to the north of Nevada Fall, on the John Muir Trail.
This 5.4 mile round trip hike is strenuous and popular with visitors to Yosemite National Park. The crowds will thin out considerably after Vernal Fall, but you won't be alone when you reach the top.
Yosemite National Park is best known for its waterfalls, but it also encompasses deep valleys, grand meadows, ancient giant sequoias, and a vast wilderness area.
Devils Postpile National Monument protects and preserves the Devils Postpile formation, one of the world's finest examples of columnar basalt.
The three mile, round trip hike offers beautiful views all along the way to one of yosemite Valley's iconic destinations - Vernal Fall.
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