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El Capitan


TripAdvisor Traveller Rating: 4.0 of 5 stars
TripAdvisor Popularity Index: #13 of 43 attractions in Yosemite National Park
Traveller Description: Challenging, popular rock to climb in Yosemite.
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Attraction type: Geological formation
Activities: Rock climbing
Address: Yosemite National Park, CA

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5 of 5 stars
Seattle, WA
29 Jul 2007
2
people found this review helpful

We drove past the big beauty so many times during our 6 days here and each time it was truely amazing.... Watching the climbers on it was a lot of fun too. Be sure to bring binoculars to see them really well more

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5 of 5 stars
CA/Oregon Coast
3 Jan 2007
3
people found this review helpful

Everything about being in the Yosemite National Park is amazing with some of the best scenery in the state of California. El Capitan is a massive granite monolith that stands 3,593 ft. and is claimed to be the largest single monolith of granite in the world. We first viewed El Capitan from the Tunnel View area of the park, right... more

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5 of 5 stars
England
18 Oct 2006
3
people found this review helpful

This rock is incredible. I believe its the biggest single granite rock in the world. It is bigger than Gibralter. Get some binoculars and try spot some climbers..then you will get the scale of it..incredible. I've never managed to spot them with the naked eye. It looks pretty smooth but apparently the ledges that climbers sleep on can take two... more

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4 of 5 stars
Mobara, Japan
20 Jan 2009

残念だったが、リボン滝は流れていなかった。5月末から6月初めしか見られないとのことでした。観光客としては、ただ見上げて。... more

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