YOSEMITE NATIONAL PARK 



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CATHEDRAL PEAK 



Photograph by Ansel E. Adams 



Where the sunrise trail crosses the divide it passes one of the many fine fishing lakes in Yosemite National Park and fishing 



is one of the attractions to many of the visitors. 



Hundreds of persons are now climbing eastward to 

 peaks and canyons that were known but a few years ago 

 only to members of the Sierra Club and a few other 

 mountaineers. It is gratifying to the few of us who 

 administer this vast playground of the people to ride 

 through the High Sierra and find how many persons 



have discovered the charm of "The Home of the Red 

 Gods." Some of them are knapsacking ; others walking 

 beside the burro or mule thait bears their burdens ; many 

 riding and leading a pack train ; and a few following 

 packers and guides with all the appurtenances of a 

 "dude" outfit. All are happy. 



GRAND CANYON NATIONAL PARK 



By W. W. Crosby, Superintendent 



17 VERY Almerican, at least, should make as soon after 

 '-' maturity as possible, for his benefit as a citizen and 

 as an individaul, two pilgrimages one to Washington's 

 home at Mount Vernon, Virginia, and the other to the 

 Grand Canyon of Arizona. Sentimental journeys they 

 must be ; the first to the place most closely associated 

 with our Nation's greatest hero ; the second to Nature's 

 greatest wonder. 



Grand Canyon National Park is not a "playground" 

 in the same sense that the term is applied to many 

 other Parks. There are ample facilities for amusement 

 or recreation, but the Canyon belittles them all. 



Its infinite magnitude, majesty, coloration, and fasci- 

 nation, so affect its visitors that indelible impressions 

 are left in the minds of all as to the incomparability of 

 the Canyon with any other natural or artificial wonders 

 of the world. 



Several other localities have their wonder-units of 

 scenery. The catastrophe of the destruction of any one 

 of them would be mitigated by the fact that there still 

 would remain elsewhere similar scenery, though one 

 might have to journey farther to see it. But to lose 

 the Grand Canyon would meian the annihilaition of 

 something that can not be found elsewhere on earth. 



To every visitor it is something different from any- 

 thing else, something unheard, unread and unimagined. 

 Even the single experience of watching from the rim 

 the immense kaleidoscope presented daily in the rays 

 of the sun on his journey over and along the length of 

 it to say nothing of the motor trips along the rim roads 

 or the muleback trips down into its depths leave.s im- 

 pressions which will be carried in the mind through all 

 other experiences ot life-time. 



The Grand Canyon is an ideal place for the intelli- 



