Kolana Rock is a prominent

granite dome Granite domes are domical hills composed of granite with bare rock exposed over most of the surface. Generally, domical features such as these are known as bornhardts. Bornhardts can form in any type of plutonic rock but are typically composed o ...

located along the southern edge of Hetch Hetchy Valley in

Yosemite National Park Yosemite National Park ( ) is an American national park in California, surrounded on the southeast by Sierra National Forest and on the northwest by Stanislaus National Forest. The park is managed by the National Park Service and covers an ...

John Muir John Muir ( ; April 21, 1838December 24, 1914), also known as "John of the Mountains" and "Father of the National Parks", was an influential Scottish-American naturalist, author, environmental philosopher, botanist, zoologist, glaciologis ...

stated that ''Kolana'' was the Indian name for the rock. It towers above the

Hetch Hetchy Reservoir Hetch Hetchy is a valley, a reservoir, and a water system in California in the United States. The glacial Hetch Hetchy Valley lies in the northwestern part of Yosemite National Park and is drained by the Tuolumne River. For thousands of years bef ...

, and is across from

Hetch Hetchy Dome Hetch Hetchy Dome is a granite dome, in the Hetch Hetchy area of Yosemite National Park. On Hetch Hetchy Dome's particulars Aside from being aside Hetch Hetchy Reservoir, Hetch Hetchy Dome is near Kolana Rock. Hetch Hetchy Dome Dome has a ...

. The dome was closed to rock climbing for many years during the breeding season of the Peregrine Falcon. The closure was lifted in 2013.

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* Mountains of Tuolumne County, California Rock formations of California Granite domes of Yosemite National Park {{TuolumneCountyCA-geo-stub