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 Muir died he expressed the hope that "some compensating good must follow" from the Raker Act. The fight over the dam strengthened the conservation movement by popularizing it nationally. The administration of Yosemite National Park was transferred to the newly formed National Park Service in 1916, when W. B. Lewis was appointed as the park's superintendent. Parsons Memorial Lodge and Tioga Pass Road, along with campgrounds at Tenaya and Merced lakes, were completed the same year; six hundred automobiles entered the east side of the park using Tioga Road that summer. The "All-Weather Highway" (now State Route 140) opened in