Yosemite Valley Yosemite Valley Yosemite Valley ( ) is a glacial valley in Yosemite National Park in the western Sierra Nevada mountains of Central California. The valley is about 7.5 miles (12 km) long and approximately 3000–3500 feet deep, surrounded by high granite summits such as Half Dome and El Capitan, and densely forested with pines. The valley is drained by the Merced River, and a multitude of streams and waterfalls flow into it, including Tenaya, Illilouette, Yosemite and Bridalveil Creeks. Yosemite Falls is the highest waterfall in North America, and is a big attraction especially in the spring when the water
Waterfall Garden Park foot ever built in the United States". Roger Sale says in the guidebook "Seeing Seattle" that the park is locked at night to keep out the sizeable Pioneer Square homeless population. The park's Japanese garden includes Chamaecyparis obtusa and other botanicals native to Japan, and a pool designed by Yoshikuni Araki. The garden won the Environmental Award of the American Nurserymens Association in 1981. Waterfall Garden Park Waterfall Garden Park, also called UPS Park and UPS Waterfall Park, is a private pocket park in Seattle, Washington, created in 1978 at the original United Parcel Service building in Pioneer Square. It