The Ahwahnee hotel is located inside of Yosemite National Park. It is a beautiful historic landmark as well as a luxurious hotel. The word Ahwahnee is thought to mean "deep grassy meadow".
The Adirondack State Park and Forest Preserve at 6.1 million acres, about the size of Yellowstone, Glacier, Yosemite, Grand Canyon, and Great Smoky Mountains National Parks combined, is in the northern part of the state. The Catskill State Park in the southern tier of the state with 700,000 acres.
There are two large hotels inside Glacier National Park: The Many Glacier Hotel and the Lake McDonald Lodge. Outside the park, the larger Glacier Park Lodge is located in East Glacier, MT. Other lodging options also exist inside the park including the Rising Sun Motor Inn, Swiftcurrent Motor Inn, and Village Inn at Apgar. Many other options exist outside the park.
The natives of the Yosemite Valley area belonged to the Miwok group, which is not a tribe but a group of related tribes speaking similar languages (miwok means "people"). The term Yosemite comes from the word Ühümati, a grizzly bear and the natives living in the valley are generally referred to as Yosemite Indians (not their own name for themselves).Because of the scarce natural resources, particularly foodstuffs, in that region, the natives generally lived in very small hunting groups living on every available food source: acorns, fish, game, birds and so on.The link below takes you to a page of information on the Yosemite Indians:
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it is a North American Indian name
Yes, Yosemite National Park is a proper noun, the name of a specific place.
Yes, Yosemite National Park is a proper noun, the name of a specific place.
There isn't one.
Well, if you typed it, you should know it but let me tell you a bit about the name. The name "Yosemite" means literally "among them are killers" or "there are killers among them" and is a corrupted form of an American Indian word used to describe the Ahwahneechee people.
Yosemite is named after the indigenous people who had lived on the land before they were driven out. L. H. Bunnell is credited with coining the name Yosemite Valley, which leads to the name "Yosemite" used today.
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There is no city in Yosemite National Park, but there is a village called Yosemite Village for tourist food and lodging located within Yosemite Valley. A big city near Yosemite National Park is Merced, which is just about 70 miles away.
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The Ahwahnee hotel and lodge is a historical landmark and premiere resort found in Yosemite National Park. Ahwahnee was built in 1927 and is rich in history, showcasing blended designs from many inspirational sources including Middle Eastern, Native American, and Art Deco to name a few.
The word is a Miwok term for the people who lived in the area. It's a pejorative that means literally "they are killers."
There must be thousands of "Washington Park"s across the USA . . . which one are you in?
There is no such tree in any national park. The Parks Services disdains alteration of natural wonders for the purpose of entertaining or amusing tourists. A commercial vandalism of one of the redwood trees in Yosemite occurred in 1881, but that tree fell down in 1969.