Olmsted And Yosemite-9781952620348 PINACCESSORY Join the centennial celebration by

Join the centennial celebration by reading all about these greatest of American treasures -- from Acadia to Zion -- in preparation for a parks visit sometime soon

and shadowed by the fame of Yosemite Valley below it

any route that ascends above roughly 200 feet off the Valley floor or is located more than 200 feet from the Tioga Road in the high country falls into this highest category of protection—where climbers can experience unconfined freedom and adventure

welcomes wildlife and humans alike with limbs akimbo

Olmsted And Yosemite-9781952620348 PINACCESSORY Join the centennial celebration byHow the work and writings of Frederick Law Olmsted, the founder of American landscape architecture, inspired the creation of parks to benefit the public. During the turbulent decade the United States engaged in a civil war, abolished slavery, and remade the government, the public park emerged as a product of these dramatic changes. New York's Central Park and Yosemite in California both embodied the new birth of freedom that had inspired the Union