Place: CA-Old Glacier Point Road

Old Glacier Point Road (quad)
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Description:

The Yosemite Commissioners authorized a branch road to the Mariposa Big Tree Grove in 1878. This section was completed and opened by the following year; construction of the 2-mile route as far as the Big Tree grant boundary cost $1,250. It left the main road 4 miles south of present Wawona (near the present South Entrance). A second branch road from Chinquapin Flat to Glacier Point was completed in 1882 at a cost of $8,000.^{33   From Wikisourve on the Old Wawona Road}

Chinquapin was built as a junction of the Old Glacier Point Road, which was built in 1882.
Previously it was a bridle trail to Glacier Point (the current Glacier Point Road, which starts immediately north of the old road was built in 1940).^[2] On an 1896 U.S. Cavalry map it is marked as "Chinquapin Station"^{[3]
 From Wikipedia on Chinquapin}

Trips:

• February 11, 2014 - Part of our loop of snowshoeing
• July 26, 2016 - Walked part of the Old Glacier Point Trail
•  December 31, 2019 - Snowshoe from Badger Pass up Glacier Point Road over to the Old Glacier Point Road
• January 13, 2021 - Sherri and Gary went west out of Badger Pass and circled the bowl.
  

Pictures:

• Wikisour^ce on the Old Wawona Road
•  Wikipedia on Chinquapin
• Cramped Up blog on snowshowing the Old Glacier Point Road
•  TrailBlazers, Highway History, Federal Highway Administration

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