Did you know that one of America’s most-visited National Parks, Yosemite National Park was signed into legislation by President Benjamin Harrison on October 1, 1890?
Our second Yosemite National Park fact, Sheepherders who frequently set meadows on fire to promote the growth of edible grasses for their sheep became a severe threat to Yosemite’s natural landscape in 1870.
When the federal government set up the Yosemite National Park, it didn’t include the lands that were already under the control of the State of California in 1894, including the Yosemite Valley and the incredible icons such as El Capitan, Half Dome and Yosemite Falls.
The fifth and final Yosemite National Park fact, James McCauley, an Irish immigrant, who owned a hotel at the Glacier Point, ended the evenings by kicking the burning embers off the cliff.