Just to put everybody at ease, you know, more people die because of car crashes in Yosemite Valley than they do because of Rock Falls, you know, so there's way less danger than...

Does that put you more at ease?

After describing our Mario Kart experience in Yosemite Valley, I do believe that as well. This is the Exploring the National

Parks podcast with Dirt in My Shoes. My name is Ash and I'm a former park ranger and the founder

of Dirt in My Shoes. I think that the parks are best seen from the trail and I'm here to make

national park trip planning easy. And I'm John. I carry the kids on the trails, tell stories, and notice all the things

that Ash doesn't care about much, like rocks.

Join us as we show you around America's spectacular national parks.

We're sharing our favorite places, fun facts, adventures, and misadventures. And we'll even

throw in a little trip planning. Let's start exploring. All right, I am really excited for today's

fun facts episode because we get to talk all about one of my favorite national parks,

Yosemite National Park. And I can't wait to kind of get into what makes this place such a cool

national park, but just exploring it is such a fun adventure. I'm excited. I love Yosemite so much.

And it has a cool history. It does. It has such a cool

history. It has a really neat geologic history, but also has a really cool human history.

And there's a lot of things that kind of, when you learn about why this place was made in

national park, there's multiple different reasons. You know, a lot of national parks were made

national parks like the Grand Canyon because of their geology. lot of national parks were made national parks like the Grand Canyon because

of their geology. And some national parks are made national parks because of the animals that

are there, like Danali, where it was the doll sheep that was a big reason for it. Or, you know,

Joshua tree, you know, to protect the Joshua trees. Well, Yosemite was really two out of those three. It was made a national park because of some really big, beautiful trees, and because of the granite landscape. The geology is just, I don't know, there's just so much cool stuff. We're going to get into it today. Boom. Yosemite, five facts. I'm so excited. All right.

Let's go.

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