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.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- 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
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
Wawona Visitor Center is a tourism office.
Wawona Hotel
Hotel
Pioneer Yosemite History Center
Museum
Photo: Wearsunscreen, CC BY-SA 3.0.
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
Photo: Guywelch2000, CC0.
Fish Camp is a census-designated place in Mariposa County, California, United States. It is located 18 miles east of Mariposa at an elevation of 5,062 feet.
Wawona
- Categories: census-designated place in the United States and locality
- Location: Mariposa County, Sierra Nevada, California, United States, North America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
37.53687° or 37° 32′ 13″ northLongitude
-119.65492° or 119° 39′ 18″ westPopulation
169Elevation
3,999 feet (1,219 metres)Open location code
8592G8PW+P2OpenStreetMap ID
node 150972258OpenStreetMap feature
place=hamletGeoNames ID
5407585Wikidata ID
Q3460942
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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”
- Irish: “Wawona”
- Italian: “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”
- Volapük: “Wawona”
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Localities in the Area
Explore places such as Stovepipe Campsite and Happy Camp.
Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Wawona Fountain and Swimming Tank.
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