Black Chasm Cave

Black Chasm Cave

This cave is 956 m long and has unusual formations of helictites – horizontally growing speleothems.

Bigfoot Cave

An enormous cave, 20 km long and up to 367 m deep. This cave is very challenging to its explorers.

Wapama Falls

Wapama Falls

Enormous, 329 m tall waterfall with three drops. At high water the torrent floods the tourist passage at the base of falls.

Captain Jack Sparrow tree

Coast redwood (Sequoia sempervirens) with a diameter of 8.9 m. This is the largest (by trunk diameter) redwood that is announced to the public but it is possible that there are larger ones. Discovered in 2014.

Yosemite Valley

Up to 914 m deep, glacier carved cleft in granite rocks. Impressive landscape. A site of mass tourism with more than 4 million visitors per year.

Trona Pinnacles

Trona Pinnacles

Group of more than 500 tufa spires rising from the bed of dry Searles Lake. Spires are up to 43 m high.

Tenaya Canyon

Tenaya Canyon from Glacier Point

Deep, dramatic-looking canyon. Approximately 16 km long. Walking in the canyon is dangerous and there are stories about the curse of Chief Tenaya.

Kings Canyon

Kings Canyon, California

Up to 2,500 m deep canyon shaped by glaciers in granite bedrock. Here is located Kings Gate – granite peak with nearly vertical, 610 m tall wall.

El Capitan

El Capitan, Yosemite Valley

Granite monolith with 900 m tall, vertical wall. One of the most challenging climbing routes in the world.

Devils Postpile

Devils Postpile, California

Cliff of very well-formed columnar basalt. This cliff resembles a heap of vertically placed piles.