Ahwahnee Heritage Days
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Ahwahnee Heritage Days is a festival held in Yosemite Valley
, in Yosemite National Park
, every February or March annually. The Ahwahnee Hotel
celebrates the Roaring Twenties
, and the '1930s and '40s - with music performances, as well as cultural and history events.
Ahwahnee Heritage Days was originally held to celebrate the 75th anniversary of the Ahwahnee Hotel in 2002, and is brought back every year under various names.
Yosemite Valley
Yosemite Valley is a glacial valley in Yosemite National Park in the western Sierra Nevada mountains of California, carved out by the Merced River. The valley is about long and up to a mile deep, surrounded by high granite summits such as Half Dome and El Capitan, and densely forested with pines...
, in Yosemite National Park
Yosemite National Park
Yosemite National Park is a United States National Park spanning eastern portions of Tuolumne, Mariposa and Madera counties in east central California, United States. The park covers an area of and reaches across the western slopes of the Sierra Nevada mountain chain...
, every February or March annually. The Ahwahnee Hotel
Ahwahnee Hotel
The Ahwahnee Hotel is a destination hotel in Yosemite National Park, California, on the floor of Yosemite Valley, constructed from stone, concrete, wood and glass, which opened in 1927...
celebrates the Roaring Twenties
Roaring Twenties
The Roaring Twenties is a phrase used to describe the 1920s, principally in North America, but also in London, Berlin and Paris for a period of sustained economic prosperity. The phrase was meant to emphasize the period's social, artistic, and cultural dynamism...
, and the '1930s and '40s - with music performances, as well as cultural and history events.
Ahwahnee Heritage Days was originally held to celebrate the 75th anniversary of the Ahwahnee Hotel in 2002, and is brought back every year under various names.