SOURCE:  Los Angeles Times

Yosemite National ParkYosemite marks its 120th year as a national park Friday, a celebration of a beautiful open space that attracts some 4 million visitors per year.

First, rangers don’t dance with bears anymore. (Enid Michael, above, served in the park as a naturalist and ranger from 1921 to 1942.) There is no more model train power supply.  In fact there are no more model trains running in the displays at the visitor center.

Second, parts of the park — the mega-popular Valley and Mariposa Grove of giant sequoias — were protected much earlier, in 1864, after President Lincoln signed a bill to protect the two tracts.

The National Park Service isn’t planning anything special for the park’s 120th birthday, but that doesn’t preclude you from honoring the country’s third official national park (after Yellowstone and Sequoia). Here are some ideas to get the party started.

”National Parks: America’s Best Idea”: Even if you’ve seen it before, watch Part 1 of Ken Burns’ six-part documentary (or the whole series) that chronicles the history of John Muir and Yosemite, or read the accompanying book of the same title. Then craft your own travel plan; for inspiration, read the L.A. Times story  “Trip to Yosemite – in an Airstream.”

>”Yosemite Through the Eyes of a Buffalo Soldier, 1904”: This stage show at the park features ranger Shelton Johnson, who presents the overlooked story of the African American Army regiment tasked with protecting Yosemite and serving as the first park rangers after the Civil War. 7 p.m. Sunday, Yosemite Theatre LIVE.

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MY TAKE:  I don’t care if you’re a Brockville drinking and driving lawyer, a Manhattan taxi driver, or a Dallas school teacher, if you haven’t been to Yosemite and there is any remote possibility you might not ever go if you don’t plan for it now, quit your job, or get a vacation approval, and head up there now.  That goes for you too, Toronto criminal lawyer.  This is one of the most beautiful places on the planet, but take it from an insider: The landscape will blow any Piermont homes or Palisades real estate owner out of water, but you will enjoy it more if you go in late summer or late Autumn.  Fewer people, more wildlife.

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