Saturday, January 3, 1970

Place: CA-Cascade (Yosemite)



Cascade Creek-3,419' (El Capitan) (37.7218711, -119.7121150-Mouth)

Cascade Fall or The Cascades- (El Capitan) (37.7268709, -119.7129486)

Description:
“I named these falls the Cascades on a first exploration.” (Bunnell, in Biennial Report of the Commissioners to Manage Yosemite Valley, 1889-90, p. 13.)
Place Names of the High Sierra (1926) by Francis P. Farquhar

From GNIS:
  • Cascade Creek: In Yosemite National Park, flows southwest through The Cascades to the Merced River 0.96 km (0.6 mi) north-northeast of Elephant Rock.
  •  The Cascades: In Yosemite National Park, 0.48 km (0.3 mi) north of the mouth of Cascade Creek on the Merced River and 1.4 km (0.9 mi) north of Elephant Rock. Also  called Yiyanto: Browning, Peter. Yosemite Place Names. Lafayette, California: Great West Books, 1988. p212

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