Warren,
I received the paper that you sent today.You do really have some great historical places around that area. I believe we have you topped in National Parks, but not in real historical places as we have Sutters Fort and Marshall's mill where the Gold Rush started, but not a lot of real historical places like you do. I have and do spend a lot of time in our parks and I like them all. Yosemite is probably the one that I spent less time in as unless you like rock climbing, it doesn't take to many trips to see most of it. I like Kings Canyon, Sequoia, and The Redwoods and of course Lassen. But I believe my favorite was always Sequoia as I could go out among those huge trees and find bark that had fallen off as big as some of the trees you have back there. And standing among those huge trees and thinking about their ages really makes you feel kind of humble and new to the planet. I won't say that your trees are all small, but how many do you have that they have the track team do their one mile runs around?
Ron