Basket Dome

{{Infobox mountain

| name = Basket Dome

| photo = North Dome And Basket Dome, Yosemite National Park.jpg

| photo_alt =

| photo_caption = Basket Dome to the right of North Dome

| elevation_ft = 7612

| elevation_ref = {{NGVD29}}{{cite peakbagger |pid=38929 |name=Basket Dome |accessdate=2016-04-07}}

| prominence_ft = 212

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| range = Sierra Nevada

| listing =

| parent_peak =

| location = Mariposa County, California, U.S.

| map = USA California#USA

| map_caption = none

| map_size = 220

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| label_position =

| coordinates = {{coord|37.7635359|N|119.550719|W|type:mountain_region:US-CA_scale:100000_source:GNIS|format=dms|display=inline,title}}

| range_coordinates =

| coordinates_ref = {{cite gnis |id=254589 |name=Basket Dome |accessdate=2016-04-07}}

| topo = USGS Yosemite Falls

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Basket Dome is a granite dome in Yosemite National Park, United States.

Basket Dome was named from a Native American legend involving a woman carrying a basket, who was turned by anger into stone, forming the dome.{{cite book |last=Browning |first=Peter |title=Yosemite Place Names: The Historic Background of Geographic Names in Yosemite National Park |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=N3Rs7E7_J_IC&pg=PA8 |year=2005 |publisher=Great West Books |isbn=978-0-944220-19-1 |page=8}}

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