Label Type
Cultural/Historical ContextLabel
Southside Drive, El Capitan
November 2014
“People need to understand that they’re not going to get a wilderness experience in Yosemite Valley.” – Scott Gediman, Yosemite’s Chief of Media & External Relations Public Affairs Officer
Yosemite Valley is paved with miles of asphalt. It can be hard to picture what the Valley’s original inhabitants, the Ahwahneechee people, would have seen and experienced prior to the construction of roads like this one.