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
Yosemite National Park of all-weather highways to the park. The Yosemite Museum was founded in 1926 through the efforts of Ansel Franklin Hall.In the 1920s, the museum featured Native Americans practicing traditional crafts, and many of the Sierra Miwok continued to live in Yosemite Valley until they were evicted from Yosemite in the 1960s. In 1903, a dam in the northern portion of the park was proposed. Located in the Hetch Hetchy Valley, its purpose was to provide water and hydroelectric power to San Francisco. Muir and the Sierra Club opposed the project, while others, including Gifford Pinchot, supported it. In 1913, the