Yosemite National Park
Beyond Yosemite
Wawona:
Wawona Meadow Wawona Hotel 3.5 miles round-trip Easy Loop 1.5 hours
Swinging Bridge Wawona Store/ 4.75 miles round-trip Moderate Loop Pioneer Yosemite 2 hours Hist. Ctr. Parking Area
Glacier Point Road:
Taft Point Sentinel Dome 2.2 miles round-trip Easy to Parking Area 2 hours Moderate
Sentinel Dome 2.2 miles round-trip Moderate 2 hours
Tuolumne Meadows Area:
Soda Springs/ Lembert Dome 1.5 miles round-trip Easy Parsons Lodge Parking Area 1 hour
Lembert Dome Lembert Dome 4 miles round-trip Moderately Parking Area 3 to 4 hours strenuous
John Muir Trail Dog Lake 8 miles one-way Easy through Lyell Parking Area 3 to 4 hours 200-foot gain Canyon
Elizabeth Lake Tuolumne 4.8 miles round trip Moderate Meadows Group 4 to 5 hours Campground
Tioga Road:
Lukens Lake White Wolf1 5.4 miles round-trip Moderate 3 to 4 hours
Yosemite Valley Porcupine Creek1 7 miles one-way Moderate via Porcupine 4 to 6 hours 3,500- to Creek 4,000-foot loss
Yosemite Valley Lukens Lake 10.5 miles one-way Moderately via Yosemite Trailhead1 5 to 9 hours strenuous Creek 3,500- to 4,000-foot loss
Yosemite Valley Tenaya Lake1 19 miles one-way Strenuous via Clouds Rest 10 to 12 hours
Hetch Hetchy:
Wapama Falls O'Shaughnessy Dam 5 miles round-trip Easy to 3 to 4 hours Moderate
1These are drop-off points via the Tuolumne Meadows Hikers' Bus.
Yosemite In Depth
- Yosemite National Park
- Activities & Programs
- Bears in Yosemite
- Beyond Yosemite
- Campgrounds in Yosemite
- Camping in Yosemite
- Effects of Altitude
- Eight Tips for Yosemite
- Evolution of Yosemite Valley
- Flora & Fauna
- Heart of Yosemite
- Highlights
- Hikes in Yosemite
- History of Yosemite
- Hybrid Buses
- Important Numbers
- John Muir
- Just For Kids
- Keep Wildlife
- License Plates
- Life of the Bear
- Mountain Lions
- Oh, Ranger!
- Only A Day
- Plan For Future
- Plan Your Visit
- Preserve Yosemite
- Red Bear, Dead Bear
- Sights To See
- Spirit Of Yosemite
- Visitor Services
- Walking & Hiking
- Welcome to Yosemite
- Who's Who in the Park
- Yosemite Regulations
- Yosemite Waterfalls
- Event Calendar
- Yosemite Map
- Yosemite Photos
- Recent Yosemite News
News from the Parks
January 8, 2009 - 5:17pm
Unlike the last two years, popular recreation areas in Western Washington have escaped serious damage from this week’s heavy rain. Mount Rainier National Park and Gifford Pinchot National Forest were devastated by flooding in 2007. Last year, flooding hit Olympic National Park.
January 8, 2009 - 5:06pm
Sen. Byron Dorgan, (D-N.D.) said he agrees with the North Dakota Game and Fish Department on the elk situation at Theodore Roosevelt National Park. Since the unveiling of the National Park Service’s Draft Elk Management Plan and Environmental Impact Statement on Dec. 17, Game and Fish officials have voiced their displeasure that the document did not include their “Alternative G,” as a viable option.
January 8, 2009 - 5:05pm
All roads will lead to Washington on Inauguration Day, but many of them will be closed. With packed trains, buses and planes, how will as many as 2 million people who are hoping to witness history crowd into a city whose subway system usually accommodates 718,000 a day?
January 8, 2009 - 5:01pm
Between Dec. 27 and Jan. 2, more than 500 small earthquakes shook Yellowstone National Park. The swarm of quakes was centered below Yellowstone Lake, beginning southeast of Stevenson Island and migrating north toward Fishing Bridge before quieting.
January 8, 2009 - 5:00pm
Sarah Creachbaum, a 15-year veteran of the National Park Service, has been named superintendent of Haleakala National Park.



