Yosemite Lakes Park, California the population were below the poverty line, including 1.6% of those under age 18 and 4.2% of those age 65 or over. In the California State Legislature, Yosemite Lakes is in , and is split between , and . In the United States House of Representatives, Yosemite Lakes is in . Yosemite Lakes Park, California Yosemite Lakes Park is an unincorporated community in Madera County, California. It lies at an elevation of 1230 feet (375 m). As a census-designated place (CDP) it is known as Yosemite Lakes. It is part of the Madera–Chowchilla Metropolitan Statistical Area. The population was 4,952
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