Yosemite National Park

   Клуб National Geographic Россия

Йосемитский национальный парк, США. Авторы таймлэпс-ролика: Sheldon Neill, Colin Delehanty. 

Yosemite National Park is a national park in the state of California, U.S.A.

 The park was created in 1890, it was the second national park, after Yellowstone.  Now it is a UNESCO World Heritage Site.

Yosemite covers 1,189 square miles (3,081 square kilometers) on the Sierra Nevada.

Over 3.5 million people visit the park each year.

Despite the park's great size, most people spend time in Yosemite Valley, one of the most beautiful places in the park. Almost 95 percent of the park is wilderness.

 Yosemite has many waterfalls. 

The most famous of these is the world-famous Yosemite Falls, which at 2,425 feet (739 m) tall, is one of the tallest waterfalls in the world.