Wawona
Wawona is a census-designated place in Mariposa County, California, United States. The population was 111 at the 2020 census. The community is located entirely within Yosemite National Park, as it preceded the founding of the park as a national recreation area.- Type: Hamlet with 169 residents
- Description: census-designated place in California, USA
- Also known as: “Big Tree Station”, “Clark’s Station”, “Clarks Station”, “North Wawona”, “South Wawona”, “Wah-wo-nah”, “Wawona, CA”, and “Wawona, California”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Wawona Visitor Center and Wawona Hotel.
Wawona Visitor Center
Tourism office
Wawona Hotel
Hotel
The Wawona Hotel, located in southern Yosemite National Park, California, is a historic late Victorian mountain resort and one of the largest intact hotels of its kind within a national park.
Pioneer Yosemite History Center
Museum
The Pioneer Yosemite History Center is an assembled collection of historic buildings from Yosemite National Park that is located in Wawona, California.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include South Wawona and North Wawona.
South Wawona
Hamlet
Wawona is a census-designated place in Mariposa County, California, United States. The population was 111 at the 2020 census. The community is located entirely within Yosemite National Park, as it preceded the founding of the park as a national recreation area.
North Wawona
Hamlet
Wawona is a census-designated place in Mariposa County, California, United States. The population was 111 at the 2020 census. The community is located entirely within Yosemite National Park, as it preceded the founding of the park as a national recreation area.
Fish Camp
Fish Camp is a census-designated place in Mariposa County, California, United States, in the Sierra Nevada near the southern entrance to Yosemite National Park.Wawona
- Categories: census-designated place in the United States, human settlement, and locality
- Location: Mariposa County, Sierra Nevada, California, United States, North America
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Latitude
37.53687° or 37° 32′ 13″ north
Longitude
-119.65492° or 119° 39′ 18″ west
Population
169
Elevation
3,999 feet (1,219 metres)
Open location code
8592G8PW+P2
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=hamlet
GeoNames ID
Wikidata ID
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Basque to Volapük—“Wawona” goes by many names.
- Basque: “Wawona”
- Cebuano: “Wawona”
- Chechen: “Вевона”
- Chinese: “瓦沃納”
- Chinese: “瓦沃纳”
- Croatian: “Wawona”
- Dutch: “Wawona”
- French: “Wawona”
- German: “Wawona”
- Gilaki: “واونا”
- Hebrew: “קלארקס סטיישן”
- Irish: “Wawona”
- Italian: “Wawona”
- Kara-Kalpak: “Wawona”
- Ladin: “Wawona”
- Persian: “واونا، کالیفرنیا”
- Persian: “واونا”
- Polish: “Wawona”
- Portuguese: “Wawona”
- Serbian: “Wawona, California”
- Serbian: “Wawona”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Wawona, California”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Wawona”
- South Azerbaijani: “واونا، کالیفورنیا”
- Spanish: “Wawona (California)”
- Spanish: “Wawona”
- Tatar: “Вевона”
- Turkish: “Wawona”
- Ukrainian: “Вевона”
- Urdu: “واونا، کیلیفورنیا”
- Volapük: “Wawona”
- “Wawona”
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Localities in the Area
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Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Wawona Fountain and Swimming Tank.
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