Today is our last day at Yosemite. We’ll be driving to Redding, CA tomorrow. We drove back to Yosemite Village and went to the museum, book store, general store, and Ahwahnee Lodge.
The museum had some of the original oil paintings of Yosemite that were painted back in the late 1800’s. Hutching’s California Magazine promoted tourism into Yosemite by showing paintings and prints of the valley. People thought that the prints were an exaggeration and didn’t visit the Yosemite Grant. It wasn’t until he could print actual photos of the valley that the people started to visit.
I bought a biography of John Muir. His name is all over Yosemite NP, and I thought it would be an interesting read. Maybe when we get to San Francisco, we can visit his home which is a national monument. Muir Woods is also a national monument and is in the Bay area.
We had lunch at Ahwahnee Lodge. This is one of the lodges featured in a PBS program about lodges of our national parks.
The top left photo is of Native American weaving a basket at the museum. The photo on the right is of one of the early painting of the valley.
The above photo is of the dining room at the Ahwahnee Lodge. This sign is posted at the front of the lodge. Bears are somewhat of a problem in the park, but we didn’t see any. There have been close to 100 incidents and 15 bears have been hit by cars.
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