Bigfoot Cave

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

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

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

Tenaya Canyon

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

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

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

Devils Postpile

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

Mono Lake

Lake with alkaline water and characteristic, eerie tufa towers. Lake has an unusual, very productive ecosystem that includes also the unique bacteria GFAJ-1 that uses arsenic in its cellular structure. Here live also other endemic species, e.g. Mono Lake brine shrimp (Artemia monica). Paoha island in the lake contains many hot springs and fumaroles.