Lake Yosemite is an artificial freshwater lake located approximately five miles (8 km) east of Merced, California in the rolling Sierra Foothills. UC Merced is situated approximately half a mile (0.8 km) south of Lake Yosemite. The university is bounded by the lake on one side and two canals (Fairfield Canal and Le Grand Canal) run through the campus.
In 2007, a myth featured in the Mythbusters' James Bond Special 1 episode was filmed and tested at Lake Yosemite. The experiment consisted of a speed boat making a jump over an obstacle and continuing to operate safely. The lake was said to be a "secret location", while the term was used with a "Lake Yosemite" sign in plain view.
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“What a wilderness walk for a man to take alone! None of your half-mile swamps, none of your mile-wide woods merely, as on the skirts of our towns, without hotels, only a dark mountain or a lake for guide-board and station, over ground much of it impassable in summer!”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)