Great Sierra Wagon Road
Great Sierra Wagon Road | |
Old Tioga Road in 2001 | |
37°50′32″N 119°43′20″W / 37.84222°N 119.72222°W / 37.84222; -119.72222 | |
Area | 107 acres (43 ha) |
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Built | 1882 |
Architect | Great Sierra Consolidated Silver |
NRHP reference No. | 78000373 [1] |
Added to NRHP | August 25, 1978 |
The Great Sierra Wagon Road was a route through the Sierra Nevada in California, built to bring supplies to the Great Sierra Mine on Tioga Hill in the high country of what was to become Yosemite National Park. The road was built in 1882 by the Great Sierra Silver Mining Company, extending over 56.25 miles (90.53 km), in 130 days. The mine promptly shut down, leaving the road without a purpose. In 1915 the road was purchased by Stephen T. Mather, the independently wealthy first director of the National Park Service, who donated it to the Park Service. The Park Service opened the road to the public, calling it the Tioga Road. Designated California State Route 120, the road traverses the park from its west to east entrances.[2]
The portion of the road that was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on August 25, 1978, is now known as the Old Tioga Road, left behind when the Tioga Road was realigned to avoid Aspen Valley in the western part of the park. The Old Tioga Road is a park service road, not open to the public apart from a short section that provides access to private inholdings. The road preserves stone retaining walls, known as "Chinese Walls" after the Chinese laborers who built them. The service road section remains largely unchanged from its original construction.[2]
References
- ^ "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. March 13, 2009.
- ^ a b Hart, Leslie Starr (August 1976). "National Register of Historic PlacesInventory - Nomination Form: Great Sierra Wagon Road". National Park Service. Retrieved June 30, 2011.
External links
Media related to Great Sierra Wagon Road at Wikimedia Commons
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Landmarks
- Ahwahnee Hotel
- LeConte Memorial Lodge
- Parsons Memorial Lodge
- Rangers' Club
- Wawona Hotel and Pavilion
historic districts
- Bagby Stationhouse, Water Tanks and Turntable
- Camp Curry Historic District
- Great Sierra Mine Historic Site
- Yosemite Valley
- Yosemite Valley Archeological District
- Yosemite Valley Bridges
- Yosemite Village Historic District
properties
- Acting Superintendent's Headquarters
- Buck Camp Patrol Cabin
- Camp 4
- Crane Flat Fire Lookout
- Degnan's Restaurant
- Frog Creek Cabin
- Glacier Point Trailside Museum
- Glen Aulin High Sierra Camp
- Great Sierra Wagon Road
- Half Dome Cables and Trail
- Hetch Hetchy Railroad Engine No.6
- Hodgdon Homestead Cabin
- Chris Jorgenson Studio
- Lake Vernon Snow Survey Shelter
- Mariposa Grove Museum
- May Lake High Sierra Camp
- McCauley Cabin
- McCauley and Meyer Barns
- McGurk Cabin
- Merced Grove Ranger Station
- Merced Lake High Sierra Camp
- Merced Lake Ranger Station
- Ostrander Lake Ski Hut
- Sachse Spring Snow Survey Shelter
- Snow Creek Ski Hut
- Snow Flat Snow Survey Shelter
- Soda Springs Cabin
- Sunrise High Sierra Camp
- Tioga Pass Entrance Station
- Track Bus No. 19
- Tuolumne Meadows
- Tuolumne Meadows High Sierra Camp
- Tuolumne Meadows Ranger Stations and Comfort Stations
- Vogelsang High Sierra Camp
- Wawona Covered Bridge
- Yosemite Transportation Company Office
- Yosemite Valley Chapel
- Yosemite Valley Railroad Caboose No. 15
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