Elephants Playground

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The Elephants Playground is a rock formation located in Genesee, Plumas County, California. [1] The area burned in the 2019 Walker Fire.

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

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

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References

  1. "California Places, Elephants Playground in Plumas County". Archived from the original on 2007-09-27. Retrieved 2006-11-24.
  2. "Elephant's_Playground". Archived from the original on 2010-11-30. Retrieved 2007-10-25.
  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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