Basket Dome | |
Elevation Ft: | 7612 |
Elevation Ref: | [1] |
Prominence Ft: | 212 |
Range: | Sierra Nevada |
Location: | Mariposa County, California, U.S. |
Map: | USA California#USA |
Map Size: | 220 |
Coordinates: | 37.7635°N -119.5507°W |
Coordinates Ref: | [2] |
Topo: | USGS Yosemite Falls |
Basket Dome is a granite dome in Yosemite National Park, United States.
Basket Dome was named from a Native American legend involving a woman carrying a basket, who was turned by anger into stone, forming the dome.[3]