Yosemite National Park
National Park Service
The National Park Service, or NPS, is a federal agency within the U.S. Department of the Interior. The U.S. Congress made Yellowstone America’s first national park in 1872. In the years that followed, environmentalists including John Muir lobbied for wilderness preservation ...read more
10 Things You May Not Know About Yosemite National Park
1. Yosemite was not America’s first national park. When President Abraham Lincoln signed legislation in 1864 that designated the 7-mile-long Yosemite Valley and Mariposa Grove of giant sequoias a public trust of the state of California, it marked the first time that the U.S. ...read more
Three women are murdered at Yosemite
On March 18, 1999, a charred rental car in a remote wooded area of Long Barn, Califonia is discovered. Later, the bodies of Carole Sund and Silvina Pelosso are found in the trunk. The women, along with Sund’s daughter Juli, had been missing since February when they were last seen ...read more
Bodies found in Yosemite serial killer case
On this day in 1999, law enforcement officials discover the charred bodies of forty-two-year-old Carol Sund and sixteen-year-old Silvina Pelosso in the trunk of their burned-out rental car, a day after the vehicle was located in a remote area several hours from Yosemite National ...read more