1902). Corbis Yosemite Falls in Yosemite National Park Chee-Onn Leong / iStockphoto The naturalist John Muir is so closely associated with Yosemite National Park—after all, he helped draw up its ...

Eight years before Yellowstone was established as America’s first national park ... the stunning Yosemite Valley that enraptured famous naturalist John Muir, and some of the world’s tallest ...