Yosemite West, CA

Yosemite West is an unincorporated community and census-designated place consisting of privately owned resort homes on Henness Ridge, adjacent to the southern boundary of Yosemite National Park along Wawona Road. The 2020 census counted 47 residents. As early as 1912 the cutting of timber in the Chinquapin area was started and logs were hauled to Merced Falls. The Yosemite Valley Railroad was built to carry out the lumber harvested from the vast supply of sugar pines found along the Merced River canyon. One such trail is across Highway 41 near the Henness Ridge Road turnoff to Yosemite West.

ATTRpeter parr / CC BY-SA 3.0

Here there is a parking area and the trailhead for Deer Camp Trail. The through line in Yosemite West is the way its history and present-day settings remain visible on the same map. Yosemite West makes the most sense through those concrete details, with its history still visible in the settings people use today. Yosemite West lies on Henness Ridge in western Mariposa County, at an elevation ranging from approximately 5,100 to 6,300 feet. Yosemite West includes the Camp One incline was used to lower logs to the Merced River.