National Register of Historic Places listings in Yosemite National Park National Register of Historic Places listings in Yosemite National Park This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Yosemite National Park. This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Yosemite National Park, California, United States. The locations of National Register properties and districts for which the latitude and longitude coordinates are included below, may be seen in a Google map. There are 30 properties and districts listed on the National Register in the park and five National Historic Landmarks. Four more properties
Yosemite National Park thawing of the Ice Age (such as the Little Ice Age). Climate change has reduced the number and size of glaciers around the world. Many Yosemite glaciers, including Merced Glacier, which was discovered by John Muir in 1871 and bolstered his glacial origins theory of the Yosemite area, have disappeared and most of the others have lost up to 75% of their surface area. Yosemite has a Mediterranean climate (Köppen climate classification "Csa"), meaning most precipitation falls during the mild winter, and the other seasons are nearly dry (less than 3% of precipitation falls during the long, hot summers). Because