Yes, Yosemite National Park is a proper noun, the name of a specific place.
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Plutonic Ingenious Rocks.
Plutonic Ingenious Rocks.
Plutonic Ingenious Rocks.
Valley is not a proper noun. It's a common noun, honey. Proper nouns are specific names of people, places, or things like Betty White or Mount Everest. So, unless you're talking about a Valley with a capital V, it's just a regular ol' valley.
If it is the name then it is proper and should be capitalized Happy Valley but if you are saying, I saw a happy valley as in the valley was happy then it is common.
The noun 'valley' is a singular, common, concrete noun; a word for a physical place.
The most common color of the flower Lily of The Valley is a pinkish-white.
Pyramids, Valley of the KIngs, Valley of the Queens, Valley of the Nobles, etc.
Yes, the noun 'valley' is a common noun, a general word for a type of landform.
The distance between Yosemite Village and Monterey is approximately 150 miles, which translates to about a 3-hour drive depending on traffic and road conditions. The most common route involves taking Highway 140 out of Yosemite and then transitioning to Highway 49 and Highway 41 to reach Monterey.