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Upper Yosemite Falls by moonlight, viewed from Cooks Meadow. Star trails appear in the night sky. Yosemite Valley, Yosemite National Park, California

Upper Yosemite Falls by moonlight, viewed from Cooks Meadow. Star trails appear in the night sky. Yosemite Valley.
Location: Yosemite Falls, Yosemite National Park, California
Image ID: 16098

Mammoth Peak in the High Sierra range is reflected in Tioga Lake at sunrise. This spectacular location is just a short walk from the Tioga Pass road. Near Tuolumne Meadows and Yosemite National Park.
Location: Tioga Lake, Yosemite National Park, California
Image ID: 09948

Mammoth Peak over Tuolumne Meadows, Tioga Pass, Yosemite National Park.
Location: Yosemite National Park, California
Image ID: 28510

Yosemite Falls viewed from Cook's Meadow, Yosemite National Park, California

Yosemite Falls viewed from Cook's Meadow.
Location: Yosemite Falls, Yosemite National Park, California
Image ID: 22749

Panoramic view of the Cathedral Range from the summit of Vogelsang Peak (11500'). The shadow of Vogelsang Peak can be seen in the middle of the picture.
Location: Yosemite National Park, California
Image ID: 25751
Panorama dimensions: 3268 x 15705

Yosemite Falls rises above Cooks Meadow. The 2425 falls, the tallest in North America, is at peak flow during a warm-weather springtime melt of Sierra snowpack. Yosemite Valley.
Location: Yosemite Falls, Yosemite National Park, California
Image ID: 16136

Fletcher Peak is reflected in Vogelsang Lake at sunset, viewed from near summit of Vogelsang Peak, Yosemite National Park, California

Fletcher Peak is reflected in Vogelsang Lake at sunset, viewed from near summit of Vogelsang Peak.
Location: Yosemite National Park, California
Image ID: 25757

Rocks and stream connecting the two sections of Townsley Lake, with Choo-choo Ridge (11357') visible in the distance, Yosemite National Park, California

Rocks and stream connecting the two sections of Townsley Lake, with Choo-choo Ridge (11357') visible in the distance.
Location: Yosemite National Park, California
Image ID: 25779

Yosemite Falls reflected in a meadow pool, spring, Yosemite National Park, California

Yosemite Falls reflected in a meadow pool, spring.
Location: Yosemite Falls, Yosemite National Park, California
Image ID: 27744

Bridalveil Falls and Cathedral Rocks, Sunset, Yosemite National Park.
Location: Yosemite National Park, California
Image ID: 34543
Panorama dimensions: 5504 x 8256

Mountain dogwood, or Pacific dogwood, blooming in spring in Yosemite Valley, Yosemite National Park, California

Mountain dogwood, or Pacific dogwood, blooming in spring in Yosemite Valley.
Location: Yosemite National Park, California
Image ID: 34551
Panorama dimensions: 5504 x 8256

Upper Yosemite Falls near peak flow in spring. Yosemite Falls, at 2425 feet tall (730m) is the tallest waterfall in North America and fifth tallest in the world.
Location: Yosemite Falls, Yosemite National Park, California
Image ID: 34552
Panorama dimensions: 8256 x 5504

Half Dome and clouds, spring, viewed from Sentinel Bridge, Yosemite National Park, California

Half Dome and clouds, spring, viewed from Sentinel Bridge.
Location: Half Dome, Yosemite National Park, California
Image ID: 22752

Fletcher Peak (11410') reflected in Townsley Lake, at sunrise, panoramic view, Yosemite National Park, California

Fletcher Peak (11410') reflected in Townsley Lake, at sunrise, panoramic view.
Location: Yosemite National Park, California
Image ID: 25752
Panorama dimensions: 4056 x 11953

Giant sequoia trees, roots spreading outward at the base of each massive tree, rise from the shaded forest floor, Sequoiadendron giganteum, Mariposa Grove, Yosemite National Park, California

Giant sequoia trees, roots spreading outward at the base of each massive tree, rise from the shaded forest floor.
Species: Giant sequoia tree, Sequoiadendron giganteum
Location: Mariposa Grove, Yosemite National Park, California
Image ID: 23258

Cathedral Range peaks reflected in the still waters of Townsley Lake at sunrise, Yosemite National Park, California

Cathedral Range peaks reflected in the still waters of Townsley Lake at sunrise.
Location: Yosemite National Park, California
Image ID: 25764

Yosemite Falls reflected in flooded meadow. The Merced River floods its banks in spring, forming beautiful reflections of Yosemite Falls, Yosemite National Park, California

Yosemite Falls reflected in flooded meadow. The Merced River floods its banks in spring, forming beautiful reflections of Yosemite Falls.
Location: Yosemite National Park, California
Image ID: 26854
Panorama dimensions: 5219 x 8858

Yosemite Valley and stars lit by full moon, evening, Yosemite National Park, California

Yosemite Valley and stars lit by full moon, evening.
Location: Yosemite National Park, California
Image ID: 28701

Yosemite Falls at peak flow in late spring, viewed from Cooks Meadow, Yosemite National Park, California

Yosemite Falls at peak flow in late spring, viewed from Cooks Meadow.
Location: Yosemite Falls, Yosemite National Park, California
Image ID: 12632

Mammoth Peak rises above a placid Tioga Lake, at sunrise, Yosemite National Park, California

Mammoth Peak rises above a placid Tioga Lake, at sunrise.
Location: Tioga Lake, Yosemite National Park, California
Image ID: 23291

A Sierra Nevada Peak reflected in small tarn (pond), near Tioga Pass, Yosemite National Park, California

A Sierra Nevada Peak reflected in small tarn (pond), near Tioga Pass.
Location: Yosemite National Park, California
Image ID: 25760

Cloud's Rest at sunset, viewed from Olmsted Point. Clouds Rest is one of the most massive -- if not the singlemost massive -- granite monoliths in the world. A vast lobe of Mesozoic-era granodiorite magma cooled to rock and was gradually uplifted to its present altitude of 9926 ft. Later, glaciers cut it into its present shape.
Location: Yosemite National Park, California
Image ID: 25761

Corn lily blooms near Vogelsang Lake, in shade at sunrise, Veratrum californicum, Yosemite National Park, California

Corn lily blooms near Vogelsang Lake, in shade at sunrise.
Species: California false hellebore, Corn lily, Veratrum californicum
Location: Yosemite National Park, California
Image ID: 25762

Purple lupine flowers bloom in late summer, along a stream that feeds to Lake Evelyn in the high Sierra Nevada near Vogelsang High Sierra Camp, Yosemite National Park, California

Purple lupine flowers bloom in late summer, along a stream that feeds to Lake Evelyn in the high Sierra Nevada near Vogelsang High Sierra Camp.
Location: Yosemite National Park, California
Image ID: 25763

Vogelsang Peak (11500') rises above Vogelsang High Sierra Camp, in Yosemite's high country, with semi-permanent tent cabins serving camp visitors seen in the foreground.
Location: Yosemite National Park, California
Image ID: 25765

Mammoth Peak (12,117') rises above grassy meadows and granite boulders near Tioga Pass, Yosemite National Park, California

Mammoth Peak (12,117') rises above grassy meadows and granite boulders near Tioga Pass.
Location: Yosemite National Park, California
Image ID: 25766

Half Dome at sunrise, viewed from Glacier Point, Yosemite National Park, California

Half Dome at sunrise, viewed from Glacier Point.
Location: Yosemite National Park, California
Image ID: 27737

Half Dome and pre-dawn light, sunrise, viewed from Glacier Point, Yosemite National Park, California

Half Dome and pre-dawn light, sunrise, viewed from Glacier Point.
Location: Yosemite National Park, California
Image ID: 27739

Yosemite Falls and double rainbow, full on and all the way, viewed from the Yosemite Falls trail, spring, Yosemite National Park, California

Yosemite Falls and double rainbow, full on and all the way, viewed from the Yosemite Falls trail, spring.
Location: Yosemite Falls, Yosemite National Park, California
Image ID: 27743