Yosemite National Park Travel Guide

The Best Hikes

by Frommers Travel Guides

The Best Day Hikes

Vernal Fall in Yosemite: A must-see for anyone with the stamina. It's just 3 miles round-trip if you follow the Mist Trail, but it requires a strong heart and enough gumption to make the last quarter-mile, ascending 500 stairs. Once at the top, hikers are rewarded with fabulous views and enough space to lounge around like marmots in the sun before the hike back down.

The Best High-Country Hikes

May Lake in Yosemite: This is an easy 2.5-mile hike that begins near Tioga Road, east of White Wolf (accessible by motor vehicle in summer only). This picturesque walk offers fishing but no swimming. May Lake is dead center in Yosemite National Park. It's a good place to survey surrounding peaks, including the 10,855-foot-high Mount Hoffman rising behind the lake.

A picture is worth a thousand words

Let me preface this entry by saying it is 11:00pm and I had to walk from our lodge to the main lobby about 400 yards away in Yosemite val... Continue reading »

by Real Traveler krup32
Yosemite National Park

Our next stop was Yosemite. We spent three nights there visiting all the sights in the National Park. We saw the fifth tallest waterfall... Continue reading »

by Real Traveler Vanya
Yosemite!

We loved visiting Yosemite National Park! Though overcrowded and overdeveloped, the park is just beautiful. Some of the most... Continue reading »

by Real Traveler AK Andy
Sleeping with the Bears

My husband and I started off on our roadtrip early Saturday morning in at the end of June. Traveling from San Jose to toward the park, w... Continue reading »

by Real Traveler Christina
Autumn views in Yosemite

Our detour to the ghost town of Bodie was well worth it, but I hadn´t quite anticipated how far the heart of Yosemite park was from the... Continue reading »

by Real Traveler Heids & Dunc