merced旅遊景點

① 舊金山景點的英文介紹

The Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) contains 20th century and contemporary pieces. It moved to its iconic building in South of Market in 1995 and attracts 600,000 visitors annually. The Palace of the Legion of Honor contains primarily European works. The De Young Museum and the Asian Art Museum have significant anthropological and non-European holdings.

The Palace of Fine Arts, originally built for the 1915 Panama-Pacific Exposition, today houses the Exploratorium, a popular science museum dedicated to teaching through hands-on interaction. The California Academy of Sciences is a natural history museum and hosts the Morrison Planetarium and Steinhart Aquarium. The San Francisco Zoo cares for a total of about 250 animal species out of which 39 have been deemed endangered or threatened
San Francisco's War Memorial and Performing Arts Center features some of the longest operating performing arts companies in the United States. The War Memorial Opera House houses the San Francisco Opera and San Francisco Ballet, while the San Francisco Symphony plays in Davies Symphony Hall. The Herbst Theatre stages an eclectic mix of music performances, as well as public radio's City Arts & Lectures.

The Fillmore is a music venue located in the Western Addition. It is the second incarnation of a venue which gained fame in the 1960s under concert promoter Bill Graham and was where the Grateful Dead, Janis Joplin, and Jefferson Airplane got their start and fostered the San Francisco Sound. Beach Blanket Babylon is a zany musical revue and civic institution. It has performed to sold out crowds in North Beach since 1974.

The American Conservatory Theater (A.C.T.) has been a leading force in Bay Area performing arts since its arrival in San Francisco in 1967, routinely staging original proctions. San Francisco frequently hosts national touring proctions of Broadway theatre shows in a number of vintage 1920s-era venues in the Theater District including the Curran, Orpheum, and Golden Gate Theatres.

Ocean Beach runs along the Pacific Ocean shoreline, but is not suitable for swimming because the waters off the coast are cold and have deadly rip currents. Baker Beach occupies a picturesque setting just west of the Golden Gate Bridge and is where one of the few existing colonies of Hesperolinon congestum, the threatened Marin Dwarf Flax, can be found. The biggest and best-known park is Golden Gate Park, stretching from the center of the city to the Pacific Ocean. Once covered only in grass and sand nes, the park is planted with thousands of non-native trees and plants and is rich with attractions including the Conservatory of Flowers, the Japanese Tea Garden, and Strybing Arboretum. The Presidio, a former military base, and its Crissy Field section, restored to its natural salt marsh condition, are part of the Golden Gate National Recreation Area, which includes Alcatraz, and other regional parks. Buena Vista Park is the city's oldest, established in 1867. Lake Merced is a fresh-water lake surrounded by parkland.

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② 去優勝美地旅遊，做功課中..

呵呵，這是美國西部的一個國家公園。以下詳細介紹是在途風網上找到的，發給大家，共同分享。

優勝美地國家公園（Yosemite National Park）是美國國家公園內極耀眼的一顆明珠，優勝美地佔地1100平方英里的面積，園內高度落差極大，從公園邊靠近140公路El Portal的兩千尺高度至Mount Lyell高峰的一萬三千尺。冰河將優勝美地的蜿蜒的小河及起伏的小丘轉變成目前雄偉壯觀的地形。為了要保護公園的原貌，美國總統林肯於1864年六月三十日將優勝美地谷蝴蝶林林內的美洲衫巨木林設為美國國家的第一個州立公園，三十六年後，優勝美地成為國家公園。

優勝美地位於中加州內華達山脈的西麓，公園的美和大遠遠超出一般人所了解的，優勝美地谷事實上只有佔全公園1169平方英里之中的7英里的面積。在河谷邊緣上的一些地方比較不為人知！但是現在196英里的道路及超過800英里的小徑讓這個優勝美地山區更容易讓人接近。內華達山脈的頂點是公園的東邊界線，流經公園內的兩條河Merced及Tuolumne起源於白雪籠罩的山頂。 Merced河流經優勝美地河谷而Tuolumne河刻出公園北半部的巨大峽谷。雖然園內一些壯觀的瀑布全年都有水流，但是到了夏末初秋時季會乾涸。

遊客可以利用州道SR 140(El Portal Rd.)從Merced到達公園的入口，從佛列斯諾Fresno可以利用州道SR 41 (Wawona Rd.)到達公園，也可以從史塔克頓經SR 120 (Big Oak Flat Rd.)到達！除了一部份的SR 120、Tioga Pass Road、Glacier Point Road及Mariposa Grove Road在秋末至夏初會關閉外，其它的道路一年四季都開放給遊客觀光，在冬天，請自備雪鏈。在優勝美地東部到Mirror Lake及Happy Isles的路禁止大部份的車輛進入，只容扣K費公共交通巴士進出。南側路是一條東向單行道路從新娘面紗到Curry Village，北側路則是一條西向起源於優勝美地小屋的單行道路。 Curry Village和優勝美地小村之間的小路也是西向單線道。

優勝美地國家公園全年開放，地圖和旅遊資料可以在優勝美地遊客中心索取，公園內的活動資訊可以在入口處布告板上找到，在公園內也有張貼。免費的巴士五月中到九月中旬每天早上7:30點到晚上10點從河谷的東邊發車。其它月份則從早上9點到晚上10點營運。在冬天將有班次從優勝美地小屋到巴格滑雪區。