Collins v. Yosemite Park & Curry Co. Collins v. Yosemite Park & Curry Co. Collins v. Yosemite Park & Curry Co., 304 U.S. 518 (1938), is a court case in which the appellee, the Yosemite Park and Curry Co., brought this suit to enjoin the California State Board of Equalization and the State Attorney General from enforcing the 'Alcoholic Beverage Control Act' of the State of California, within the limits of Yosemite National Park. The court distinguished between the State's power under the Twenty-first Amendment to regulate the importation of liquor to the state, and its "territorial jurisdiction" over a federal enclave like the park. The court
History of the Yosemite area John Muir Wilderness were also protected under the act and include regions removed from the park immediately before it was unified with the state grant in 1906. The "Yosemite Firefall", in which the embers from a bonfire were pushed off a cliff near Glacier Point to create a spectacular effect, was ended in 1968 because it was deemed to be inconsistent with park values. The firefall was occasionally performed in the 1870s and became a nightly tradition with the founding of Camp Curry. Broader tensions in American society surfaced in Yosemite when a large number of youths gathered in the