Lembert Dome

Infobox Mountain
Name=Lembert Dome
Photo=Lembert_dome.jpg
Caption=Lembert Dome from Tuolumne Meadows
Elevation=convert|9450|ft|m|0
Location=California, USA
Range=Sierra Nevada
Coordinates=coord|37|52|55|N|119|20|50|W|type:mountain
Topographic
USGS Tioga Pass
Type=Granite dome|Age=Cretaceous
Easiest route=hike

Lembert Dome is a granite dome in Yosemite National Park, California, USA. Lembert Dome soars convert|800|ft|m|-1 above Tuolumne Meadows and the Tuolumne River and can be hiked starting at the Tioga Road in the heart of Tuolumne Meadows, 8 miles west of the Tioga Pass Entrance to Yosemite National Park.

Lembert Dome was named after John Baptist Lembert, a homesteader in Tuolumne Meadows [http://www.yosemite.ca.us/history/place_names_of_the_high_sierra/l.html Place Names of the High Sierra] ] .

Rock climbers can scale the face from the parking lot just off the Tioga Road, but hikers can simply walk up the back side or take the challenging steeper trek up the face starting from just east of the parking lot.

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