Glacier Point View Terrace

Historical marker location:

Yosemite Valley, California

( Marker can be reached from Glacier Point Road, on the right when traveling north.)

Yosemite National Park.

The Transcontinental Railroad was completed in Promontory Summit, Utah in 1869, but the western terminus of the railroad was actually in Oakland, California. The railroad made it easier and faster to travel across the country, and helped to spur California's economic growth.