National Register of Historic Places listings in Yosemite National Park associated with the park are located just outside the park boundaries. The following properties are on property owned by the National Park Service and administered by Yosemite National Park, but are not within the park proper: 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
Yosemite National Park that moved down the river valleys. Ice thickness in Yosemite Valley may have reached during the early glacial episode. The downslope movement of the ice masses cut and sculpted the U-shaped valley that attracts so many visitors to its scenic vistas today. The name "Yosemite" (meaning "killer" in Miwok) originally referred to the name of a renegade tribe which was driven out of the area (and possibly annihilated) by the Mariposa Battalion. Previously, the area had been called "Ahwahnee" ("big mouth") by indigenous people. Yosemite Valley has been inhabited for nearly 3,000 years, though humans may have first visited the