Go to the Green: 11 Naturally Beautiful Places
#8: Mariposa Grove, Yosemite
Author and environmentalist John Muir once said of Yosemite: "Everybody needs beauty as well as bread, places to play in and pray in, where nature may heal and give strength to body and soul alike." So why not take your family on a body strengthening walk among nature's 200-foot giants — the sequoias of Mariposa Grove. Introduce them to some park's most famous rooted residents: the Wawona and California Tunnel Trees, Faithful Couple, the Clothespin, and the 2,700-year old Grizzly Giant.
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