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Each submission of (up to) 50 Words for Wilderness per person becomes a link in a necklace of words that will circle the globe. See map.
Our route will follow John Muir's travels around the world beginning in Yosemite National Park at the front door of LeConte Memorial Lodge. The route we are following is not Muir's timeline, but rather our own geographic route from Yosemite Valley around the world, visiting many of the same places Muir visited on his travels around "Earth Planet, Universe." For each location, we identify the approximate dates that Muir visited that location. We hope people from all these locations will contribute to our Words for Wilderness!
Our Route
Composed by Bonnie Johanna Gisel, Ph.D., and Harold Wood, Esq.
LeConte Memorial Lodge, Yosemite National Park – 1868: Muir's first trip to Yosemite Valley
Tuolumne Meadows, Yosemite National Park
Hetch Hetchy Valley, Yosemite National Park
San Joaquin Valley – April 1868
Stockton, California – July 1868
Sacramento, California - January, 1876 (first public lecture)
Brownsville, Yuba County, California – 1874
Mount Shasta – 1874, 1875, 1877, 1888
Crescent City, California – September 1896
Modoc Lava Beds National Monument - 1874
Ashland, Oregon – August 1896
Crater Lake – August 1896, 1888
Pelican Bay, Oregon – August-September 1908
Portland, Oregon – 1874, 1885, 1888
Puget Sound (Seattle area) - 1888
Vancouver, British Columbia – 1888, 1899
Victoria, British Columbia - 1899
Mt. Rainier, Washington – 1888
Lake Tahoe, California/Nevada - October, 1873
San Rafael, California – September 1896
Point Reyes, California – September 1896
Muir Woods – September 1908
San Francisco, California – March 1868 (First trip), 1872 (left Yosemite for first time for Oakland and San Francisco), 1892 (creation of Sierra Club – June 4: Articles of Incorporation)
Berkeley, California – May 1913 (received Honorary Degree, UC Berkeley)
Martinez, California – 1878, 1879, 1880-1914
Diablo Foothills (Mount Diablo) – April-March 1868
Gilroy, California – April 1868
Pacheco Pass – April 1868
French Bar (La Grange), California – Fall 1868
Snelling, California – Fall 1868
Twenty Hill Hollow, California – Fall 1868 (two miles north of Snelling, on Dry Creek and Fields Road)
Hopeton, California – 1868
Mariposa Grove, Yosemite National Park – 1873 (with Jeanne Carr, Albert Kellogg, William Keith), 1903 (with Theodore Roosevelt)
Mt. Ritter, Yosemite National Park - 1872 (first ascent)
Mono Lake, California
Troy Peak, Grant Range, Nevada - 1878
Mt. Wheeler, (now in Great Basin National Park) Nevada - 1877, 1878
Island Park, Idaho (Harriman Ranch) – August 1913
Yellowstone National Park, Idaho, Wyoming, and Montana - 1885
Salt Lake City, Utah - 1913
Wasatch Mountains - 1877
Grand Canyon (Flagstaff), Arizona – September 29, 1896 (with Gifford Pinchot), February-March 1909 (with John Burroughs)
Petrified Forest, Arizona – 1906
Illinois, Iowa, Nebraska, South Dakota, Wyoming, Montana, Washington, Oregon, northern California, Grand Canyon (Ex-Officio Member Forestry Commission) – July 5 – September 1896
Kansas City – 1885 (Death of father, Daniel Muir)
Portage, Wisconsin – 1849-1860, 1861, 1867, 1893, 1896
Madison, Wisconsin – 1860, 1861-1864, 1896
Chicago, Illinois – 1893 (Columbian Exposition), July 1896
Prairie du Chien - 1860
Indianapolis, Indiana – 1866-1867, 1896
Buffalo, New York – 1849, 1898
Niagara Falls, Canada (somewhere in Ontario, sees the Calypso borealis) - September 1864
Bradford, Ontario – June 1864
Meaford, Canada – March 1864-1865
Georgian Bay – 1864
Holland River – 1864
Bradford, Ontario - 1864
Burlington Bay, Canada – July 1864
Montreal, Canada – 1898
Maine - 1898
Burlington, Vermont – 1898
Stowe, Vermont - 1898
St. Lawrence River -1898
Lake George, New York - 1898
Albany, New York – 1898
"Wing-on-Wing," Hudson River, Henry Fairfield Osborn's estate – November 1898
Stockbridge, Massachusetts - 1898
Boston, Massachusetts – 1893, June 1896, September 1898
Brookline, Massachusetts - 1898
Cambridge, Massachusetts – 1893, 1896
Concord, Massachusetts (Sleepy Hollow Cemetery) (Walden Pond) - 1893
Wood's Hole, Cape Cod – September 1898
New Haven, Connecticut -
New York City – 1849, 1868, 1893, 1896, 1910 (visits Osborn family), August 12, 1911 (leaves for South America
and Africa, returns March 1912)
Allegheny Mountains – September-October 1898
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania - 1867
Cumberland Mountains – September 1867
Washington, D.C. - September 1893
Chesapeake Bay – 1911
Jeffersonville – August 1867
Louisville, Kentucky – August 1867, 1898
Norfolk, Virginia - 1911
North Carolina - 1898
Chattanooga, Tennessee – 1898 (Lookout Mountain)
Huntsville, Tennessee – October 1898
Alabama - 1898
Athens, Georgia – September 1866
Savannah, Georgia – October 1867 (Bonaventure Cemetery), November 1898
Fernandina Beach – 1867
Miami, Florida – November 1898
Live Oak, Florida – November 1898
Cedar Key – October 1867, November 20, 1898
Havana, Cuba – January 12, 1868 (aboard Island Belle)
New Orleans, Louisiana - 1898
Isthmus of Panama - 1868
Lesser Antilles – 1911
St. Kitts, Martinique – 1911
Barbados – 1911
Belem, Brazil (Para) – August – September 1911
Amazon River – September 1911
Santos, Brazil (saw forests of Araucaria trees) – October 1911
San Paulo – October 1911
Porto Amazonas (Port Amazons) on Iguacu (Iguassu River) up Rio Negro River to Rio Negro - 1911
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (Corcovado Mountain) – October 1911
Montevideo, Uruguay – November 1911
Buenos Aires, Argentina – November 1911
Andes (Los Andes) – November 1911
Santiago, Chile – November 1911
Victoria, Chile – November 1911 (in search of Araucaria imbricata)
Canary Islands – December 1911
Cape Town, South Africa – January 1912
Bulawayo (southwestern Zimbabwe) – January 1912
Victoria Falls, Zimbabwe (on Zimbabwe River, guided to Baobab tree) – January 1912
Beira, Mozambique – January 1912
Port of Chincle, at mouth of Zambezi River – 1912
Zanzibar, Tanzania – January – February 1912
Dar es Salaam – February 1912
Mombasa, Kenya – February 1912
Entebbe, Uganda – February 1912
Jinga (outlet of Lake Victoria, Ripon Falls, headwaters of Nile River) – February 1912
Nairobi, Kenya – February 1912
Port Florence (south of Kisumu on shores of eastern arm of Lake Victoria) – February 1912
Adan, Yemen (Red Sea) – 1912
Sinai Peninsula – March 1912
Gulf of Suez (Suez Canal) – March1912
El Giza, Egypt – October-November 1903, March 1912
Aswan, Egypt – October-November1903
Mediterranean Sea to Naples, Italy (via Straits of Messina) – March 1912
Geneva, Switzerland – August 1893
Grindelwald, Switzerland – August 1893
Interlaken, Switzerland – August 1893
Neuchatel, Switzerland – August 1893
Zurich, Switzerland – August 1893
Holland – June 1903
Paris, France – June 1903
Liverpool, England – July 1893
Gibraltar – March 1912
London, England (Kew Garden) – August –September 1893
Lake District, England – August 1893
Glasgow, Scotland - 1849
Dunbar, Scotland – 1838-1849, July and September 1893
Edinburgh, Scotland – July 1893
Lakes of Killarney, Ireland – September 1893
Berlin, Germany – 1903
St. Petersburg, Russia – 1903
Trondheim, Norway – July 1893
Forest of Lindula, Finland – 1893
St. Petersburg, Russia – 1903
Moscow, Russia - 1903
Caucasus Mountains – May 1903
Siberia – August 1903
Vladivostock, Russia – August – September 1903
Manchuria – August 1903
Shanghai, China – September 1903
Korea – September 1903
Singapore – September 1903, 1904
Calcutta, India – October 1903
Darjeeling, India – October 1903 (saw Himalayas)
Shimla, India - October-November 1903 (Himilayas and Deodar forests)
Mumbai (Bombay), India – December 1903
Sri Lanka (Ceylon) – December 1903
Freemantle, Australia – December 1903
Melbourne, Australia – December 1903
Sydney, Australia – January 1904
Auckland, New Zealand – January – February 1904
Mueller Glacier, Mount Cook, New Zealand - 1903
Christchurch, New Zealand – 1904
Darwin, Australia – 1904
Timor, Indonesia – 1904
Manila, Philippines – 1903
Hong Kong – April 1904
Nagasaki, Japan – 1904
Yokohama, Japan – April 1904
Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands – 1904
Alaska – 1879 (first Alaskan expedition with S. Hall Young)
(Fort Wrangell, Glenora on the Stikine River, mid-October – Glacier Bay)
1880 (July-September, to Taylor Glacier with Stickeen)
1881 (May-October, Cruised aboard the Corwin, Bering Sea, Siberia)
1890
1896
1897 (via Banff and Canadian Rockies)
1899 (Harriman Alaska Expedition) (Sitka –June 1899)
(Wrangell, Glacier Bay, Prince William Sound – 1899)
St. Lawrence Island, Alaska
Los Angeles, California – December 1914 (died of pneumonia in California Hospital, LA)
San Bernardino – September 1896
Pasadena, California – January 1909
San Gabriel Mountains – 1877
Daggett, California – March-April 1908, January, February-March 1909, December 1914
Mojave Desert – December 1907
Mount Whitney – 1873, 1875
Sequoia and Kings Canyon – 1873, 1875
High Sierra - (now the John Muir Trail and John Muir Wilderness), Sierra Nevada, California
And finally . . . return back to Yosemite Valley, LeConte Memorial Lodge! (Centennial: 2004)
Get involved! Submit your own Words for Wilderness!
Read more about Words for Wilderness.
Information and Donations
For more information, during the summer contact Sierra Club LeConte Memorial Lodge
Curator, P.O. Box 755, Yosemite, CA 95389, 1-209-372-4542; e-mail:
leconte.curator@sierraclub.org.
During the winter, contact LeConte Lodge Committee Chair, Harold Wood, P.O. Box 3543,
Visalia, CA 93278; phone: (559) 697-3525; e-mail: harold.wood@sierraclub.org
Tax deductible donations to support the new exhibits and renovation efforts of the
LeConte Memorial can be made to "Sierra Club Foundation," marked for the "LeConte Lodge Fund."
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