Alder Creek — Wayproof

Route map

This overview is built from a reviewed, versioned source snapshot. It is planning evidence, not navigation-grade mapping.

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StartDestinationSegment mileage unavailable

Download generated GeoJSON · 1 canonical segments · source geometry accuracy not reported

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Routes and geography

Ordered route geometry

Recorded for: Alder Creek

Distance status

not published at segment level

Route shape

corridor

Segment ids

route-segment-yosemite-wawona-mariposa-nps-20409

Start node id

route-node-yosemite-wawona-mariposa-34

Evidence and sources (1)

No claim effective interval recorded.

Spatial scope IDs: scope-wawona

Evidence stance: supports · Evidence details
Reviewed NPS Public Trails features identify exact segment endpoints for eight unbranched named Wawona and Mariposa Grove corridors; route membership follows the official trail names already described by NPS route pages. Chilnualna Falls remains excluded because its named dataset features branch and do not establish one mainline.
Publisher
National Park Service
Observer / attribution
Not recorded
Observed at
Unknown
Retrieved at
2026-09-26T00:00:00+00:00
Retrieval time does not establish when an event occurred.
Observation details · Source details · Original source: National Park Service
Recorded artifact references
- geometry/v0/snapshots/nps-yose-wawona-mariposa-route-features-20260926.geojson
References are not a confirmation of current availability.

Published route profile

Recorded for: Alder Creek

Elevation gain ft

2500

Objective entity ids

waterfall-alder-creek

Operational status requires current check

Yes

Published start entity id

trailhead-alder-creek

Published time

7 to 9 hours

Round trip miles

12.0

Shorter variant round trip miles

7.4

Shorter variant start entity id

trailhead-mosquito-creek-wawona

Evidence and sources (1)

No claim effective interval recorded.

Spatial scope IDs: scope-wawona

Evidence stance: supports · Evidence details
NPS publishes official starts, distances, times, elevation gains, water context, and use rules for Wawona and Mariposa Grove day hikes.
Publisher
National Park Service
Observer / attribution
Not recorded
Observed at
Unknown
Retrieved at
2026-09-25T00:00:00+00:00
Retrieval time does not establish when an event occurred.
Observation details · Source details · Original source: National Park Service

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Access and approaches (2)

Land and management (1)

Routes and related places (2)

Before you go

These open questions need confirmation; Wayproof does not fill them with guesses.

Which explicit connectors join the reviewed named NPS trail components to route starts, objectives, loop closures, and published alternatives?

Eight unbranched named official trail chains and exact shared endpoints are now published. Chilnualna Falls' branched named features, physical trailhead/objective joins, and loop-closing connectors remain unresolved unless an official route map or description establishes them; proximity is not used.

Open question. Linked evidence does not resolve this gap.

No specific claim evidence is linked to this question.

Sources, evidence, and history

Planning facts above are readable first. Open these records when you need to audit a source or see when knowledge changed.

Published ChangeSet history

wp-20260925-yosemite-wawona-mariposa-depth — ADD route-alder-creek-wawona: Add reviewed Wawona and Mariposa Grove planning depth.
wp-20260926-yosemite-wawona-mariposa-route-graph — ADD claim-alder-creek-wawona-ordered-geometry-20260926: Add reviewed Wawona and Mariposa Grove trail-segment topology.
wp-20260925-yosemite-wawona-mariposa-depth — ADD claim-alder-creek-wawona-published-profile: Add reviewed Wawona and Mariposa Grove planning depth.