The best kept secret to Yosemite is Wawona and it's wonderful hidden places. It quiet and peaceful and full of local history. The Pioneer Villiage is well built and in the summer has fully informed pioneers to bring the Villiage alive. There are real building that people have lived in there and it shows what life was like in the early 1860s. The hotel is beautiful and overlooks a wonder golf course and is close the the Merced river for swimming.