O’Shaughnessy Adit
O’Shaughnessy Adit is an adit in Tuolumne County, Gold Country, California. O’Shaughnessy Adit is situated nearby to O’Shaughnessy Dam, as well as near the campsite Hetch Hetchy Backpackers‘ Campground.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include O’Shaughnessy Dam and Tueeulala Falls.
O’Shaughnessy Dam
Dam
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
O'Shaughnessy Dam is a 430-foot-high concrete arch-gravity dam in Tuolumne County, California, United States. It impounds the Tuolumne River, forming the Hetch Hetchy Reservoir at the lower end of Hetch Hetchy Valley in Yosemite National Park, about 160 miles east of San Francisco. O’Shaughnessy Dam is situated 2,700 feet east of O’Shaughnessy Adit.
Tueeulala Falls
Waterfall
Photo: Epachamo, Public domain.
Tueeulala Falls is located on the north side of Hetch Hetchy Valley in Yosemite National Park. At roughly 880 feet it is the smaller of two large waterfalls that spill into Hetch Hetchy Reservoir, the other being Wapama Falls. Tueeulala Falls is situated 2 miles northeast of O’Shaughnessy Adit.
Kolana Rock
Peak
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Mather.
Mather
Hamlet
Mather is an unincorporated community in Tuolumne County, California, United States. Mather is 33 miles west of Tioga Pass. The community is named after Stephen Tyng Mather, who directed the National Park Service from 1917 to 1929. Mather is situated 5 miles southwest of O’Shaughnessy Adit.
O’Shaughnessy Adit
- Type: Adit
- Category: industry
- Location: Tuolumne County, Gold Country, California, United States, North America
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Latitude
37.9453° or 37° 56′ 43″ northLongitude
-119.79736° or 119° 47′ 51″ westOpen location code
8592W6W3+43OpenStreetMap ID
node 8960404161OpenStreetMap feature
man_made=adit
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Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Hetch Hetchy Backpackers‘ Campground and Hetch Hetchy Rangers Station.
Nearby Places
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