Yosemite

Yosemite Valley occupies just seven square miles of California's Sierra Nevada, yet it contains an extraordinary concentration of geological wonders — El Capitan's sheer granite face, the rounded dome of Half Dome, Bridalveil Fall, and the ancient giant sequoias of the Mariposa Grove. John Muir called it the grandest of all the special temples of Nature. In spring, waterfalls thunder from every rim.