Tuolumne Meadows Campground: Cultural Landscapes Inventory, Yosemite National Park
Regions 8, 9, 10, & 12 Park Cultural Landscapes Program, Mundus Bishop, Anderson Hallas, OTAK. 2022. Tuolumne Meadows Campground: Cultural Landscapes Inventory, Yosemite National Park. Cultural Landscapes Inventory Report. 976240. U.S. Department of the Interior, National Park Service
Tuolumne Meadows Campground was one of several well-defined clusters developed by the NPS in the 1930s as part of the park’s master development plan. The campground design by resident Landscape Architect John Wosky incorporated the NPS’ park rustic style and Dr. Emilio Meinecke’s principles of campground planning and landscape protection in an exemplary layout. Tuolumne Meadows Campground was built between 1931 and 1934 in response to increasing recreational demand in the Tuolumne Meadows area. Wosky’s series of four clusters defined by oneway roads delineated the vehicular and camping use, reduced soil compaction and trampling of vegetation, and organized previously disparate uses. Improvements and additions during Mission 66 followed similar naturalistic principles in a ‘modern aesthetic.’ Contributing features include the campground’s circulation system and cluster arrangement, park rustic style comfort stations designed by the NPS of which three are CCC-built, and Mission 66 modifications that include four comfort stations and Dana Campfire Circle.
- Type
- Published Report
- Authors
- Regions 8, 9, 10, & 12 Park Cultural Landscapes Program; Mundus Bishop; Anderson Hallas; OTAK
- Date of Issue
- 2022-09-29
- Publisher
- U.S. Department of the Interior, National Park Service
- Units
- PWR , YOSE
- Keywords
- architecture, campground, CCC, Civilian Conservation Corps, comfort station, dana fork, entertainment, john muir trail, Mission 66, park rustic, park service modern, recreation, sierra club, tioga pass, tioga road, tuolumne meadow, tuolumne river
- Subjects
- CRIS-CL: 976240: Tuolumne Meadows Campground