Yosemite Village, California 1916, with the creation of the National Park Service. Yosemite Village was designed by National Park Service landscape architect Charles Punchard, Jr., among others. This region experiences warm (but not hot) and dry summers, with no average monthly temperatures above 71.6 °F. According to the Köppen Climate Classification system, Yosemite Village has a warm-summer Mediterranean climate, abbreviated "Csb" on climate maps. Yosemite Village, California Yosemite Village (formerly, Yosemite and Yo Semite) is an unincorporated community in Mariposa County, California. It is located northeast of Mariposa, at an elevation of 3996 feet (1218 m). Yosemite Village is the primary developed place
Geography of the Yosemite area and the Pacific Crest Trail run through Yosemite, with peaks of red metamorphic rock, such as Mount Dana and Mount Gibbs, and granite peaks, such as Mount Conness. Mount Lyell is the highest point in the park, standing at . The Lyell Glacier is the largest glacier in Yosemite National Park and is one of the few remaining in the Sierra Nevada today. The park has three groves of ancient giant sequoia ("Sequoiadendron giganteum") trees; the Mariposa Grove (200 trees), the Tuolumne Grove (25 trees), and the Merced Grove (20 trees). This species grows larger in volume than any other