Elephants Playground

The Elephants Playground is a rock formation located in Genesee, Plumas County, California.[1]

Description

Elephant’s Playground was named by early Anglo-American settlers because the boulders can resemble a herd of elephant torso. The boulder rock formations are huge, round, somewhat smooth and tightly packed.[2]

Elephants Playground has been noted for its unusual place name.[3]

See also

References

  1. California Places, Elephants Playground in Plumas County
  2. Elephant's_Playground
  3. Vedral, Joyce L. (15 October 1990). Uncle John's Third Bathroom Reader. St. Martin's Press. p. 183. ISBN 978-0-312-04586-9.

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Coordinates: 40°04′00″N 120°37′00″W / 40.0667°N 120.6167°W / 40.0667; -120.6167


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