Editing Sierra Nevada (section)

===Notable features===
[[File:Mt. Tallac, Lake Tahoe, California.jpg|thumb|right|upright=1.2|[[Mount Tallac]] above [[Lake Tahoe]]]]
There are several notable geographical features in the Sierra Nevada:

* [[Lake Tahoe]] is a large, clear freshwater lake in the northern Sierra Nevada, with an elevation of {{cvt|6225|ft|m}} and an area of {{cvt|191|sqmi|km2}}.<ref name="tahoefacts">{{cite web |url=http://tahoe.usgs.gov/facts.html |title=Facts about Lake Tahoe |publisher=USGS |access-date=May 12, 2007 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110721070339/http://tahoe.usgs.gov/facts.html |archive-date=July 21, 2011}}</ref> Lake Tahoe lies between the main Sierra and the [[Carson Range]], a spur of the Sierra.<ref name="tahoefacts" />
* [[Hetch Hetchy Valley]], [[Yosemite Valley]], [[Kings Canyon National Park|Kings Canyon]], and [[Kern Canyon]] are examples of many glacially-scoured canyons on the west side of the Sierra.
* [[Yosemite National Park]] is filled with notable features such as [[List of waterfalls in Yosemite National Park|waterfalls]], [[granite dome]]s, high mountains, lakes, and meadows.
* Groves of [[Sequoiadendron giganteum|giant sequoias]] ''Sequoiadendron giganteum'' occur along a narrow band of altitude on the western side of the Sierra Nevada. Giant sequoias are the largest trees in the world.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.nps.gov/archive/seki/shrm_pic.htm |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100315153430/http://www.nps.gov/archive/seki/shrm_pic.htm |archive-date=March 15, 2010 |title=The General Sherman Tree |publisher=U.S. National Park Service |url-status=dead}}</ref>
* Two of the largest rivers in California, which form the [[Central Valley (California)|Central Valley]] and drain into [[San Francisco Bay]], derive most of their flow from the western slopes of the Sierra Nevada. The northern of the two is the [[Sacramento River]] (which also drains the adjacent [[Cascade Range]] and [[Klamath Range]]); the southern one is the [[San Joaquin River]].