Dana Meadows (Yosemite)

The Dana Meadows can be found at the eastern entrance to Yosemite National Park, at the foot of Mount Dana, not far from Tuolumne Meadows and the Tioga Pass entrance station.

At an altitude of 9,728 feet (2,965 m),[1] the meadow can be covered in snow up to 162 inches (411 cm) deep in wintertime.

Before Yosemite became a park, Basque sheepherders would graze their flocks here, and in other areas of the Sierra Nevada.

(In hunting season, some animals of the Sierra, such as the deer, have learned to migrate into the park.)

The meadows are named for James Dwight Dana (1813–1895), a professor of geology and natural history at Yale.